Editors’ Pick –Top Twelve Books

1. Guilt By Association – How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America To War

By Jeff Gates

“Explosively Revelatory" Says former U.S. envoy to Iraq

http://www.amazon.com/Guilt-Association-Deception-Self-Deceit-America/dp/098213150X

…because control of the Oval Office is the syndicates goal, the immediate purpose of Guilt is to alert the public to the perils of John McCain emerging as president and commander-in-chief. McCain s election would embolden those skilled at displacing facts with deceit, Gates documents with convincing detail. The brilliantly provocative Guilt by Association consists of nine chapters: Game Theory and the Mass Murder of 9/11 ; Organized Crime in Arizona ; John McCain and Financial Frauds ; McCain Family Secret: The Cover-Up ; The Presidency and Russian Organized Crime ; Money, Democracy and the Great Divide ; The New Anti-Semitism ; Would Obama Be Better? ; and The Way Forward. In the first chapter Gates illustrates the intergenerational sophistication with which neoconservatives prepared the minds of the American public to invade Iraq in response to 9/11. Academics and think tanks pushed Samuel Huntington s 1996 Clash of Civilizations to promote a clash consensus five years before 9/11. That same year Richard Perle along with other neocons such as Douglas Feith wrote A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. This helped lay more mental threads for removing Saddam Hussain. Then Senators McCain, Joe Lieberman, a Jewish Zionist from Connecticut, and Jon Kyl, a Christian Zionist from Arizona, co-sponsored the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. Distracted by the Monica Lewinsky affair, President Bill Clinton signed it. –Andrew I. Killgore, co-founder of WRMEA and former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar.

 

2. The Transparent Cabal

By Stephen Sniegoski

“There is no book that better exposes the oft-obscured fact that Israeli interests are primarily driving America's wars in the Middle East than Stephen J. Sniegoski’s The Transparent Cabal” ~ Maidhc Ó Cathail

http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Cabal-Neoconservative-National-Interest/dp/1932528172

 

 

 

3. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

By John J. Mearsheimer and  Stephen M. Walt

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/books/06grim.html

http://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374177724

 

 

 

4. The Power of Israel in the United States

By James Petras

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Israel-United-States/dp/0932863515

 

 

 

5. “War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America”

By James Petras

MyCatbirdSeat.com on War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America:

This book not only provides a detailed account and illustration of Israeli war crimes in Gaza but equally important it provides a comprehensive analysis of the reasons why more and more people are recognizing that the US Congress and White House are zionized occupied territory.

"James Petras, teacher and humanist of a rare, encyclopedic, analytical intelligence, author of this compact masterwork, has  long been recognized  as  the foremost social scientist of the United States…" Frederic Clairmont See full review

On December 8 2010 The Club of Mexican Journalists awarded James Petras  its prestigious International Journalism Prize for Investigation and Analysis of the News within the global context.

"Dr. James Petras is one of the greatest personalities of critical intellect of our time. His numerous books, which have been translated into many languages, and his opinion articles which are invariably defined by their rigor and decisive data, widely documented and placed within their social context, have turned this thinker into one of the most lucid and coherent minds of recent times. Naturally, this has earned Dr. Petras the resentment of those who feel affected by his tireless efforts. Nevertheless, countless readers all over the world seek the words of this thinker to defend themselves from propaganda that intends to make us sympathize with the single-minded thinking of neoliberalism.”

 

 

 

6. Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power

By James Petras

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Israel-United-States/dp/0932863515

 

 

7. Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews is a journey through the propaganda lies and truth of history. (3 Volumes)

By Alan Hart

Almost everything you've been conditioned to believe about the making and sustaining of conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel is not true.

It's not true that all the Palestinians who became refugees in 1948 left their homeland voluntarily. Most were driven out by Zionist terrorism and ethnic cleansing.

It's not true that Israel has lived in constant danger of annihilation, the "driving into the sea" of its Jews. Israel's existence has never, ever, been in danger.

And it's not true that Israel never had Arab partners for peace. It's Zionism that has never been interested in peace on terms the vast majority of Palestinians and most other Arabs and Muslims everywhere could accept.

Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews is a journey through the propaganda lies and truth of history.

