War Without End

bkaplan104@aol.com · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 8:23 pm Post subject: attacking Iraq

I agree that attacking Iraq will do no real good, just bring massive ter-
rorist reprisals. I am against war, would rather not see it happen. Per-
sonally, I see Bush jr. as some little kid with a rocket launcher he's just
itching to try out - at everyone's expense... But are you *trying* to stir
up anti-Jewish hatred with these headlines? Granted, there may be ques-
tions that need answering - but stirring up hatred and bigotry serves NO-ONE!

Guest-43e1 · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 5:28 am Post subject: ?

What's "hatred" and "bigotry" in this context?

How does it serve the American people to provide a prophylactic over Israeli involvement in 9/11? Senator Graham of Florida has already hinted at Israeli machinations and funding of the hijackers. Fox News did a story. There are plenty of serious unanswered questions.

If the country that had exploited 9/11 were Poland, and a cabal of Polish-Americans were heavily involved in shaping American Foreign Policy, and the media were Polish-dominated -would it be stirring up hatred & bigotry to question their patriotism?

There is a preposterous fear of the Jews that crushes all rational discourse. Attempting to suppress it is what stirs up the very hatred and bigotry you purport to deplore.

Remember · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 6:20 am Post subject:

Or it could be that the Israelis are just a bunch on criminals who got away with it and when the day comes when one of their neighbors acquires an WMD and uses it on Israel I will shed no tears.
Cover-up? The Ultra Secret of WW2 was classified for 27 years. The USS Liberty reports and records have been classified for 35 years and still unavailable. The Cold War is over. The technolgy predates modern computer technolgy but it all remains CLASSIFIED. Whose kidding who? I'd like some lying Israeli apologist bastard explain this. We dole out billions to these hypocrites by our gutless Congress. Fuck Israel. And I dont love those Arabs either.
The medal mentioned above was not a Purple Heart but a Medal of Honor. LBJ and McNamara and his fucking "JFK best and brightest" criminal gang are a digrace for their behavior over the USS Liberty. Fuck Israel, Pollard and his Israeli masters, their "royal entitlement" from US taxpayers. I've pissed on LBJ's grave and I'll do the same for McNamara. Should be strung up but the governemnet covers up for their own despite any party label. May they rot in hell.
What goes arounf, comes around. I don't hate Jews. I hate Israelis and their supporters. There is a difference. And if that makes me an fuckin anti-semite, then bite me.
REMEMBER
USS LIBERTY.
The Congress and the Presidents forsaked them but the people will remember. ALWAYS.
HEAR THAT TEL AVIV. WE AREN'T GOING TO FORGET YOUR DUPLICITY AND THE MURDERS OF THE 34,
HYPOCRITES=ISRAEL

Same bs by the Israelis.

Alpha

Lekh teda

March 5, 2003
Palestinians Express Solidarity with Saddam Hussein
At the end of February 2003, an emergency team was established in the Palestinian Authority in order respond to the ramifications of the upcoming American attack against Iraq on the Palestinian people. Over the past few weeks a number of protest rallies have been conducted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to express support for Saddam Hussein.

Protest Rallies in Support of Iraq in the Gaza Strip

- In response to the call of the Union of Arab Lawyers on February 22, the "Union of Palestine Lawyers", a protest was held opposite the courthouses in the Gaza Strip. Representatives of many legal organizations took part in the rally. The chairman of the Lawyers' Union gave a speech in which he praised Iraqi steadfast opposition to the United States. He noted that an American attack against Iraq is also an attack against the Palestinians people because it is an attempt to force American and Israelis solutions on the Arab nations.

- On February 23, 2003, a rally was held in Rafah to show support and solidarity with the Iraqi people in the face of an American attack. The rally was attended by representatives of the various Palestinian governmental offices, municipalities, NGO's, residents of Rafah and thousands of children who were waving cardboard cutouts of Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein.

Click here for photo from the rally

- The "National Palestinian Council For Iraq" organized a rally in Rafah on Febuary 27, 2003, in support of Iraq. Local leaders, govemerment representative, senior members of the National Islamic Party and the general public participated in the rally.

- The "Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine" organized a rally on February 28 in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. An American flag was burned during the course of the rally.

Click here for photo from the rally

- Thousands of local residents demonstrated in front of the temporary municipal center in the Gaza Strip to protests against the upcoming American attack in Iraq. The protesters exhibited the Palestinian flag and the Iraqi flag along with pictures of Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein. In addition, declarations calling for the consolidation of the opposition efforts against the American and Israeli attack against the Arab nation were heard. Senior political personalities and key government officials participated in the rally.

Click here for photo from the rally

Rallies and Protests in Support of Iraq in the West Bank.

-On February 28 the "Council for the Coordination of Palestinian Parties" and the "Council for the Support of Iraq" in Nablus conducted a protest rally against the expected American attack in Iraq. Thousands of local residents and representatives of the National Islamic Movement participated in the raising of the Palestinian and Iraqi flags in the Al-Shuhadah Square in Nablus. The participants called out against the upcoming American attack in Iraq.

-On February 28, a rally was held in the Tul Karem refugee camp to express solidarity with Iraq. The rally was organized by a local branch of the "Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine" and coincided with its anniversary celebrations. Senior officials and hundreds of local residents participated in the rally by reading a proclamation opposing the upcoming American attack in Iraq and the silence of the Arab world.

-The National Islamic Organization also held a solidarity rally in Kalkiliya on March 1, 2003. Representatives of the National Islamic Organization, school children, teachers and local residents participated in the rally. The Palestinian and Iraqi flags were raised and participants waved placards of Yasser Arafat and called for a halt to the upcoming American attack in Iraq. A group of youths even burned an American and Israeli flags.

LeFrenchman

[quote="Lekh teda"]March 5, 2003
Palestinians Express Solidarity with Saddam Hussein
At the end of February 2003, an emergency team was established in the Palestinian Authority in order respond to the ramifications of the upcoming American attack against Iraq on the Palestinian people. Over the past few weeks a number of protest rallies have been conducted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to express support for Saddam Hussein.

Protest Rallies in Support of Iraq in the Gaza Strip

- In response to the call of the Union of Arab Lawyers on February 22, the "Union of Palestine Lawyers", a protest was held opposite the courthouses in the Gaza Strip. Representatives of many legal organizations took part in the rally. The chairman of the Lawyers' Union gave a speech in which he praised Iraqi steadfast opposition to the United States. He noted that an American attack against Iraq is also an attack against the Palestinians people because it is an attempt to force American and Israelis solutions on the Arab nations.

- On February 23, 2003, a rally was held in Rafah to show support and solidarity with the Iraqi people in the face of an American attack. The rally was attended by representatives of the various Palestinian governmental offices, municipalities, NGO's, residents of Rafah and thousands of children who were waving cardboard cutouts of Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein.

Click here for photo from the rally

- The "National Palestinian Council For Iraq" organized a rally in Rafah on Febuary 27, 2003, in support of Iraq. Local leaders, govemerment representative, senior members of the National Islamic Party and the general public participated in the rally.

- The "Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine" organized a rally on February 28 in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. An American flag was burned during the course of the rally.

