Matthew Gault’s Reviews > The Case for Israel > Status Update

"Israel is the only country that has not indiscriminately dropped bombs on civilian cities" - that one aged really badly, though Dersh can't be expected to see the future.

"Only Israeli is criticised for its use of torture", after listing other Western powers that had been consistently criticised as much as Israel for their use of torture even by 2003. He even mentions the UK security forces in Northern Ireland, I'm beginning to suspect his "Israeli is singled out because it is a Jewish state" thesis only works because he doesn't examine resistance movements elsewhere.

At no point did he question the claim that Palestinian suicide bombers are turning themselves into biological weapons with Hep-B, HIV, and other infectuous diseases intentionally, rather than Palestine having a higher rate of infections. Like, maybe they did, but he never shows an interest in critically investigating this claim is telling.

A lot going on in this book, something to sit down and dig through with other (better written, referenced, and from actual historians) sources, but you know, I think by 2003 we can safely say using Brezhnev as one of the "accusers" against Israel is a bit of a dead end point and I'm sure a different person could have been used as a second accuser for the 6 Day War point.