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"Now, more than two years into the still exploding and expanding Iraq occupation, and with hitherto unspoken analogies popping up in public not only about the 'Vietnam Syndrom' but about Nazi Germany of old and the American power elite of today, trying to have this discussion honestly and sensibly in public remains maddeningly difficult."

"After the President's Tuesday speech the ever-compliant mass media will have numerous commentators who are former Generals, professional pundits, and active think-tank lobbyists -- but hardly any serious independent expert analysts and certainly no one willing and able to discuss Israeli involvement along with all the Israeli-Jewish lobby graduates who today permeate the highest ranks of Washington decision-makers and power-brokers."

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WAR FOR ISRAEL
Jewish Writers Claim Powerful Zionist
Neocons Drove USA Into War

"I could give you the names of 25 people (all
of whom are at this moment within a five-block
radius of this office) who, if you had exiled them
to a desert island a year and a half ago,
the Iraq war would not have happened."
- Tom Friedman, NYTimes, 3 April 2003

"The lack of public discussion about the role
of Israel in the thinking of 'President Bush' is
easier to understand, but weird nevertheless.
It is the proverbial elephant in the room:
Everybody sees it, no one mentions it."
- Michael Kinsley - 24 Oct 2002
(Today Editorial Page Editor, LATimes)

MER - MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 27 June:
    Tom Friedman and the New York Times have never provided the list of 25.   Nor do they ever mention that there's little doubt most of them are Jewish, nearly all of them have worked for years with groups associated with the Israeli-Jewish lobby, and that in total they make up a kind of fifth-column of Jewish Zionist 'Neocons' then and now at the highest levels of government power in Washington.
    All this even before dealing with the 'liberal' Jewish Israeli-supporting personalities who, like Friedman himself, are dominant in the mass media and in a an convoluted competition for power and influence with their more conservative harder-line brethren.
    The totally inadequate shorthand for this intramural American Jewish struggle by the way is 'liberal' Democrats versus 'conservative' Republicans in the USA, 'Left' Labor Party versus 'Right' Likud in Israel.
    Now, more than two years into the still exploding and expanding Iraq occupation, and with hitherto unspoken analogies popping up in public not only about the 'Vietnam Syndrom' but about Nazi Germany of old and the American power elite of today, trying to have this discussion honestly and sensibly in public remains maddeningly difficult.
    Certainly don't expect to hear any of this discussed by the Evangelical American President when he talks to the American People Tuesday night about the Iraq War -- he may not even mention Israel or foreign policy lobbies at all, the ususual way of pretending these quite crucial subjects and realities are non-existent.
    And the ever-compliant mass media will have numerous after-speech commentators who are former Generals, professional pundits, and active think-tank lobbyists -- but hardly any serious independent expert analysts and certainly no one willing and able to discuss Israeli involvement along with all the Israeli-Jewish lobby graduates who today permeate the highest ranks of Washington decision-makers and power-brokers.
    Nearly two years ago a writer collected publicly available quotes from establishment publications and usually from Jewish journalists.   That article, and a separately collected list of Washington Jewish Necon officials follows.   And by the way, just as books on these subjects myseriously disappear from libraries, and just as writers find their publishers backing out, the original published sources for this information have disappeared from the internet and this important information is only now credibly available from MER.

JEWISH WRITERS CLAIM POWERFUL ZIONISTS DROVE USA INTO MID-EAST WAR FOR SAKE OF ISRAEL!
By William Shannon

When Congressman James Moran (D-VA) told an audience that leaders of American Jewish groups were pushing America into a war with Iraq, he was denounced as an 'anti-Semite' and pressured to resign. When Syndicated columnist and former Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan accused Jewish neo-conservatives and the US-Israeli lobby of pushing America into a war against Israel's enemies, he was also widely denounced as an 'anti-Semite.'

But what are we to make of the many outspoken Jewish writers, Jewish intellectuals and Jewish activists who have been warning us about the exact same thing? Should we dismiss these jews as 'anti-Semites' or 'self-hating Jews'? Following are some very revealing quotes from just a few of these Jewish writers and journalists.

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Joe Klein, Time Magazine, Time.com, February 5, 2003

'A stronger Israel is very much embedded in the rationale for war with Iraq. It is a part of the argument that dare not speak its name, a fantasy quietly cherished by the neo-conservative faction in the Bush Administration and by many leaders of the American Jewish community.

The fantasy involves a domino theory. The destruction of Saddam's Iraq will not only remove an enemy of long-standing but will also change the basic power equation in the region. It will send a message to Syria and Iran about the perils of support for Islamic terrorists. It will send a message to the Palestinians too: Democratize and make peace on Israeli terms, or forget about a state of your own.'

Michael Kinsley, Slate Magazine, October 24, 2002

Tariq Aziz has a theory. Saddam Hussein's deputy told the New York Times this week, 'The reason for this warmongering policy toward Iraq is oil and Israel.' Although no one wishes to agree with Tariq Aziz, he has put succinctly what many people in Washington apparently believe.

The lack of public discussion about the role of Israel in the thinking of 'President Bush' is easier to understand, but weird nevertheless. It is the proverbial elephant in the room: Everybody sees it, no one mentions it. The reason is obvious and admirable: Neither supporters nor opponents of a war against Iraq wish to evoke the classic anti-Semitic image of the king's Jewish advisers whispering poison into his ear and betraying the country to foreign interests.

Ari Shavit, April 5, 2003 Haaretz News Service (Israel)

'The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history.