Click here for photo from the rally

- Thousands of local residents demonstrated in front of the temporary municipal center in the Gaza Strip to protests against the upcoming American attack in Iraq. The protesters exhibited the Palestinian flag and the Iraqi flag along with pictures of Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein. In addition, declarations calling for the consolidation of the opposition efforts against the American and Israeli attack against the Arab nation were heard. Senior political personalities and key government officials participated in the rally.

Click here for photo from the rally

Rallies and Protests in Support of Iraq in the West Bank.

-On February 28 the "Council for the Coordination of Palestinian Parties" and the "Council for the Support of Iraq" in Nablus conducted a protest rally against the expected American attack in Iraq. Thousands of local residents and representatives of the National Islamic Movement participated in the raising of the Palestinian and Iraqi flags in the Al-Shuhadah Square in Nablus. The participants called out against the upcoming American attack in Iraq.

-On February 28, a rally was held in the Tul Karem refugee camp to express solidarity with Iraq. The rally was organized by a local branch of the "Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine" and coincided with its anniversary celebrations. Senior officials and hundreds of local residents participated in the rally by reading a proclamation opposing the upcoming American attack in Iraq and the silence of the Arab world.

-The National Islamic Organization also held a solidarity rally in Kalkiliya on March 1, 2003. Representatives of the National Islamic Organization, school children, teachers and local residents participated in the rally. The Palestinian and Iraqi flags were raised and participants waved placards of Yasser Arafat and called for a halt to the upcoming American attack in Iraq. A group of youths even burned an American and Israeli flags.[/quote]

Considering that the whole world is against the U.S. annihilating Iraq, and incinerating 1 million of their Arab brethren, who could blame the Palestinians for expressing their righteous wrath at such a New Nazi Germany blitzkrieg of not Poland in '39, but an even weaker opponent, the 2003 Iraq.

And, of course, the Not-So-Silent Majority Of Americans ARE ALSO against an attack on Iraq. Anyone honest will tell you it's over 50%, Bush's Jewboys' Big Lies sold in heavy-handed fashion - WERE NOT BOUGHT.

There's deep suspicion amongst many millions of Americans - that the warmongers in Washington are a bunch of sick, crazy, neurotic, wicked and odious Jews, Zionists, call them what they are.

America's Gentiles have been resisting their Zionist-hijacked Government in quintessentially American passive/aggressive fashion, it's a growing awareness, and a silent rebelliousness against an anti-Christ group of rotten liars and America haters.

So, Lekh, buddy, Earth to Lekh- you're out of the loop of how Americans feel about annihilating "Saddam". They're not so easy to manipulate anymore. Americans are starting to see through the Jewish-dominated media bullshit, the "Yea for Israel!" LIES they've been told all these years.

Many more Americans than about 97% of all Jews are even dimly aware- are far less reflexively pro-Israel than the major media would have us all believe. A large number of Americans, the percentage I do not know, see Israel for what it is: Nazi Germany, only Jewish. They know how hideous Jews can be, and they don't see a lick of difference between the ones they've had to deal with in America, and the crazy, sick ones who are crucifying those poor Palestinians every day.

Get it bub? The fact that Palestinians are sympatico with the Iraqi people, or in your book - with Saddam, since every one in Iraq is the same as Saddam, just ragheads- kill 'em all, and let's all make some money!, does not upset people the way you seem think it would.

What's to conclude, except everyone you fraternize with must be a Jew. You're completely clueless.

Alpha

http://abbc.com/usa/granata.htm

Alpha

A CABAL OF US OFFICIALS ARE COLLUDING WITH ISRAEL TO IGNITE A SERIES OF WARS...

Whose War?

A neoconservative (PNAC/JINSA) clique seeks to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interest.

by Patrick J. Buchanan

http://www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/cover.html

Robert Fisk: For centuries, we've been 'liberating' the Middle East. Why do we never learn?:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=384799

Forwarded:

A CABAL OF US OFFICIALS ARE COLLUDING WITH ISRAEL TO IGNITE A SERIES OF WARS AND DESTROY OSLO ACCORDS..P.J. Buchanan

IN HIS ELOQUENT AND BRAVE ARTICLE BELOW FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PATRICK BUCHANAN ASKS WHOSE WAR? ISRAEL'S OF COURSE THROUGH ZIONIST HIJACKING OF US FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND BUSH' SUPPORT FOR SHARON'S TERROR TACTICS AGAINST PALESTINIAN POPULATIONS IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES WHICH ARE EVEN MORE REPUGNANT THAN SADDAM'S TREATMENT OF HIS OWN PEOPLE.

THE RELENTLESS IRAQ WAR PROPAGANDA HAS DISTRACTED ATTENTION FROM SHARON'S ONGOING CRIMES AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA (DENOUNCED BY ISRAELI MILITARY REFUSENIKS), AND THE CRIMINAL AGENDA OF SOME MEMBERS OF HIS OWN GOVERNMENT FOR ("TRANSFER") "ETHNIC CLEANSING" OF PALESTINIANS WHICH HAS BEEN DENOUNCED BY PRESTIGIOUS ISRAELI ACADEMICS AND JOURNALISTS!

THEREFORE THE US WAR ON IRAQ WILL IN REALITY BE ISRAEL'S WAR ACCORDING NOT ONLY TO ANY INTELLIGENT IMPARTIAL OBSERVER BUT ALSO ACCORDING TO STATEMENTS MADE RECENTLY BY A NUMBER OF HONOURABLE JEWS AND ISRAELIS!!

AJGY

http://www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/cover.html

Copyright, The American Conservative. March 24, 2003

Whose War?

A neoconservative clique seeks to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interest.

