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Biographical Information
On The Sixteen Individuals Cited By The San Diego Citizens Grand Jury As Deserving Further Investigation For The Charge Of ‘Conspiracy To Commit Mass Murder’
INDICTMENTS
1) RUDOLPH GIULIANI: Mayor of New York City between 1994-12/31/2001, collaborating with JEROME HAUER as his Director of Emergency Management between 1996-2000; Assistant U. S. District Attorney in the Southern District of New York 1970-1975, collaborating with Jules Kroll, the founder of Kroll and Associates / Kroll, Incorporated; Associate Attorney General of the United States 1981-83; U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York 1983-89, collaborating with MICHAEL CHERKASKY and ELIOT SPITZER.
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2) JEROME HAUER: Director of Mayor RUDOLPH GIULIANI’s Office of Emergency Management between February 1996 and March 2000 (as such he was primary in building the City’s Emergency Command Center on the 23rd floor of World Trade Center Building 7 and in warning about emergence of the West Nile Virus one year before it appeared in New York City); Managing Director of Kroll, Inc. on 9/11/01 (when he advised Dan Rather of CBS that demolition had not brought down a Twin Tower and that the day’s attacks bore “the fingerprints of Osama bin Laden”; Senior Adviser to U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for National Security and Emergency Management between June 2001 and November 2003; coordinator of the National Institute of Health’s investigation of anthrax deaths in Fall of 2001, deaths that came from the Ames strain of anthrax thought to be available only at the U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the N.I.H. investigation producing no suspects named by Jerome Hauer except Osama bin Laden and al Queda; current Director on the Boards of the companies Emergent Biosolutions and San Diego-based Hollis Eden Pharmaceuticals.
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PRESENTMENTS
3) THOMAS PICKARD: Acting Director of the F. B. I. between June 25, 2001-September 4, 2001; Special Agent in the F.B.I.’s New York City office 1975-1979; Supervisor and Assistant Special Agent for White-Collar Crime in N.Y.C. 1984-1989; Special Agent in Charge of the National Security Division in N.Y.C., supervising trials of defendants in the first Twin Towers’ bombing, of the Manila Air conviction of Ramzi Youssef, and of the TWA Flight 800 explosion, between 1993-1996.
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4) MICHAEL CHERKASKY: Various jobs in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office between 1978-94 (Chief of Investigations into crimes of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International and into the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center Twin Towers; various jobs at Kroll and Associates security-firm (contracted to improve security at the World Trade Center after the 1993 bombing there); Chief Executive Officer of Kroll, Incorporated between May 2001 and October 2004; CEO and President of Marsh & McClennan insurance-firm from October 2004 to present.
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5) GEORGE W. BUSH: President of the United States 2001 to present.
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6) LARRY SILVERSTEIN: Primary lease-holder of the Twin Towers and World Trade Center Buildings 4, 5, and 6 on 9/11/01, having taking official possession of the properties from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey seven weeks earlier; developer and primary owner of World Trade Center Building 7 on 9/11/01, linking him to Peter G. Peterson and Maurice Greenberg; recipient of insurance-awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars (WTC 7) or several billions of dollars (the Twin Towers) since 9/11/01; interviewee who told the Public Broadcasting System documentary ‘America Rebuilds’ of September 2002 that he and a New York Fire Department Commander had jointly decided on about WTC 7 on 9/11/01 to “pull it.”
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7) RICHARD CHENEY: Vice-President of the United States 2001 to present; C.E.O. of the Halliburton Corporation between 1995-2000 (a period in which Halliburton’s off-shore tax havens increased from 9 to 44); member of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) with Donald Rumsfeld, Democrat James Woolsey and several others; U.S. Secretary of Defense 1989-93.
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8) DONALD RUMSFELD: U.S. Secretary of Defense 2001-2006; member of the Board of Directors of Zurich-based ABB Corporation during time (1999) that ABB sold two nuclear reactors to North Korea; C. E. O. of General Instrument Corporation 1990-1993; C. E. O. of G. D. Searle & Company during the time (1985) that Searle won approval from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration for aspartame.
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9) MARVIN BUSH: Member of the Board of Directors of Securacom, another firm entrusted with security for the Twin Towers as of 9/11/01 (also entrusted with security for United Airlines and Washington D.C.’s Dulles Airport as of 9/11/01) between 1996-2000.
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10) WIRT WALKER III: C.E.O. of Securacom (later Stratasec) between 1999-2003
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11) RICHARD MYERS: Acting Chairman of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11/01l; disregarded first airliner crash into a Twin Tower that morning to instead attend meeting with Senator Max Cleland; confirmed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by U. S. Senate on 9/30/01; served as such till 2005; Commander of North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) between August 1998-February 2000.
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12) RALPH EBERHART: Commander of somehow ineffectual NORAD on 9/11/01 (‘NORAD uses a network of ground-based radars, sensors and fighter jets to detect, intercept and, if necessary, engage any threats to the continent’—Canadian Defense website); Commander of Northern Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado, directing U.S, Canadian and Mexican military from October 2002 to January 2005; Commander of Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia between June 1998-February 2000.
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13) L. PAUL BREMER: Executive with the Marsh & McClennan insurance-firm (two-hundred ninety-five deaths in the South Tower) on 9/11/01; C.E.O. of M & M’s post 9/11/01 ‘Marsh Crisis Consultancy’ offshoot between October 2002-May 2003; Presidential Envoy to Iraq and Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority May 2003-December 2004 (where he promoted civil war by antagonizing Shia and then Sunni Muslims and by issuing ‘100 Orders’, among which ‘Orders’ were 40-year, tax-free ownership of Iraqi business by non-Iraqi Corporations and ‘full immunity’ from Iraqi laws for non-Iraqi contractors; Chairman of the U. S. Congress’ National Commission on Terrorism between 1999-2000, a period in which he too warned of ‘catastrophic terrorism’ that could cause ‘tens of thousands of casualties’ and cause ‘the American people’ to be ‘screaming for a response, … the example we use is Pearl Harbor’; Managing Director of Kissinger Associates between 1989-2000; U. S. Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism between 1986-1989.
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14) PETER G. PETERSON: C.E.O. of the Blackstone Group, one of three lease-holders (along with Banc of America Securities and the General Motors Acceptance Corporation) of World Trade Center Building 7 on 9/11/01, thus sharing in unquestioning receipt of $861 million in insurance payments for the demolished WTC 7 (February 2002); also Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Council on Foreign Relations on 9/11/01; the Blackstone Group an investor in Kroll, Inc. (1993) and an investment of the American International Group insurance-firm (receiving $150 million, or a 7% stake, from A.I.G. in 1998), A.I.G. then headed by Maurice Greenberg, a former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Blackstone Group a partner with Kissinger Associates and A.I.G. from February 2000 onward (at the time the ‘venture’ was announced Peter G. Peterson was quoted in a press-release: “In this new global economy, with its requirements … for cross-border mergers and acquisitions, for government privatizations of major industries and for restructuring of industries battered by the recent global financial crisis, we believe each of these entities bring some special knowledge and expertise to the table. We at Blackstone very much look forward to working with AIG and Kissinger Associates and capitalizing on these opportunities.”).
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15) DAVID ROCKEFELLER: Principal in creating the World Trade Center and in building the Twin Towers as Chairman of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association between 1958-1975; beneficiary of more than $1 billion in public funds for said construction; beneficiary of his brother the Governor of the State of New York, Nelson Rockefeller, installing more than 20,000 State employees into WTC 2, the South Tower, in the 1970s; potential loser of billions of dollars from renovations necessary to the Twin Towers by the year 2000; President of the Chase Manhattan Bank 1961-69; C.E.O. of the Chase Manhattan Bank 1969-1981; Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations 1970-1985; co-founder with Zbignew Brzezinski and George Franklin of the Trilateral Commission in 1973.
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16) MAURICE GREENBERG: C.E.O. of A.I.G.–A.I.G. ‘the leading U.S.- based international insurance organization and the largest underwriter of commercial and industrial insurance in the United States’, according to Website in February 2000–between 1968-2005.; A.I.G. a major share-holder in Marsh & McClennan (headed by Maurice Greenberg’s son Jeffrey on 9/11/01), in ACE International (another insurance firm, headed by Maurice Greenberg’s son Evan on 9/11/01), and in Kroll & Associates / Kroll, Inc.; A.I.G. connected to narcotics traffic and money-laundering by its C.I.A.-funded predecessor the Starr Corporation and by reporters Jonathan Kwitny, Sally Denton and Roger Morris; A.I.G. a beneficiary of the increase in insurance premiums post-9/11/01, its sales increasing by more than 35% between 2001-2003 and its profits more than doubling between 2004 and 2005, exceeding $11 billion in the latter year; Maurice Greenberg a former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1994-1995) and Honorary Vice-Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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The Clique that Sold Us the Iraq War
Almost the entire Iraq-war clique, advocated the war from 1998 on. 9/11 was only a convenient pretext. Amazingly almost all were members of just two organizations: IASPS and PNAC. Both were neoconservative, and there were many links between the two.
IASPS: Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies
• “A Jerusalem-based think tank with an office in Washington, D.C.”
• Began promoting the Iraq war in 1996 by lobbying the Israeli government.
• Richard Perle (later Rumsfeld’s Chairman of Defense Policy Board, delivered “Clean Break” report to Israeli Prime Minister.
• Current views (2010): Obama is the first American president who is a dictator. We should not be surprised if he proves to be the last president.
Members in the Iraq-War clique:
David Wurmser: Middle East advisor to Vice President Cheney
Douglas Feith: Undersecretary of Defense for Policy until 2005.
Richard Perle: First Chairman of Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board.
Charles Fairbanks: Former assistant to and college friend of Wolfowitz.
PNAC: Project for New American Century
• The main neocon lobby, it focused first on invading Iraq.
• Founded 1997, by William Kristol & Robert Kagan.
• First action: open letter to Clinton advocating Iraq war.
Members in the Iraq-War clique:
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Bolton, Libby, Abrams, Wurmser, Perle.
JINSA, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
• “explaining the link between U.S. national security and Israel’s security”
Served on JINSA’s Advisory Board: Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith, Bolton, Perle.
JINSA as a prototypical example of the many neoconservative think tanks and lobbying groups. JINSA attempts to “educate the American public about the importance of an effective U.S. defense capability so that our vital interests as Americans can be safeguarded [and to] inform the American defense and foreign affairs community about the important role Israel can and does play in bolstering democratic interests in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.”265 Typical of Jewish intellectual movements is that Jewish interests are submerged in a rhetoric of American interests and ethical universalism—in this case, the idea that Israel is a beacon of democracy.
In addition to a core of prominent neoconservative Jews (Stephen D. Bryen, Douglas Feith, Max Kampelman, Michael Ledeen, Joshua Muravchik, Richard Perle, Stephen Solarz), JINSA’s advisory board includes a bevy of non-Jewish retired U.S. military officers and a variety of non-Jewish political figures (e.g., Dick Cheney) and foreign policy analysts with access to the media (e.g., Jeane Kirkpatrick) who are staunch supporters of Israel. As is typical of Jewish intellectual movements, JINSA is well funded and has succeeded in bringing in high-profile non-Jews who often act as spokesmen for its policies. For example, the former head of the Iraq occupation government, General Jay Garner, signed a JINSA letter stating that “the Israel Defense Forces have exercised remarkable restraint in the face of lethal violence orchestrated by the leadership of [the] Palestinian Authority.”
JINSA reflects the recent trend of American Jewish activist groups not simply to support Israeli policies but to support the Israeli right wing. For JINSA, “‘regime change’ by any means necessary in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority is an urgent imperative. Anyone who dissents—be it Colin Powell’s State Department, the CIA or career military officers—is committing heresy against articles of faith that effectively hold there is no difference between US and Israeli national security interests, and that the only way to assure continued safety and prosperity for both countries is through hegemony in the Middle East—a hegemony achieved with the traditional Cold War recipe of feints, force, clientism and covert action.”266 Note the exclusionary, us versus them attitude typical of the Jewish intellectual and political movements covered in The Culture of Critique.
Part of JINSA’s effectiveness comes from recruiting non-Jews who gain by increased defense spending or are willing to be spokesmen in return for fees and travel to Israel. The bulk of JINSA’s budget is spent on taking a host of retired U.S. generals and admirals to Israel, where JINSA facilitates meetings between Israeli officials and retired but still-influential U.S. flag officers. These officers then write op-ed pieces and sign letters and advertisements championing the Likudnik line. In one such statement, issued soon after the outbreak of the latest intifada, twenty-six JINSAns of retired flag rank, including many from the advisory board, struck a moralizing tone, characterizing Palestinian violence as a “perversion of military ethics” and holding that “America’s role as facilitator in this process should never yield to America’s responsibility as a friend to Israel,” because “friends don’t leave friends on the battlefield.”267 Sowing seeds for the future, JINSA also takes U.S. service academy cadets to Israel each summer and sponsors a lecture series at the Army, Navy, and Air Force academies.
