Making David into Goliath
How the World Turned Against Israel
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Publisher Description
During the Six Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans favored the Israelis over the Arabs by overwhelming margins. In Europe, support for Israel ran even higher. In the United Nations Security Council, a British resolution essentially gave Israel the terms of peace it sought and when the Arabs and their Soviet supporters tried to override the resolution in the General Assembly, they fell short of the necessary votes.
Fast forward 40 years and Israel has become perhaps the most reviled country in the world. Although Americans have remained constant in their sympathy for the Jewish state, almost all of the rest of the world treats Israel as a pariah.
What caused this remarkable turnabout? Making David into Goliath traces the process by which material pressures and intellectual fashions reshaped world opinion of Israel. Initially, terrorism, oil blackmail, and the sheer size of Arab and Muslim populations gave the world powerful inducements to back the Arab cause. Then, a prevalent new paradigm of Leftist orthodoxy, in which class struggle was supplanted by the noble struggles of people of color, created a lexicon of rationales for taking sides against Israel. Thus, nations can behave cravenly while striking a high-minded pose in aligning themselves on the Middle East conflict.
Customer Reviews
A monumental work exposing the near fifty year campaign to demonize Israel
If you're a parent who has a child at college or university you need to read this work. If you are a tax payer, which by default means you subsidize student loan interest rates; or if you are thinking if attending a major college or university in the US, you need to read this work.
The author exposes the half century long campaign waged by the world wide Left - that is, progressives -and extreme Right against Israeli sovereignty. The work also does a fine job of exposing what colleges and universities are teaching young students about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Please read this work if you want to understand how the anti-Israeli movement has grown, the employment of postmodern concepts in arguing their anti-Israeli position, and why Israeli defenders (non-military) have been debating the issue at the wrong starting point. What's the trick? Reject Edward Said's definition of "Orientalism."