The Price of Safety

Clair Wills: Constance Marten’s Defiance, 14 August 2025

... there we planned on finding a flat in East Ham … You know it’s quite easy to find flats so, er, then when we got there everyone seemed to recognise us, jeering and pointing and taking pictures of us, so that’s when we decided we were not going to find a flat, because anyone could hand us in to the police, um, so Mark went to the Argos in East Ham and ...

The Israel Lobby

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, 23 March 2006

... not use Israeli bases without rupturing the anti-Iraq coalition, and had to divert resources (e.g. Patriot missile batteries) to prevent Tel Aviv doing anything that might harm the alliance against Saddam Hussein. History repeated itself in 2003: although Israel was eager for the US to attack Iraq, Bush could not ask it to help without triggering Arab ...