Snooks, Yakka, mojo and all you other jojos, read my lips:
"Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years" by Professor Israel Shahak Foreword by Gore Vidal
Here's Gore Vidal's opening: "Sometime in the late 1950s, that world-class gossip and occasional historian, John F. Kennedy, told me how, in 1948, Harry S. Truman had been pretty much abandoned by everyone when he came to run for president. Then an American Zionist brought him two million dollars in cash, in a suitcase, aboard his whistle-stop campaign train. 'That's why our recognition of Israel was rushed through so fast.' As neither Jack nor I was an antisemite (unlike his father and my grandfather) we took this to be just another funny story about Truman and the serene corruption of American politics. Unfortunately, the hurried recognition of Israel as a state has resulted in forty-five years of murderous confusion, and the destruction of what Zionist fellow travellers thought would be a pluralistic state - home to its native population of Muslims, Christians and Jews, as well as a future home to peaceful European and American Jewish immigrants, even the ones who affected to believe that the great realtor in the sky had given them, in perpetuity, the lands of Judea and Sameria. Since many of the immigrants were good socialists in Europe, we assumed that they would not allow the new state to become a theocracy, and that the native Palestinians could live with them as equals. This was not meant to be. I shall not rehearse the wars and alarms of that unhappy region. But I will say that the hasty invention of Israel has poisoned the political and intellectual life of the USA, Israel's unlikely patron."
But reading, guys, requires one VERY IMPORTANT prerequisite: an open mind! You guys have shut yours down, locked it up, threw away the key and think the world loves you because God gave you the Earth... and all the troublemakers will somehow be blown away! It's not going to happen, guys. Nor, I suppose the likes of you will ever open your eyes or read anyboby else's lips.