JINSA also patronizes companies in the defense industry that stand to gain by the drive for total war. “Almost every retired officer who sits on JINSA’s board of advisers or has participated in its Israel trips or signed a JINSA letter works or has worked with military contractors who do business with the Pentagon and Israel.”268 For example, JINSA advisory board members Adm. Leon Edney, Adm. David Jeremiah, and Lieut. Gen. Charles May, all retired, have served Northrop Grumman or its subsidiaries as either consultants or board members. Northrop Grumman has built ships for the Israeli Navy and sold F-16 avionics and E-2C Hawkeye planes to the Israeli Air Force, as well as the Longbow radar system to the Israeli Army for use in its attack helicopters. It also works with Tamam, a subsidiary of Israeli Aircraft Industries, to produce an unmanned aerial vehicle.
JINSA is supported not only by defense contractor money but also by deeply committed Zionists, notably Irving Moscowitz, the California bingo magnate who also provides financial support to the AEI. Moscowitz not only sends millions of dollars a year to far-right Israeli West Bank settler groups like Ateret Cohanim, he has also funded land purchases in key Arab areas around Jerusalem. Moscowitz provided the money that enabled the 1996 reopening of a tunnel under the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, which resulted in seventy deaths due to rioting. Also involved in funding JINSA is New York investment banker Lawrence Kadish, who also contributes to Republican causes. Again, we see the effects of the most committed Jews. People like Moscowitz have an enormous effect because they use their wealth to advance their people’s interests, a very common pattern among wealthy Jews.269
The integration of JINSA with the U.S. defense establishment can be seen in the program for its 2001 Jackson Award Dinner, an annual event named after Senator Henry Jackson that draws an “A-list” group of politicians and defense celebrities. At the dinner were representatives of U.S. defense industries (the dinner was sponsored by Boeing), as well as the following Defense Department personnel: Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; Under Secretary of Defense Dov Zakheim (an ordained rabbi); Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Young; Dr. Bill Synder, the Chairman of the Defense Science Board; the Honorable Mark Rosenker, Senior Military Advisor to the President; Admiral William Fallon, Vice Chief of Naval Operations; General John Keane, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army; General Michael Williams, Vice Commandant of the Marines; Lieutenant General Lance Lord, Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force. Also present were a large number of U.S. flag and general officers who were alumni of JINSA trips to Israel, as well as assorted Congressmen, a U.S. Senator, and a variety of Israeli military and political figures. The 2002 Jackson Award Dinner, sponsored by Northrup Grumman, honored Paul Wolfowitz. Dick Cheney was a previous recipient of the award.
JINSA is a good illustration of the point that whatever the deeply held beliefs of the non-Jews who are involved in the neoconservative movement, financial motives and military careerism are also of considerable importance—a testimony to the extent to which neoconservatism has permeated the political and military establishments of the United States. A similar statement could be made about the deep influence of neoconservatism among intellectuals generally.
Defense Policy Board
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• This board was at the heart of the push for war, from the first days after 9/11.
Membership from 8/16/2001 through and beyond the start of the Iraq war:
Richard Perle, Chairman (American Enterprise Institute), Kenneth Adelman, Newt Gingrich, Henry Kissinger, Dan Quale, James Woolsey, many more.
The Weekly Standard
• Funded by Rupert Murdoch (owner of Fox News and Wall St. Journal).
• Editor: William Kristol, co-founder of PNAC,
son of Irving Kristol, the neconservative’s “godfather
Or “Know Your Enemy: The Hidden Hand/Shadow Government/Deep State/Fifth Column Infiltraitors
Epigraph Quotes:
The penalty good men pay for their indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
– Plato
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– “The net which Israel now casts over the terrestrial globe enlarges and extends. . . . Our power is immense. Learn to turn that power to our cause. The day is not far distant when all the riches, all the treasures of the earth, will become the property of the children of Israel.”
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– The Jew and high Mason, Cremieux, founder and president of L’Alliance-israelite-universelle (1860); from “The Trail of the Serpent,” by Inquire Within (1936).
One cannot improve the character of the Jews by arguments. For them must be established special exclusive laws. Since the time of Moses the Jews were oppressors or usurers. All the talent of the Jews is concentrated on predatory acts. They have a creed which blesses their thievings and misdeeds. The Jews ought to be forbidden to make trade, as are forbidden the goldsmiths, who forge a lower kind of gold things, to continue their work. The Jews are locusts or caterpillars which are devouring France.
Napoleon
They [the Jews] work more effectively against us, than the enemy’s armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in… It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.
George Washington stated (from Maxims of George Washington, by A. A. Appelton & Company)
17) I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews. In whatever country Jews have settled in any great numbers, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within a state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.
If you do not exclude them from these United States, in this Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land, and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives, our substance and jeopardized our liberty.
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them sustenance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, Gentlemen, if you do not exclude the Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves. Jews, Gentlemen, are Asiatics; let them be born where they will, or how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an Americans’, and will not even though they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots.
Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Convention in 1789 (notes held at Franklin Institute in Philadelphia)
The “War on Terrorism” is the biggest lie in U.S. history.
– Economics Professor Michel Chossudovsky
This 9/11 is the biggest lie in world history- and it’s destined to fall sooner or later.
– Historian Webster Tarpley
*** There is no historic parallel that can be drawn, nothing compares with the accomplishments of the Bush family. No dictator or tyrant can equal the suffering and destruction they have wrought on humanity, as they are not mere tyrants themselves, but the makers and breakers of tyrants, the organizers and profiteers of war and death. They are not alone and solely responsible for creating the present-day military-industrial complex, however since 1915 the Bush family has been directly involved in World War One and Two, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, numerous CIA secret wars, the Gulf War, and now a “Never Ending War.” The past four generations of this one family have had a hand in promoting and profiting from most of the major wars that America has waged since the beginning of the industrial age.
-Schuyler Ebbets
The story of Prescott Bush and Brown Brothers, Harriman is an introduction to the real history of our country. It exposes the money-making motives behind our foreign policies, dating back a full century. The ability of Prescott Bush and the Harrimans to bury their checkered pasts also reveals a collusion between Wall Street and media that exists today.
-Historian Edward Boswell
If the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched.
– George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush…
– Marvin Bush, the President’s brother and Ward Walker were essentially in charge of security of the WTC complex.
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– From M.K. Stylinsky’s Chabadniks, Zionists, and Insiders (2015)
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– In Styllinski’s analysis, “Chabadniks” directly or indirectly involved in Operation 9/11 include former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, Senator Joseph Lieberman, former Senator Carl Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi and former Pentagon comptroller, Dov Zakheim, and former White House Chief of Staff, Ari Fleisher, former Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, and former White House official Joshua Bolton.
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– The network of powerful Jewish billionaires that helped set the stage for Operation 9/11 include Chabad Lubavitch-Zionist supporters:
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– 1) Larry Silverstein, owner of most of the World Trade Center,
2) Frank Lowry, of the Goldman Sachs cartel and owner of Westfield America, Ronald Lauder,
3) Lewis Eisenberg, Goldman Sachs and former chairman of the Port Authority of New York during the 9/11 attacks. (Most of the board of directors of the Port Authority board of directors were/are Jewish/Zionist.)
4) The late Peter “Zvi” Malkin, former Israeli intelligence officer and the security consultant and intermediary between Atwell Security and the Port Authority,
5) Port Authority director Stephen Berger,
6) Stanley Brezenoff,
7) Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, CEO of AIG,
8) Jules Kroll of Kroll Inc.,
9) MOSSAD agent Shaul Eisenberg
10) Former managing director of Kroll Inc., Jerome M. Hauer, who also ran New York Mayor Giuliani’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM, located in WTC Building 7) from 1996 to 2000.
11) Robert Kelman, CEO of Hugo Neu Schnitzer Company, that removed and shipped 230,000 tons of steel from the demolished WTC to Asia.
12) Individuals in Giuliani Partners Consulting Company that played crucial roles in the coverup and destruction of physical evidence. These include Pasquale J. D’Amuro, FBI inspector in charge of the 9/11 investigation, and Richard Sheirer, the “Jewish knight” who oversaw removal and destruction of crucial steel evidence by sending it to Zionist-run scrap yards in New Jersey.
13) Scores of Israeli agents near the scene of the crime as well as future Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.
14) Former Israeli military officer and CEO of Comverse Technology (which took over Odigo, Israeli software company, which pre-warned its 4000 predominantly Jewish employees not to go to work in the WTC complex on 9/11).
15) General Richard Bowman Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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– In addition, “Zionist appointees were scattered all over 9/11 panels, commissions, and committees which sprang up immediately after the attacks…”
– The important details provided in the following article provide the basis, I believe, for a broad-based criminal investigation and prosecution of these arch-criminals. The author attributes these details to a host of independent 9/11 researchers. Generally, this information corroborates and extends the information I have already provided on this website.
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– Part 3 of “Chabadniks, Zionists, & 9/11 Insiders” examines the Jewish Talmudic and Kabbalistic framework for the radically Zionist/Jewish “neo-conservative movement” which organized, executed, and are still covering up Operation 9/11. Key players in this movement, of course, include
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– Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Albert Wohlstetter, and their “neo-con” colleagues that have controlled the last three Presidencies. Corporate/Zionist enablers of the plan obviously also included Vice President Dick Cheney, President George W. Bush, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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– Styllinsky explains:
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– “(Paul) Wolfowitz and his (neo-conservative/Jewish) colleagues managed to fuse corporatist, Zionist, Chabad Lubavitch and other highly influential Zio-Conservative-based think-tanks into a powerful force for war. The Wolfowitz Doctrine lay behind (the Israeli) “Clean break” and the Project for a New American Century (PNAC’s) “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” which defined the blueprint for Zio-Con conquest well into the future. The latter document was written in September of 2000, one year before the 9/11 attacks, where they acknowledged:
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– “Further, the progress of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event- like a new Pearl Harbor…”
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– And just one year later, their most pressing desire was fulfilled.
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– Paul Wolfowitz played a major role in the genesis of the 9/11 attacks…. This was an ideology of Straussian authoritarianism inspired by the Hegelian solution. By using the U.S. as a proxy war machine the Zionists had pulled of a major coup in toppling Saddam Hussein and invading Iraq with their sights on monopolizing oil reserves, the driving interest for corporatists like Rumsfeld and Cheney. But the full force of a religious-occult imperative would be revealed in the 9/11 false flag ritual which heralded the destruction of Iraq- the first phase of biblical and Chabad-led, Talmudic prophecy.
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– As reported by Munich-based author and journalist Wolfgang Eggert an “occult summit” was convened on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, February 21st, 2003. In attendance were:
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– ‘… the head of the Operations Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose name wasn’t published and seven leading representatives of military intelligence, amongst them the three-star general Lowell ‘Jake’ Jacoby, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and Wolfowitz’ deputy Dr. Linton Wells who manages the ‘nerve centre’ of the Pentagon” and mostly notably “Bible code specialist” Michael Drosnin and Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz.’ [12]
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– The fact that top members of US government would be willing to trust the advice of Drosnin’s highly controversial study of predictive word codes is worrying enough. What is more concerning is the reliance not only on Biblical prophecy but the fusion of both Christian Evangelism, Jewish Messianism and occult Zionism. Eggert explains that there was “only one item on the agenda” and that was to discover what the Bible said:
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– “… about the present situation in the Middle East, terrorism and about the fate of Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden … It is said that a special interest was taken in decoding when devastation was expected to descend upon the Iraqi president. Result: the Jewish year of 5763 which corresponds to the year 2003 of the Christian calendar. The outcome of this conference is said to have been analysed immediately after by American and Israeli intelligence. The Americans “took it very seriously”, Drosnin later said. The White House started the campaign “Iraqi Freedom” within the prophesied time frame.” [13]
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– “At this point, the reader may be forgiven for thinking that all these war-mongering corporatists, Zionists and rapacious banksters are simply in it for the money and the power. Important as those things are for essential psychopaths there is also the underlying foundation of the military-occult complex suffused with a masonic branch of Existential Satanism which have traditionally relied on psychological warfare to achieve their ends. Within the Zionist Establishment, the Mossad hierarchy and Chabad Lubavitch is a form of Kabbalistic Satanism with links to Order of Zion freemasonry, in turn, connected to the overall global occult elite.
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– Those whose personalities have been irrevocably altered and fragmented as a part of MK-ULTRA programs (which are the ones we know about) have undoubtedly been carefully positioned within the political establishment.”
