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A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel's Victims of Terrorism Hardcover – October 12, 2010

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Every day in Israel, memorials are held for people killed simply because they were Jews--condemned by the fury of Islamic fundamentalism. A New Shoah is the first book devoted to telling the story of these Israeli terror victims. It centers on a previously unheard oral history of the Middle Eastern conflict from the viewpoint of the Jewish victims and their families.
Ten years ago, Palestinian terrorist groups launched their Second Intifada, resulting in an Israeli "Ground Zero" with 1,500 civilian victims. Israel is a tiny country, and this number would be proportionally equivalent to about 54,000 terror victims in the United States. The hundreds of attacks in Israel, day after day, amount to a sort of "new Shoah," as Roger Scruton explains in his foreword. Giulio Meotti spoke to many of the Israeli families that have been destroyed by terror attacks on all the ordinary places of everyday life: on buses, kibbutzim, religious places, cafés and restaurants. Many of the survivors told their heartbreaking stories of loss for the first time. In these human fragments lie the raison d'être for the State of Israel, the first country in the world to experience suicide bombings on a massive scale, the fruit of jihadi nihilism.
 
 
 
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"At the heart of the Jewish tradition is a metaphysics of radical hope: The world is a good place, and by our efforts we can make it better. Meotti demonstrates that this life-affirming spirit remains alive in modern Israel, and
A New Shoah is more than the story of victims of terrorism. It is a tribute to the power of determination and hope"
The Weekly Standard
 
"A New Shoah is a labor of love".
Commentary
 
"We have become accustomed to talk blandly of 'terrorism' as if it were some sort of abstraction. But Giulio Meotti in meticulous fashion puts human faces on the body count from the organized Palestinian terrorist killing of Israeli civilians--and thereby reminds us that this is not a morally equivalent struggle, but a systematic effort to extinguish Israelis and the civilization that they have created."
Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Carnage and Culture
 
"A necessary book. A magisterial work". 
National Review 
 
"An important testament to the victims of terror".
Jerusalem Post  
 
"An historic work. A must read for its historic significance and current relevance. It is an important work, not just to the Israeli people, but to the world.
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New York Journal of Books 
 
"Israel's Truman Capote"
Ricochet
 
"One of the most important books of our time" 
Frontpage
 
"One of the best Jewish books of the year" 
Jewish Ideas Daily
 
 
"It's essential reading to anyone who wants to measure the full human drama underway in the Holy Land"
George Weigel 
  
"A fascinating look at the relentless attempt to make Israel disappear"
Worldnetdaily
 
"With eloquence and compassion, Giulio Meotti puts a human face on the atrocities suffered by nearly two thousand Israelis killed in terrorist incidents."
Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution  
 
"I highly recommend this book to anyone who cares about the future of the Jewish State"
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein 

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"A monumental study of pain and grief, of mourning and remembrance, of hatred and love.Indispensable for anybody who wants to understand Israel's position in the world and the tragic position of the Jews in history"
The Wall Street Journal

"Giulio Meotti's book recounts in detail the kinds of terrorist attacks to which Israel has been repeatedly subjected, and which threaten the rest of the civlized world if we collectively do not take the threat seriously and respond effectively".
John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

"Powerful, unforgettable and indispensable."
Norman Podhoretz

"Meotti has chosen to remember, in powerful and fiercely eloquent prose, the victims of the remorseless assault on the Jewish state. It's a unique book"
Mark Steyn, bestselling author of America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

"This most impressive work is a valuable publication that presents a comprehensive picture of the many acts of terrorism against Israeli citizens"
Reuven Rivlin, Speaker of the Knesset

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"A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel's Victims of Terrorism" tells a heart-wrenching story that almost never makes the front pages--or even the back pages--of the world's newspapers: the story of what jihadist terrorism has done to the lives, souls and memories of the people of the State of Israel. The European edition of the Wall Street Journal called the book "a monumental study of pain and grief, of mourning and remembrance, of hatred and love," which is not an exaggeration. Nor is the title of Meotti's study misplaced, for he powerfully asserts the continuity between Nazi-era Jew-hatred and the annihilationist project of Hamas and similar jihadist organizations today.  It's essential reading for anyone who wants to measure the full human drama underway in the Holy Land".
George Weigel 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Encounter Books; First Edition (October 12, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 428 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 159403477X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594034770
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.64 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Giulio Meotti is an Italian author and a journalist with Il Foglio, a national daily in Rome. His columns have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary and in the major Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth. Mr. Meotti graduated from the University of Florence with a degree in philosophy. He has expertise on antisemitism, Israel, Islam, multiculturalism and Middle East.

