Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel

A number of books have been written documenting the Zionist control of the U.S. government and how Zionists manipulated world events in order to create Israel. “Against Our Better Judgement” by Alison Weir is one of the very best books ever written on these subjects. The following are some things I learned from reading this book: I had never heard of the elitist Zionist secret society called the Parushim, or that Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis was the head of this organization. Brandeis recruited ambitious young men to work for the Zionist cause and further their careers in the process. Brandeis recruited Felix Frankfurter, then a professor at Harvard Law School, as his paid political lobbyist and lieutenant. This highly unethical arrangement allowed Brandeis to keep his considerable political endeavors hidden from the public. Frankfurter used similar methods when he later became a Supreme Court Justice. On pages 54-57 of “Against Our Better Judgement,” Weir documents how Zionists pressured numerous nations in the UN General Assembly into supporting the Zionist partition plan of Israel. For example, Bernard Baruch told France it would lose U.S. aid if it voted against partition. David Niles recruited Harvey Firestone to tell Liberia that Firestone would revoke his planned expansion in Liberia if Liberia voted against partition. Zionist Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and others pressured the Philippines, while the Latin American delegates were all threated and bribed into voting yes for the partition. The UN General Assembly Resolution 181 creating partition passed as a result of this intense Zionist pressure. “Against Our Better Judgement” also has a number of extremely interesting quotes from Jewish authors. For example, on page 58 of the book, Israeli historian Tom Segev states, “Israel was born of terror, war, and revolution, and its creation required a measure of fanaticism and cruelty.” On page 86, Alfred Lilienthal explained in 1953: “The capture of the American press by Jewish nationalism was, in fact, incredibly complete. Magazines as well as newspapers, in news stories as well as editorial columns, gave primarily the Zionist views of events before, during, and after partition.” As other reviewers have noted, “Against Our Better Judgement” has only 93 pages of text, and by my count 109 pages of endnotes. Weir’s book is thus succinct and easy to read, while providing extensive documentation and additional material for readers who want to study the subject matter in more detail. I highly recommend “Against Our Better Judgement” to anyone interested in how Zionists took over control of the U.S. government and established the nation of Israel.

This book surpassed my expectations by far. I learned something new on every page. Alison Weir has assembled an unparalleled critical presentation and analysis of the long standing relationship between the US and Israel. Beginning with the birth of Zionism, she details the history of support for Zionism, the characters that used their power, influence and access to some of the highest and elite politicians, public servants and private citizens to fund and further the creation of the State of Israel, and the ousting of the people already living within its new borders. Most of the information has been discovered and recognized only recently. Minutely detailed and painstakingly researched, the conclusion that evolves is a new narrative of history, Israel and Palestine. This new narrative is uniquely interesting, beyond thought provoking, and diametrically opposed to the traditional stories that most Americans grew up with. Many people will not admire or accept the data and conclusions that Weir presents. However, each statement, claim, relationship and event is based upon the facts she discovered, and whose sources are exhaustively cited in the back of the book. (The story narrative is first 90-some pages; while the remaining of the 227 pages contain reference material, endnotes, works cited.) Readers will question what they have been taught, and believe about Zionism, Israel and Palestine. After reading this work, some of the current events, skirmishes, and warfare of the region will make more sense, and your opinion of Israel and of Palestine and the Palestinian people may change dramatically - but change is inevitable and having all of the facts allows one to make better choices. Thank you, Ms. Weir for going out on a limb, doggedly researching and presenting the facts of this story. Peace, Salaam, Sholom, Namste

I've had this book since the end of May and finally had the time to sit & read it today. I couldn't put it down. Alison Weir has put into a book the facts that have been flying in my face as of late. In the past I have been an avid "Pro-Israel" advocate, even lived in Israel for a couple years while married to a Jewish Israeli tour guide,... been involved in the "Hebraic Movement",etc. But something has haunted me for at least 10 years now & as I prayed to Father for truth (good, bad, or ugly),I have had my eyes opened to some pretty hard facts. I had asked Him how Israel could have come about when the vast amount of Jews were/are against Him... and certainly His Son. Honoring them with their own land while turning their backs on Him does not line up with Scripture. I got heavy duty into the understanding of the Illuminati, the NWO & what "Zionism" truly is. A few years ago my mother read all the books on Golda Meir and I remember her telling me how Golda came to the US begging for money for Israel's conception & how so many of the so called "Jewish Mafia" sent loads of money in support of Israel. I thought .... "then HOW can this be of the Father.... that is certainly NOT His way of doing things"... One question led to another & the more searching I did, the sicker I got. OY! EVERYTHING we've learned as Truth regarding this world is nothing but deception in reality. Most of the Prime Ministers of Israel have been atheists & have very shady pasts in regards to the Bolshevik Revolution, Communism, etc..... certainly not what's been proclaimed throughout this land. The Rothschild's, Rockefeller's & their ilk have played an unscrupulous part in Israel's becoming a nation.... and they're Luciferians. It's all a set-up for "their messiah" to rule & reign from Jerusalem. (check out the Supreme Court Building in Jerusalem donated & built by the Rothschilds). The bible mentions a few times to beware of those who say they are Jews but are of the Synagogue of Satan. Alison does not get into all of that, but all she writes comes up to the same basic conclusion.... Israel as we know it today came about for all the wrong reasons. But learning what I have & reading this book has caused a lot of pieces to fall into place even more than before. I pray many Believers who stand with Israel would read this book & understand what is actually before them. The Zionist propaganda has been going forth for a long time & has it's tentacles everywhere. I suggest going to Youtube & searching out the Zionist agenda.... many "True" Jews are against Zionism. Also research the London Olympics opening & closing ceremonies to learn more of what is involved in "Zionism". By the way, one thing Alison did not mention is that all of the media is owned by 6 individuals.... all involved with the New World Order. As long as they can dictate what can or cannot be reported, we had better get our "news" elsewhere. "Truth" is getting tougher & tougher to find. Pray for discernment.