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– On March 11, 2002, Zakheim gathered with over 500 emissaries of Chabad from all corners of the world in order to celebrate the birthday of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the spiritual guru of Chabad. The big bash took place just opposite the Pentagon 9/11 crash site. Considering what we have discovered so far about Chabad Lubavitch and Zionism it is more than a little ironic that there was a party for a guru who extolled the virtues of a messianic Jewish theocracy hosted by insider Dov Zakheim who had managed to furnish Israel with more weapons than any other Jewish individual in the history of arms brokering.
I. PNAC Blueprint for Global Domination
The U.S. should “pre-emptively attack other countries not of immanent danger to the U.S., abrogating agreed-upon treaties when they conflict with U.S. goals, installing U.S.-friendly governments to do America’s will, using tactical nuclear weapons, simultaneously conducting “multiple-theatre wars”, and controlling space and cyberspace for military purposes.” The document calls for a global Pax Americana, i.e., “full spectrum dominance” of the whole world. And it ominously states that the American people are not likely to support the required transformation of the military “absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event- like a new Pearl Harbor”. The document also states: “Iran may well prove as large a threat to US interests as Iraq has,” and it spotlights China for “regime change”, saying “it is time to increase the presence of American forces in SE Asia.”
Prominent members of PNAC include Vice President Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense (now World Bank President) Paul Wolfowitz, indicted former Chief of Staff Lewis (Scooty) Libby, Jeb Bush (the President’s brother and Governor of Florida), Richard Perle, Dan Quayle, Gary Bauer, Steve Forbes, Elliot Abrams, and William Kristol. Many of these individuals (Wolfowitz, Perle, Kristol, Abrams, Libby) are Jewish-Zionists, arguably more committed to the interests of Israel than those of the United States.
On October 19, 2001, Vice President Cheney stated: “The war on terrorism may never end, it is the war of normalcy…. (the war that) will not end in our lifetimes.” It should be recalled that Alexander Solzhenitsyn stated: “A state of war only serves as an excuse for understood that people are most effectively ruled through fear and propaganda (i.e., lies). domestic tyranny.”
Thus, Bush II, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Attorney General John Ashcroft have repeatedly warned us that the “terrorists” will attack again. They have even fabricated a fabricated phony “terror alerts” in order to maintain the requisite fear level (Chossudovsky, 2006). Thus, it is essential for Americans to understand that the attacks of 9/11 were carried out in order to provide justification for the more or less permanent “war on terrorism”, which itself is a pretext for imposing American (corporate) global domination abroad and domestic tyranny at home. It is past time that the American people understood that official myth of 9/11 constitutes “The Big Lie” and that the “war on terrorism” is actually a “war of terrorism” directed against American citizens and the people of the world.
Thorn’s (2006) “9/11 Evil: Israel’s Central Role in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks” marshals evidence suggesting that the state of Israel played a key role in the 9/11 plot. For example, former director of Pakistani intelligence (ISI), General Hamid Gul, stated:
The attacks against New York and Washington were Israeli engineered. The attacks started at 8:45, and four flights are diverted from their assigned air space and no Air Force fighter jets scramble until 10:00. Radars are jammed, transponders fail, and no IFF- Friend or Foe ID- challenge. In Pakistan, if there is no response to an IFF, jets are instantly scrambled. This was clearly an inside job.
Political analyst Ralph Schoenmann (2004) also concludes that Mossad was involved in both the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the WTC. However, he is quick to point out that that Israel has received about $100 billion from the U.S. government and is an instrument of Anglo-American imperial power. Thus, Mossad generally acts in cooperation with U.S. policy objectives. Schoenmann states: “The Mossad is an indispensable instrument of this proto-fascist form of state control that has emerged.” And he predicts: “You can be sure that the next staged event will have the hand of the Mossad.”
Schoenmann also notes that the Zionist goal, stated in 1980 documents, is to fragment each Arab country in its turn and thereby radically expand the territory of Israel.
Thorn (2006) identifies the following PNAC “neocon” Jewish/Zionists as being key Pentagon-White House insiders who were in a position to facilitate 9/11: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Kenneth Adelman, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Douglas Feith, Dov Zakheim, David Wurmser, Elliot Abrams, Eliot Cohen, Daniel Pipes, and Stephen Bryen.
Thorn states:
“So, what we have here is the Zionist-aligned Defense Policy Board (the real power behind the War Machine’s throne) controlling every top spot at the Pentagon; the PNAC- signatories Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney following in fully compliant lockstep.
Dov Zakheim,
Of particular interest in this “neo-con/Zionist cabal,” is Dov Zakheim, who carries both Israeli and American passports and who today is a consultant for Boeing and McDonald Douglas. Zakheim has also held many positions in the defense department and in corporations that sell to the Defense Department. And he was also one of President Bush’s closest advisors while Bush was governor in Texas. Zakheim was CEO of Systems Planning Corporation, a defense contractor specializing in electronic warfare technologies and remote controlled aircraft systems. This company produced the Flight Termination System, which could take over and remotely control as many as ten different flights at a time, and could also terminate their missions. Between 1981 and 1985, Zakheim worked in the Defense Department and then served as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Planning and Resources between 1985 and 1987. In 1997, he joined the Task Force on Defense Reform.
In May, 2001, Zakheim was appointed by Donald Rumsfeld as the Pentagon Comptroller. Four months later, on September 10, 2001, Rumsfeld admitted: “According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.”
Indeed, Robert J. Lieberman of Congress’ General Accounting Office testified that $7.7 trillion had gone missing from the Department of Defense, and no paper trail or accounting at all can be for found for $4.4 trillion of this!
While Zakheim’s was Pentagon Comptroller, the Pentagon also “lost” 56 fighter planes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch units (Thorn, 2006). And he brokered a contract where 32 Boeing aircraft were shipped to Florida’s MacDill Air Force Base as part of a tanker lease deal. Thorn asks:
Could these planes, the misplaced funds, and the vanishing military equipment all be part of an operation to retrofit a couple of Boeing airliners with remote control technology to be used on the morning of 9-11?
But there may be another important connection. One of Zakheim’s Systems Planning Corporation’s subsidiaries was Tridata Corporation. Tridata Corporation investigated the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and thus, Dov Zakheim had access to all the World Trade Center blueprints. Thorn (2006) notes:
Dov Zakheim, who was CEO of a company that developed remote control technology, had access to retrofitted Boeings; plus he had trillions of dollars at his disposal, the WTC blueprints, and the most high-tech defense contractors in the world. Finally, Zackheim was a signatory of the PNAC Pearl Harbor document and an integral member of the lunatic fringe neo-con cabal.
Zakheim is also a member of the CFR and the Heritage Foundation and was senior advisor to the Center for International and Strategic Studies. And according to Thorn, Zakheim is also “an agent for the very highest levels of the Rothschild Zionist international banking cabal, (on whose behalf) he orchestrated the misallocation of over two trillion dollars.”
To most Americans, the idea that Israel helped engineer 9/11 may seem ridiculous. However, other international intelligence officers corroborate this claim. Andreas Von Bulow served on the parliament commission that oversaw three branches of the German Secret Service. He has also written two books entitled In the Name of the State and Die CIA und der 11. September. Internationaler Terror und die Rolle der Geheimdienste. Von Bulow told the American Free Press, “The BND (German secret service) is steered by the CIA and CIA is steered by Mossad.” In addition, a former Stasi agent who had warned the German secret service of terror attacks in America between September 10-12, told American Free Press that a high ranking Stasi chief named J’rgen Rogalla, “an airplane terror specialist,” was probably involved in the 9/11 attacks and that Abu Nidal, “a leading officer for some Mossad agents,” was “involved directly” in the events of 9/11. Both Rogall and Nidal work(ed?) for Mossad.
3) The extraordinary secrecy of Bush administration indicates it has much to hide. A study by the OpenTheGovernment.org showed that in 2005, the U.S. government classified 14.2 million documents “top secret” or “confidential” at a cost of $7.7 billion, as compared with a record 15.6 million documents sealed in 2004. Said Patrice McDermott, director of OpentheGovernment.org; “the current administration has restricted access to information about our government and its policies at unprecedented levels. How can the public or even Congress make informed decisions under such circumstances?” The study also found that the Bush administration has invoked the “state secret” privilege to keep information secret on national security grounds at unprecedented rates. It invoked this the privilege 22 times between 2001 and 2005, whereas by comparison, presidential administrations invoked this privilege only six times during the height of the cold war (1953-1973; AP, 9/3/06).
….. Eventually, mounting pressure from victim’s families finally forced the government to also set up an “independent” investigation. But it wasn’t until 441 days after the attacks that Bush finally appointed the so-called “independent” commission (Zwicker, 2006). Compare this with the six days it took the government to set up a committee to investigate the sinking of the Titanic, the nine days required to set up a committee to investigate the Pearl Harbor attacks, and the seven days it took to set up committees to investigate the assassination of JFK and the Challenger disaster. A New York Times editorialized that it was clear that the goal of all this stalling was “to contain an investigation the White House long opposed.”
Vanity Fair editor, Graydon Carter observed:
The Bush White House did everything in its power to derail an open inquiry. Then when faced with its inevitability, the president and his aides sought to limit its scope, its access, and its funding.
And when the commission was finally set up, the individuals who were hand-picked by the
President to serve had tremendous conflicts of interest. As one researcher put it, “the official investigation was overseen by the very individuals who should have been investigated” (Schoenmann, 2004). Thus, when the White House finally appointed the commission, it cynically chose the ultimate insider and White House ally, Henry Kissinger, to head the investigation. In response to public ridicule and protest, Kissinger soon stepped down, whereupon Bush appointed another Republican crony, Dr. Philip Zelikow, to replace him. Essentially a member of the Bush Administration himself, Zelikow, thereupon became Executive Director of the “National Committee on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States,” or simply the 9/11 Commission.
Zelikow’s insider status is confirmed by the facts that 1) he had been a member of the National Security Council in the Bush I administration, 2) he co-authored a book with National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, who was later to be the star witness of the commission, 3) he was part of George W. Bush’s transition team for the National Security Council and 4) he was appointed to Bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. As such, he was present when immanent warnings of 9/11 were given to the White House.
As Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, Zelikow oversaw a staff of 70 “researchers”, mostly comprised of ex-FBI, ex-CIA, and ex-Department of Justice employees skilled in the arts of misinformation and disinformation. Zelikow had the power to determine what would be researched and what would not be researched. The researchers were divided into seven teams, six of which were controlled by Zelikow himself (from Griffin, 10/3/04). Thus, The 9/11 Commission Report, which finally appeared in 2003, was effectively co-authored by the White House; and the process essentially amounted to the White House investigating itself (Griffin, 2004).
… The blueprint for such a conflict has already been drawn up in CFR-member Samuel P. Hungtington’s Clash of Civilizations: Remaking of World Order (1995). This book calls for war against two groups, first the Islamic World, then China. It is now obvious to all that the main pretexts for the present war in Iraq, namely that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and was involved in 9/11, were deliberate lies. New conflicts are now being orchestrated with Iran, with Lebanon, with Syria, etc., based on similar lies.
And of course, on this fifth anniversary of 9/11, President Bush is trying re-kindle fear of “Islamic terrorists” so that Americans will accept his new war of aggression against Iran. Another motivation for war, however, is that U.S. global hegemony has much to do with the fact that oil has been traded on the world market in U.S. dollar (Clark, 2005). This has given Washington and London a chance to skim profits and control the market. Recently, Iran, then Iraq, and then Venezuela all decided to switch their sales of oil to the Euro. As this threatens the entire economic system in the U.S., it gives the “neocon oiligarchy” in Washington, D.C. another reason to orchestrate war in the Middle East.
Again, the Machiavellian cabal that stole the last two national elections (Greenwald, 2002; Miller, 2006) serves a private, international financial network.
This cabal is part of the same “secret government” that orchestrated the Bay of Pigs, the Kennedy assassinations, the secret wars of the CIA, the Iran-Contra affair, the Vietnam War, World Wars I and II, and the Great Depression (Still, 2004, Schoenmann, 2004). I would speculate, along with Ruppert (2002), that immediate goal of the global “ruling elite” is to establish American domination over the entire world through the phony “war on terrorism.” However, this sequence of wars could easily lead us into an apocalyptic, and perhaps final, world war, accompanied by a total collapse of the world economy. Then, they may decide to abolish most, if not all nation states, including the U.S., in order to usher their long-sought “one world government.” They may or may not elect to utilize the structure of the U.N. as the organizational center. This long-sought “New World Order”, if it comes to pass, would be the culmination of their centuries-old dream of creating a more or less permanent “oligarchy of the wealthy”.