by Patrick J. Buchanan

The War Party may have gotten its war. But it has also gotten something it did not bargain for. Its membership lists and associations have been exposed and its motives challenged. In a rare moment in U.S. journalism, Tim Russert put this question directly to Richard Perle: “Can you assure American viewers ... that we’re in this situation against Saddam Hussein and his removal for American security interests? And what would be the link in terms of Israel?”Suddenly, the Israeli connection is on the table, and the War Party is not amused. Finding themselves in an unanticipated firefight, our neoconservative friends are doing what comes naturally, seeking student deferments from political combat by claiming the status of a persecuted minority group. People who claim to be writing the foreign policy of the world superpower, one would think, would be a little more manly in the schoolyard of politics. Not so.Former Wall Street Journal editor Max Boot kicked off the campaign. When these “Buchananites toss around ‘neoconservative’—and cite names like Wolfowitz and Cohen—it sometimes sounds as if what they really mean is ‘Jewish conservative.’” Yet Boot readily concedes that a passionate attachment to Israel is a “key tenet of neoconservatism.” He also claims that the National Security Strategy of President Bush “sounds as if it could have come straight out from the pages of Commentary magazine, the neocon bible.” (For the uninitiated, Commentary, the bible in which Boot seeks divine guidance, is the monthly of the American Jewish Committee.)David Brooks of the Weekly Standard wails that attacks based on the Israel tie have put him through personal hell: “Now I get a steady stream of anti-Semitic screeds in my e-mail, my voicemail and in my mailbox. ... Anti-Semitism is alive and thriving. It’s just that its epicenter is no longer on the Buchananite Right, but on the peace-movement left.”Washington Post columnist Robert Kagan endures his own purgatory abroad: “In London ... one finds Britain’s finest minds propounding, in sophisticated language and melodious Oxbridge accents, the conspiracy theories of Pat Buchanan concerning the ‘neoconservative’ (read: Jewish) hijacking of American foreign policy.”Lawrence Kaplan of the New Republic charges that our little magazine “has been transformed into a forum for those who contend that President Bush has become a client of ... Ariel Sharon and the ‘neoconservative war party.’”Referencing Charles Lindbergh, he accuses Paul Schroeder, Chris Matthews, Robert Novak, Georgie Anne Geyer, Jason Vest of the Nation, and Gary Hart of implying that “members of the Bush team have been doing Israel’s bidding and, by extension, exhibiting ‘dual loyalties.’” Kaplan thunders:The real problem with such claims is not just that they are untrue. The problem is that they are toxic. Invoking the specter of dual loyalty to mute criticism and debate amounts to more than the everyday pollution of public discourse. It is the nullification of public discourse, for how can one refute accusations grounded in ethnicity? The charges are, ipso facto, impossible to disprove. And so they are meant to be.What is going on here? Slate’s Mickey Kaus nails it in the headline of his retort: “Lawrence Kaplan Plays the Anti-Semitic Card.”What Kaplan, Brooks, Boot, and Kagan are doing is what the Rev. Jesse Jackson does when caught with some mammoth contribution from a Fortune 500 company he has lately accused of discriminating. He plays the race card. So, too, the neoconservatives are trying to fend off critics by assassinating their character and impugning their motives.Indeed, it is the charge of “anti-Semitism” itself that is toxic. For this venerable slander is designed to nullify public discourse by smearing and intimidating foes and censoring and blacklisting them and any who would publish them. Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon.And this time the boys have cried “wolf” once too often. It is not working. As Kaus notes, Kaplan’s own New Republic carries Harvard professor Stanley Hoffman. In writing of the four power centers in this capital that are clamoring for war, Hoffman himself describes the fourth thus:And, finally, there is a loose collection of friends of Israel, who believe in the identity of interests between the Jewish state and the United States. … These analysts look on foreign policy through the lens of one dominant concern: Is it good or bad for Israel? Since that nation’s founding in 1948, these thinkers have never been in very good odor at the State Department, but now they are well ensconced in the Pentagon, around such strategists as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith.“If Stanley Hoffman can say this,” asks Kaus, “why can’t Chris Matthews?” Kaus also notes that Kaplan somehow failed to mention the most devastating piece tying the neoconservatives to Sharon and his Likud Party.In a Feb. 9 front-page article in the Washington Post, Robert Kaiser quotes a senior U.S. official as saying, “The Likudniks are really in charge now.” Kaiser names Perle, Wolfowitz, and Feith as members of a pro-Israel network inside the administration and adds David Wurmser of the Defense Department and Elliott Abrams of the National Security Council. (Abrams is the son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz, editor emeritus of Commentary, whose magazine has for decades branded critics of Israel as anti-Semites.)Noting that Sharon repeatedly claims a “special closeness” to the Bushites, Kaiser writes, “For the first time a U.S. administration and a Likud government are pursuing nearly identical policies.” And a valid question is: how did this come to be, and while it is surely in Sharon’s interest, is it in America’s interest?This is a time for truth. For America is about to make a momentous decision: whether to launch a series of wars in the Middle East that could ignite the Clash of Civilizations against which Harvard professor Samuel Huntington has warned, a war we believe would be a tragedy and a disaster for this Republic. To avert this war, to answer the neocon smears, we ask that our readers review their agenda as stated in their words. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. As Al Smith used to say, “Nothing un-American can live in the sunlight.”We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars and destroy the Oslo Accords. We charge them with deliberately damaging U.S. relations with every state in the Arab world that defies Israel or supports the Palestinian people’s right to a homeland of their own. We charge that they have alienated friends and allies all over the Islamic and Western world through their arrogance, hubris, and bellicosity.Not in our lifetimes has America been so isolated from old friends. Far worse, President Bush is being lured into a trap baited for him by these neocons that could cost him his office and cause America to forfeit years of peace won for us by the sacrifices of two generations in the Cold War.They charge us with anti-Semitism—i.e., a hatred of Jews for their faith, heritage, or ancestry. False. The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a “passionate attachment” to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what’s good for Israel is good for America. …
(The entire article is available at bookstores.)
Copyright, The American Conservative. March 24, 2003

PNAC/JINSA Zionist Cabal (in Bush regime) on ABC's 'Nightline' Program on March 5th, 2003:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2003/03/11/pnac-jinsa-zionist-cabal-on-abc-s-nightline-prog.php

Midas Ears

By Israel Shamir

A new spectre haunts America. It enters the well-protected boardrooms of newspapers and banks, shakes the deep foundations of its towers. It is the spectre of glasnost: the dark secret of Jewish power is out. Just recently it was ‘third rail’, touch-and-die, deadly dangerous to mention, certain end to a career. Just recently, Joe Public snapped his TV from an eminence with an Israeli passport to a member of a Jewish think-tank, and muttered to himself: Surely it is just a coincidence that so many important and largely unelected people in our country happen to belong to this small minority group. Surely it is just a coincidence that they belong to different parties but reach the same conclusions. Surely it is just a coincidence that ninety per cent of American foreign aid goes to their cousins in prosperous Tel Aviv. Surely it is just a coincidence that they run our newspapers, television, cinema, universities. Anyway, we are not allowed to notice this elephant in our sitting room.

Only rare desperados comment, as Edgar Steele did on Rense.com: “The silence in America concerning Jews is simply deafening, isn't it? The old adage has it that, when visiting a foreign country, to ascertain who really runs things, one need determine only who is spoken about in whispers, if at all.” Judged by this measure, the Jews rule supreme. Indeed, when I referred to ‘Jewish media lords’ during a UNESCO conference in the summer of 2001, the audience’s hearts missed a beat.

The yet-unfought War on Iraq changed this. The American Ultimatum date was set on 17 March, the Jewish feast of Purim. Purim, 1991 saw destruction of Iraqi armies and death of 200,000 Iraqis. Too many coincidences for a purely American war. The Americans peeped into the bottomless abyss of World War Three and woke up from their generation-long stupor. Thus the first victim of the Iraqi War is not truth, but the strongest taboo in the West. A Democrat member of Congress, usually a most docile specimen, one James Moran, dared to tell his supporters: "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this."

He was immediately slapped by a Jewish overseer: "It is simply stunning to hear Representative Moran make such accusations", said National Jewish Democratic Council Executive Director, Ira N. Forman. “First, a number of the current leaders of the anti-war movement are Jewish, and Jewish organizations have clearly not been at the forefront among those groups actively and stridently supporting a war in Iraq”. Forman had spoken, and the media reported and amplified his view, and Moran duly recanted, slapped. But he is not the only one.

