Both parties responsible for failing to restrain Israel in Gaza – Bryan Clark/Idaho Statesman

“The Arab/Israeli conflict has a long history of violence. Israeli historians like Ilan Pappe in his book, “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,” remind us that around 800,000 Palestinians were displaced and dispossessed of their land with the creation of Israel, and historical memory of what Pappe termed “ethnic cleansing” runs deeply among Palestinians to this day.

“Yet American support of Israel has been for the most part unqualified over the years. Republicans and Democrats have jousted for how strongly they can support Israel, with some even accusing any hesitation in support of Israel as antisemitism. What could possibly account for America’s subservience to the Israeli version of history and politics?…”

This detailed history describes the growth of the Zionist movement and how it bent US lawmakers to its will:

John Judis’s Truman book is a landmark in anti-Zionism – Mondoweiss