1) ) “…. Israel was behind all four fronts in 9/11, that momentous event in our nation´s history: 1) The actual terror attacks themselves; 2) the subsequent cover-up; and both 3) ¨the U.S.-led military invasions overseas¨ and 4) the ¨domestic security state apparatus.¨
… This is the American Police State under construction right now under our very noses. It is by the far the most deadly aspect of the bogus War on Terror (foreign and domestic), what amounts to the New York/Tel Aviv/Washington DC ‘Axis of Evil’´s home front application of its phony War; it´s the more deadly of the two because it targets not true-to-life terrorists who are allowed to stream across our Southern borders or who are granted dual U.S./Israeli citizenship and allowed to control the topmost levers of power in politics, finance, business, national defense, and American security, but rather… the ones to be targeted are American Christians, ordinary good citizens and patriots, especially those of the Catholic and Christian persuasions.
Hugh Akins, “Synagogue Rising,” 2012
“Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity, which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace. Seeing America undo traditional societies, they fear us, for they do not wish to be undone. They cannot feel secure so long as we are there, for our very existence—our existence, not our politics—threatens their legitimacy. They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission….”
Michael Ledeen, PNAC neocon, author of “War on the Terror Masters,”
It is deeply significant that President George W. Bush’s public declaration of the upcoming war with Iraq (Gulf War II) is being made on the Feast of Purim 2003, 12 years to the day on the Hebrew calendar from when Gulf War I abruptly stopped. The world has entered the second installment of a ‘war in two parts.”
Gulf War II and Purim – David’s Tent
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II. From our previous show of 9/11/17:
1) The 46 drills conducted on the day of and leading up to September 11, 2001 that mimicked all aspects of the operation and then, at the last minute, “flipped live,” prove that 9/11 was carried out by the U.S. government in cooperation with numerous (over 50) military institutions, including the UN, NATO, (Tarpley, “9/11: Synthetic Terror; Made in USA,” 2011).
The following agencies, institutions, offices are implicated as participating in the execution of Operation 9/11 (from ):
1) the White House and Vice President Cheney
2) NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command)
3) the CIA and DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency),
4) the Pentagon; Army, Navy, Air Force
5) New York City Fire and Police Departments
6) the mayor of New York City
7) FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
8) the FBI
9) the Coast Guard
10) Pennsylvania local first responders and emergency managers
11) the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)
12) U.S. Department of Transportation
13) Canadian government
2) The pivotal role that Israeli Mossad, Jews, and crypto-Jews (secret Jews) played in the planning and orchestration of Operation 9/11 indicate that Jews and the state of Israel effectively control enough key sectors of the United States Government and society to effectively control all aspects of the operation and its ongoing cover-up!
III. From M.K. Stylinsky’s Chabadniks, Zionists, and Insiders (2015)
In Stylinski’s analysis, “Chabadniks” directly or indirectly involved in Operation 9/11 include former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, Senator Joseph Lieberman, former Senator Carl Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi and former Pentagon comptroller, Dov Zakheim, and former White House Chief of Staff, Ari Fleisher, former Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, and former White House official Joshua Bolton.
The network of powerful Jewish billionaires that helped set the stage for Operation 9/11 include Chabad Lubavitch-Zionist supporters:
1) Larry Silverstein, owner of most of the World Trade Center,
2) Frank Lowry, of the Goldman Sachs cartel and owner of Westfield America,
3)Ronald Lauder,
4) Lewis Eisenberg, Goldman Sachs and former chairman of the Port Authority of New York during the 9/11 attacks. (Most of the board of directors of the Port Authority board of directors were/are Jewish/Zionist.)
5) The late Peter “Zvi” Malkin, former Israeli intelligence officer and the security consultant and intermediary between Atwell Security and the Port Authority,
6) Port Authority director Stephen Berger,
7) Stanley Brezenoff,
8) Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, CEO of AIG,
9) Jules Kroll of Kroll Inc.,
10) MOSSAD agent Shaul Eisenberg
11) Former managing director of Kroll Inc., Jerome M. Hauer, who also ran New York Mayor Giuliani’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM, located in WTC Building 7) from 1996 to 2000.
12) Robert Kelman, CEO of Hugo Neu Schnitzer Company, that removed and shipped 230,000 tons of steel from the demolished WTC to Asia.
13) Individuals in Giuliani Partners Consulting Company that played crucial roles in the coverup and destruction of physical evidence. These include:
a) Pasquale J. D’Amuro, FBI inspector in charge of the 9/11 investigation, and b) Richard Sheirer, the “Jewish knight” who oversaw removal and destruction of crucial steel evidence by sending it to Zionist-run scrap yards in New Jersey.
15) Scores of Israeli agents near the scene of the crime as well as future Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.
16) Former Israeli military officer and CEO of Comverse Technology (which took over Odigo, Israeli software company, which pre-warned its 4000 predominantly Jewish employees not to go to work in the WTC complex on 9/11).
17) General Richard Bowman Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
In addition, “Zionist appointees were scattered all over 9/11 panels, commissions, and committees which sprang up immediately after the attacks…”
Phillip Zelikow was the Executive Director of the 9/11 commission Report.
The important details provided in the following article provide the basis, I believe, for a broad-based criminal investigation and prosecution of these arch-criminals. The author attributes these details to a host of independent 9/11 researchers. Generally, this information corroborates and extends the information I have already provided on this website.
Part 3 of “Chabadniks, Zionists, & 9/11 Insiders” examines the Jewish Talmudic and Kabbalistic framework for the radically Zionist/Jewish “neo-conservative movement” which organized, executed, and are still covering up Operation 9/11. Key players in this movement, of course, include
Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Albert Wohlstetter, and their “neo-con” colleagues that have controlled the last three Presidencies. Corporate/Zionist enablers of the plan obviously also included Vice President Dick Cheney, President George W. Bush, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Styllinsky explains:
“(Paul) Wolfowitz and his (neo-conservative/Jewish) colleagues managed to fuse corporatist, Zionist, Chabad Lubavitch and other highly influential Zio-Conservative-based think-tanks into a powerful force for war. The Wolfowitz Doctrine lay behind (the Israeli) “Clean break” and the Project for a New American Century (PNAC’s) “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” which defined the blueprint for Zio-Con conquest well into the future. The latter document was written in September of 2000, one year before the 9/11 attacks, where they acknowledged:
“Further, the progress of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event- like a new Pearl Harbor…”
And just one year later, their most pressing desire was fulfilled.
Paul Wolfowitz played a major role in the genesis of the 9/11 attacks…. This was an ideology of Straussian authoritarianism inspired by the Hegelian solution. By using the U.S. as a proxy war machine the Zionists had pulled of a major coup in toppling Saddam Hussein and invading Iraq with their sights on monopolizing oil reserves, the driving interest for corporatists like Rumsfeld and Cheney. But the full force of a religious-occult imperative would be revealed in the 9/11 false flag ritual which heralded the destruction of Iraq- the first phase of biblical and Chabad-led, Talmudic prophecy.
As reported by Munich-based author and journalist Wolfgang Eggert an “occult summit” was convened on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, February 21st, 2003. In attendance were:
‘… the head of the Operations Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose name wasn’t published and seven leading representatives of military intelligence, amongst them
1) the three-star general Lowell ‘Jake’ Jacoby,
2) Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and Wolfowitz’ deputy Dr. Linton Wells who manages the ‘nerve centre’ of the Pentagon” and mostly notably,
3) “Bible code specialist” Michael Drosnin and Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz.’ [12]
The fact that top members of US government would be willing to trust the advice of Drosnin’s highly controversial study of predictive word codes is worrying enough. What is more concerning is the reliance not only on Biblical prophecy but the fusion of both Christian Evangelism, Jewish Messianism and occult Zionism. Eggert explains that there was “only one item on the agenda” and that was to discover what the Bible said:
“… about the present situation in the Middle East, terrorism and about the fate of Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden … It is said that a special interest was taken in decoding when devastation was expected to descend upon the Iraqi president. Result: the Jewish year of 5763 which corresponds to the year 2003 of the Christian calendar. The outcome of this conference is said to have been analysed immediately after by American and Israeli intelligence. The Americans “took it very seriously”, Drosnin later said. The White House started the campaign “Iraqi Freedom” within the prophesied time frame.” [13]
IV. PNAC: Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century: (2000)
Authors: Donald Kagan, Gary Schmidtt (Zionists)
Contributions were provided by many of its elite Zionist members, including:
3) Gary Bauer,
4) Robert Bernstein,
5) US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton,
6) Rudy Boschwitz,
7) former CIA agent William F. Buckley Jr.,
8) Frank Carlucci (CIA murderer of Prime Minister of the Congo Patrice Lumumba),
9) war criminal, Vice President Dick Cheney,
10) Eliot Cohen,
11) David Epstein,
12) Frank Gaffney,
13) Aaron Friedberg,
14) Charles Krauthammer, jounalist
15) aide to the Vice President , Lewis ‘Scooter’ (bird flu) Libby,
16) Lewis Lehrman,
17) Martin Peretz,
18) Richard Perle (who was pegged by the FBI for spying for Israel in the 1970s, but never prosecuted),
19) Norman Podhoretz,
20) AIPAC official Stephen Rosen,
21)war criminal Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,
22) Randy Scheunemann,
23) Pentagon official Abram Shulsky,
24) architect of the first genocide against Iraq, Stephen Solarz,
25) Caspar Weinberger,
26) architect of the second genocide against Iraq, Paul Wolfowitz,
27) Heritage Foundation Director Larry Wortzel, and
28) Rabbi Dov Zakheim (9), financial director, comptroller at the Pentagon
Israel Did 9/11
VI.) 9/11: Israel’s Grand Deception (TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015,
http://www.abeldanger.net/2015/03/911-israels-grand-deception.html)
by Jonathan Azaziah, Friday, September 17, 2010, Source: Mask of Zion
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Elliot Abrams, Deputy Assistant to the President.
• 2002-present, Special Assistant to G.W. Bush
Connections to Iraq-War clique: [#PNAC] with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Libby.
• Elliott Abrams
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• In December 2002 Abrams became President Bush’s top Middle East advisor. He is closely associated with the Likud Party in Israel and with prominent neocons (Richard Perle, Bill Kristol, Marc Paul Gerecht, Michael Ledeen, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Paul Wolfowitz) and neocon think tanks (PNAC, AEI, CSP, JINSA).217 Because of his reputation as a strongly identified Jew, Abrams was tapped for the role of rallying Jews in support of Reagan in the 1980 campaign.218
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• Abrams is also an activist on behalf of Jewish continuity. The purpose of his book Faith and Fear: How Jews Can Survive in Christian America is to shore up Jewish religious identification, avoid intermarriage, and avoid secularization in order to assure Jewish continuity. In this regard it is interesting that other prominent neocons have advocated interracial marriage between whites and blacks in the U.S. For example, Douglas J. Besharov, a resident scholar at the AEI, has written that the offspring of interracial marriages “are the best hope for the future of American race relations.”219
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• In Faith and Fear, Abrams notes his own deep immersion in the Yiddish-speaking culture of his parents and grandparents. In the grandparents’ generation, “all their children married Jews, and [they] kept Kosher homes.”220 Abrams acknowledges that the mainstream Jewish community “clings to what is at bottom a dark vision of America, as a land permeated with anti-Semitism and always on the verge of anti-Semitic outbursts.” The result is that Jews have taken the lead in secularizing America, but that has not been a good strategy for Jews because Jews themselves have become less religious and therefore less inclined to marry other Jews. (This “dark vision of America” is a critical source of the “Culture of Critique” produced by Jewish intellectual movements; it is also a major reason why the Jewish community has been united in favor of large-scale nonwhite immigration to America: Diluting the white majority and lessening their power is seen as preventing an anti-Jewish outburst.221) Following Strauss, therefore, Abrams thinks that a strong role for Christianity in America is good for Jews:
John Bolton: Undersecretary of State
• 1998 Signed PNAC Letters to Clinton, Gringrich, Lott advocating Iraq War.
• 2002 December 19. Contributed false accusation of Iraqi uranium purchase to State Dept. Fact sheet. This accusation had been debunked in March 2002 by Wilson who reported directly to the State Dept. and previously by the ambassador to Niger.
Connections to Iraq-War clique: JINSA Advisory Board as of 1998 with Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle.
Subsequently US Ambassador to the UN and now National Security Advisor of US
Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi who conned the neocons.
• 1956, a secular Iraqi Shiite from a wealthy banking family, left Iraq at age 12.
• 1985, introduced Perle to Wolfowitz.
• 1989, fled Jordan after receiving 22 year sentence for embezzlement.
• 1999, Wurmser says Chalabi one of two mentors concerning the Middle East.
• 2001, PNAC’s Director of Middle East Initiative: “Chalabi may be ideal” to lead opposition. He has his own intelligence service, which dwarfed the reach and understanding of the CIA’s clandestine service.”
