Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel by Alison Weir- Fantasy , Fiction and a Failing F- Grade

Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel by Alison Weir- Fantasy , Fiction and a Failing F- Grade .

Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel Audible – Unabridged and Alison Weir (Author), Daniel McGowan (Narrator), Audible (Publisher)

Author Weir candidly states in her preface that her book has "unusual aspects."I am lead to understand by that she means fantasy , fiction and wishful thing.  It certainly does with 93 pages of text and 107 pages of endnotes only 25% or less actually relevant to the text of fantasy and fiction she wrote. That being said, there can be no argument that her book is not well researched with its 373 references but not for  her premise that ... come to think about not sure what the hell she was trying to get across. That Truman accept in todays money about $280 million in underthe table bribes. Some table that required. Weir misses the point that Zionism is unquestionable the greatest publicity campaign of the 20th century.As an academic work.... Weir's book deserves grudgingly an F-.

In brief, Weir documents the efforts of Zionists to first cut a deal with England to support the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine contingent upon Jewish efforts to bring America into the Great War. After the second war Jewish efforts to gain American support for the creation of Israel are documented. Among the main players here are Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfuter, and Bernard Baruch.

Weir makes wide and unsubstantiated claims about  the buying of Harry Truman. Remember that campaign railroad trip? At one stop Weir tells of a Zionist giving Truman $2,000,000 in cash.Hey ho this is whow and whow  but in one word unsubstantiated 'bulshit'. Others Weir claims without any prof or names ,also gave money to the point that Truman was bought and paid for. Weir also widely claims that the  Zionist efforts to get UN approval of the Jewish homeland resulted in threats against places like The Philippines and Liberia were made by the likes of Brandeis. She suggests that this was play ball or we will see that you get no aid. Again unsubstantiated hogwash. Obviously the pressure was effective.

Finally, there are references to folks who opposed the Zionists. Guess what happened to the Saturday Evening Post. Remember Dorothy Thompson? Of course not. How about Hugh Gibson? Doesn't ring a bell does it. Well, how about James Forestal? Funny about his suicide. Kind of like Patton's auto-er-accident.

The book is short but effective. It explains very well why the Palestinians are angry to this day.