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Ori Lev

Michael Walzer’s Arguing About War

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Michael Walzer’s new book assembles eleven articles published over the last 25 years, the latest in November 2003. The philosophical stances he devised and defended in Just and Unjust Wars are applied to the first Gulf War, Kosovo, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 9/11, the “war on terror” and the Iraq War. His consistency is, to say…

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The Politics of Anti-Semitism, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffery St. Clair

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The goal that Cockburn and St. Clair’s collection of essays aspires to achieve is quite ambitious: “To lift [the] embargo” over “criticizing Israel.” This provocative collection only partially achieves this aim; moreover, I am uncertain that their volume is actually conducive to a more rational and open debate over U.S. policies toward Israel. Most contributors…

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Two Books on Israel-Palestine

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The Land Beyond Promise: Israel, Likud and The Zionist Dream by Colin Shindler Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid by Marwan Bishara I In The Land Beyond Promise Colin Shindler provides an historical perspective on one of Israel’s main political movements, namely, the Nationalistic-Right. In particular, Shindler traces the development of Israel’s biggest political party, the Likud.…

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