“Last March, 1978, listeners on a -wide transmission could view a 28-year old Benjamin Netanyahu, calling himself Ben Nitay, debated on a US TV show ‘The Advocate’ against Palestinian self determination and——should the US support ‘Self Determination for Palestinians in a Middle East Peace— during which the tumultuous relationship between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama reached a new low.’

Key points from the debate:

Ajami challenged Netanyahu on his views about Palestinian statehood and the rights of Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza.

Netanyahu argued against the creation of a Palestinian state, emphasizing the existence of other Arab states and the risks of Israel’s security.

The exchange included Ajami questioning the future of democracy in Israel if it remained a ‘garrison state’ to which Netanyahu responded that Israel seeks peace and security, not perpetual militarization.

Over White House objections, the Israel Prime Minister tripped to Washington to attack the President’s signature foreign policy legacy, the Iran nuclear deal. FRONTLINE traced the stormy history of the US-Israeli relationship through the eyes of Obama and Netanyahu, two men with fundamentally different views of the world.

For Obama, his election in 2009 provided a chance ‘to recast the US as a friend of the Islamic world’ says White House insider Sandy Berger. But for Netanyahu, Obama’s vision of the Middle East threatened Israel’s existence. Told through riveting footage and interviews with political insiders in Jerusalem and Washington, ‘Netanyahu at War’ provides the essential context needed to understand the ongoing feud between Netanyahu and Obama and how it could shape the future of the Middle East.

“The Secret War Against The Jews” by John Loftus and Mark Aarons [1994] is an extraordinary book, which reads like a novel, did not enjoy the popularity bestowed on so many novels. With startling revelations such as “In order to curry favor with the Arab oil producers, precise details of the Israeli offensive were also passed onto [Arab countries by the CIA] during the course of fighting [prior to the Six Day War]”, it is not surprising that it has not been the subject of a review by the NY Times.

The thrust of this large volume, numbering approximately 50 pages with a further 100 pages dedicated to substantiating notes and references, is directed to how Western espionage betrayed the Jewish people.

An interesting item concerns an order by Winston Churchill for the bombing of the railway lines carrying Jews to Auschwitz. Apparently, Anthony Eden made sure the order was not to execute the order.

In the words of the authors, “The world’s major powers have repeatedly planned covert operations to bring about the partial or total destruction of Israel. The savage extent of the secret wars against the Jews will horrify the Western public .”

Most reviewers try to extract facts or anecdotes from the book in question to give a summation of its central thesis, or bring in contradictory evidence to prove the book’s unreliability. The sheer size and multi-generalization nature of this Twentieth Century epic almost demand that the entire book be read and carefully digested. It appears that the authors got enough for their central thesis to stand.

The book’s subtitle presents its central thesis:” How Western Intelligence Betrayed the Jewish people.”One of its authors, John Loftus, an Irish Catholic was a former prosecutor with the US Justice Department’s Nazi-hunting unit, and was granted access to classified CIA and NATO archives.

Mark Aarons, one of whose grandparents was Jewish, is an Australian investigative reporter. If a mere 10% of what this book alleges is true, Twentieth Century history as written by the victors is a shameful distortion, and yet a lot more than 10% of this book is probably accurate.

One of the reasons that Jews were hated is because of a clique, which........

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