Israel is a chronic liability that squanders billions of American dollars, drags the US into wars and whose genocidal treatment of the Palestinians is destroying America’s moral pretensions in most of the world. Once this is understood, support for Israel will collapse, and voters may apply enough pressure to reorient U.S. policy in line with genuine national interests.
Category: History
For more information on the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, please see IfAmericansKnew.org
The Failure of the Two-State Solution – Refugees
The Geographic and Demographic Imperatives of the Palestinian Refugees’ Return, by Salman H. Abu Sitta
A 1984 conference forged Israel’s influence over US media
In 1984, the American Jewish Congress convened a conference in Israel entitled “Hasabara: Israel’s Public Image: Problems and Remedies,” led by U.S. advertising supremo Carl Spielgovel with 16 other Jewish American PR luminaries, journalists, & academics to refine Israel’s propaganda strategies
Israel and the United States: Who Rules the Roost?
Documenting how Israel and its lobby have driven US policies from Truman through Biden
In Lebanon, Israel Is Only Sowing the Seeds of More Bloodshed and Terror
Israel history of repeated incursions into Lebanon and assassinations, by Charles Glass
Deadly USS Liberty Attack Records Remain Secret – For Now
More than 57 years after the attack, the FOIA lawsuit revealed new details and, more importantly, it made it clear that the US government is still refusing to release hundreds of pages of documents concerning the assault.
WATCH: The Israeli Hit List – Iran Remains
The seven countries that the U.S. continues to meddle with and antagonize have a shared history and connection: For decades Israel and the Zionists who pushed for the Jewish state have wanted them to be destabilized, weakened, or eliminated.
16 years in prison, Holy Land Five member Mufid Abdulqader has been released
After 16 years behind bars, Mufid Abdulqader, a member of the Holy Land Foundation Five, has been released from prison into a halfway house. The case of the Holy Land 5 has become a symbol of U.S. unconstitutional overreach since 9/11.
The Religious Extremism That Motivates Israeli Settler Expansion in the West Bank
Few people are aware of the religious intolerance that motivates the ultra-Orthodox Jewish settlers on the West Bank. Consider the statement of one of their heroes, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel: “The only reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve Jews.”
FLASHBACK 2014: U.S. Senators Are Nearly All Stooges for Israel
The Israel lobby was buying politicians and policy in 2014, and it is still doing so today. (Top of the list of recipients: Joe Biden.)