This is a very good book, especially for the American reader, who should know where all this unlimited support by the US for Israel comes from. As a matter of fact, the Zionist movement was so powerful at the turn of the 20th century that it was behind the US entry into WW I. The price for this "lobbying" was the Balfour declaration in 1917, which was the main reason for the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. But even the terms of the Balfour declaration were not adhered to, because they stipulated that the "Jewish homeland" should not affect the lives of the indigenous population. What happened from 1948 onwards is the exact opposite... Unfortunately, the Kindle edition of this book is garbled, and sometimes whole paragraphs are truncated at the beginning, e.g. the end of Chapter 4 which ends thus: "Zionists often..." and Chapter 5 follows immediately. Many more examples could be given, this is why I had to return this book, and I will order the paperback edition. I even suspect intentional sabotage, to prevent access to this very valuable information...This is also the reason for the missing fifth star!

I heard of this book on the American Historical Association blog--the AHA had refused to accept a paid advertisement for the book, the author wrote to the president complaining of censorship, and the discussion went from there. The AHA claimed the right to reject any ad for any reason, but it expanded on that and said it was not a peer-reviewed book, was self-published, and lacked reviews in the mainstream press. The AHA cut off further comment after a week or so. Censorship? I personally would say yes, but it's one of these cases where you're not given enough information to make a reasoned decision (how many book advertisements have they rejected in the past five years? Who made the decision? Was the decision reviewed? Is there a pattern in the refusal to advertise? etc. No answers were forthcoming from the AHA. (I should add I've been an AHA member for 45+ years.) To the book itself: It clearly would have benefited greatly if Alison had run it by an editor. The main gaffe is saying that the Lusitania was "an American ship." As we all know, it was British. This is particularly unfortunate in a book like this since it calls into question her other facts, which, I suspect, are correct. There are other curious things an editor would have caught: apostrophes or single quotation marks are more often than not printed backwards. There's also a typo toward the end where it reads "two hundreds" with an 's' that shouldn't be there, and a header "Endnotes" where it should be the chapter title. Beyond those minor issues, it reads more like a term paper than a book; statements are made quickly and then she moves on to the next point. It's all heavily documented, so it's not a problem of statements not being backed up. They're just not elaborated on in enough detail in the text itself. It was almost as if she were being paid by the number of issues she brought up rather than the flow or coherence of the book. Again, an editor (I used to be an editor…) would have fixed all that. The book itself is really two books of equal size: the text itself (93 pages) and the endnotes (108 pages). Most of the endnotes are substantial, and some go on for more than a page. If you don't read the endnotes, you miss half the book. I think I understand what Alison was trying to do: write a short book that quickly summarized how the Zionists influenced the US policy on Israel up to 1948. She's done that. But for most of us--even those who, like myself, are Middle East specialists, but not in this field--much of the information she presents is new. It's all published, readily available information, so it's not like she discovered some secret cache of long-lost letters or anything like that, but in the political climate of the last 70 years, the anti-Zionist point of view (or better: the facts behind the Zionist point of view) has not been widely publicized. So I give her 5 stars for an excellent summary of the subject, and certainly using her notes and bibliography, readers could delve as deeply into the subject as they wanted.

