There seems to be a nev­er-end­ing stream of books about the State of Israel and its sta­tus in the volatile Mid­dle East. This new vol­ume in the Oppos­ing View­points Series offers 24 even­ly bal­anced, pro and con, argu­ments relat­ing to Israel. The mate­r­i­al is ful­ly doc­u­ment­ed and con­sists of news­pa­per and peri­od­i­cal arti­cles, speech­es, and book excerpts by author­i­ta­tive experts, pol­i­cy mak­ers, layper­sons, and mem­bers of less main­stream orga­ni­za­tions. They express their views on such sub­jects as Israel’s right to exist, the Israeli-Pales­tin­ian con­flict and its rela­tion­ship to glob­al ter­ror­ism, Zion­ism, the secu­ri­ty fence, racism, and U. S. sup­port of Israel among oth­ers. A peri­od­i­cal bib­li­og­ra­phy of addi­tion­al read­ing fol­lows each chap­ter and dis­cus­sion ques­tions on each top­ic are includ­ed, along with a chronol­o­gy, bib­li­og­ra­phy, web­sites, and an index. This is a use­ful and reli­able book for mid­dle school and high school stu­dents, but before buy­ing it, be sure you don’t have oth­ers cov­er­ing the same ground already in your col­lec­tions. Ages 12 – 18.