Suggested reading:

• Jonathan Cook How Israel helped to revive Europe’s ugly ethnic nationalisms
• Lisa Strömbom The two-state impasse in Israel/Palestine—The EU caught between egalitarian norms and expansionist realpolitik
• Lance Selfa: Israel: The U.S. watchdog
• Hannah Arendt: Born in conflict, Israel will degenerate into Sparta, and American Jews will need to back away