When the citizens of nations know the difference between Zionism's propaganda lies and the documented facts and truth of history, they will be empowered, if they care, to demand that their governments act to end Israel's oppression of the Palestinians. And that's why Alan Hart devoted more than five years of his life to researching and writing this book – to empower citizens to play their necessary part in stopping the countdown to catastrophe for all.

Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews is a complete re-writing of the history of the making and sustaining of the conflict, replacing Zionist mythology with events as they actually happened. The events are given global context to enable all readers to see how all the pieces of the most complex and complicated jig-saw puzzle fit together.

The insight Alan brings to the pages of this book is assisted by revelations from private conversations he had over the years with leaders on both sides of the conflict, including the two greatest opposites in all of human history – Golda Meir, Mother Israel, and Yasser Arafat, Father Palestine.

Written in his down-to-earth, television reporting and conversational style, the book reads more like a novel than a conventional history. It will keep you turning the pages wanting to know more.

It has two central themes.

One is why Western support of Israel right-or-wrong has made the whole Arab and wider Muslim world an explosion of anger and humiliation waiting for its time to happen.

The other is how Israel, the child of Zionism, became its own worst enemy and a threat not only to the peace of the region and the world, but also to the best interests of Jews everywhere and the moral integrity of Judaism itself.

The key to understanding, the author writes, is knowledge of the difference between Judaism and Zionism. He explains: "Judaism is the religion of Jews, not 'the' Jews because not all Jews are religious. Like Christianity and Islam, Judaism has at its core a set of moral values and ethical principles. Zionism is Jewish nationalism in the form of a sectarian, colonial enterprise which, in the process of creating and then expanding in the Arab heartland a state for some Jews, made a mockery of Judaism's moral values and ethical principles and demonstrated contempt for international law and the human and political rights of the Palestinians. That's why, for example, Nazi holocaust survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer titled his latest book An Ethical Tradition Betrayed, The End of Judaism."

The author adds: "Supporters of Israel right or wrong conflate Judaism and Zionism because the assertion that they are one and the same enables them to claim that criticism of the Zionist state of Israel is a manifestation of anti-Semitism. Often, almost always these days, the accusation that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism is false. And this false charge is the blackmail card played to silence criticism of, and suppress informed and honest debate about, the Zionist state and its policies. The reality is that Judaism and political Zionism are total opposites, and knowledge of the difference is the key to understanding two things. One is why it is perfectly possible to be passionately anti-Zionist – opposed to Zionism's colonial enterprise – without being in any way, shape or form anti-Semitic (anti-Jew). The other is why it is wrong to blame all Jews everywhere for the crimes of the hard core Zionist few in Palestine that became Israel."

Author's Appeal…

"The Zionist lobby in all of its manifestations is putting shocking and awesome effort into limiting distribution of this book and suppressing the informed and honest debate it was written to promote. The less this attempt to keep the truth of history hidden is successful, the more likely it will be that peace can have a last chance."

 

Consider not only buying this book for yourself but as a gift for others, to assist the mobilisation of people power (democracy in action) for justice and peace.

http://www.zionismbook.com/

 

 

 

8. Foreign Policy, Inc. : Privatizing America’s National Interest

By Dr. Lawrence Davidson

http://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Policy-Inc-Privatizing-Americas/dp/0813125243

 

 

9. Spy Trade: How Israel's Lobby Undermines America's Economy

By Grant F. Smith

http://www.amazon.com/Spy-Trade-Israels-Undermines-Americas/dp/0976443716

Spy Trade: How Israel's Lobby Undermines America's Economy

Israel and its American lobby have committed audacious but generally unknown crimes against the United States. Government secrecy across the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice and Pentagon long kept files about Israeli espionage, weapons smuggling and covert operations on American soil classified…until now   Spy Trade is much more than a groundbreaking dissection of the tactics Israel and its American lobby repeatedly use to evade justice. The book also provides stunningly simple strategies for ending criminal immunity and subversion of law enforcement that may someday restore American governance.

 

 

10. The Plight of the Palestinians : A Long History of  Destruction

By William A. Cook

http://www.zionismbook.com/http://us.macmillan.com/theplightofthepalestinians

 

 

11. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

By Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid

 

 

 

12. ‘This Time We Went Too Far’

Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion

By Norman G. Finkelstein

Now in an expanded and revised paperback

http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/this-time-revised/

Stuart Littlewood reviews : ‘This Time We Went Too Far’ by Norman Finkelstein