Last Straw

Jonathan Cook on Dr. Shlomo Sand’s new book:

Dr. Shlomo Sand argues that the idea of a Jew­ish nation — whose need for a safe haven was ori­gin­ally used to jus­tify the found­ing of the state of Israel — is a myth inven­ted little more than a cen­tury ago.

In addi­tion, he argues that the Jews were never exiled from the Holy Land, that most of today’s Jews have no his­tor­ical con­nec­tion to the land called Israel and that the only polit­ical solu­tion to the country’s con­flict with the Palestini­ans is to abol­ish the Jew­ish state.

… he pre­dicted a rough ride from the pro-Israel lobby when the book is launched … in the United States next year.

In con­trast, he said Israelis had been, if not exactly sup­port­ive, at least curi­ous about his argument.