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Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations With Militant Israel
Examines the adversial and friendly dealings between the United States and Israel and evaluates the impact on Israel's neighbors and on hopes for peace in the Middle East
370 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 1984
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May 27, 2025
The Millstone Around Our Necks
In Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations with a Militant Israel, Stephen Green doggedly mines through confidential government documents recently declassified at the time of writing and brought to public attention for the first time through this book. The result paints a very disturbing picture of how the United States of America is continuously used, abused, and discarded like a cheap prostitute in service of maximal and aggressive Israeli interests, often at the expense of American ones and in opposition to publicly stated American policy.
He pointedly states at the start that this book is far from a comprehensive history or overview of the Israeli/Arab situation in the Middle East, but rather a series of vignettes that shed considerable light on important occurrences such as (but are not limited to) the first Arab-Jewish war 1947-1948, the Lavon Affair, the Suez Crisis of 1956, Israel's secret nuclear weapons program, the Six Day War of 1967, and the USS Liberty attack. The truth uncovered from these documents, which include assessments from intelligence agencies and memoranda by top level bureaucrats, are in virtually all cases the total opposite of the fictions blared by the mainstream media designed to mislead the masses.
A special delight of this book is the author's colorful and confident writing as he intrepidly navigates the information and deftly analyzes it in context. But its presumption of some familiarity by its readers with the events and names discussed means this title is a brilliant resource for those with intermediate or higher knowledge of the Israel/Palestine conflict or the host/parasite relationship between America and Israel, but ought to be set aside for later by neophytes.
Cui Bono? Who Benefits?
However, one aspect I thought was strangely lacking was the refusal to dwell at length upon JFK's assassination, particularly since the author forcefully documents how American assistance to Israel in all aspects from military aid to diplomatic protection went turbo in the first few fiscal years of the Lyndon Johnson presidency, an unprecedented surge that dwarfed the levels of assistance in the previous years since 1948 combined. Kennedy's firm chastisement of Israel's nuclear ambitions are also noted, if briefly. Do we not then have here powerful motives based on who stood to benefit the most with him out of the way?
In Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations with a Militant Israel, Stephen Green doggedly mines through confidential government documents recently declassified at the time of writing and brought to public attention for the first time through this book. The result paints a very disturbing picture of how the United States of America is continuously used, abused, and discarded like a cheap prostitute in service of maximal and aggressive Israeli interests, often at the expense of American ones and in opposition to publicly stated American policy.
He pointedly states at the start that this book is far from a comprehensive history or overview of the Israeli/Arab situation in the Middle East, but rather a series of vignettes that shed considerable light on important occurrences such as (but are not limited to) the first Arab-Jewish war 1947-1948, the Lavon Affair, the Suez Crisis of 1956, Israel's secret nuclear weapons program, the Six Day War of 1967, and the USS Liberty attack. The truth uncovered from these documents, which include assessments from intelligence agencies and memoranda by top level bureaucrats, are in virtually all cases the total opposite of the fictions blared by the mainstream media designed to mislead the masses.
A special delight of this book is the author's colorful and confident writing as he intrepidly navigates the information and deftly analyzes it in context. But its presumption of some familiarity by its readers with the events and names discussed means this title is a brilliant resource for those with intermediate or higher knowledge of the Israel/Palestine conflict or the host/parasite relationship between America and Israel, but ought to be set aside for later by neophytes.
Cui Bono? Who Benefits?
However, one aspect I thought was strangely lacking was the refusal to dwell at length upon JFK's assassination, particularly since the author forcefully documents how American assistance to Israel in all aspects from military aid to diplomatic protection went turbo in the first few fiscal years of the Lyndon Johnson presidency, an unprecedented surge that dwarfed the levels of assistance in the previous years since 1948 combined. Kennedy's firm chastisement of Israel's nuclear ambitions are also noted, if briefly. Do we not then have here powerful motives based on who stood to benefit the most with him out of the way?
September 11, 2020
US a stooge of Israel
US government is a hypocrite, lying, heartless lackey of the Zionists. What a book. Hats of to Stephen Green. Exposed all the lies and hypocrisy of the USA. USA government and Israel the original ISIS and Al Qaida.
US government is a hypocrite, lying, heartless lackey of the Zionists. What a book. Hats of to Stephen Green. Exposed all the lies and hypocrisy of the USA. USA government and Israel the original ISIS and Al Qaida.
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