The secret is out, and like the secret of King Midas and his long ears, it is being sung now from coast to coast, despite the frantic efforts of the organised Jewish community to clamp the lid back on the boiling cauldron. Kathleen and Bill Christison,[i] two ex-CIA experts, exposed the link between right-wing American Jews and the Bush Administration. Edward Said, the most celebrated American thinker of Palestinian origin, stated the cause: “An immensely wealthy and powerful republic has been hijacked by a small cabal of individuals, all of them unelected and therefore unresponsive to public pressure.”[ii]

He was seconded by courageous Herman, Neumann and Blankfort. These Americans of Jewish origin object to the un-elected, anti-democratic Jewish power as they would object to any disproportionate minority power. Their presence, as they were not afraid of the anti-Semitic label, was instrumental in turning the tide and saving the intimidated majority from its browbeating.

Edward Herman, the author of Manufacturing Consent (together with Noam Chomsky), wrote of “the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United States, which advances Israeli interests by pushing for U.S. aid and protection to Israel, and, currently, by pressing for a war against Iraq, which again will serve Israeli interests. This lobby has not only helped control media debate and made congress into `Israeli occupied territory’, it has seen to it that numerous officials with ‘dual loyalties’ occupy strategic decision-making positions in the Bush administration…”

Jeffrey Blankfort, the Californian who defeated ADL in court and made Foxman pay heaps of dollars for his espionage against activists, took an important next step and rejected the views upheld by Noam Chomsky, Joel Beinin and Stephen Zunes, for these older radicals play down the crucial importance of Jewish power. Jeff Blankfort noticed the roots of the Rupture Evangelicals’ meteoric rise in the US. This obscure sect would never have left its lair in remote Dixie, but for the Jewish media lords. Jeff noticed that when Black Entertainment Television was taken over by Viacom, whose owner, Sumner Redstone (né Murray Rothstein), was recently described in the New York Times as the world's biggest media owner, he eliminated BET's news program and began running evangelical Christian infomercials for Israel. Blankfort’s list of ‘Jews in media’[iii] enables an understanding of the secret of Jewish charm, and it can be compared with a similar extensive list by Prof. Kevin MacDonald of California State University.

The Iraqi War, and even more its linkage with Palestine, became the litmus test of Jewish power. Organised Jewry pushed for war and at the same time denied its involvement. Thus in New York City, the City Council rejected an anti-war resolution, and only 12 of its 51 members were for it. This is not strange for heavily Jewish New York. Indeed, a Democrat, Rep. Robert Jackson, said it in a most straightforward way: "New York City is the home away from home for most Jews; and many members of the Jewish community think [the war is] in the best interests of the state of Israel." According to Jackson, several of his council colleagues have been intimidated into silence by the pro-Israel crowd: “People are not talking about this."

Jackson was certainly right, but a Jewish newspaper[iv] (surprisingly or not, all newspapers in the New York area are Jewish) condemned him for … racism: “[He claimed that] not only do the Jews run New York City, but they've cowed their opponents into silence. Jackson could as well call New York Hymietown.”

This response is remarkable for its typically Jewish logic. First, the opponent’s rational argument is perverted and distorted, then it is aligned with opprobrium; and at the last stage, the opponent is destroyed forever. That is one of the secrets of Jewish might: the Jews enter a dialogue berserk-like, with great vehemence, quite foreign to the Socratic style. While sane people are satisfied with quoting their opponent and fighting his arguments, madmen (for berserk is a temporarily-mad individual) go for the jugular.

David Mamet, the Jewish American playwright, provides a good example of this vehemence as he notices a “Volvo of old, the vehicle of my brethren, the congenitally liberal. It was festooned, as are its kind, with every sort of correct exhortation: Save James Bay, Honour Diversity, and so on. A most interesting bumper sticker read: Israel Out of the Settlements … a slogan which could best be translated as Hook-nosed Jews Die”.

I wonder why Mamet stopped at this, for with equal adequacy the slogan can be translated as Torture Babies, Denounce America and Burn Apple Pie. Who cares for the form of the Jewish nose? Mel Brooks noticed long ago that Jewish girls have the cutest noses, made by the best plastic surgeons…

It is the racist Jewish policies in occupied Palestine that annoy good, ‘congenitally liberal’ people. But if Mamet were honest, he would not be Mamet
.

Now, Bill Keller of the NY Times read the Riot Act to the Americans. He kindly allows that ‘most of the big Jewish organizations and many donors are backing the war’ but insists that ‘the idea that Israel's interests are driving one of the most momentous shifts in America's foreign policy is simple-minded and offensive’. Well, Keller is certainly being paid for his convictions by a Jewish media lord, and one of the nastiest, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, the owner of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and a host of other publications. This undermines the possible veracity of Keller’s words. Let something similar be written in a thoroughly non-Jewish newspaper! But alas, there are no important media outlets in the US that are not owned or controlled by Jews …

Surely a coincidence? Do not bet on it. A few days ago, in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an important all-Jewish conference on anti-Semitism took place under the auspicious aegis of the Sasson Centre. The talk given by the French Jewish historian Simcha Epstein dealt with pre-war France but pertained more immediately to America. This is what Epstein said:

“The pre-war anti-Semites said that the Jews of France organized a syndicate secretly bankrolling and subverting the press. And what did the Jews say at that time? They said: ‘Of course not! No, it’s a lie, of course not! We are not engaged in conspiracies!’ And what did the historians and the Jewish historiography coming afterwards say? ‘Of course not! It is anti-Semitic drivel!’ But we know now from Jewish sources that before the WWII the Jews of France secretly financed the press.

“Since the end of 19th century, there was a secret Jewish organization, well financed, which bought and bankrolled newspapers. Sometimes it took over existing newspapers, which suddenly became pro-Dreifus because they received Jewish subsidies. New papers were created especially by the Jews. Two very important papers of the period, one was called Les Droits de l'Homme, the Rights of Man, was financed by the Jews, and L’Humanité, which was the Socialist and then the Communist newspaper of France, was also financed by Jews. I say this on the authority Jewish sources of course.

“And this brings us to a dramatic dilemma of historiography. Saying this, saying what I said, is something horrible and unacceptable, because it means that the Jews organized a conspiracy and secretly bought the media, or part of the media. That was precisely what the anti-Semites said at that time, and what they still say today. And we know now from Jewish sources that the allegations were true, that there was a Jewish clandestine activity of bankrolling the press.” End of quote.

Some people perceive every suggestion that Jews are able to act together as a mad conspiracy theory. Let them read and re-read this report by a Jewish historian made at a Jewish conference. If it is proven now beyond any reasonable doubt that the Jews of France secretly bought and subverted French media for many years in order to distort the national discourse and eventually push unprepared France into the horrible and unneeded World War Two, is it impossible to consider that the Jews of the US have secretly taken over their national media and are now pushing the US into a horrible and unneeded World War Three?

Actually there is no need for secrecy. One of the chief Zionist ideologists, Zeev Hefetz (ex-spokesman of PM Begin), wrote in an American daily: "Disarming Iraq is only a start in Middle East" as “the Arab and Iranian (sic!) cultures” are "irrational" and that nothing can be done, short of war, to "improve the collective mental health of Arab societies". [v]Certainly this massive ‘disarmament’ will be carried out by American soldiers, though the commands will be given by the Jewish chicken-hawks roosting in Pentagon. As for reasons for the war, they were eloquently stated by a keynote speaker at a conference on anti-Semitism by Yehuda Bauer, the director of the Holocaust Memorial Institute Yad va-Shem in Jerusalem:

The Jews are not a nation, neither a religion, he said. They are a civilisation, and they have their civilising mission. They cannot tolerate the competing civilisation of Islam, as they could not tolerate Christendom or Communism. That is why the war with Islam is unavoidable.

