Adolf Hitler - Found of Israel: Israel in War With Jews by Kardel, Hennecke
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful: We cannot afford to limit
our understanding, August 4, 2004This book is a difficult read and a bit hard
to follow. I suspect this is because it has been translated from German by
someone who doesn't quite understand all the nuances of the English language.
It doesn't help that amazon.com has a typo in the title. It is Adolf Hitler -
FOUNDER of Israel: Israel in War with Jews. That said, it is also a difficult
read because of what it has to say. For this reason, it also becomes an
essential read, especially today. This book was copyrighted in 1974. Here we
are, in 2004, and Israel is as disruptive as ever. I do not, in this
statement, equate Israel with Jews (which would render me anti-Semitic, which
I am so not), although the confusion is understandable. It only becomes more
confusing the more one tries to understand it. All Jews are not Zionists. All
Zionists are not Jews. And some ZIonists were NaZIs. The important point
being, most of us have had the history of Israel taught to us in simplified
fashion, a basic "run through" that supposedly suffices to tell us that we
know "enough" about it to get through the day. Black and white, good and evil,
perpetrators and victims. Until, that is, we start having to send American
(and other) sons and daughters to the Middle East to intervene in a
long-standing an ongoing, historical battle that the history of Israel plays a
significant part in. While this book can not address current times, it does
address the roots in a way that allows us to understand better how history is
unfolding as we speak. We cannot afford to limit our understanding of these
issues to what the mass media chooses to tell us, or what we learn in the
brief time that we are in school. Far too much is at stake. Other books make
the case about how involved Israel is in American politics. That alone makes
this book essential reading.