What Exactly Is the Block\Futerman Defense of Israel?
The “libertarian” opponents dishonestly distort Walter Block and Friends’ actual position, and ignore its whole essence. As the old joke goes about book reviewers, they don’t bother to first read the book they bash, because they don’t want to be biased…
I see zero evidence any of the critics ever actually read the book: Hoppe, Jonathan Goodwin, Jeff Deist (UPDATE: I originally confused J. Tucker with J. Deist, see the comments here), Stephan Kinsella, LRC editors (by the way, that site has fallen greatly in recent years), Saifedean Ammous, Scott Horton, Tom Woods, Ryan McMaken, DiLorenzo, etc., etc. (except David Gordon who only utterly misreads the book to the point of raising suspicion). Maybe they read the Table of Contents.
To be fair, though, the co-authors hide the full argument in a book. The critic has to pay to disagree?!
One could almost argue they are doing this to themselves. But, that’s what search engines are for. You can find a summary here:
Block, Walter E., Alan G. Futerman and Rafi Farber. 2016. “A Libertarian Approach to the Legal Status of the State of Israel.” Indonesian Journal of International and Comparative Law. Vol. 3, Issue 3, June, pp. 435-553
https://thejewishlibertarian.com/tag/the-legal-status-of-the-state-of-israel/;
https://thejewishlibertarian.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/israel-rothbard-defense.pdf;
https://thejewishlibertarian.com/israel-vs-rothbard/
(Or see my own version of it here. Or listen to a summary here.)