Book Reviews from the October Washington Report Issue

Read Max Saltman's Review

In Dear Palestine, the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Arab Liberation Army (ALA) are revealed as prolific diarists and letter writers, with astonishing opinions about their experiences as volunteers and conscripts.

Th letters and surveys taken of Diaspora Jews who volunteered with the IDF during the 1948 War reveal a group of idealists, most of whom were shocked at the brutality and cronyism they witnessed in the nascent Jewish State.

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As the masters of propaganda Israel and its lobby have long promoted the myth that the Zionist state has always sought to settle the “Middle East conflict,” only to be rebuffed by the ever-recalcitrant Palestinians. Jerome Slater explodes this and other mythologies in a comprehensive study traversing more than a century of the history of the struggle for Palestine.

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