ABSTRACT
Seymour Hersh's thesis is that Israel, impelled by the megalomania of its leaders, built an atomic bomb facility at Dimona, deceiving the United States until the wicked deed was done. Part of the deception, according to Hersh, was self-deception: American political leaders did not dare face up to what their intelligence agencies had uncovered for fear of the Jews. In dark suggestions more appropriate to the antisemitic Liberty Lobby than an American Jewish journalist, Hersh implies sinister motivations on the part of Jewish Americans in high places. Hersh was part of a group of young journalists whose perspectives were shaped by the Institute for Policy Studies, the radical left think tank, founded in 1963, which served as ideological center of the Movement. According to Hersh, Israel is also working with the US to "develop and refine potential nuclear, chemical-weapons and missile targets inside Iran".