But the war is avoidable. Even today, at minutes before H-hour, the war is avoidable. And if fire is unavoidable, let the Jewish advisers of President Bush be fired. Let this Purim see the great Exodus of the "Wolfowitz Cabal" from the Pentagon. Excluding the clinical possibility of his actual zombification, G W Bush should be able to understand that he has been misled by this powerful, un-elected minority. They cannot deliver what they promised. Moreover, their own days at the helm of the Republic are numbered. They over-estimated their abilities, and pushed too hard. As the frog of La Fontaine, they can blow up. Bush still can do a U-turn, and save himself and his country.

In a way, today’s America reminds of Russia in 1986, at the beginning of glasnost. After the Soviet citizens were allowed to learn who rules them and how, the days of the Soviet regime were counted. Glasnost gave place to perestroika. Now, for the first time in a generation, Americans are allowed to see the men in power, the toxic combination of the Right-Wing Democrats of Lieberman, the Republican neo-liberals, the Neo-Cons and plain Con-men. The Iraqi War brought them forward and presented them in clear light. Now is the time to undo their hold.

It can’t be postponed for the divisive presidency of G W Bush is perceived as the period of ‘White’ Protestant Anglo-Saxon rule, despite the prevalence of his Jewish advisers. All available contenders for the next elections - Lieberman, Kelly and even Kuchinich – claim their Jewish connections and declare their undivided loyalty to Jewry and to the state of Israel. In the present political setup of America, there will be no real alternative to Jewish ascendancy. If Bush flops, it will be construed by the media as a WASP flop. If he succeeds, it will be seen as success of his Jewish advisers.

That is why American patriot forces should not wait for the next elections, or for the end of war. They must act now, by calling the war off. They have an enemy, but he is not in Iraq. What is called for is a new American revolution, on a par with the New Deal and abolition of slavery, with de-monopolisation of the discourse; that is of media and universities, for starters. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Americans undid the mighty Standard Oil. They created new anti-monopoly laws and terminated the threat to democracy. This achievement could be repeated now.

[i] Kathleen and Bill Christison, `A Rose By Another Name: The Bush Administration's Dual Loyalties’, Counterpunch, Dec. 13, 2002).

[ii] http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/628/op2.htm

[iii] Here is enough sampling to indicate that it is not:

First of all, Sumner Redstone ( né Murray Rothstein) owns $8 billion dollars worth of Viacom, which gives him the controlling interest in CBS, Viacom, MTV worldwide (Brian Graden, president), and most recently he bought Black Entertainment Television and proceeded immediately to cut down its public-affairs programming. The president of CBS is Leslie Moonves, the great nephew of David Ben-Gurion.

Michael Eisner is the major owner of Disney-Capitol Cities, which owns ABC. David Westin is the president of ABC News. Although it has lost viewers, Nightline host Ted Koppel is a strong supporter of Israel. Lloyd Braun is chair of ABC Entertainment. And there is the perennial Barbara Walters.

Neil Shapiro is the president of NBC News. Jeffrey Zucker is the head of NBC Entertainment and Jack Myers has some important post there, as well.

Although Rupert Murdoch of Fox is not Jewish, Mel Karamazin, the president of the corporation is, as is Peter Chernin, the second in command at Murdoch's News Corps.

Sandy Grushow is chairman of Fox Entertainment, and Gail Berman is president. Murtdoch has received numerous awards from various Jewish charities.

Jamie Kellner is chair and CEO of Turner Broadcasting.

Walter Issacson is the News Director of CNN which also has Wolf Blitzer, host of Late Edition, Larry King of Larry King Live, Paula Zahn, and Andrea Koppel, Ted's daughter.

Jordan Levin is chairman of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Howard Stringer is chair of Sony Corp. of America.

Robert Sillerman is the founder of Clear Channel Communications,

Ivan Seidenberg is chair of Verizon Communications

Terry Semel, former co-chair of Warners is CEO of Yahoo.

Barry Diller, former owner of Universal Entertainment, is the chair of USA Interactive.

Joel Klein is chair and CEO of Bertelsmann's American operations, the largest publishing conglomerate in the world.

Mort Zuckerman, the Chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, owns US News and World Report and the NY Daily News.

Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. publishes the NY Times, the Boston Globe and a host of other publications.

Marty Peretz publishes the New Republic, which is unabashedly pro-Israel, as is

William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard.

Donald Graham, Jr. is the chair and CEO of Newsweek and the Washington Post.

Michael Ledeen, of Iran-Contra fame, edits National Review.

Ron Rosenthal is the Managing Editor of the SF Chronicle and Phil Bronstein is the Executive Editor.

David Schneiderman owns the Village Voice and a number of other "alternative" weeklies.

Columnist William Safire, Tom Freidman, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Cohen, Jeff Jacoby, are among the most widely syndicated columnists.

There are a number of widely syndicated talk show hosts such as Michael Savage (ABC) on more than 100 stations, Michael Medved, 124 stations, and Dennis Prager who has an Israeli flag on his website. Others include Ron Owens, Ben Wattenberg, and former ZOA official Jon Rothman, all in San Francisco on ABC.

In Hollywood, which was founded by Jews, there is of course, Stephen Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Kranzberg of Dreamworks, Eisner of Disney, Amy Pascal, chair of Columbia, and many, many more.

For the intellectuals, we have NPR, with pundit Daniel Schorr and weekend hosts Scott Simon and Liane Hansen, Robert Segal, Susan Stanberg, Eric Weiner, Daniel Lev, Linda Gradstein (a well-known speaker at pro-Israel events) covering Jerusalem, Mike Schuster (whose soft-ball interview with Ariel Sharon after Sabra and Shatila should have brought him before the court of Hamarabi). Brook Gladstein.

And that's just for starters. From the boss to the delivery it's an impressive list. While they certainly can't be put in the same box when it comes to Israel, they more or less guarantee that there will be limits to any criticism they may make of Israel”.

[iv] NY Post 22.02.03

[v] November 12, 2002 The New Haven Register

Forwarded:

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

Buchanan Charges Neocons (Zionist Extremists) With 'Warmongering'

Tue Mar 11 2003 11:53:48 ET

In this week's AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE (http://www.amconmag.com/), editor Pat Buchanan issues a controversial, 5000-word indictment of the (PNAC/JINSA) 'War Party' of Bennett, Kristol, Podhoretz and Richard Perle.

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The magazine will hit newsstands and bookstores tomorrow. With quotes and citations, Buchanan alleges:

'War Party' ideas and plans for an attack on Iraq had been 'in preparation far in advance of 9/11, and when President Bush was looking for a new front,' the neocons 'put their precooked meal in front of him. And Bush dug into it.'

Richard Perle wrote a paper urging Israeli PM Netanyahu to dump the Oslo Peace Accords and target Iraq -- five years before 9/11.

Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith urged Israel to ditch the Oslo and take back the West Bank though 'the price in blood would be high,' three years before the Camp David talks.

