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Paul Findley. Deliberate Deceptions. Facing the Facts about the U.S.-Israeli Relationship. 2d Edition. New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1995, 326 pp. Paper $14.95.
Reviewed by Carlos A. Parodi In April 1996, Israeli forces bombed a United Nations camp in Lebanon massacring scores of innocent civilians. Immediately after the attack, the Israeli government issued an apology for an unfortunate tactical error. International outrage for the massacre of innocent civilians led to further investigation by the United Nations. In its final report, approved by the majority of the General Assembly, the international body questioned the explanation of the Israeli government and raised the possibility that the act could have been the result of a systematic planned act against civilians. In short: the U.N. was arguing that there were reasons to believe Israel had committed genocide. Contrary to the U.N. positions, the United States government decided to support the Israeli government. Rejecting evidence that is conclusive for the majority of the nations, the official position of the United States government is that Israel remains a loyal ally and that what happened was indeed an unfortunate mistake by a government that was only trying to respond to a previous, "unprovoked" attack of Hizbollah, a "Lebanese terrorist organization." If the reader is asking why the United States takes sides with a government accused by the United Nations of genocide, Paul Findley, a former U.S. Representative from Illinois (1961-1983), provides a possible answer in his book Deliberate Deceptions. The United States government takes sides with Israel, first, because of the...