1. "Memorandum of Conversation, Palm Beach, FL, December 27, 1962, 10:00 a.m.," in Nina J. Noring (ed.), Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Volume XVIII: Near East 1962-1963 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), pp. 276-283.

2. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lobby," London Review of Books, March 23, 2006, http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/print/mear01_.html.

3. Ibid.

4. "Military Requirements for the Defense of the Middle East" (A Briefing by the Chairman, the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the Deputy Secretary of Defense), JCS 1887/61, November 26, 1952, in Paul Kesaris (ed.), Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Part 2, 1946-53, the Middle East.

5. Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963-1969 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971), p. 288.

6. Karen L. Puschel, US-Israeli Strategic Cooperation in the Post-Cold War Era: An American Perspective (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1992), p. 88.

7. Ibid., p. 89.

8. Puschel, p. 106.

9. According to Henry Kissinger, "an analysis of our capabilities indicated that we had only four brigades capable of reaching Jordan quickly, and such an operation would enlist our entire strategic reserve. Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Boston: Little Brown, 1979), p. 605.

10. Dore Gold, Israel as an American Non-NATO Ally: Parameters of Defense Industrial Cooperation (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1992), p. 25.

11. A.F.K. Organski, The $36 Billion Bargain: Strategy and Politics in U.S. Assistance to Israel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), p. 204.

12. "U.S.-Israel Memorandum of Understanding, October 30, 1981, Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the United States and the Government of Israel on Strategic Cooperation," Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/US-Israel+Memorandum+of+Understanding.htm.

13. Dore Gold, "Wartime Witch Hunt: Blaming Israel for the Iraq War," Jerusalem Viewpoints #518, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, June 1, 2004.

14. Major-General Avraham Tamir, A Soldier in Search of Peace: An Insider's Look at Israeli Strategy in the Middle East (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), p. 214.

15. Puschel, p. 91.

16. Ibid.

17. Arieh O'Sullivan, "First Joint Maneuvers for IAF, USAF in Negev," Jerusalem Post, April 23, 2001. The exercises were publicized in Air Force Magazine.

18. Alon Ben David, "Israel Navy Exercises with NATO Force," Jane's, May 10, 2005.

19. Haviv Rettig, "NATO: Israel Ties Must Remain Strong," Jerusalem Post, October 25, 2006.

20. Mearsheimer and Walt.

21. Bernard Lewis, "License to Kill: Usama bin Ladin's Declaration of Jihad," Foreign Affairs, November/December 1998.

22. Statement of General Bantz J. Craddock, Commander, United States European Command before the House Armed Services Committee, March 15, 2007.

23. "Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies conference on U.S.-Israeli Relations in the New Era, Bar-Ilan University Session on ‘U.S.-Israeli Strategic Glue' The Future of Security Cooperation, May 21, 2007," Embassy of the United States, Tel Aviv, Israel. See http://telaviv.usembassy.gov/publish/mission/amb/052107.html.

24. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (New York: Doubleday, 2007), p. 123.

25. Jeffrey T. Richelson, The U.S. Intelligence Community (New York: Ballinger, 1989), p. 276.

26. Peter Grose, "Better than 5 CIAs," New York Times, March 9, 1986. See http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5D7143EF93AA35750C0A960948260.

27. Ibid.

28. Helene Cooper, "Saudis' Role in Iraq Frustrates U.S. Officials," New York Times, July 27, 2007.

29. The Australian, August 14, 2003.

30. Dana Milbank, "Pronouncing Blame on the Israel Lobby," Washington Post, August 29, 2006. On May 21, 2006, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum, deputy ruler of Dubai in the UAE, announced the purchase of property for CAIR that would serve as an endowment, providing CAIR with income. See UAE Interact, May 21, 2006. Saudi aid comes through organizations like the Islamic Development Banks, and Prince al-Walid bin Talal. See Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha, "CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment," Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2006.

31. "Treasury Designates Director, Branches of Charity Bankrolling Al Qaida network," Department of the Treasury, August 3, 2006. See http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/hp45.htm.

32. Glenn R. Simpson, "U.S. Tracks Saudi Bank Favored by Extremists," Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2007.

33. Mearsheimer and Walt.

34. Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), pp. 228-230.

35. Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (New York: Free Press, 2004), p. 265.