Pentagon official David Wurmser urged the U.S. to act in concert with Israel to 'strike fatally...the regimes of Damascus, Baghdad, Tripoli, Tehran and Gaza' -- nine months before 9/11.

Bennett, Kristol, Podhoretz 'seized on the horrific atrocity [of September 11] to steer America¹s rage into all-out war to destroy their despised enemies, the Arab and Islamic Œrogue states that have resisted U.S. hegemony and loathe Israel.'

The neocon vision is 'to conscript American blood to make the world safe for Israel....[They] seek American empire and the Sharonites seem hegemony over the Middle East. The two agendas coincide precisely.'

Buchanan charges Max Boot of the WSJ and Lawrence Kaplan of New Republic with 'playing the anti-Semitic card....to fend off critics by assassinating their character and impugning their motives.'

Developing....

Bush Sr. Warning (to Bush Jr.) Over Unilateral Action

Chirac Vows to Veto US/UK War Resolution:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=385926

Bush Sr. Warning Over Unilateral Action:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-605441,00.html

Stop Bush's Policies of Deceit and Greed to Justify War:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2003/03/11/stop-bush-s-politics-of-deceit-and-greed-to-justify-war.php

Congressman Moran Said Jews are Pushing War:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2003/03/11/congressman-moran-said-jews-are-pushing-war.php

For additional articles, access the 'Israel' and 'UK Involvement in War' message boards via the http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk, and click on 'War against Terror' after arriving...

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Expatriate Richard Perle

By Kurt Nimmo
March 10, 2003

"Richard Perle is a traitor. There's no other way to put it."
Seymour Hersh is a rarity in America these days -- an investigative journalist.
"Hersh is not a nice man in the Washington sense," writes Eric Alterman of Salon, "he does not know how to make small talk, flatter his bosses, spin his defeats and conceal his fierce competitiveness. He is simply the best investigative reporter alive and expects his work to speak for itself."
Because Hersh does what he does so well, the chicken hawk Richard Perle called him a terrorist on CNN the other day.
That's right. Perle equated Hersh with Osama bin Laden and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. "Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist," Perle told Wolf Blitzer.
Perle slandered Hersh because the award winning journalist wrote in the March 17th issue of the New Yorker: "There is no question that Perle believes that removing Saddam from power is the right thing to do. At the same time, he has set up a company that may gain from a war."
I have not read the New Yorker article, so I can't comment on it. I don't know if Perle set up a company situated to profit from his boss' plan to mass murder possibly a half million Iraqis or not. But if Hersh said it, there must be something to it. Hersh is known for his meticulous research. He conducts interviews, double checks facts. Seymour Hersh does not make things up. Due to his professionalism Hersh has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards.
On the other hand, Perle and the neocons are liars.
One big lie is that Mohammed Atta met with Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, an official at Baghdad's embassy in Prague. US intelligence agencies went over records of Atta,s travels and concluded that during the period in question he was in Virginia Beach, not in Prague. Perle knew this was a fabrication. He attempted to pass it off on the American people as truth. There are many other lies, as well, but I will not bother you with enumeration.
That's how the neocons make their case before the American people -- through deceit, half-truth, fabrications, and outright lies. It should be considered treason. It should be a crime. Maybe one day Richard Perle will be prosecuted for his crimes. For now he is allowed to bend the ear of George W. Bush and prod the half-wit dictator into destroying America.
When Perle was working for Senator Scoop Jackson, he was investigated by the Justice Department and found to have violated US policies relating to unlawful transmission of sensitive classified US information to Israel.
"An FBI summary of a 1970 wiretap recorded Perle discussing classified information with someone at the Israeli embassy," writes Paul Findley (They Dare To Speak Out, Chicago, Ill, Lawrence Hill Books 1989)."He came under fire in 1983 when newspapers reported he received substantial payments to represent the interests of an Israeli weapons company. Perle denied conflict of interest, insisting that, although he received payment for these services after he had assumed his position in the Defense Department, he was between government jobs when he worked for the Israeli firm."
In other words, Richard Perle is an Israeli spy.
Perle should be expatriated immediately -- or made to share a cell with Jonathan Pollard, the spy who spent 18 months collecting and selling classified American intelligence to Israel from his position in U.S. Naval Intelligence. So pleased were the Israelis with the information passed on to them, two of the four government officials who had dealt with Pollard were promoted (Col. Aviem Sella, Pollard,s primary contact, was given full control of a major Israeli Air Force base). So arrogant are the Israelis that Sharon asked Bush to pardon and release Pollard.
If these are our friends, who needs enemies?
Okay, I'm going to use a word that will upset some of you -- Zionist. These days if you use the word Zionist you're going to be immediately accused of anti-Semitism. I receive hate email for using this word on occasion. You'd think I'm making excuses for the Holocaust (which is another subject that can get you in hot water, especially in France where you can go to prison for questioning the official verson of historical events). I'm not slandering Jews, I'm simply reporting the facts. Here's an indisputable fact:
Richard Perle is a Zionist.
Now what exactly does this mean? It means Richard Perle -- and Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and others in the Bush administration -- are Israeli nationalists. "Wolfowitz and fellow Jewish neo-cons Richard Perle and Douglas Feith have emerged as the Pentagon's Paladins," writes Ann Pettifer, "their aim being to subdue the Islamic world through decisive, pre-emptive use of American military superiority."
"Only in Washington does one get a true sense of the obsession of these Pentagon civilians," writes Hugo Young, a Guardian columnist. "Conversationally, it is common talk that some of them, not including Rumsfeld, are as much Israeli as American nationalists. Behind nervous, confiding hands come sardonic whispers of an American outpost of Likud. Most striking of all, however, is how unmentionable this is in the liberal press."
Ain't that the truth.
But then the corporate press in America rarely criticizes the Zionists. Notice how Perle can jump from one TV news show to another and nobody mentions his spying for the Israelis or working for an Israeli arms manufacturer. Nobody mentions his "dual loyalties," which are common knowledge in Washington. Nobody calls him a traitor. Nobody in the corporate media dares -- that is if they want to keep their jobs.
Perle can insult the Germans and French at the same time and the corporate media looks the other way. In fact, he is allowed to denigrate the whole of Europe. "I think Europe has lost its moral compass. Many Europeans have become so obsessed by the prospect of violence they have failed to notice who we are dealing with," he told the Guardian.
Gee, Richard. Maybe the Germans remember the horror of American Flying Fortresses dumping gasoline bombs on Dresden in 1945, an act of barbarity that resulted in the murder of 100,000 people. Maybe the French recall the Nazi occupation. Maybe there's still thousands of Dutch, Italians, Poles, and other Europeans alive who remember none too fondly the systematic and engineered mass murder of the Second World War. No doubt, as well, there's plenty of Jews who remember the monstrosity of Hitler's concentration camps.
I bet if you asked them if Saddam Hussein is Hitler reborn they would laugh in your face.
Actually, Saddam is not a threat to a single person in the United States. Perle and the Zionist neocons know this, of course. They also know that Iraq is not a serious threat to Israel, especially after a decade of war and sanctions have reduced Iraq to one of the poorest countries in the world. "We don't lose sleep over Iraq's military threat to us," Lt Gen. Moshe Yaalon, Israel,s Chief of Staff, told the New York Times.
So why are the Zionists pushing for a US invasion of Iraq?
First, the Zionists believe that bad relations between the US and Arab nations is good for Israel. It's no mistake Iraq and Iran were specifically fingered as part of an "axis of evil," nations the Bushites have singled out for invasion and "democratization." Sharon told fellow Zionist and U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton last month he wants Syria and Libya attacked next. As if to make sure he received the correct marching orders, Bolton also met with Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Housing and Construction Minister Natan Sharansky.
The Israeli Zionists don't care if perpetual war destroys the American economy. It does not bother them if Americans will die in the thousands.
Second, the Zionists are itching to "transfer" -- i.e., to ethnically cleanse -- as many Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza as possible. Israel will do this while the US is busy slaughtering Iraqis. "Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories," Netanyahu told students at Bar-Ilan University in 1989. Americans may be clueless about the intentions of Zionists toward the Palestinians, but in Israel ethnic cleansing is a popular subject of discussion. Fifty percent or more of Israelis think ethnic cleansing is a good idea. This from a nation that supposedly remembers the Holocaust.
"The idea of transfer is as old as modern Zionism and has accompanied its evolution and praxis during the past century," remarks Israeli historian Benny Morris. Moreover, the Palestinian "demographic threat" was something that "once left Golda Meir sleepless at night and now serves as the subject of obsession for Israeli conferences and nervous policy analysts," notes Will Youmans.
Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, and their fellow travelers from the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Center for Security Policy (CSP), the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Hudson Institute -- as well as defense contractors and conservative foundations bankrolled by far-right American Zionists -- are calling the shots on Bush's invasion of Iraq.
It has nothing to do with the security of the American people. It has everything to do with Israel and the Likudites.
The Zionists in the Bush administration are pulling a fast one on the American people. It's criminal behavior. It should not be tolerated. The Zionist plan to bomb and kill Arabs across the Middle East will result in dismal failure and pointless mass murder. It will destroy America. It will wreck our economy and kill our sons. Perle and his cronies are mountebanks, swindlers, hypocrites. They are war criminals.
Richard Perle is a traitor. There's no other way to put it.
If Richard Perle -- and Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Elliot Abrams, and all the other Zionists embedded in the Bush administration -- love Israel so much, they should pack their bags and go there.
If they won't go on their own, they should be forced to leave.
In the meantime, their treacherous crimes need to be exposed.
nimmo@zianet.com Kurt Nimmo's Another Day in the Empire
http://nimmo.blogspot.com/