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“This most impressive work is a valuable publication that presents a comprehensive picture of the many acts of terrorism against Israeli citizens. It is a very useful tool that fills the information gaps that unfortunately exist among many in the international community—including the media—and even decision makers, in regard to events in Israel and to our daily struggle for survival. There is no doubt that making this information readily available, together with the detailed descriptions that help increase awareness of the cruel impact of terrorism on the victims, is a very important contribution to a better understanding of life in Israel.”

Reuven Rivlin, Speaker of the Knesset

“Giulio Meotti’s book recounts in detail the kinds of terrorist attacks to which Israel has been repeatedly subjected, and which threaten the rest of the civlized world if we collectively do not take the threat seriously and respond effectively.”

John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

“As Meotti vividly demonstrates in this powerful book, what is generally called the Arab-Israeli ‘conflict’ is in reality a relentless war being waged by the Arab/Muslim world to wipe the State of Israel off the map, and his account of how this war has affected its Jewish victims is unforgettable and indispensable.”

Norman Podhoretz

“At a time when a resurgent Judenhass shames Europe, Giulio Meotti has done something rare and honorable, and chosen to remember, in powerful and fiercely eloquent prose, the victims of the remorseless assault on the Jewish state. In doing so, he indicts with devastating clarity not only their depraved enemies but those in the ‘civilized’ world who indulge and encourage such barbarism even as it prepares to devour them. This is a unique and valuable book: a portrait of a virulent global psychosis, and the real lives it snuffs out in one tiny strip of land.”

Mark Steyn, bestselling author of "America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It"

“Giulio Meotti belongs to this precious and tiny group of people to whom the Western world owes the preservation of its honor, freedoms, and dignity in a time of totalitarian media control, unlimited oil corruption, terror and violent antisemitism. In our time of fashionable cowardice, Meotti’s book is a monument of love and courage dedicated to the forgotten Israeli and Jewish victims of Islamic jihad in Israel and in the world.”

Bat Ye’or, author of the bestseller "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis"

“We have become accustomed to talk blandly of ‘terrorism’ as if it were some sort of abstraction. But Giulio Meotti in meticulous fashion puts human faces on the body count from the organized Palestinian terrorist killing of Israeli civilians—and thereby reminds us that this is not a morally equivalent struggle, but a systematic effort to extinguish Israelis and the civilization that they have created.”

Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of "Carnage and Culture"

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Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2011
In all fairness, I have not finished the book. But I can say that as a Jew, to have my feelings validated by a non-Jew, and one without an agenda in doing so, is an affirmation that there is hope for humanity. Because not quite 70 years after the Holocaust the murder of Jews for being Jews is greeted with glee in many parts of the world. The Jewish response has always been to remember, to memorialize the dead so that they live on. Author Giulio Meotti does that for us, in that very same spirit. Here he profiles these very people, murdered for being Jews, in Eretz HaKodesh, the land promised to the Jewish people by G-d, a promise, until recently, universally acknowledged, if not accepted by the other two major religions. Now Islam rises up like the Fourth Reich to put an end to the Jewish people, and we are left with the stories of those who perished and those who survived. If you believe in human decency, read this book. Even if you are from the other side and believe that murdering Jews is right and payback for "stealing" what is truly ours, read this book. It challenges the humanity in us all.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2010
A New Shoah by Giulio Meotti is a powerful and poignant book that personalizes the lives, often albeit brief, of hundreds of Jews murdered by Islamic Fundamentalists primarily in Israel during the last 15 years for the sole reason that they were Jews.

Mr. Meotti writes with incredible empathy as he describes the humanity of infants, small children, yeshiva students, doctors, rabbis, mothers, fathers, grandparents and so many others slaughtered as they lived productive and peaceful lives simply because they were Jews.

