The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People: Amazon.de: John Loftus, Mark Aarons: Englische Bücher

From Booklist

The thesis of this absorbing book is that the secret bias of Western governments against the Jews was and is the single largest obstacle to peace in the Middle East. The book presents the point of view of non-Jews, most of whom are retired intelligence officers--the so-called old spies who plotted against Israel and the Zionist movement. Most of the hundreds of intelligence officers the authors interviewed were trained to regard Jews, and hence Israel, as hostile targets. The book is divided into three parts: the first covers the period from the end of World War I to just after the end of World War II, the second covers the postwar era up through the Nixon administration, and the third begins with the CIA's alleged sabotage of Carter's presidency and continues through the Reagan and Bush administrations, during which "sources allege that the Reagan administration set up Israel as the scapegoat for the Iran-Contra scandal, while the White House bought guns from a PLO terrorist and wiretapped American Jews." Loftus and Aarons have documented their sources' allegations with facts from such diverse sources as Oliver North's diary, hundreds of volumes of congressional investigations, and thousands of declassified files. The book is bound to be controversial; the list of "betrayers" is long and includes popes and presidents, kings and queens, statesmen, businessmen, military intelligence, and world movers and shakers of every ilk. George Cohen

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An alternative, conspiratorial retelling of major events of the last 75 years, from the authors of Unholy Trinity (1992). Former Justice Department Nazi-hunter Loftus and Australian journalist Aarons would have us believe that much of recent Western history has had as its common theme ``Get the Jews.'' However, they are far more convincing in arguing that the underlying motivations for most of the evil plots they describe were fanatical anti- communism and/or greed; Jews--mostly pre-1948 Zionists and post- 1948 Israelis--sometimes got in the way. Thus wealthy Americans invested in prewar Nazi Germany because there was money to be made, and Nazis were welcomed to postwar America as fighters against communism; the State Department and American boardrooms were filled with Arabists who had no sympathy for a Jewish state not because it was filled with Jews, but because it was empty of oil. Loftus and Aarons undermine their work by its enormous scope, which makes it virtually impossible to distinguish one chess-gambit conspiracy from another. Also, the sources for their most explosive revelations are ``confidential interviews'' with unnamed veterans of an alphabet soup of espionage agencies: Little hard evidence is presented. Still, like all good conspiracy books, this one offers plausible and intriguing explanations for gray areas of history. These range from how American companies wrested control of Saudi Arabia's oil fields from Great Britain in the 1920s and '30s to the way countries were convinced (blackmailed, say the authors, in a convoluted plot involving Nelson Rockefeller, who was allegedly selling oil to the Nazis all through WW II) to support the creation of Israel in 1948. The book is also enlivened by a rich rogues' gallery, including double (or maybe triple) agents Jack and Kim Philby; and John Foster and Allen Dulles, accused of subverting American foreign policy to their insatiable greed. A conspiracy book offering tasty morsels if one reads with a grain of salt and disregards its sensationalized and misleading title. (16 pages photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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jews are not paranoid, the whole world is against them 10. November 1999

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Stunning revelations. No wonder the New York Times steadfastly refuses to review this book. Many of the ideas put forward in this book I had heard for years from my father, a Holocaust survivor. My family, though empathetic towards his life's experiences, always considered him paranoid. Here, an Irish Catholic brings forth the documents and research necessary to prove my father's political theories correct. A must read for anyone interested in the position of the Jews in the world today.

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This is a very strange book. 23. Januar 2000

I believe almost everything in this book is true. I think the assumptions are correct, the assessments realistic and true. But, its impossible to accept at face value, because 100 pages of footnotes marked confidential do not a proof make. By the very nature of the subject, there is subterfuge and deception, secrecy and deceit. In the end, you have to believe a good part of this book without seeing all the footprints. And then, its scary as hell.The holy trinity of oil, prejudice and profits mean that this world won't change any time soon.

sound scholarship, fascinating material well told. 7. Juli 1998

Von R. podet

The title is deceptive. The actual story is how the entire Western alliance was betrayed from within. Stellar personalities such as the Dulles brothers, one of them the head of the CIA and the other at one time to be Secretary of State, together with Rockefeller, contrived to supply the Nazis with desperately needed oil which made their war machine able to function.