What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

by Elan Journo

Overview

In this book, Elan Journo explains the essential nature of the conflict, and what has fueled it for so long. What justice demands, he shows, is that we evaluate both adversaries--and America's approach to the conflict--according to a universal moral ideal: individual liberty. From that secular moral framework, the book analyzes the conflict, examines major Palestinian grievances and Israel's character as a nation, and explains what's at stake for everyone who values human life, freedom, and progress.

What Justice Demands shows us why America should be strongly supportive of freedom and freedom-seekers--but, in this conflict and across the Middle East, it hasn't been, much to our detriment.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162074977
Publisher:	Post Hill Press
Publication date:	06/12/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	469,922
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Elan Journo is a fellow and director of policy research at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is co-author of Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism, a contributor to Defending Free Speech, and editor of Winning the Unwinnable War.

Editorial Reviews

After hundreds of books on the subject, it would seem difficult to produce a fresh approach, but Elan Journo has done just that in this concise and deftly written volume.

Author of Making David Into Goliath - Joshua Muravchik, Ph.D

This is a contrarian, thought provoking, relentlessly liberal, fact-rich, lucid, morally serious, constructive, and unapologetically pro-Israel book. Though it makes some arguments with which I disagree, it's an admirable work, very much worth reading.

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for National Security Strategies, Hudson Institute; Under Secretary of Defense for Po - Douglas J. Feith

Elan Journo brings a much-needed perspective to the world's most pressing crisis: a perspective firmly rooted in deeply considered views about morality and justice. And he demonstrates that nobody is more naïve than the so-called realist to think such considerations beneath them. At a time when our foreign policy debate is focused on considerations of power, Journo shows us that nothing is more powerful than justice, and nothing is resolved that is not right.

Vice President for Litigation and Duncan Chair in Constitutional Government, Goldwater Institute. - Timothy Sandefur

What Justice Demands is unwaveringly courageous. Elan Journo's audacity will stun those who refuse to judge, agree or disagree, and always believe 'both sides' are to blame in the Middle East.

Capitalistpig Hedge Fund and Fox News Contributor - Jonathan Hoenig

Elan Journo captures the essence and nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the 21st Century as it is seen through American foreign policy. As more and more groups try to marginalize Israel in American society Journo gives us the necessary realism to understand this complicated corner of the world and why it matters to America.

Executive director, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East; co-author of Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine - Asaf Romirowsky, Ph.D