The New York Times–bestselling author “has focused his internationally recognized expertise and clarity of vision on . . . this evolving terrorist tactic” (Benjamin Netanyahu).
At a time when Israel is under persistent attack—on the battlefield, by international organizations, and in the court of public opinion—Alan Dershowitz presents a powerful case for Israel’s just war against terrorism.
In the spirit of his international bestseller, The Case for Israel, Dershowitz shows why Israel’s struggle against Hamas is a fight not only to protect its own citizens, but for all democracies. The nation-state of the Jewish people is providing a model for all who are threatened by terrorist groups—such as ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram. Having himself been in one of the Hamas terror tunnels, Dershowitz explains why Israel had no choice but to send in ground troops to protect its civilians against Hamas death squads.
Dershowitz wrote this book to warn the world that unless Hamas’s strategy of building terror tunnels and firing rockets from behind human shields is denounced and stopped—by the international community, the media, the academy, and good people of all religions, ethnicities, and nationalities—it will be coming soon “to a theater near you.”
Covering all the hot-button issues—from the BDS movement, to the rise of anti-Semitism, to the charge of war crimes, to the prospects of peace—Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel’s Just War Against Hamas is a must-read for all who care about Israel, peace in the Mideast, human rights, and fairness.
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz of Harvard Law School was described by Newsweek as the nations most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights. Italian newspaper Oggi called him the best-known criminal lawyer in the world, and The Forward named him Israel's single most visible defender, the Jewish states' lead attorney in the court of public opinion. Born in Brooklyn, he was appointed to the Harvard Law School faculty at age twenty-five and became a full professor at age twenty-eight, the youngest in the schools history. He has been a consultant to several presidential commissions, and has advised presidents, United Nations officials, prime ministers, governors, senators, and members of Congress. More than a million people have heard him lecture around the world. He is currently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard. Dershowitz is the author of thirty nonfiction works and two novels. More than a million of his books have been sold worldwide, in more than a dozen different languages. His recent titles include the bestsellerThe Case For Israel, Rights from Wrong, The Case for Peace, The Case for Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza, and his autobiography Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law.