Judaica

Revisionism is not about Jews or the Jewish religion. It just happens to deal with an aspect of history in which Jews play a major role. Hence it is inevitable that Jewish topics are raised on occasion, and we aren’t going to avoid them here either.

Let’s represent U.S. interests for once, instead of Israel’s

“Much as we want to coordinate our activities with the United States, the interests (of the United States and Israel) are not identical. We have to, from time to time, worry about our own interests.” That was Yitzhak Shamir speaking in 1981, before he became Israel's prime minister. He spoke as an Israeli official should…

Free Pollard, our Scapegoat

In the wake of the Gulf War, many American Jews are openly calling for the release of the convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Jay Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill. Some of the arguments are dubious, but the basic demand is fair. Pollard already has served more than…

European History and the Arab World

I The text below [1] was intended to be the foreword to the Arabic edition of the book, “Historical Truth or Political Truth?”, scheduled to appear at the end of 1982. That publication project, and the translation into Arabic, was undertaken by a group of Lebanese militants, without the knowledge of the authors, except at…

Allies: Don't Let Our Soldiers Die!

Yes, says Victor Ostrovsky, a former Israeli secret agent. In a new book, By Way of Deception: A Devastating Insider's Portrait of the Mossad, Mr. Ostrovsky says the Israelis had advance notice of the suicide attack that killed 241 Marines in Beirut in October 1983 but withheld the information from the United States in the…

Assault on the Liberty

Assault on the Liberty: The True Story of the Israeli Attack on an American Intelligence Ship, by James M. Ennes Jr.: Random House, 1979. 300 pages, hardback, available from IHR at $14.95 . ISBN: 0394-50512-3. Subtitled “The True Story of the Israeli Attack on an American Intelligence Ship,” this book must certainly carry much more…

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