• 2002, Fake WMD stories on 60 Minutes. Gets fake bio-weapons stories [Winnebagoes of Death] into the CIA’s National Intelligence Estimate used by Congress to vote on the war, and into Powell’s speech to the UN.
• 2004, April poll in Iraq asks who do you trust: Chalabi 0.6%. Who do you not trust at all: Chalabi 45%, Saddam Hussein 14%.
• 2004, Iraqi police backed by U.S. troops found counterfeit money when they raided Chalabi’s Baghdad house in May. Chalabi said he collected the fake currency in his role as chairman of the Governing Council’s finance committee.
• When finally given a chance to vote in January 2005, Iraqis did not award Chalabi’s party a single seat in the new parliament.
• 2005 Became Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq with authority over Oil for one year.
Connections to Iraq-War clique: PNAC, Perle, Wolfowitz, Wurmser.
Dick Cheney, Vice President.
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• 1969-71, Assistant to Rumsfeld, and also 1974–75.
• 1989, Hired Wolfowitz and Libby as Sect. of Defense under the elder Bush.
• 1996-00, Jinsa Advisory Board
• 1997, Signer of founding PNAC “Principles”
• 2001, Championed Wolfowitz and brought in Libby and Wurmser, under G.W. Bush.
Connections to Iraq-War clique: Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Libby, Feith, Bolton, Perle.
Dick Cheney
By several accounts, Vice President Cheney had a “fever” to invade Iraq and transform the politics of the Middle East and was the leading force within the administration convincing President Bush of the need to do so.247 As with the other Jewish intellectual and political movements I have reviewed, non-Jews have been welcomed into the movement and often given highly visible roles as the movement’s public face. Among the current crop in this intellectual lineage, the most important non-Jews are Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, both of whom have close professional and personal relationships with neoconservatives that long pre-date their present power and visibility. Both Cheney and Rumsfeld have been associated with Bill Kristol’s PNAC (which advocated a unilateral war for regime change in Iraq at least as early as 1998)248 and the CSP, two neocon think tanks; Cheney was presented with the ADL’s Distinguished Statesman Award in 1993 and was described by Abraham Foxman as “sensitive to Jewish concerns.”249 When Cheney was a Congressman during the early 1980s, he attended lunches hosted for Republican Jewish leaders by the House leadership. Cheney was described by Marshall Breger, a senior official in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administration as “very interested in outreach and engaging the Jewish community.”250 He was also a member of JINSA, a major pro-Israel activist organization, until assuming his office as vice president.
Cheney has also had a close involvement with leading Israeli politicians, especially Natan Sharansky, Secretary of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs in the Likud government and the prime architect of the ideology that the key to peace between Israel and the Arab world, including the Palestinians, is Arab acceptance of democracy. When President Bush articulated the importance of Palestinian democracy for the Middle East peace “roadmap” in his June 2002 policy speech,
Sharansky could have written the speech himself, and, for that matter, may have had a direct hand in its drafting. The weekend prior to the speech, he spent long hours at a conference [organized by Richard Perle and] sponsored by the AEI in Aspen secluded together with Vice President Cheney and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. The Bush speech clearly represented a triumph for the Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz axis in the administration over the State Department, which was eager to offer the Palestinians a provisional state immediately.”251
Both Cheney and Rumsfeld have close personal relationships with Kenneth Adelman, a former Ford and Reagan administration official.252 Adelman wrote op-ed pieces in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal in the period leading up to the war, and he, along with Wolfowitz and Irving Lewis “Scooter” Libby (Cheney’s chief of staff), were guests of Cheney for a victory celebration in the immediate aftermath of the war (April 13, 2003).253 Adelman has excellent neocon credentials. He was a member of the Committee on the Present Danger in the 1970s and UN Ambassador during the Reagan Administration, and worked under Donald Rumsfeld on three different occasions. He was a signatory to the April 3, 2002, letter of the Project for a New American Century to President Bush calling for Saddam Hussein’s ouster and increased support for Israel. The letter stated, “Israel is targeted in part because it is our friend, and in part because it is an island of liberal, democratic principles—American principles—in a sea of tyranny, intolerance, and hatred.”
The advocacy of war with Iraq was linked to advancing Israeli interests: “If we do not move against Saddam Hussein and his regime, the damage our Israeli friends and we have suffered until now may someday appear but a prelude to much greater horrors…. Israel’s fight against terrorism is our fight. Israel’s victory is an important part of our victory. For reasons both moral and strategic, we need to stand with Israel in its fight against terrorism.”254 Adelman’s wife, Carol, is affiliated with the Hudson Institute, a neoconservative think tank.
Cheney’s role in the ascendancy of the neocons in the Bush administration is particularly important: As head of the transition team, he and Libby were able to staff the subcabinet levels of the State Department (John Bolton) and the Defense Department (Wolfowitz, Feith) with key supporters of the neocon agenda. Libby is a close personal friend of Cheney whose views “echo many of Wolfowitz’s policies”; he “is considered a hawk among hawks and was an early supporter of military action against terrorism and particularly against Iraq.”255 He is Jewish and has a long history of involvement in Zionist causes and as the attorney for the notorious Marc Rich. Libby and Cheney were involved in pressuring the CIA to color intelligence reports to fit with their desire for a war with Iraq.256 Libby entered the neocon orbit when he was “captivated” while taking a political science course from Wolfowitz at Yale, and he worked under Wolfowitz in the Reagan and the Bush I administrations.257 He was the coauthor (with Wolfowitz) of the ill-fated draft of the Defense Planning Guidance document of 1992, which advocated U.S. dominance over all of Eurasia and urged preventing any other country from even contemplating challenging U.S. hegemony.258 (Cheney was Secretary of Defense at that time.) After an uproar, the document was radically altered, but this blueprint for U.S. hegemony remains central to neocon attitudes since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Charles Fairbanks: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Reagan
• Served under Paul Wolfowitz, a college friend.
• Co-authored the IASPS “Clean Break” report with Feith, Perle and Wurmser.
Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (till August 2005)
• 1982-84 Part of Reagan’s DOD, Hired by Perle.
• 1996— JINSA Advisory Board Member
• 1997, Co-authored the IASPS “Clean Break” report to Israel with Fairbanks, Perle and Wurmser.
• Dumbest (expletive) guy on the planet. —General Tommy Franks
• Seldom in my life have I met a dumber man. —Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff for Colin Powell
• Outspoken foe of the Oslo peace process and Camp David peace agreement.
• Leading member of the “Office of Special Plans” which relied on Chalabi to feed fake WMD info to the CIA.
• Employed Larry Franklin who was caught passing secrets to AIPAC lobbyists (for Israel), and with 38 Top Secret document in his home.
Connections to Iraq-War clique: Chalabi, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Bolton, Fairbanks, Wurmser
Douglas Feith
Like most of his cronies, Feith has been suspected of spying for Israel. In 1972 Feith was fired from a position with the National Security Council because of an investigation into whether he had provided documents to the Israeli embassy. Nevertheless, Perle, who was Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy, hired him as his “special counsel,” and then as his deputy. Feith worked for Perle until 1986, when he left government service to form a law firm, Feith and Zell, which was originally based in Israel and best known for obtaining a pardon for the notorious Marc Rich during the final days of the Clinton administration. In 2001, Douglas Feith returned to the Department of Defense as Donald Rumsfeld’s Undersecretary for Policy, and it was in his office that Abraham Shulsky’s Office of Special Plans (OSP) was created. It was OSP that originated much of the fraudulent intelligence that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have used to justify the attack on Iraq. A key member of OSP was David Wurmser who, as indicated above, is a protégé of Richard Perle.223
Retired army officer Karen Kwiatkowski describes Feith as knowing little about the Pentagon and paying little attention to any issues except those relating to Israel and Iraq.224 Feith is deferential to the Israeli military. As Kwiatkowski escorted a group of Israeli generals into the Pentagon:
The leader of the pack surged ahead, his colleagues in close formation, leaving us to double-time behind the group as they sped to Undersecretary Feith’s office on the fourth floor…. Once in Feith’s waiting room, the leader continued at speed to Feith’s closed door. An alert secretary saw this coming and had leapt from her desk to block the door. “Mr. Feith has a visitor. It will only be a few more minutes.” The leader craned his neck to look around the secretary’s head as he demanded, “Who is in there with him?”
Unlike the usual practice, the Israeli generals did not have to sign in, so there are no official records of their visits.225 Kwiatkowski describes the anti-Arab, pro-Israel sentiment that pervaded the neocon network at the Department of Defense. Career military officers who failed to go along with these attitudes were simply replaced.
Feith has a strong Jewish identity and is an activist on behalf of Israel. While in law school he collaborated with Joseph Churba, an associate and friend of Meir Kahane, founder of the racialist and anti-Western Jewish Defense League. During the late 1980s to early 1990s he wrote pro-Likud op-ed pieces in Israeli newspapers, arguing that the West Bank is part of Israel, that the Palestinians belong in Jordan, and that there should be regime change in Iraq. He also headed the CSP and was a founding member of One Jerusalem, an Israeli organization “determined to prevent any compromise with the Palestinians over the fate of any part of Jerusalem.226
He is an officer of the Foundation for Jewish Studies, which is “dedicated to fostering Jewish learning and building communities of educated and committed Jews who are conscious of and faithful to the high ideals of Judaism.”227 In 1997 Feith and his father (a member of Betar, the Zionist youth movement founded by Vladimir Jabotinsky) were given awards from the ZOA because of their work as pro-Israel activists. The ZOA is a staunch supporter of the most extreme elements within Israel. Feith’s law partner, L. Marc Zell of the firm’s Tel Aviv office, is a spokesman for the settler movement in Israel, and the firm itself is deeply involved in legal issues related to the reconstruction of Iraq, a situation that has raised eyebrows because Feith is head of reconstruction in Iraq.228
Zell was one of many neocons close to Ahmed Chalabi but abandoned his support because Chalabi had not come through on his prewar pledges regarding Israel—further evidence that aiding Israel was an important motive for the neocons. According to Zell, Chalabi “said he would end Iraq’s boycott of trade with Israel, and would allow Israeli companies to do business there. He said [the new Iraqi government] would agree to rebuild the pipeline from Mosul [in the northern Iraqi oil fields] to Haifa [the Israeli port, and the location of a major refinery].”229 Another partner in the law firm of Feith and Zell is Salem Chalabi, Ahmed Chalabi’s nephew. Salem Chalabi is in charge of the trial of Saddam Hussein.230
Robert Kagan
• Co-founder with Kristol of PNAC the main neocon lobby.
• Signer of 1998 PNAC letter to Clinton advocating Iraq War.
• His wife, Victoria Nuland, was National Security Advisor to Cheney from July 2003 until May 2005. Focused on Iraq.
William Kristol
• Co-founder and chairman of PNAC
• Son of neoconservative “godfather” Irving Kristol
• Editor of the neocon publication “The Weekly Standard.”
Michael Ledeen
Michael Ledeen’s career illustrates the interconnectedness of the neoconservative network. Ledeen was the first executive director of JINSA (1977–1979) and remains on its board of advisors. He was hired by Richard Perle in the Defense Department during the Reagan years, and during the same period he was hired as special advisor by Wolfowitz in his role as head of the State Department Policy Planning Staff. Along with Stephen Bryen, Ledeen became a member of the China Commission during the George W. Bush administration. He was also a consultant to Abraham Shulsky’s OSP, the Defense Department organization most closely linked with the manufacture of fraudulent intelligence leading up to the Iraq War. The OSP was created by Douglas Feith, who in turn reports to Paul Wolfowitz. As noted above, he is resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at AEI.
Ledeen has been suspected of spying for Israel.236 During the Reagan years, he was regarded by the CIA as “an agent of influence of a foreign government: Israel,” and was suspected of spying for Israel by his immediate superior at the Department of Defense, Noel Koch.237 While working for the White House in 1984, Ledeen was also accused by National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane of participating in an unauthorized meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres that led to the proposal to funnel arms through Israel to Iran in order to free U.S. hostages being held in Lebanon—the origins of the Irangate scandal.238
Ledeen has been a major propagandist for forcing change on the entire Arab world. Ledeen’s revolutionary ideology stems not from Trotsky or Marx, but from his favorable view of Italian fascism as a universalist (nonracial) revolutionary movement.239 His book, “War on the Terror Masters,” is a program for complete restructuring of the Middle East by the U. S. couched in the rhetoric of universalism and moral concern, not for Israel, but for the Arab peoples who would benefit from regime change. Ledeen is a revolutionary of the right, committed to “creative destruction” of the old social order:
“Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity, which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace. Seeing America undo traditional societies, they fear us, for they do not wish to be undone. They cannot feel secure so long as we are there, for our very existence—our existence, not our politics—threatens their legitimacy. They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission….”
Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Chief of Staff to Vice President Cheney
• 1997, Signer of founding PNAC “Principles”
• Told two reporters that covert CIA agent Valerie Plame worked for the CIA
• This was Cheney’s retaliation against her husband, Wilson who accurately reported Niger had not sold Uranium to Saddam.
• Apparently part of a White-House-based plan of retribution/intimidation.
• Jail sentence commuted by Bush
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Connections to Iraq-War clique: PNAC with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Abrams.
Richard Perle, Defense Policy Board Chairman for Rumsfeld.
• 1996 Brings IASPS report to Israeli Prime Minister.
• 1970 Overheard discussing classified information with Israeli embassy.
• 1981 Brought Stephen Bryen into Defense Dept.
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• (Bryen had already been found passing classified information to Israel. While in the position Perle gave him, supplied Israel with prohibited technology.)
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• Like Wolfowitz and the Strauss-Bloom nexus at the University of Chicago, for Perle
the defining moment in our history was certainly the Holocaust…. It was the destruction, the genocide of a whole people, and it was the failure to respond in a timely fashion to a threat that was clearly gathering…We don’t want that to happen again…when we have the ability to stop totalitarian regimes we should do so, because when we fail to do so, the results are catastrophic.206
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• Richard Perle first came into prominence in Washington as Senator Henry Jackson’s chief aide on foreign policy. He organized Congressional support for the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which angered Russia by linking bilateral trade issues to freedom of emigration, primarily of Jews from the Soviet Union to Israel and the United States. In 1970 Perle was recorded by the FBI discussing classified information with the Israeli embassy. In 1981 he was on the payroll of an Israeli defense contractor shortly before being appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, a position responsible for monitoring U.S. defense technology exports.207 During his tenure in the Reagan administration Perle recommended purchase of an artillery shell made by Soltan, an Israeli munitions manufacturer. After leaving his position in the Defense Department in 1987, he assumed a position with Soltan. Like many other former government officials, he has also used his reputation and contacts in the government to develop a highly lucrative business career. For example, although he did not personally register as a lobbyist, he became a paid consultant to a firm headed by Douglas Feith that was established to lobby on behalf of Turkey.208 At the present time, Perle is on the board of directors of Onset Technology, a technology company founded by Israelis Gadi Mazor and Ron Maor with R&D in Israel. Onset Technology has close ties to Israeli companies and investment funds.209 He is a close personal friend of Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.210
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• Perle was the “Study Group Leader” of a 1996 report titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” published by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), an Israeli think tank. The membership of the study group illustrates the overlap between Israeli think tanks close to the Israeli government, American policy makers and government officials, and pro-Israel activists working in the United States. Other members of this group who accepted positions in the George W. Bush administration or in pro-Israel activist organizations in the U.S. include Douglas Feith (Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy), David Wurmser (member of IASPS, a protégé of Perle at AEI, and senior advisor in the State Department), Mayrev Wurmser (head of the Hudson Institute [a neocon thinktank]), James Colbert of JINSA, and Jonathan Torop (WINEP).
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• Despite Joshua Muravchik’s apologetic claims,211 the “Clean Break” report was clearly intended as advice for another of Perle’s personal friends,212 Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then the new prime minister of Israel; there is no indication that it was an effort to further U.S. interests in the region. The purpose was to “forge a peace process and strategy based on an entirely new intellectual foundation, one that restores strategic initiative and provides the nation the room to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism.” Indeed, the report advises the United States to avoid pressure on the Israelis to give land for peace, a strategy “which required funneling American money to repressive and aggressive regimes, was risky, expensive, and very costly for both the U.S. and Israel, and placed the United States in roles it should neither have nor want.” The authors of the report speak as Jews and Israelis, not as U.S. citizens: “Our claim to the land—to which we have clung for hope for 2000 years—is legitimate and noble.”Much of the focus is on removing the threat of Syria, and it is in this context that the report notes, “This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq—an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right—as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.”213
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• Proposals for regime change, such as found in “A Clean Break,” have a long history in Israeli thought. For example, in 1982 Israeli strategist Oded Yinon echoed a long line of Israeli strategists who argued that Israel should attempt to dissolve all the existing Arab states into smaller, less potentially powerful states. These states would then become clients of Israel as a regional imperial power. Neocons have advertised the war in Iraq as a crusade for a democratic, secular, Western-oriented, pro-Israel Iraq—a dream that has a great deal of appeal in the West, for obvious reasons. However, it is quite possible that the long-term result is that Iraq would fracture along ethnic and religious lines (Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds). This would also be in Israel’s interests, because the resulting states would pose less of a threat than the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. As Yinon noted, “Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel.”214
• Former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson has suggested that the dissolution of Iraq may well have been a motive for the war:
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• A more cynical reading of the agenda of certain Bush advisers could conclude that the Balkanization of Iraq was always an acceptable outcome, because Israel would then find itself surrounded by small Arab countries worried about each other instead of forming a solid block against Israel. After all, Iraq was an artificial country that had always had a troublesome history.215
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• And as the Iraqi insurgency has achieved momentum, there is evidence that Israeli military and intelligence units are operating in Kurdish regions of Iraq and that Israel is indeed encouraging the Kurds to form their own state.216 There is little doubt that an independent Kurdish state would have major repercussions for Syria and Iran, as well as for Israel’s ally Turkey, and would lead to continuing instability in the Middle East. A senior Turkish official noted, “If you end up with a divided Iraq, it will bring more blood, tears, and pain to the Middle East, and [the U.S.] will be blamed…From Mexico to Russia, everybody will claim that the United States had a secret agenda in Iraq: you came there to break up Iraq. If Iraq is divided, America cannot explain this to the world.”
Connections to Iraq-War clique:
1996, IASPS, w/ Wurmser, Feith, Principal author of report explaining why Israel needed Saddam overthrown.
1997→, Member of PNAC with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Abrams, Bolton, Libby.
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense.
• 1983 Lobbied Saddam for Trans-Iraqi oil pipeline.
• Aware Saddam was using WMD (poison gas) on Kurds during pipeline trip.
• Estimated war would take 5 weeks.
• 1969-71, Office of Econ. Opportunity, Hired Cheney.
• 1974-75, White House, Chief of Staff, Hired Cheney.
• 1996, Running Dole’s campaign for President, meets Wolfowitz.
• 1997—, PNAC (signer of “Principles”) with Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Abrams, Bolton, Libby.
• 1998-00 Advisor to Bush campaign, w/ Cheney, Wolfowitz.
• 2001— Sec. of Defense, Brings in Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle.
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• Donald Rumsfeld
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• As noted above, Rumsfeld has deep links with neoconservative think tanks and individual Jews such as Ken Adelman, who began his career working for Rumsfeld when he headed the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Nixon administration. Another close associate is Robert A. Goldwin, a student of Leo Strauss and Rumsfeld’s deputy both at NATO and at the Gerald Ford White House; Goldwin is now resident scholar at the AEI.
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• Rumsfeld also has a long history of appealing to Jewish and Israeli causes. In his 1964 campaign for reelection to Congress as representative from a district on the North Shore of Chicago with an important Jewish constituency, he emphasized Soviet persecution of Jews and introduced a bill on this topic in the House. After the 1967 war, he urged the U.S. not to demand that Israel withdraw to its previous borders and he criticized delays in sending U.S. military hardware to Israel.259
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• More recently, as Secretary of Defense in the Bush II administration, Rumsfeld was praised by the ZOA for distancing himself from the phrase “occupied territories,” referring to them as the “so-called occupied territories.”260
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• Despite these links with neoconservatives and Jewish causes, Rumsfeld emerges as less an ideologue and less a passionate advocate for war with Iraq than Cheney. Robert Woodward describes him as lacking the feverish intensity of Cheney, as a dispassionate “defense technocrat” who, unlike Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Feith, would have been content if the U.S. had not gone to war with Iraq.261
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Paul Wolfowitz, Asst. Sec. of Defense till June 2005
• Wolfowitz–the intellectual godfather of the war–is its heart and soul. (12/29/2003, Time)
• Has worked for it since G.H.W. Bush left Saddam in power.
• A student of neocon gurus Strauss and Wohlstetter.
• Early associate of Perle.
• 1989-93, DOD under Cheney and over Libby.
• 1997, PNAC (Signer of “Principles”) with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, Abrams, Bolton, Libby.
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• Paul Wolfowitz’s background indicates a strong Jewish identity. His father Jacob was a committed Zionist throughout his life and in his later years organized protests against Soviet treatment of Jews.178 Jacob was deeply concerned about the Holocaust,179 and, in his own reminiscences of his teenage years, Paul recalls reading books about the Holocaust and traveling to Israel when his father was a visiting professor at an Israeli university. Wolfowitz reads Hebrew, and his sister married an Israeli and lives in Israel.180 At the University of Chicago the professors mentioned in his account of the period are all Jewish:181 Albert Wohlstetter, his Ph.D. advisor; Leo Strauss (Wolfowitz’s original intent when enrolling at the University of Chicago was to study with Strauss, and he ended up taking two courses from him); Strauss’s disciple Alan Bloom, whose Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students (1987) is a neocon classic; and Saul Bellow, the novelist.
• Also indicative of a strong Jewish identity is a conversation Wolfowitz had with Natan Sharansky, Israeli Cabinet Minister and leader of a right wing, pro-settlement political party, at a conference on Middle East policy in Aspen, Colorado, in 2002. The conference was arranged by Richard Perle under the auspices of the AEI. Wolfowitz and Sharansky walked to a reception, because the latter, as an observant Jew, could not drive on the Sabbath. Sharansky noted that the walk “gave us a chance to talk about everything — Arafat, international terrorism, Iraq and Iran and, of course, Jewish history, our roots and so on.”182 Wolfowitz is married to Clare Selgin, and they have three children, Sara, David, and Rachel.183
James Woolsey, Defense Policy Board Member.
• Former director of CIA 1993-95.
Connections to Other Neocons:
1995—, JINSA (Advisory Board Member) with Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle, Bolton
1997—, PNAC with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Abrams, Bolton, Libby.
David Wurmser, Middle East Adviser to Cheney.
• 1996 Primary author of IASPS report to Israeli Prime Minster on why to remove Saddam.
• 1996 Writes “Coping with Crumbling States,” explaining why U.S. should help Israel remove Saddam.
• Chalabi is “mentor” for writing book on removing Saddam.
• 1999 Publishes book on why Saddam must go and why that’s good for Israel.
• 2001 Adviser to Bolton in State Department.
• 2003 Middle-East Adviser to Cheney.
VII. Partial Membership List of Project for a New American Century
Abramowitz, Morton – Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation.
• Abrams, Elliot – National Security Council – top advisor on the Middle East. Alumnus of the Heritage Foundation.
History: As Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs under Reagan, was responsible for covering up war crimes committed by the U.S. backed Contras. Was charged in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, and pled to lesser charges. Was later pardoned by Bush Sr. The British media reported Elliot was behind the attempted Chavez coup in Venezuela.
• Allen, Richard V. – member: National Security Advisory Board, and the Defense Policy Board. President of the Richard V. Allen Company (consulting firm). Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute.
History: founding chairman for the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center. Founding member of the Committee on the Present Danger. Former board member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Assistant to the President for National Security affairs during the Reagan administration, but forced from office over suspected financial misconduct.
Anderson, Mark A. – unable to verify biographical information from multiple sources (other than PNAC involvement).
Armitage, Richard – Deputy Secretary of State.
History: Former board member of CACI, the private military contractor whose employees were responsible for torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan Administration. Named by the government as one of the people guilty of supplying weapons in the Iran Contra Affair, but never charged.
Au, Andrew Y. – unable to verify biographical information from multiple sources (other than PNAC involvement).
Bang-Jensen, Nina – executive director of the Coalition for International Justice.
Bao-Lord, Bette – member of the Council on Foreign Relations (director until 2003). Chairman of Freedom House. Wife of ex-ambassador to China Winston Lord, who is Co-chairman of the International Rescue Committee.
Barnett, Roger – professor at the Naval War College (a government facility).
History: Vice President of the National Institute for Public Policy. Professor at Georgetown University.
Bauer, Gary – founder of the Campaign for Working Families, president of American Values.
History: past president of the Family Research Council. Under Secretary of Education in the Reagan administration.
Bennet, William J. – co-director of Empower America, co-director of Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Distinguished Fellow of the Heritage Foundation. Writer.
History: Secretary of Education under Reagan.
Bergner, Jeffrey – study group member of the Commission on National Security 21st Century. Member of the board of trustees for the Hudson Institute, and the Asia Foundation. His lobbying company represents a number of weapons contractors, among other major corporations.
History: Staff Director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the Reagan administration.
Bernstein, Alvin – unable to verify biographical information from multiple sources (other than PNAC involvement).
Bernstein, Robert L. – Professor at the National Defense University (a government facility).
History: worked at the Naval War College (government facility), and in the Defense Department.
