Chapter notes and bibliography attest to Hazony's wellprepared, impassioned defense for history's most defenseless people.
A history of and challenge to the Israeli antiZionist elite that threatens to deJudaize the Jewish state.
Hazony, a former Netanyahu aide and a contributor to periodicals like Commentary, is president of the Shalem Center think tank. His call to plug the leaking dike comes right after ``postZionist'' pundits rewrote Israel’s history books to read that undermanned Arab forces in 1948 were overwhelmed by a Zionist army that brutally caused the Arab refugee problem. Agreeing with the UN that Zionism is racism, these idealists contend that power, at least for Jews, corrupts. The Holocaust forced statehood, but these ``intellectuals, even in Israel, never became fully reconciled to the empowerment . . . entailed in the creation of a Jewish state.'' In Jerusalem in 1958 Martin Buber equated Zionism with ``the way of Hitler,'' and a guiltcleared world has often echoed the canard that Israeli soldiers are comparable to Nazis. Hazony traces the predecessors of today's postZionists to influential thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Judah Magnes, and Albert Einstein. The author documents how this once marginal clique of antinationalists got a toehold at Hebrew University, fought Zionists from David BenGurion on down, controlled the media, and now work to transform Israel into a binational state whose army is no longer mandated to protect Jews (say, in Entebbe) and whose national flag and anthem will be Jewfree. From the protocols of the elders of antiZionism, Hazony follows the pedigree to Shimon Peres, whose global New Middle East intends to eradicate nationalism and reduce the Jews to the influence of the Druse. A particular target of these messianic atheists is the Law of Return, which grants instant citizenship to Jewish immigrants only. The author believes Israel's many nonJews who accompanied RussianJewish immigrants to the nation have given anti-Zionism its suddenly sizable support.
Chapter notes and bibliography attest to Hazony's wellprepared, impassioned defense for history's most defenseless people. (First serial to the New Republic; author tour)Pub Date: April 1, 2000
ISBN: 0-465-02901-9
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Basic Books
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2000
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Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorker staff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
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The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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