“The ease of filming and reporting out of safe and comfortable Israeli hotels inflates the media coverage of every minor affray. But humanitarians should note that the dead from Jewish-Palestinian fighting since 1921 amount to fewer than 100,000—about as many as are killed in a season

At the end of the Cold War, I seriously underestimated the “fifth column”-like potential of Zionists and Evangelicals in the U.S. I told myself that the US and the USSR had simply used Israel and the Arab states respectively as proxies for a test-run European war. They provided us with militaries that were reasonably comparable to NATO vs. the Warsaw Pact with the latest materiel. Of course, the Soviets had figured out by the late-70s that there was no sense in relying on any of their allies to use their equipment effectively. I figured a reduction of our bribes-for-peace to Israel and garrison-state Egypt would be part of the “Peace Dividend.”

However, Israel and it’s domestic sympathizers have co-opted the US to launch massive mercenary sorties against any rising power in the Middle East. Israel plays the role of the Emerald Isle with us as the anti-Napoleonic “Coalition” builder and the rising Muslim state of the day as the expansionist empire with Napoleon at its head. We just call the Muslim threat of the day fascist/Nazi/Hitler because Americans know nothing about Napoleonic history–much less the paradigms of modern British foreign policy.