A LITTLE MORE PROGRESS TOWARD A RATIONAL MID-EAST POLICY

Since Mearsheimer and Walt wrote their ground-breaking essay on Israel/American relations, there has been a slow by steady willingness of MSM outlets to publish writers who also question the value of our supposedly Bestest Evah Ally. The latest one appears in The Daily Beast and was written by Thaddeus Russell, a professor of history at Occidental College.

Russell gets straight to the point:

Does the existence of Israel make Americans and Jews safer?

And here is the paradox: Though support for Israel among Americans, and especially Jewish Americans, remains high according to recent Gallup polls, historical evidence says the answer to The Question is “no.”

there’s one damning fact that’s ignored as often as The Question: There was not a single act of Arab terrorism against Americans before 1968, when the U.S. became the chief supplier of military equipment and economic aid to Israel.