Independence

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In this thoroughly researched and compelling book, Jacob Mosak celebrates the epic rebirth of the Jewish State of Israel within its ancient national and religious homeland and explores its history against a backdrop of anti-Semitism and political sabotage. Mosak contends that the reason why the Arab-Israeli conflict has endured for so long is the Arabs' refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the Jewish State, and he reminds readers that even the Koran recognizes Jerusalem as the location of the Jewish Holy Temples. He also maintains that the Jewish people's right to statehood in Palestine is not predicated upon their suffering in the Holocaust but rather on their enduring historical and religious ties to the land of Israel. The book points out that Jewish life in Palestine continued uninterrupted until the modern era, nearly two thousand years after the destruction of the second Holy Temple. Mosak's account of the complex geopolitical history...