If you are at all interested in the history behind the creation of Israel, you owe it to yourself to read this book. As the author says in the introduction, the book is brief and to the point. It is written as a quick summary of how Zionist Jews worked industriously to create a homeland for the Jews in lands of their ancient kingdom and of the the country's birthpangs (including that of its indigenous population). If you want more details, the footnotes are extensive and provide authoritive documentation of the author's statements and assessments. Some reviewers have criticized the book for being “very poorly written”, but that is largely a matter of opinion. It is brief and succinct; the language is not flowery, but straight-forward. (Ms Weir is a journalist) Some reviewers have accused the author of lying, but a closer examination of these criticisms reveals that it is not the author who is having trouble with the truth. For example, one recent reviewer - apparently taking exception to Ms. Weir’s assertion that UN General Assembly Resolution 181 was a “recommendation and did not create any states” - claims that “The UN declared Israeli statehood on May 14th, 1948. I remember the day well as I listed to the UN vote on the radio”. But that would have been impossible as the UN did not pass any resolutions on May 14, 1948. An examination of the UN General Assembly’s resolutions (at [...], in fact, reveals that the General Assembly did not vote on anything in May 1948, and that the Security Council was already calling for a truce in Palestine in April 1948 and a cease-fire by May 22, 1948 [...]. To reiterate: this is an excellent book about the creation of Israel, full of facts and references and yet short and to-the-point. (You should get the book and see for yourself. It’s not that expensive…or check your local library).

Great book! Gave a good list of history, and includes sources.

Read it. The world has been exposed to false narratives. This book provides clarity.

I think this book should be on the High-School curriculum not only in the United States, but in Europe and around the World. At just 100 pages, it is concise and easily readable. Detailed source material in endnotes, allowing the reader to focus on the key findings. Compared to most people, I am comparatively well informed on the origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but when I read this book I learned many new things and confirmed others of which I had rather vague knowledge, as follows: * the growth of Zionism in the USA from the late 19th Century and how it became a largely secret movement, working both outside and within the Governmental apparatus * that the Balfour Declaration was largely fashioned to get the Zionist movement to persuade Woodrow Wilson's government to enter the First World War. * that there is substantial evidence that Harry Truman secured his famous win-from-behind in the 1948 Presidential election by supporting the partition of Palestine, at the behest of Zionists * that there was large-scale US pro-Israel pressure on UN General Assembly members in the run up to the November 29th, 1947, vote on partition. Weir specifically mentions pressure on France, Liberia, Philippines, Haiti and on Latin American countries expecting the benefits of the Pan-American highway that was currently under construction. * that Menachem Begin came on a tour of the United States six months after congratulating the Irgun on the Deir Yassin massacre, and that Truman overruled a State Department attempt to reject his visa. Weir shows the Irgun and other such groups to have operated extensively in the USA since the 1930s * that one such group hatched a plot to drop bombs on the British Foreign Office, assassinating Aneurin Bevan in the process * that notwithstanding all this, a long list of distinguished Americans opposed Zionism, in the same way they opposed European colonialism and other forms of racially exclusive endeavours, but were outmanoeuvred and outgunned by the mighty and coordinated movement that has become today's AIPAC. Notably the King-Crane commissioners of 1919 reported that "the Zionists looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine" and recommended that the project for making Palestine distinctly a Jewish commonwealth should be given up. Apart from this, Weir cites a long list of high placed opponents such as Secretary of State Philander Knox (in 1912), George C. Marshall (Truman's Secretary of State), the CIA, the National Security Council, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and numerous prominent Christian leaders. * that Israel and its supporters used questionable tactics to persuade for Jewish people to migrate to Palestine like: provoking "anti-Semitic" incidents, including fake "hate" attacks on Jews in Iraq; attempting to exploit the rise of Nazism to the same effect; sabotaging efforts to find other safe havens for Jewish refugees, and; pressure on Jews in post-WWII refugee camps, from confiscation of food rations to one case of a public flogging. * of the career and character assassination of Dorothy Thompson, the first journalist to be expelled Adolph Hitler, but who later dared speak up about the ills of Zionism. Of course, it is possible that some of the evidence is flawed or there are counterarguments, but the three negative Amazon reviews I have so far seen contain nothing of real substance - unless you count a dispute over the population of New Jersey!

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. Hier liest man wissenswertes über ein Konflikt, das nun über 60 Jahre andauert. Alison Weir erklärt mit verständlichen Worten, warum die meisten Menschen es nicht verstehen können, warum es keine Lösung zu diesem Konflikt gibt. Sie unterstellt, dass skrupellose Amerikanische Politiker, aus Eigeninteresse, die Palästinenser geopfert haben, damit sie die Gunst der Israel-Lobby gewinnen. Die westlichen Medien sollen, aus dem selben Grund, all diese Jahre Falsches verbreitet haben und somit ein trügerisches Bild dargestellt haben. Die von Ihr angegebenen Fakten unterstützen diese generelle Aussage; was die tatsächlichen Fakten sind, muss jeder für sich entscheiden. Wer gut Englisch versteht kommt mit diesem kurzen Buch zurecht. Besser wäre eine Deutsche Übersetzung.

The book is well done. It is easy to read and not to dense. The content is interesting.

A well researched and detailed book. Although in no ways exhaustive as it felt I was reading more a news article rather then a book. The author does include comprehensive list of references and footnotes which are very useful.