Biddle, George – member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Senior Vice President of the International Rescue Committee (allegedly a relief organisation).
*Bolton, John R. – Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
History: Senior Vice President of the American Enterprise Institute. Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs for the Department of State under Bush Sr. Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice under Reagan.
Boot, Max – Senior Fellow of the National Security Studies. Contributing Editor for the Weekly Standard.
History: editor of the Wall Street Journal, writer and editor for the Christian Science Monitor.
Bork, Ellen – Deputy Director of the PNAC.
History: Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund.
Boschwitz, Rudy – Presidential appointee to the Holocaust Memorial Council. One of the top fund-raisers for Bush Jr. in 2000. Founder of Home Valu Inc. Minnesota Senator (1978-1991).
Buckley, William F. Jr. – owner of National Review magazine.
History: CIA agent in the Fifties. Hosted the television show Firing Line.
*Bush, Jeb – Governor of Florida.
History: Banned convicted felons from voting in the 2000 presidential election, using an extremely inaccurate system to remove voting rights; allowed ineligible absentee ballots to be counted.
Cambone, Stephen A. – Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Special Assistant to the Secretary and Director for Program Analysis and Evaluation – Department of Defense.
History: Special Assistant to Donald Rumsfeld just prior to current appointments. Director in the Defense Department during the Bush Sr. administration. Past deputy director in SRS Technologies (Defense contractor).
*Carlucci, Frank – Chairman Emeritus of the Carlyle Group, and Nortel Networks. Member of the board of United Defense Inc. Considered a protégé of D. Rumsfeld.
History: Chairman of the Carlyle Group (1993-2000). Secretary of Defense during the Reagan administration. Deputy Director in the CIA. CIA agent. Accused of being behind the assassination of Congo Prime Minister Lumumba during the Sixties, but never charged.
* Cheney, Dick – Vice President. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Employee(?) of Halliburton – draws a one million dollar per year salary.
History: worked for D. Rumsfeld in 1969. Presidential assistant to Gerald Ford. Secretary of Defense for Bush Sr. Halliburton CEO 1995 to 2000; gains the company 3.8 billion dollars in federal contracts and guaranteed loans. Upon becoming Vice President, Halliburton receives billions of dollars in Iraq contracts not tendered to other companies. Behind installing Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, and Elliot Abrams into their current positions in government. Wife Lynne is a senior fellow with the American Enterprise Institute. Daughter Elizabeth is Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs.
Clemons, Steven C. – Executive Vice President of the New America Foundation.
*Cohen, Eliot A. – professor at Johns Hopkins University. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
History: professor at the Naval War College. Previously worked for D. Rumsfeld.
Cropsey, Seth – Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau.
History: Director in the Heritage Foundation. Visiting Fellow in the American Enterprise Institute. Assistant Editor of the Public Interest (1976-77). Hudson Institute researcher. Deputy Under Secretary in the Department of the Navy during the Reagan administration.
DeConcini, Dennis Webster – Chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
History: eighteen years as Senator from Arizona. Member of the Balkan Action Committee.
Dale, Helle – Director in the Heritage Foundation.
Decter, Midge – Writer. Heritage Foundation director. Wife of Norman Podhoretz. Claims to worship Donald Rumsfeld, and has written a book for Rumsfeld admirers.
Dobriansky, Paula – Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs.
History: Senior Vice President (Washington office) of the Council on Foreign Relations prior to appointment. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs for the Department of State in the Reagan administration.
Donnelly, Thomas – Deputy Executive Director of the PNAC.
History: Director of Strategic Communication and Initiatives for Lockheed Martin Corp. (weapons contractor).
Eberstadt, Nicholas – consultant for the State Department, consultant for the Bureau of the Census. Member of the American Enterprise Institute.
Edgar, Robert (Rev. Dr.) – General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ. Ordained as an United Methodist. Former Congressman.
Epstein, David – employee at the Office of Secretary of Defense – Net Assessment.
*Etzioni, Amitai – founder of the Communitarian Network, and editor of their magazine. Was Senior Advisor to the White House on Domestic Affairs during the Carter administration. (Jew)
Fautua, David – unable to verify biographical information from multiple sources (other than PNAC involvement).
Feulner, Edwin J. Jr. – Heritage Foundation.
History: advisor to President Reagan.
Forbes, Steve – President, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine.
History: campaigned twice for the Republican nomination for president. Directed the dissemination of propaganda on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty during both the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations.
Fradkin, Hillel – member of the Advisory Committee on International Education – Department of Education. Part of Benador Associates, a publicity firm handling clients such as PNAC members R. Perle, J. Woolsey, F. Gaffney, C. Krauthammer, and M. Boot.
History: Fellow in the American Enterprise Institute prior to government appointment.
Friedberg, Aaron – Vice President’s Deputy National Security Advisor.
History: Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. Consultant for the CIA.
Fukuyama, Francis – President’s Council on Bioethics. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Gaffney, Frank – President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy, Washington Times columnist, brother of Devon Gaffney-Cross.
History: worked for Richard Perle during the Reagan administration.
Gaffney-Cross, Devon – member of the Defense Policy Board (Pentagon). Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Sister of Frank Gaffney.
Gejdenson, Sam – owns Sam Gejdenson International. Congressman (D) 1981 – 2000.
Gerecht, Reuel Marc – Senior Fellow of the PNAC, Resident Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute.
History: former CIA agent (1985 – 1994). CBS News consultant on Afghanistan.
Goldman, Merle – Adjunct Professor for the Foreign Service Institute of the State Department.
Goure, Daniel – consultant for the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Energy. Vice President of the Lexington Institute. Was a Study Team Leader for the Institute of Peace (1990-91).
*Halperin, Morton H. – director for the Council on Foreign Relations, and for the Open Society Institute.
Hefferman, John – unable to verify biographical information from multiple sources (other than PNAC involvement).
Hooper, James R. – Executive Director of the Balkan Action Council.
Ikle, Fred C. – Distinguished Scholar for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
History: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Reagan administration.
Jackson, Bruce – President of the Project on Transitional Democracies. President of the Committee on NATO.
Member: Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Board of Advisors for the Center for Security Policy.
History: Director of Strategic Planning for Lockheed Martin Corp. (weapons contractor). Worked for Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dick Cheney during the eighties.
Joyce, Michael S. – founder of Americans for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprise, an organisation created to help push through Bush Jr.’s “Faith-Based Initiative”. Member of the Research Council of America. Was part of the Presidential Transition Team for Reagan.
*Kagan, Donald – Hillhouse Professor of History and Classics at Yale University. Writer. Father of Frederick and Robert Kagan.
*Kagan, Frederick – Professor of military history at West Point.
History: co-wrote, with his father Donald and other PNAC contributors, “While America Sleeps”.
*Kagan, Robert – co-founder of the PNAC. Contributing Editor for the Weekly Standard and the New Republic; columnist for the Washington Post. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Husband of Victoria Nuland, Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President.
History: Deputy in the Department of State under Elliot Abrams during the Reagan administration.
*Kampelman, Max M. – Lawyer. Member of the Board of Trustees for Freedom House. Member of the Board of Advisors for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
*Karatnycky, Adrian – member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Freedom House.
History: worked for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Washington Times.
Kemble, Penn – Department of State – Head, Eminent Persons Group, Sudan Slavery Commission. Senior Fellow in Freedom House.
Kennedy, Craig – President of the German Marshall Fund.
Khalilzad, Zalmay – Ambassador to Afghanistan, Special Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan, and Special Presidential Envoy to the Free Iraqis.
History: Senior Director of the National Security Council (2001 – 2003). Accused by candidates in the Afghan elections of arranging President Hamid Karzai’s victory. Worked for Paul Wolfowitz at the State Department in 1984 – 1985. Advisor to Unocal for their proposed gas pipeline project through Afghanistan (1997).
Killebrew, Robert B. – Colonel (retired)
History: Security Strategies study member for PNAC. Consultant to a variety of army and private institute military projects.
*Kirkpatrick, Jeane – on the executive committee of Freedom House, and the board of advisors of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on the Present Danger. Former U.S. Ambassador. Member of the National Security Council under Reagan.
Koh, Harold Hongju – Dean of Yale.
History: Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in the Clinton administration.
Kovler, Peter – Nixon Center Advisory Council. Balkans Action Committee.
*Krauthammer, Charles – Presidential appointee to the President’s Council On Bioethics. Columnist for the Washington Post. Contributing Editor for the New Republic, and the Weekly Standard. Member of the Editorial Board for the National Interest, and the Public Interest.
*Kristol, William – co-founder of the PNAC. Columnist for (and co-founder of) the Weekly Standard.
History: Chief of Staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, Secretary of Education Chief of Staff under William Bennett during the Reagan administration.
Lagon, Mark P. – Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
History: fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. Deputy Director of the House Republican Committee. Senior advisor to Jeane Kirkpatrick – American Enterprise Institute.
Lasswell, James – Employee of GAMA Corporation (war games, military training via software).
Michael Ledeen: Michael Ledeen
Michael Ledeen’s career illustrates the interconnectedness of the neoconservative network. Ledeen was the first executive director of JINSA (1977–1979) and remains on its board of advisors. He was hired by Richard Perle in the Defense Department during the Reagan years, and during the same period he was hired as special advisor by Wolfowitz in his role as head of the State Department Policy Planning Staff. Along with Stephen Bryen, Ledeen became a member of the China Commission during the George W. Bush administration. He was also a consultant to Abraham Shulsky’s OSP, the Defense Department organization most closely linked with the manufacture of fraudulent intelligence leading up to the Iraq War. The OSP was created by Douglas Feith, who in turn reports to Paul Wolfowitz. As noted above, he is resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at AEI.
Ledeen has been suspected of spying for Israel.236 During the Reagan years, he was regarded by the CIA as “an agent of influence of a foreign government: Israel,” and was suspected of spying for Israel by his immediate superior at the Department of Defense, Noel Koch.237 While working for the White House in 1984, Ledeen was also accused by National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane of participating in an unauthorized meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres that led to the proposal to funnel arms through Israel to Iran in order to free U.S. hostages being held in Lebanon—the origins of the Irangate scandal.238
Ledeen has been a major propagandist for forcing change on the entire Arab world. Ledeen’s revolutionary ideology stems not from Trotsky or Marx, but from his favorable view of Italian fascism as a universalist (nonracial) revolutionary movement.239 His book, War on the Terror Masters, is a program for complete restructuring of the Middle East by the U. S. couched in the rhetoric of universalism and moral concern, not for Israel, but for the Arab peoples who would benefit from regime change. Ledeen is a revolutionary of the right, committed to “creative destruction” of the old social order:
“Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity, which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace. Seeing America undo traditional societies, they fear us, for they do not wish to be undone. They cannot feel secure so long as we are there, for our very existence—our existence, not our politics—threatens their legitimacy. They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission….”
Behind all the anti-American venom from the secular radicals in Baghdad, the religious fanatics in Tehran, the minority regime in Damascus, and the multicultural kleptomaniacs in the Palestinian Authority is the knowledge that they are hated by their own people. Their power rests on terror, recently directed against us, but always, first and foremost, against their own citizens. Given the chance to express themselves freely, the Iraqi, Iranian, Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian people would oust their current oppressors. Properly waged, our revolutionary war will give them a chance.240
Lehrman, Lewis E. – on the Board of Trustees for the Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute. President and co-founder of the Citizens for America.
*Libby, I. Lewis – Assistant to the President, and Chief of Staff to the Vice President.
History: after graduating law school, went to work for Paul Wolfowitz (1981 – 1985) at the State Department. Hired again by Wolfowitz in 1989, this time at the Pentagon.
Lindberg, Tod – Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute. Editor of Policy Review journal.
Mack, Connie III – Congressman for Florida. Previously served in the Florida House of Representatives (2000 – 2003).
Maletz, Christopher – Assistant Director of the PNAC.
Markey, Mary Beth – Executive Director for the International Campaign for Tibet. Worked in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prior to 1996.
Martinage, Robert – consultant for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
McKivergan, Daniel – Deputy Director of the PNAC.
History: research director for The Weekly Standard (1995 – 1997). Legislative director for Senator John McCain (2000), and for Congressman Dan Miller (1997).
*Meese, Edwin III – Heritage Foundation.
History: Attorney General during the Reagan administration. Investigated for his involvement in the Iraq Bechtel pipeline deal (which also involved D. Rumsfeld) – not prosecuted, but resigned.
Meilinger, Phil – U.S. Naval War College.
Muravchik, Joshua – Resident Scholar for the American Enterprise Institute. Member of the Board of Advisors for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
Owens, Mackubin – professor at the Naval War College (a government facility).
Owens, Wayne – Deceased (December 18, 2002).
History: eight years as Congressman (D) for Utah.
