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.

21 Documented cases
$298B U.S. aid since WWII — more than any nation
34 Americans killed by an ally — USS Liberty, 1967
80yrs Of record, 1946 to today

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

The full archive

Six categories of documented conduct

Read every case in chronological order, from the 1946 King David Hotel bombing to the present.

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