Book reviews of Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer (Hachette Book Group, 2009) and Spy Trade by Grant F. Smith (Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, 2011).
In this must read short book for understanding the dysfunctional US foreign policy in the Middle East and the rest of the world, Smith ends it with: “The Israel lobby has an enduring value system that is both alien and harmful to America, handed down from the Sonneborn Institute and Haganah through the Jewish Agency’s American Section and American Zionist council to AIPAC: that no crime is punishable if it advances the cause of Israel. Only when the broader American public becomes fully aware of how the Israel lobby’s value system is slowly corrupting and bankrupting the nation will the call for long-overdue law enforcement finally be heeded.” More