The Jewish People’s Rights to the Land of Israel

1. The Jewish People’s Rights to the Land of Israel,by Salomon Benzimra, is published by Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights (CILR.org).
This book was written with assistance from the late Israel land rights scholar Howard Grief to help high-school students understand the founding of Israel’s rights under international law with great emphasis on the vital San Remo Conference and the Mandate For Palestine (the original two-state solution), including the backstories and related treaties. Israel Truth Week has its own reference copy of this authoritative work and recommends it highly.
It is available in Kindle ebook format only. You can read it online within your browser (Firefox and Google Chrome only at this time) using the Kindle ‘Cloud Reader,’ or you can download a Kindle application to read it on your home computer. The ebook format has the advantage of allowing the reader to immediately consult all the 170 reference documents and sources.
Salomon Benzimra was a presenter at the 2013 and 2014 Israel Truth Week conferences. He is a professional chemical engineer and co-founder of Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights (CILR) with Goldi Steiner.

• DOWNLOAD THE BOOK (Hebrew PDF only): CILR.org – The Book – Hebrew  (free)
• INTRODUCTION: Salomon Benzimra, P.Eng., Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights (CILR.org): Introduction to ‘The Jewish People’s Rights to the Land of Israel‘ [PDF, 5P]

2. Israel In World Relations, by Richard Bass. Israel Truth Week also owns a copy of this easy-to-read book which not only addresses Israel’s modern founding and associated issues, but delves into many other important topics such as the role of ancient Jewish culture in forming today’s traditional liberal values.
From the publisher:

A thorough, engaging account of Israel’s crucial role in 4,000 years of world history, ideology, religion, and politics, Israel in World Relations provides one of the most thorough and balanced resources now available for understanding the issues in the Middle East today. With its emphasis on critical thinking, respect for fact, and logical thought, it encourages readers to consider what qualifies as truth, and it shows them how to apply those criteria to the complicated and often emotional topic of Israel.
Among the challenging questions it addresses are the following: What counts as history? Is the Jewish claim that there was a Temple in Jerusalem objectively justifiable? Is there such a thing as a “Jewish people”? Are today’s Jewish people connected to the ancient Israelites? What is democracy? Can a Jewish state be democratic? Why has peace been so elusive between Israel and its neighbors? What does international law say about sovereignty over Jerusalem? Are the land-for-peace and two-state solutions practical strategies for peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority? What is a just war? Was Israel’s incursion into Gaza in 2009 “just”? What is the real Israel-human rights abuser or humanitarian nation? The book shows why the answers to these questions are relevant to our understanding of world relations and to our own personal identity.