Mr. Meotti presents us with facts and descriptions that are generally ignored by the US media.

Clearly, Mr Meotti's title A New Shoah is accurate: just as during World War II the world did nothing while the German people murdered 6 million Jews in Europe, today the world is silent as Islamic Fundamentalists are slaughtering thousands of Jews in Israel.

Mr Meotti beautifuly connects the many generations of Jews who have been murdered simply because they studied and worshiped the Torah with the Jews being murdered in Israel today. It is a book that should be read by adults and children everywhere.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2013
The Israeli Shoah is a new wrinkle in describintg 100 years of this conflict.
Yes, individuals have suffered terribly..but compared to the 3,000 Jews murdered
daily during WW2, it's a pittance. He should have put this into perspective.
He portrays every person killed as some sort of hero to the Jewish people,
zealous to a fault. Tens of thousands of people in the M.E. have been killed
or wounded due to the many wars...he should have had a paragraph on
Syrian, Iranian deaths (current), and the suffering of Israel's enemies in
fighting their "Jihad". Recall that 8m Germans were killed to murder 250,000
German Jews. That is the flip side of the Holocaust..and does send a message.
War is hell and no one wins.
I think that many of the 25,000 Israeli deaths could have been avoided,
if the people understand the risk's of living there..and protect themselves
accordingly. How come no Guarndian Angels?
Why doesnt Israel have capital punishment? These questions should
have been addressed by the author to make the book more enlightening.

I fellow classmate in high school was killed over 40 years ago, flying
over Hanoi. He was Joe College, smart, good looks, a gentlemen.
His death is still remembered by his classmates and remaining family.

People get killed fighting in wars..some get cxaptured and tortured.
He choose to go down with the jet. Just another of the 59,000 killed
during that wasted war. But memories are still there.

My point, Israel could do more for it's citizens.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2011
Finally the true story of nearly 2.000 people killed in Israel during the so called palestinian "intifada", when Arafat refused the peace for his own people and declared the war by terror.
It is quite time to wake up and the book written by Meotti shows us that the people killed in the bus and in the restaurants were ordinary people living in Israel with extraordinary dreams.
They wanted a peaceful life, working for their children and their land and the liberty of expressing their faith.
It is time to know about the antisemitism coming back in many European countries and this book is just an other example : it has been printed in Italy by a tiny and unknown publisher, because the
big publisher said that it was "only" telling the story of the Jews and not of the Palestinian !
Thank you Meotti.
Gian Luigi Scarfiotti
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Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2013
When I was attending university in Montreal, I would often take the train home. On the way to the train through the concourse of the downtown station, I would pass by a confectioner's booth run by an elderly lady. On most evenings she wore long sleeves, but sometimes on hot summer evenings she would be wearing a sleeveless blouse. On those occasions I could clearly see the camp number tattooed on the inside of her upper arm. This is the first image that came to my mind as I read Meotti's book. Justice and morality demand that if Giulio Meotti had never written this book, someone else must.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2013
I had to read this for a book analysis and it's just... terrible. If you like exploitative one-sided stories that are completely ignorant of the complicated context of the I/P issue, this is right up your alley.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2017
Giulio Meotti here lays in more detail the basic theme of his many incisive reports on GatestoneInstitute.org: he explains convincingly that Mohammedan (my term) jihadism has organized itself to conduct pogroms, extermination campaigns, and terrorism everywhere in the West. I have not yet read the book completely, but bought it on the strength of Meotti's authoritative reporting on the capitulation of Europe's short-sighted leaders to the idolatrous alien culture of the non-Christian, anti-semitic (strange but true!) invaders from Mohammed's heartlands.
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Louise Harwood
5.0 out of 5 stars A Shocker!
Reviewed in Canada on May 21, 2013
The author, Guilio Meotti, spent four years to research the "Hidden Genocide" of Isreaelis in their own land! We, in the West, only got occasional news of more suicide bombers, snipers and attacks against people living in Israel, but Meotti wove together well told narratives of personal and intimate tragedies. It is certainly the most important book I read last year. It is an essential read for all who believe in the right for the State of Israel to exist, as a full member of the UNO!