By Richard Stone Direct US military involvement inside Israel in support of the IDF has marked a significant development in the present Cold War changing balance of forces across the region and globally. It has enabled a much clearer assessment of how the US require Israel to continue to conduct regional operations, although with increasing difficulty as the balance of …

(Verso, London and New York, 2017) Book review by Wallace McKitrick How did Zionism begin, in its Christian and Jewish forms? What distinguishes secular Jewish Zionism from religious Zionism? Were Palestinians forcibly ejected from their homelands and economy by Jewish settlers in the C20th century? Have Palestinian representatives repeatedly sabotaged potential peace agreements, as alleged by successive Israeli and US …