The establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine was justified as a necessary protection from another Holocaust. Thus, the creation of modern Israel on the land of another people is a direct political consequence of the Holocaust lore. Contributions in this section deal with the creation and history of the Jewish State, covering its political, societal, religious, and military trials and tribulations, as well as the relationship it has with its neighbors and its treatment of Israel's ethnically non-Jewish inhabitants.
By Mark Weber ∙ February 15, 1999
Israel is working on an “ethnically targeted” biological weapon that would kill or harm Arabs but not Jews, according to Israeli military and western intelligence sources cited in a front-page report in the London Sunday Times, November 15, 1998 (“Israel Planning ‘Ethnic’ Bomb as Saddam Caves In,” by Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin). In developing…
By Donald Neff ∙ January 1, 1997
Donald Neff is author of several books on US-Middle East relations, including the 1995 study, Fallen Pillars: US. Policy Toward Palestine and Israel Since 1945, and his 1988 Warriors trilogy. This article is reprinted from the January-February 1997 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (P.O. Box 53062, Washington, DC 20009). In January…
By Rachelle Marshall ∙ November 1, 1997
Rachelle Marshall is a free-lance editor living in Stanford, California. A member of the International Jewish Peace Union, she writes frequently on the Middle East. This article is reprinted from the July-August 1995 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (P.O. Box 53062, Washington, DC 20009). Every country has its myths – stories…
By Donald Neff ∙ September 1, 1994
Donald Neff is author of Fallen Pillars: US. Policy Toward Palestine and Israel since 1945, as well as of the 1988 Warriors trilogy. This essay is reprinted from the September-October 1994 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (P.O. Box 53062, Washington, DC 20009). On September 22, 1947, Loy Henderson strongly warned Secretary…
By Donald Neff ∙ February 1, 1996
Donald Neff is author of the recently published Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy Toward Palestine and Israel since 1945, as well as of the 1988 trilogy, Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America Into the Middle East in 1956, Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days that Changed the Middle East, and Warriors Against Israel: America Comes to…
By Donald Neff ∙ January 1, 1996
Donald Neff is author of the recently published Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy Towards Palestine and Israel Since 1945 (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995), as well as of the 1988 trilogy, Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America Into the Middle East in 1956, Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days that Changed the Middle East,…
By Joseph Sobran ∙ November 1, 1993
The Israeli Supreme Court has finally acquitted John Demjanjuk of the charge of being “Ivan the Terrible,” the Treblinka guard who is said to have killed and tortured countless Jews. The acquittal is also a vindication of Pat Buchanan, who led the calls for the old Ukrainian's release. It has become increasingly obvious that Demjanjuk…
By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1993
Early in 1935, a passenger ship bound for Haifa in Palestine left the German port of Bremerhaven. Its stern bore the Hebrew letters for its name, “Tel Aviv,” while a swastika banner fluttered from the mast. And although the ship was Zionist-owned, its captain was a National Socialist Party member. Many years later a traveler…
By William Grimstad ∙ July 1, 1989
Israel's Sacred Terrorism, by Livia Rokach Belmont Mass: AAUG Press, 1986, third ed. Paperback, 63 pages, $6, ISBN 0-937694-70-3. BLAMING THE VICTIMS, Edward Said and Christopher Hitchins, eds. London: Verso/New Left Books, 1988. Paperback, 296 pages, $15, ISBN 046091487 4. “Terrorism … terrorists.” Most people who read the ugly words in the newspapers probably take…
By Robert Atelier ∙ October 1, 1986
Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations with a Militant Israel, by Stephen Green. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1984. This excellent, heavily-documented and footnoted book should indeed, as the blurb on the inside dust-jacket promises, “cause major reassessments in the published literature in this field, at least as far as mainstream sources are concerned.” Mr….
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