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Richard Perle is a U.S. security risk:

In 1970, the Federal Bureau of Investigation caught Richard Perle passing US
secrets to Israel. According to Seymour Hersh's The Price of Power (1983) pg
322:

In mid-October 1970, [Henry] Kissinger testified, when a second wiretap was
authorized for Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who was Kissinger's closest friend on the
NSC [National Security Council] staff, his role was even more tangential....

Richard N. Perle, a foreign policy aide to Senator Jackson, was overheard
discussing classified information that had been supplied to him by someone on
the National Security Council Staff.....

Kissinger - perhaps seeking to ward off a Nixon explosion - handed him
(Haldeman) the FBI wiretap on the Israeli embassy and requested that the FBI
be assigned to determine which NSC staff member was in contact with Richard
Perle...

Kissinger had to know that Hoover and Haldeman would suspect Sonnenfeldt, who
was known from previous wiretaps to have close ties to the Israelis as well
as Perle.

FACT: Richard Perle is currently one of President Bush's primary advisors,
and is affectionately known among his peers as the "Prince of Darkness." He
is one of the forces in Washington known to have long plotted the coming
assault on Iraq, a sovereign country: i.e. a war crime.

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US think tanks give lessons in foreign policy

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brian.whitaker@guardian.co.uk

Brian Whitaker reports on the network of research institutes whose views and
TV appearances are supplanting all other experts on Middle Eastern issues

Monday August 19, 2002

A little-known fact about Richard Perle, the leading advocate of hardline
policies at the Pentagon, is that he once wrote a political thriller. The
book, appropriately called Hard Line, is set in the days of the cold war with
the Soviet Union. Its hero is a male senior official at the Pentagon, working
late into the night and battling almost single-handedly to rescue the US from
liberal wimps at the state department who want to sign away America's nuclear
deterrent in a disarmament deal with the Russians.

Ten years on Mr Perle finds himself cast in the real-life role of his
fictional hero - except that the Russians are no longer a threat, so he has
to make do with the Iraqis, the Saudis and terrorism in general.

In real life too, Mr Perle is not fighting his battle single-handed. Around
him there is a cosy and cleverly-constructed network of Middle East "experts"
who share his neo-conservative outlook and who pop up as talking heads on US
television, in newspapers, books, testimonies to congressional committees,
and at lunchtime gatherings in Washington.

The network centres on research institutes - thinktanks that attempt to
influence government policy and are funded by tax-deductible gifts from
unidentified donors.

When he is not too busy at the Pentagon, or too busy running Hollinger
Digital - part of the group that publishes the Daily Telegraph in Britain -
or at board meetings of the Jerusalem Post, Mr Perle is "resident fellow" at
one of the thinktanks - the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

Mr Perle's close friend and political ally at AEI is David Wurmser, head of
its Middle East studies department. Mr Perle helpfully wrote the introduction
to Mr Wurmser's book, Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam
Hussein.

Mr Wurmser's wife, Meyrav, is co-founder, along with Colonel Yigal Carmon,
formerly of Israeli military intelligence - of the Middle East Media Research
Institute (Memri), which specialises in translating and distributing articles
that show Arabs in a bad light.

She also holds strong views on leftwing Israeli intellectuals, whom she
regards as a threat to Israel (see "HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,773258,00.ht

ml">Selective Memri", Guardian Unlimited, August 12, 2002).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,773258,00.html

Ms Wurmser currently runs the Middle East section at another thinktank - the
Hudson Institute, where Mr Perle recently joined the board of trustees. In
addition, Ms Wurmser belongs to an organisation called the Middle East Forum..

Michael Rubin, a specialist on Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, who recently
arrived from yet another thinktank, the Washington Institute for Near East
Policy, assists Mr Perle and Mr Wurmser at AEI. Mr Rubin also belongs to the
Middle East Forum.

Another Middle East scholar at AEI is Laurie Mylroie, author of Saddam
Hussein's Unfinished War Against America, which expounds a rather daft theory
that Iraq was behind the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing.

When the book was published by the AEI, Mr Perle hailed it as "splendid and
wholly convincing".

An earlier book on Iraq Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf which Ms
Mylroie co-authored with Judith Miller, a New York Times journalist, became
the New York Times's No 1 bestseller.

Ms Mylroie and Ms Miller both have connections with the Middle East Forum. Mr
Perle, Mr Rubin, Ms Wurmser, Ms Mylroie and Ms Miller are all clients of
Eleana Benador, a Peruvian-born linguist who acts as a sort of theatrical
agent for experts on the Middle East and terrorism, organising their TV
appearances and speaking engagements.

Of the 28 clients on Ms Benador's books, at least nine are connected with the
AEI, the Washington Institute and the Middle East Forum.

Although these three privately-funded organisations promote views from only
one end of the political spectrum, the amount of exposure that they get with
their books, articles and TV appearances is extraordinary.

