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Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship

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After the second intifada, I spent well over a year researching the history of zionism and the founding of the state of Israel. This book is one of the best I read that year: it is beautifully written, engaging, sensible, and thoroughly researched. The authors know how to tell a story and they know how to explain a fairly complex and ever-shifting history, without simplifying that story. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the history of zionism and of the United States in the 20th century. An impressive achievement.

This book is a must read, well laid out and the author's subtle humour lends a measure of elegence to the writing.

Most wars are for profit, and this book sheds more light about the connection between Israel and Iran Contra. I am amazed at the interviews he obtained with some of these Israelis. And some of their candid remarks about how they feel about "Gentiles". Not very suprising really, as history has shown us. Nevertheless its a must read as Israel is prolific in their entaglement for profit and otherwise in a lot of the ugliest killings around the world. Its sad to read then and even now how civilians are slaughtered by killers trained and supplied by Israel, and then for the Israeli trainers to say, they don't care what Gentiles do with the bombs as long as Israelis make a profit.

Most US government as so afraid to speak the truth about Israel, witness how Netanyahoo lectures Obama to a White house audience, how the Israeli bombing and killing of US sailors on USS Liberty, etc, etc, is never addressed by the US government, and in fact the information is suppressed. And we think we are the superpower?? The truth is we have been hit by a deadly virus that has infilttrated all levels of government using greed, blackmail and other tools. You won't hear our "patriots" take on this virus!

A very interesting account of the intrigue, plotting, and scheming done by the Zionists in their bid to garner U.S. political, military and economic support for Israel. Highly recommended, very well written and well researched.

This is one of the modern histories, written by journalists, that you must either accept in full without any substantiation, or reject out of hand. It's written with an authoritative style, and the facts that are presented appear to be believable; but on further review, the footnotes reveal that much of the substance of the book is the famous "unnamed source" which so pervades modern investigative journalism. This of course means that most of what the authors say requires that you take the book at their word, because you can't cross-reference much of the allegations here. As a result, the whole thing sort of collapses of its own weight.

When I read a book like this, I always look into the sources, and am especially pleased when the authors provide you with an annotated bibliography, so you can look and see which sources they agree with or approve of, and which they reject. Here, the main clue is that the authors appear to revere Noam Chomsky: any historian with any objectivity will tell you Chomsky would make Karl Marx look close to Rush Limbaugh politically. The authors are also so relentlessly cynical it defies belief: does no one in either the American or Israeli governments act for any reason other than personal gain? Or perhaps they're motivated by base goals: power for their countries at everyone else's expense. Whatever, no one in the book with very few exceptions is portrayed in a positive light. Every president from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan (pretty much the gamut of American politics) is portrayed negatively. And frankly, while I'm no big fan of Carter politically, I don't believe he used the obscenity attributed to him towards the end of the book. That just makes the whole book less believable. The final result is that the whole book for me, submerges into irrelevance. I wouldn't recommend this book much for anyone.

Quite obviously these two are anti-Israel. Their writings lead one in the direction they choose. For example on one page they will state that a certain action was not authenticated. Then, several pages on, this same fact will again be presented as completely true.
If a person desires to read about the Israeli Intelligence, there are far better choices to select from.
Pure crapola.