Alan Dershowitz
The Case Against Israel’s Enemies
Wiley

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In addition to Hamas, Alan Dershowtiz, Harvard law professor, argues that Israel's most dangerous enemies include Jimmy Carter and other western leaders who would delegitimize Israel as an apartheid regime subject to the same fate as white South Africans; Israel's academic enemies, led by professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, who would accuse supporters of Israel of dual loyalty and indeed disloyalty to America; and Iran, led by Ahmadinejad, which threatens Israel by its development of nuclear weapons, which it has publicly threatened to use against the Jewish state. The author is at his outspoken changing both the tone and the focus of the debate about Israel's adversaries at a time when the future existence of Israel is increasingly imperiled. This book is vital to read for those who want to investigate the vile charges levelled against Israel and the motivations and moral turpitude of her enemies.

Giulio Schiavoni, Guido Massimo
Verso una terra antica e nuova
Carrocci

Sviluppatosi come risposta all'antisemitismo crescente della seconda metà dell'Ottocento e al processo di assimilazione degli ebrei nel mondo moderno, il sionismo ha segnato un passaggio decisivo della storia novecentesca. Questo libro si propone di analizzare le matrici storiche e l'impatto che l'idea sionista ebbe nei primi decenni del Novecento sulla cultura europea facendone emergere le contraddizioni e, talora, anticipandone la fine. Offre un'occasione di confronto su alcuni protagonisti e su importanti momenti della storia di questa idea tra la fine dell'Ottocento e la fondazione dello Stato d'Israele, in riferimento soprattutto alla cultura austro-tedesca e alle ripercussioni che tale idea ha avuto nell'ebraismo italiano.

Efraim Karsh
Fabricating Israeli History
London F. Cass

Efraim Karsh, professor of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University (where he is also a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies) and a principal research fellow of the Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia based think tank,  wrote an interesting book.

Israeli historiography is under assault by "new historians" exposing "Zionist narrative". This text takes issue with these "revisionists", arguing that they have ignored or misinterpreted much documentation in developing their analysis of Israel's history.

“Karsh (a professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of London) presents the first full-length and detailed rebuttal to those Israeli scholars who call themselves the "new historians." This group, whose ranks include  Ilan Pappé, and Avi Shlaim, seeks to expose Zionism as a rapacious movement and Israel as the actor that bears nearly full responsibility for the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian plight. Noting that others have critiqued the new historians' ignoring important source materials, Karsh concentrates on proving that "the very documentation used by these self-styled champions of `truth and morality' reveals a completely different picture from that which they have painted."
Elaborating on the argument first made in his June 1996 article in the Middle East Quarterly, Karsh focuses on three main issues: David Ben-Gurion's alleged endorsement of "transferring" Arabs out of the territory to become Israel, "collusion" between the Zionist movement and King `Abdallah of Jordan to snuff out a Palestinian state, and secret British support for this joint effort. To establish his case, Karsh digs deeply into the documentary record, even going so far as to interpret crossed-out sections in Ben-Gurion's handwritten letters. That's all vital to making his case, but Karsh's key strength is the application of unprejudiced common sense to clarify issues clouded by the pseudo-scholarship of propagandists”.
(Daniel Pipes, Middles East Forum Philadelphia)

Simon Sebag Montefiore
Jerusalem: The Biography 
A Fresh History of the Middle East

Flipping through the book's 600 pages, written in a clear, lively, illustrative style, one can't help but wonder why an Israeli writer didn't write this biography of our capital city first.

Sometimes it seems as if Jerusalem is more popular among people who don't live there. So it's not surprising that the author of "Jerusalem: The Biography – A Fresh History of the Middle East," is a Jewish British historian by the name of Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Sebag Montefiore, 46, carries the family name of the famous philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore, who nearly single-handedly directed the settling of Jews outside the walls of Jerusalem. He also constructed Jerusalem's iconic Montefiore Windmill and established the neighborhood of Yemin Moshe in 1891.While Sebag Montefiore is not a direct descendent of the philanthropist, he said his book was a project based both on his own private contribution to Jerusalem as well as the legacy of his name.

"Jerusalem: The Biography" was published and widely distributed recently in English and is now scheduled for translation in more than 40 languages. A Hebrew translation will be released next year.

Flipping through the book's 600 pages, written in a clear, lively, illustrative style, one can't help but wonder why an Israeli writer didn't write this biography of our capital city first.

But why did Sebag Montefiore call the book a biography? And why did he prefer to write the biography of a city rather than a person? The answer, apparently, is because Jerusalem is not just any city. It is a city that has seen division and war ever since the days of King David.

The fascination with Jerusalem extends far beyond Israel. U.K. viewers this Christmas will be shown a documentary on Jerusalem, created by the BBC and narrated by Sebag Montefiore. That project sent him to Jerusalem once a month for interviews and taping, so much so that I have visited places in Jerusalem that I was told were visited by Sebag Montefiore and his team, as well.

Although we don't know yet what conclusions the political slant of the BBC documentary, it seems that Sebag Montefiore will not recommend that Jerusalem remain undivided under Israeli control. In his book, however, he has kind words for the Israelis, saying that only under Israeli control of Jerusalem, since 1967, has the city seen true freedom of religion.

Jerusalem, he writes in his book, has a strategic value, and not just for our region. "Jerusalem is the command center of the Middle East. It's the battleground of Western secularism versus fundamental Islam. Jerusalem is a "powder keg," as the Jordanian King Abdullah II put it."

Yuri Slezkine
Il secolo ebraico
Neri Pozza

Questo saggio appassionante di Sklezkine, professore di storia russa e direttore dell’istituto di slavistica dell’Università di Berkeley, racconta una nuova storia della cultura ebraica degli ultimi cento anni, dalla nascita di una tribù nomade che diventerà il solo grande popolo sprovvisto di Stato dopo l'avvento del nazionalismo, l'unico a costruire la propria emancipazione in un isolamento frutto di ripetute diaspore, tra il collasso dell'impero russo, le grandi ondate migratorie, l'America di fine Ottocento, le città sovietiche dopo la Rivoluzione, la Palestina della nascita del Sionismo e l'avvento delle grandi ideologie del Novecento: socialismo, nazionalismo, liberalismo. Denso di intuizioni illuminanti e trasgressive, scorrevole nell'esposizione e audace nell'analisi, “Il secolo ebraico” è una delle opere più stimolanti e intellettualmente innovative degli ultimi anni.