The Washington Institute, for example, takes the credit for placing up to 90
articles written by its members - mainly "op-ed" pieces - in newspapers
during the last year.

Fourteen of those appeared in the Los Angeles Times, nine in New Republic,
eight in the Wall Street Journal, eight in the Jerusalem Post, seven in the
National Review Online, six in the Daily Telegraph, six in the Washington
Post, four in the New York Times and four in the Baltimore Sun. Of the total,
50 were written by Michael Rubin.

Anyone who has tried offering op-ed articles to a major newspaper will
appreciate the scale of this achievement.

The media attention bestowed on these thinktanks is not for want of other
experts in the field. American universities have about 1,400 full-time
faculty members specialising in the Middle East.

Of those, an estimated 400-500 are experts on some aspect of contemporary
politics in the region, but their views are rarely sought or heard, either by
the media or government.

"I see a parade of people from these institutes coming through as talking
heads [on cable TV]. I very seldom see a professor from a university on those
shows," says Juan Cole, professor of history at Michigan University, who is a
critic of the private institutes.

"Academics [at universities] are involved in analysing what's going on but
they're not advocates, so they don't have the same impetus," he said.

"The expertise on the Middle East that exists in the universities is not
being utilised, even for basic information."

Of course, very few academics have agents like Eleana Benador to promote
their work and very few are based in Washington - which can make arranging TV
appearances , or rubbing shoulders with state department officials a bit
difficult.

Those who work for US thinktanks are often given university-style titles such
as "senior fellow", or "adjunct scholar", but their research is very
different from that of universities - it is entirely directed towards shaping
government policy.

What nobody outside the thinktanks knows, however, is who pays for this
policy-shaping research.

Under US law, large donations given to non-profit, "non-partisan"
organisations such as thinktanks must be itemised in their annual "form 990"
returns to the tax authorities. But the identity of donors does not need to
be made public.

The AEI, which deals with many other issues besides the Middle East, had
assets of $35.8m (£23.2m) and an income of $24.5m in 2000, according to its
most recent tax return.

It received seven donations of $1m or above in cash or shares, the highest
being $3.35m.

The Washington Institute, which deals only with Middle East policy, had
assets of $11.2m and an income of $4.1m in 2000. The institute says its
donors are identifiable because they are also its trustees, but the list of
trustees contains 239 names which makes it impossible to distinguish large
benefactors from small ones.

The smaller Middle East Forum had an income of less than $1.5m in 2000, with
the largest single donation amounting to $355,000.

In terms of their ability to influence policy, thinktanks have several
advantages over universities. To begin with they can hire staff without
committee procedures, which allows them to build up teams of researchers that
share a similar political orientation.

They can also publish books themselves without going through the academic
refereeing processes required by university publishers. And they usually site
themselves in Washington, close to government and the media.

Apart from influencing policy on the Middle East, the Washington Institute
and the Middle East Forum recently launched a campaign to discredit
university departments that specialise in the region.

After September 11, when various government agencies realised there was a
shortage of Americans who could speak Arabic, there were moves to beef up the
relevant university departments.

But Martin Kramer, of the Washington Institute, Middle East Forum and former
director of the Moshe Dayan Centre at Tel Aviv university, had other ideas.

He produced a vitriolic book Ivory Towers on Sand, which criticised Middle
East departments of universities in the US.

His book was published by the Washington Institute and warmly reviewed in the
Weekly Standard, whose editor, William Kristol, was a member of the Middle
East Forum along with Mr Kramer.

"Kramer has performed a crucial service by exposing intellectual rot in a
scholarly field of capital importance to national wellbeing," the review said.

The Washington Institute is considered the most influential of the Middle
East thinktanks, and the one that the state department takes most seriously.
Its director is the former US diplomat, Dennis Ross.

Besides publishing books and placing newspaper articles, the institute has a
number of other activities that for legal purposes do not constitute
lobbying, since this would change its tax status.

It holds lunches and seminars, typically about three times a week, where
ideas are exchanged and political networking takes place. It has also given
testimony to congressional committees nine times in the last five years.

Every four years, it convenes a "bipartisan blue-ribbon commission" known as
the Presidential study group, which presents a blueprint for Middle East
policy to the newly-elected president.

The institute makes no secret of its extensive links with Israel, which
currently include the presence of two scholars from the Israeli armed forces..

Israel is an ally and the connection is so well known that officials and
politicians take it into account when dealing with the institute. But it
would surely be a different matter if the ally concerned were a country such
as Egypt, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia.

Apart from occasional lapses, such as the publication of Mr Kramer's book,
the Washington Institute typically represents the considered, sober voice of
American-Israeli conservatism.

The Middle East Forum is its strident voice - two different tones, but mostly
the same people.

Three prominent figures from the Washington Institute - Robert Satloff
(director of policy), Patrick Clawson (director of research) and Mr Rubin
(prolific writer, currently at AEI) - also belong to the forum.

Daniel Pipes, the bearded $100,000-a-year head of the forum is listed as an
"associate" at the institute, while Mr Kramer, editor of the forum's journal,
is a "visiting fellow".

Mr Pipes became the bete noire of US Muslim organisations after writing an
article for the National Review in 1990 that referred to "massive immigration
of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and not exactly maintaining
Germanic standards of hygiene".

Since he usually complains vigorously when the words are quoted outside their
original context, readers are invited to view the full article at
www.danielpipes.org. He is also noted for his combative performances on the
Fox News channel, where he has an interesting business relationship. Search
for his name on the Fox News website and, along with transcripts of his TV
interviews, an advert appears saying "Daniel Pipes is available thru Barber &
Associates, America's leading resource for business, international and
technology speakers since 1977".

The Middle East Forum issues two regular publications, the Middle East
Quarterly and the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, the latter published
jointly with the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon. The Middle East
Quarterly describes itself as "a bold, insightful, and controversial
publication".

Among the insights in its latest issue is an article on weapons of mass
destruction that says Syria "has more destructive capabilities" than Iraq, or
Iran.

The Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, which is sent out by email free of
charge - but can never-the-less afford to pay its contributors - specialises
in covering the seamy side of Lebanese and Syrian politics. The ever-active
Mr Rubin is on its editorial board.

The Middle East Forum also targets universities through its campus speakers
Bureau - that in adopting the line of Mr Kramer's book, seeks to correct
"inaccurate Middle Eastern curricula in American education", by addressing
"biases" and "basic errors" and providing "better information" than students
can get from the many "irresponsible" professors that it believes lurk in US
universities.

At a time when much of the world is confused by what it sees as an
increasingly bizarre set of policies on the Middle East coming from
Washington, to understand the neat little network outlined above may make
such policies a little more explicable.

Of course these people and organisations are not the only ones trying to
influence US policy on the Middle East. There are others who try to influence
it too - in different directions.

However, this particular network is operating in a political climate that is
currently especially receptive to its ideas.

It is also well funded by its anonymous benefactors and is well organised.
Ideas sown by one element are watered and nurtured by the others.

Whatever outsiders may think about this, worldly-wise Americans see no cause
for disquiet. It's just a coterie of like-minded chums going about their
normal business, and an everyday story of political life in Washington.

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