Wed
Jun
20
Libertarians on Israel
An exchange with a friend reminded me of some of the key articles on Israel from a libertarian perspective and turned up some other valuable ones. These destroyed my prejudices in favor of the Israeli state by substituting facts for the vague triumphalist history I had learned. Let it be so recorded:
- Alienation of a Home-land: How Palestine Became Israel (pdf) by Stephen P. Halbrook (if you do nothing else, look at Map 1 on p. 10 of the PDF).
- “Ancient History”: U.S. Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly Of Intervention by Sheldon Richman.
- War Guilt in the Middle East (pdf) by Murray Rothbard.
- Pat Buchanan and the Menace of Anti-anti-semitism by Murray Rothbard.
- Is Applying Libertarian Principles to Israel Anti-Semitic? by Carol Moore (many links here to other resources and intra-libertarian debates on this topic)
- The Real Terror Masters by Justin Raimondo (scroll down to NOTE IN THE MARGIN). Raimondo explains succinctly why “Israel” is such an issue for American libertarians (it isn’t so much Israel, but the Israel Lobby right here in the US).
