I suggested to him that Israel on Trial might ultimately become something like the 21st Century successor to Alan Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel – a book people reach for years from now, when confronted with the standard accusations against Israel. Israel on Trial is certainly not coy about where its author ultimately comes down. Altman believes Jews had, as he puts it elsewhere, “lost their instinct for danger” during the unusually secure post-war decades. His book begins with Israel on trial. Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law by Judge Roy K. Altman, is published by Simon & Schuster