A sourced reference archive
Our Worst
Ally
America's closest ally has a documented history of spying on it, deceiving it, and turning American weapons, secrets, and aid against American interests. This is the record — every case drawn from declassified files, court records, and the government's own words.
The pattern
One ally. Every domain.
The same result.
For eighty years the United States has treated Israel as its closest ally — and for eighty years the documented record has told a more complicated story. The same conduct recurs across every domain: an intelligence service that runs agents inside its own benefactor; a military that has fired on American sailors and staged attacks under other nations' flags; a lobby that moved classified files and sidestepped the laws it was meant to follow; a nuclear program built behind a decade of deliberate deception.
What almost never recurs is the consequence.
Spies are pardoned. Inquiries are steered toward "mistaken identity." Laws that bind every other nation are quietly never triggered. The cases in this archive are not connected by a theory — they are connected by a pattern, each one dated, documented, and sourced to the public record. Read them together.
Start here
Four cases that set the pattern
- Nuclear & Strategic Deception The Dimona Deception 1956–1969 Israel built nuclear weapons while systematically deceiving U.S. inspectors at Dimona — using a fake control room and bricked-up walls to hide a reprocessing plant. The deception is documented in 32 declassified U.S. government records. Read the case →
- Military & False Flag Operations USS Liberty 1967 Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attacked a clearly marked U.S. Navy intelligence ship for two hours, killing 34 Americans. The Navy's own chief counsel later swore that LBJ and McNamara ordered the inquiry to find 'mistaken identity' despite evidence to the contrary. Read the case →
- Espionage & Intelligence Operations Arnon Milchan and the Krytron Smuggling Operation 1979–2013 Between 1979 and 1983, roughly 800 krytrons — switches usable as nuclear-weapon triggers — were illegally exported from California to Israel through companies tied to producer Arnon Milchan. His associate was convicted; Milchan was never charged. In 2013 he confessed on Israeli television: 'I did it for my country and I'm proud of it.' Read the case →
- Political & Financial Influence Sheldon and Miriam Adelson 2010–2025 The largest U.S. political donors of their era organized their giving around a single stated priority: Israel. Their influence produced documented U.S. policy changes that President Trump credited to them directly on the floor of the Knesset. Read the case →
The full archive
Five categories of documented conduct
- 01 Espionage & Intelligence Operations Documented Israeli espionage against the United States — agents, stolen secrets, and the theft of American defense and nuclear technology. 8 cases →
- 02 Military & False Flag Operations Attacks, deceptions, and false-flag operations involving Israeli forces — including incidents that killed Americans and went unaccounted for. 5 cases →
- 03 Political & Financial Influence Influence over U.S. policy through campaign spending, lobbying, and donor money — and the disclosure rules that go unenforced. 6 cases →
- 04 Nuclear & Strategic Deception Israel's secret nuclear arsenal and the U.S. deceptions and silences that shielded it from scrutiny and law. 6 cases →
- 05 Suppressing Criticism Documented efforts to suppress criticism of Israel in the U.S. — and the professional, legal, and institutional consequences faced by those who voiced it. 6 cases →
Read every case in chronological order, from the 1946 King David Hotel bombing to the present.
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