Preface - \"Israel Comitted Genocide? Really?\"

Preface
The political movement to de-legitimize Israel has been in full swing for many years. The vaguely antisemitic (to some more than vague), and definitely anti-Israel, Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) campaign unofficially came into being in 2002 with the scholastically impoverished boycott of Israel, 14 years ago (Docker 2003). Even Norman Finkelstein, no friend to the pro-Israel movement, has stated that the obvious goal of BDS is the de-legitimization of, for the purpose of destroying, the state of Israel (Smith 2015). While a state can no more in reality undergo de-legitimization than a human can be dehumanized, it is the perception of de-legitimization that is the issue at hand. At the moment, the three concepts being used in this illegitimate attempt to delegitimize Israel are amply illustrated by Asaf Romirowsky and Efriam Karsh:
Demonization of the Jewish State by using the symbols and images associated with classic anti-Semitism to characterize Israel or Israelis; drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis; and blaming Israel for all inter-religious or political tensions.
Double Standard for Israel by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
Delegitimizing Israel by denying the Jewish people its right to self-determination, and denying Israel the right to exist. (Romirowsky and Karsh 2015)
Additional political attacks along the same vein are that Israel is an apartheid state (as defined by the United Nations, not as a duplicate of South African Apartheid, but intended as such so that the perception is that the Israeli brand is as bad or hopefully worse than the unparalleled apartheid system in South Africa), that the Jews have no historic connection to the Temple Mount (Post 2015) and that Israel was illegitimately born via the commission of genocide. Of course, this is a brand of "political" antisemitism. But none is potentially more damaging politically than, as Martin Shaw points out, "If the Nakba constituted genocide, then the Palestinian advocates could then trade off 'their' genocide story against Israel's own (narrative)…" (Shaw 2010, 2).
While this book is short, in reality it should not take reams of material to prove whether or not Israel has committed the "crime of crimes," the most heinous crime imaginable – Genocide. Further, it should also take little to show that the accusations of genocide are agenda driven, political in nature, and factually bankrupt. It is only through the use of the style of historical writing advocated by Hayden White (rejected by mainstream historians), that events happen outside of history (Guttenplan 2010, 228), that non-historians can make such genocidal claims.
As always. I am indebted to my wonderful wife, Janet Nislow Sigman, who made sure I was saying what I wanted to say properly, and whose love and support made this endeavor possible.
Strangely, I am also indebted to Professors Francis A. Boyle, John Docker, and Richard Falk, for without their almost fanatical scholarly attempts to try to prove Israel committed and continues to commit genocide, the need to write this book would never have come about.