Israel

OK, so I've been oblivious to the situation in Israel forever. I decided to try to correct that during my last regular visit to the public library's New Fiction section. I checked out Finkelstein's "Beyond Chutzpah", and was yet again surprised by how much the popular press is failing us.

Furthermore, I was really saddened that there is a large amount of mis-information being put out not only by the media (a source I never consider reliable), but by scholars that one would normally hope at least had some form of integrity.

The book is a critical analysis of how the proponents of Israel use anti-semitism and the horrors of world-war II as a political tool to draw attention away from practices (such as torture, ethnic cleansing, etc.) that are politically untenable for most modern nations. It also includes mass amounts of data from reliable, independent, and
cross-referenced sources.

The really terrible thing is that scholars from institutions like Harvard are writing books that try to foster support for Israel by misleading and dishonest arguments that rely on pedigree rather than actual evidence.

Yet another reason the average American can't figure out our foreign policy in the region.