In the course of the past year, a new belief has emerged in the town (Washington): the belief in war against Iraq. That ardent faith was disseminated by a small group of 25 or 30 neoconservatives, almost all of them Jewish, almost all of them intellectuals (a partial list: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, William Kristol, Eliot Abrams, Charles Krauthammer), people who are mutual friends and cultivate one another and are convinced that political ideas are a major driving force of history.'

James Rosen, April 6, 2003 The Sacramento Bee

'In 1996, as Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to take office, eight Jewish neoconservative leaders sent him a six-page memo outlining an aggressive vision of government. At the top of their list was overthrowing Saddam and replacing him with a monarch under the control of Jordan.

The neoconservatives sketched out a kind of domino theory in which the governments of Syria and other Arab countries might later fall or be replaced in the wake of Saddam's ouster. They urged Netanyahu to spurn the Oslo peace accords and to stop making concessions to the Palestinians.

Lead writer of the memo was Perle. Other signatories were Feith, now undersecretary of defense, and Wurmser, a senior adviser to John Bolton, undersecretary of state.

Fred Donner, a professor of Near Eastern history at the University of Chicago, said he was struck by the similarities between the ideas in the memo and ideas now at the forefront of Bush's foreign policy.'

Thomas Friedman, April 4 2003 New York Times

I could give you the names of 25 people (all of whom are at this moment within a five-block radius of this office) who, if you had exiled them to a desert island a year and a half ago, the Iraq war would not have happened.

It is not only the neo-conservatives who led us to the outskirts of Baghdad. What led us to the outskirts of Baghdad is a very American combination of anxiety and hubris.'

Dr. Henry Makow Phd., February 10, 2003 Writer, (Inventor of Board game 'Scruples' )

If the U.S. gets bogged down with heavy casualties on both sides, Americans are going to blame big oil and Zionism for getting them into this mess.

Everybody knows that:

1. The only country that fears Iraq's WMD's is Israel;

2. American-Jewish neo-conservatives on the Defence Policy Board (Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz) planned this war in 1998 and made it Bush Administration policy;

3. The purpose of the war is to change the balance of power in the Middle East so Israel can settle the Palestinian issue on its own terms; and

4. Congress trembles in fear before the Israeli Lobby, 'AIPAC.'

At this perilous juncture in US history, there is no effective opposition because Zionist Jews appear to control both parties. The Jewish 'Anti Defamation League' considers it a barometer of anti Semitism to say, 'Jews have too much power.' But is something anti- Semitic if it is true? Anti Semitism is racial prejudice. Zionist power is not a racial prejudice; it is a fact of life. When a special interest group hijacks American foreign policy, it is a patriotic duty to say so.

In recent decades, Zionists have succeeded in making support for Zionism synonymous with 'Jewish.' They have made Israel appear to be a vulnerable country facing annihilation in a sea of bloodthirsty Arabs. In fact, Israel has 200-400 nuclear bombs and is one of the most powerful nations on earth. It has evaded many opportunities for a just peace because it's secret agenda is to dominate the region. Israel keeps this quiet because most Jews, including Israelis, did not sign on for that.

Israel Shamir, Israeli Author

'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 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…”

Jack Bernstein, Author, The Life of An American Jew in Racist Israel (following prediction was made in 1984!)

'The Zionists who rule Israel and the Zionists in America have been trying to trick the U.S. into a Mideast war on the side of Israel. They almost succeeded when U.S. Marines were sent to Lebanon in 1982. The blood of the 250 American Marines who died in Lebanon is dripping from the hands of the Israeli and American Zionists.

If more Americans are not made aware of the truth about Zionist Israel, you can be sure that, sooner or later, those atheists who claim to be God's Chosen People will trick the U.S. into a Mideast war against the Arabs who in the past have always been America's best friends.

William Shannon
Thu, 03 Jul 2003 08:43:09 -0700
http://www.theweeklyinformant.com/arishavit.htm

http://www.twf.org/News/Y2003/0530-Informant.htm

"I could give you the names of 25 people
(all of whom are at this moment within a
five-block radius of this office) who,
if you had exiled them to a desert island a
year and a half ago, the Iraq war
would not have happened."
- Tom Friedman, NYTimes

This list of prominent Jewish Americans, nearly all well-known Neocons long associated with Israeli-Jewish Lobby groups in Washington, was compiled and published in April 2003 shortly after Friedman's NYTimes comment. The list is incomplete and could be considerably expanded beyond direct goverment circles to such Washington and media power-brokers and commentators as Ben Wattenberg (AEI and PBS), Martin Peretz (New Republic), Mortimer Zuckerman (U.S. News and other publications), Edgar Bronfman (Seagrams and World Jewish Congress), Barbara Walters (ABC News), Judith Kipper and Henry Siegman (Council on Foreign Relations), Judith Miller (New York Times), Martin Indyk (State Dept Brookings Institution), Dennis Ross (State Dept now Near East Institute), Aaron David Miller (State Dept now Seeds for Peace)...

Jewish Neocons Who Helped Bring About
The Invasion/Occupation of Iraq:

4). Dov Zekheim -- Under Secretary of Defense and Comptroller.



Some say Mr. Grossman was some time ago a former leading official in AIPAC.

8). Richard Haass -- Director of Policy Planning at the State
Department and Ambassador at large. He is also Director of










18). Christopher Gersten -- Former Executive Director of the


20). Mark Weinberger -- Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

21). Samuel Bodman -- Deputy Secretary of Commerce.

22). Bonnie Cohen -- Under Secretary of State for Management.

responsible for training all Department of State staff (including
ambassadors).



26). David Frum -- White House speechwriter. Close confidant of Richard Perle and author of 'Axis of Evil' term delivered in Bush 'State of the Union' speech 2002.

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