Category Archives: Israel

The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy

Here are some highlights from this 1992 book by Seymour Hersh: * America’s most important military secret in 1979 was in orbit, whirling effortlessly around the world every ninety six minutes, taking uncanny and invaluable reconnaissance photographs of all that … Continue reading

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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

Here are some highlights from this 2018 book: * ON SEPTEMBER 11, JIHADIST hijackers flew two airliners into the World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon. A fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field after the hijackers were overpowered … Continue reading

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The Iraq Invasion Of 2003 & The Israel Lobby

Stephen Walt wrote in 2010: In his testimony to the Iraq war commission in the U.K., former Prime Minister Tony Blair offered the following account of his discussions with Bush in Crawford, Texas in April 2002. Blair reveals that concerns … Continue reading

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“The Virtue of Nationalism” by Yoram Hazony

Steve Sailer writes: Israel is one of the intellectually freer nations, which helps explain how an Israeli political philosopher, Yoram Hazony, has suddenly established himself as perhaps the most interesting thinker of the post–Merkel’s Mistake era with his spectacular new … Continue reading

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Socialist Racism: Ethnic Cleansing and Racial Exclusion in the USSR and Israel

Otto Pohl writes: During the 1970s, both the Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks in Soviet Central Asia compared their plight to that of the Palestinians. The Stalin regime deported both the Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks from their homelands to … Continue reading

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