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September 3, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/books/review/Julius-t.html?ref=middleeast

Book Review: A People and a Nation

[New York Times] Anthony Julius - Jews and Power by Prof. Ruth Wisse of Harvard celebrates the Jewish return to sovereign power, in all its promise and complexity. It offers a simple argument: Zionism is the solution to Jewish powerlessness; Israel is the guarantor of the Jews' safety. Further, the Jewish nation's resumption of sovereignty in 1948 created opportunities for the Jews to bring benefits to humanity as a whole. Wisse begins her book, "The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people." And she ends it, "In defending themselves, Jews have been turned into the fighting front line of the democratic world."

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