THE BOOK: ONE NATION UNDER ISRAEL
One Nation Under Israel By Andrew Hurley
Reviewed by Richard H. Curtiss 9/6/03
My theory on book reviews is that 99 percent of those who read the review will never read the book, no matter how strongly I recommend it. So it’s okay to reprint as many of its salient facts and conclusions as space permits. However author/historian Andrew Hurley has packed so many facts and such sensible, cogently reasoned conclusions into this book’s 307 pages that it’s impossible to just skim off the top. It’s quotable from beginning to end.
Readers are best advised to get their own copy and settle in for what will be a rewarding but not entirely easy read. Hurley was a Corporate Lawyer for 40 years before he retired and brought out the first edition of this book in 1990, just before the Gulf war rearranged the furniture on the deck of America’s mad “Israel, right or wrong” Middle East policy. Accordingly, he has laid out each of his 14 chapters almost like Legal briefs. He states the facts of each case as he sees them, the opposing arguments where they exist, the counter-arguments, and then what any sensible judge would conclude—unless that judge happened to be running for elective office in the United States, and therefore was scared to death of the Israel lobby.