Peretz, Martin – owner and Editor-in-Chief of the New Republic magazine.
*Perle, Richard N. – Pentagon Policy Advisor (resigned February 2004), member – Defense Policy Board.
Member: Balkan Action Committee, Committee on the Present Danger, American Enterprise Institute associate. On advisory board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
History: Assistant Secretary of Defense under Reagan. FBI suspected Perle of spying for Israel in 1970 – not prosecuted.
Pletka, Danielle – Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy for the American Enterprise Institute.
History: senior staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1992-2002).
*Podhoretz, Norman – member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Husband of Midge Decter, father-in-law of Elliot Abrams.
Porter, John Edward – member of the RAND board of Trustees.
History: Congressman until 2000.
*Quayle, J. Danforth – was Vice President under Bush Sr.
Rodman, Peter W. – Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
History: Staff Director of State Department Policy Planning under Reagan.
Rosen, Stephen P. – Harvard professor.
History: professor at the Naval War College. Director in the National Security Council under Reagan.
Rowen, Henry S. – member of Department of Defense Policy Board. Presidential appointee to the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction.
History: Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs under Bush Sr. RAND Corporation president 1967–1972.
*Rumsfeld, Donald – Secretary of Defense.
Member: Hoover Institution board of trustees, RAND Corporation, Empower America board, Freedom House board, Balkan Action Committee, Committee on the Present Danger, Center for Security Policy.
History: Congressman from 1962 to 1969. Member of Nixon’s cabinet. Member of Gerald Ford’s cabinet and Secretary of Defense. Chaired Ballistic Missile Threat (“Rumsfeld”) Commission in 1998.
Scheunemann, Randy – on PNAC Board of Directors, U.S. Committee on NATO Board of Directors. Treasurer for Project on Transitional Democracies. Lobbyist.
History: Office of the Secretary of Defense – Consultant on Iraq Policy (2001).
*Schmitt, Gary – Executive Director of the PNAC. Consultant to the Department of Defense.Member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Committee on NATO. Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institute. Adjunct Professor at John Hopkins University.
History: Executive Director of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under Reagan.
*Schneider, William Jr. – Chairman of the Defense Science Board for the Department of Defense. President of International Planning Services, works for the lobbying company Jefferson Consulting Group. Previously served on the “Rumsfeld Commission”.
Shaw, Sin-Ming – resident scholar at Oxford University’s Oriel College.
Shulsky, Abram N. – Director: Defence Department’s Office Of Special Plans, a division created by Paul Wolfowitz.
History: Worked for the RAND corporation. Worked under Richard Perle in the Defense Department during the Reagan administration.
*Shultz, Richard – Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School. Holds Chairs at the Naval War College and the U.S. Military Academy. Fellow at the Institute of Peace.
Simon, Paul – Deceased (Dec. 9/03). Former Democratic Senator.
Sokolski, Henry – Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Education Center.
History: was Resident Fellow in the Heritage Foundation and the Hoover Institution. Was a Senior Legislative Aide for Senator Dan Quayle.
Solarz, Stephen J.- vice chairman of the International Crisis Group. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
History: Congressman for New York (1975-93)
Sonnenfeldt, Helmut – Brookings Institution.
History: member of the National Security Council. Advisor to President Nixon.
Sussman, Leonard – executive director of Freedom House. Was a journalist in New York.
Sweeney, John J. – President of the American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Taft, William Howard IV – Chief Legal Advisor to the Department of State.
History: assistant to Casper Weinberger in the Nixon administration.
Thornburgh, Dick – Lawyer. Past governor of Pennsylvania. Attorney General in the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations.
Tkacik, John – Heritage Foundation. President of China Business Intelligence. Worked in the State Department during the Reagan administration.
Turner, Ed – unable to verify biographical information from multiple sources (other than PNAC involvement).
Vickers, Michael – Director of Strategic Studies for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Creator of “Future Warfare 20XX” games. Former CIA agent.
Waldron, Arthur – board member of Freedom House, member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
History: professor at the Naval War College (1991-97).
Wallop, Malcolm – Heritage Foundation. Founder and Chairman of the Frontiers of Freedom.
History: part of the Rumsfeld Commission. Senator for Wyoming (1977 – 1995).
Watts, Barry D. – Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation – Office of The Secretary of Defense.
History: before government appointment, was a director in Northrop Gruman (weapons contractor).
Webb, James – was Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Reagan administration.
Weber, Vin – member of the National Commission on Public Service. Member of the German Marshall Fund – board of trustees. Co-founder of Empower America. Partner in Clark & Weinstock.
History: Congressman for Minnesota 1980 – 1992.
Weigel, George – Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
History: co-founded National Endowment for Democracy.
*Weinberger, Caspar W.– writer.
History: past publisher and chairman of Forbes magazine. Secretary of Defense under Reagan. Indicted on felony charges for his participation in supplying missiles to Iran, but pardoned by President Bush Sr.
*Weyrich, Paul M. – President of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation. National Chairman of Coalitions for America.
History: co-founded Heritage Foundation. Co-founded the Moral Majority. Past treasurer of Council for National Policy.
Williams, Christopher A. – Department of Defense – Special Assistant to Donald Rumsfeld. Lobbyist for Boeing and Northrop Grumman Corporation (weapons contractors).
History: member of Pentagon’s Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel, and member of Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board during Bush Jr. administration.
Windsor, Jennifer L. – Executive Director of Freedom House.
History: previously held various positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
*Wolfowitz, Paul – Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Assistant to the Vice President.
History: Head of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff under Reagan. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Programs under Carter. President of the World Bank.
Styllinsky explains:
“(Paul) Wolfowitz and his (neo-conservative/Jewish) colleagues managed to fuse corporatist, Zionist, Chabad Lubavitch and other highly influential Zio-Conservative-based think-tanks into a powerful force for war. The Wolfowitz Doctrine lay behind (the Israeli) “Clean break” and the Project for a New American Century (PNAC’s) “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” which defined the blueprint for Zio-Con conquest well into the future. The latter document was written in September of 2000, one year before the 9/11 attacks, where they acknowledged:
“Further, the progress of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event- like a new Pearl Harbor…”
And just one year later, their most pressing desire was fulfilled.
Paul Wolfowitz played a major role in the genesis of the 9/11 attacks…. This was an ideology of Straussian authoritarianism inspired by the Hegelian solution. By using the U.S. as a proxy war machine the Zionists had pulled of a major coup in toppling Saddam Hussein and invading Iraq with their sights on monopolizing oil reserves, the driving interest for corporatists like Rumsfeld and Cheney. But the full force of a religious-occult imperative would be revealed in the 9/11 false flag ritual which heralded the destruction of Iraq- the first phase of biblical and Chabad-led, Talmudic prophecy.
As reported by Munich-based author and journalist Wolfgang Eggert an “occult summit” was convened on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, February 21st, 2003. In attendance were:
‘… the head of the Operations Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose name wasn’t published and seven leading representatives of military intelligence, amongst them the three-star general Lowell ‘Jake’ Jacoby, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and Wolfowitz’ deputy Dr. Linton Wells who manages the ‘nerve centre’ of the Pentagon” and mostly notably “Bible code specialist” Michael Drosnin and Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz.’ [12]
*Woolsey, R. James – member of the Defense Policy Board, member of the Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel, and member of the National Commission on Energy Policy. Trustee for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Freedom House. Honorary Co-Chair of the National Security Advisory Council.
History: Director of the CIA during Clinton administration.
Wortzel, Larry – Director in the Heritage Foundation.
*Zakheim, Dov S. – Member of the advisory board for the American Jewish Committee, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Adjunct Scholar for the Heritage Foundation. Under Secretary and Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Defense (resigned April 15, 2004).
*Zoellick, Robert B. – U.S. Trade Representative and member of President’s Cabinet.
History: Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs, then White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the Bush Sr. administration.
Dual Citizens
1) Michael Mukasey Recently appointed as US Attorney General. Mukasey also was the judge in the litigation between developer Larry Silverstein and several insurance companies arising from the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.
2) Michael Chertoff Former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, at the Justice Department; now head of Homeland Security.
3) Richard Perle One of Bush’s foreign policy advisors, he is the chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board. A very likely Israeli government agent, Perle was expelled from Senator Henry Jackson’s office in the 1970’s after the National Security Agency (NSA) caught him passing Highly-Classified (National Security) documents to the Israeli Embassy. He later worked for the Israeli weapons firm, Soltam. Perle came from one of the above mentioned pro-Israel think tanks, the AEI. Perle is one of the leading pro-Israeli fanatics leading this Iraq war mongering within the administration and now in the media.
4) Paul Wolfowitz Former Deputy Defense Secretary, and member of Perle’s Defense Policy Board, in the Pentagon. Wolfowitz is a close associate of Perle, and reportedly has close ties to the Israeli military. His sister lives in Israel. Wolfowitz came from the above mentioned Jewish thinktank, JINSA. Wolfowitz was the number two leader within the administration behind this Iraq war mongering. He later was appointed head of the World Bank but resigned under pressure from World Bank members over a scandal involving his misuse of power.
5) Lawrence (Larry) Franklin The former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst with expertise in Iranian policy issues who worked in the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and reported directly to Feith’s deputy, William Luti, was sentenced January 20, 2006, “to more than 12 years in prison for giving classified information to an Israeli diplomat” and members of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Franklin will “remain free while the government continues with the wider case” and his “prison time could be sharply reduced in return for his help in prosecuting” former AIPAC members Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, [who] are scheduled to go on trial in April [2006]. Franklin admitted that he met periodically with Rosen and Weissman between 2002 and 2004 and discussed classified information, including information about potential attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq. Rosen and Weissman would later share what they learned with reporters and Israeli officials.” (source: sourcewatch.com).
6) Douglas Feith Under Secretary of Defense and Policy Advisor at the Pentagon. He is a close associate of Perle and served as his Special Counsel. Like Perle and the others, Feith is a pro-Israel extremist, who has advocated anti-Arab policies in the past. He is closely associated with the extremist group, the Zionist Organization of America, which even attacks Jews that don’t agree with its extremist views. Feith frequently speaks at ZOA conferences. Feith runs a small law firm, Feith and Zell, which only has one International office, in Israel. The majority of their legal work is representing Israeli interests. His firm’s own website stated, prior to his appointment, that Feith “represents Israeli Armaments Manufacturer.” Feith basically represents the Israeli War Machine. Feith also came from the Jewish thinktank JINSA. Feith, like Perle and Wolfowitz, are campaigning hard for this Israeli proxy war against Iraq.
Feith was investigated by the FBI under suspicion of leaking classified information to Israel, being that he was Larry Franklin’s boss when Franklin leaked those documents to Rosen and Weissman of AIPAC. For that he was forced to leave the National Security Council. Feith was also investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee for sexing up ‘intelligence’ that was used to justify invading Iraq.
7) Edward Luttwak Member of the National Security Study Group of the Department of Defence at the Pentagon. Luttwak is reportedly an Israeli citizen and has taught in Israel. He frequently writes for Israeli and pro-Israeli newspapers and journals. Luttwak is an Israeli extremist whose main theme in many of his articles is the necessity of the U.S. waging war against Iraq and Iran.
8) Henry Kissinger One of many Pentagon Advisors, Kissinger sits on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board under Perle. For detailed information about Kissinger’s evil past, read Seymour Hersch’s book (Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House). Kissinger likely had a part in the Watergate crimes, Southeast Asia mass murders (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos), Installing Chilean mass murdering dictator Pinochet, Operation Condor’s mass killings in South America, and more recently served as Serbia’s Ex-Dictator Slobodan Milosevic’s Advisor. He consistently advocated going to war against Iraq. Kissinger is the Ariel Sharon of the U.S. Unfortunately, President Bush nominated Kissinger as chairman of the September 11 investigating commission. It’s like picking a bank robber to investigate a fraud scandal. He later declined this job under enormous protests.
9) Dov Zakheim Dov Zakheim is an ordained rabbi and reportedly holds Israeli citizenship. Zakheim attended Jew’s College in London and became an ordained Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in 1973. He was adjunct professor at New York’s Jewish Yeshiva University. Zakheim is close to the Israeli lobby.
Dov Zakheim is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2000 a co-author of the Project for the New American Century’s position paper, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, advocating the necessity for a Pearl-Harbor-like incident to mobilize the country into war with its enemies, mostly Middle Eastern Muslim nations.
He was appointed by Bush as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that an audit discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books. That story, as mentioned, was buried under 9-11’s rubble. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim’s watch. We can only guess where that cash went.
Despite these suspicions, on May 6, 2004, Zakheim took a lucrative position at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the most prestigious strategy consulting firms in the world. One of its clients then was Blessed Relief, a charity said to be a front for Osama bin Laden. Booz, Allen & Hamilton then also worked closely with DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is the research arm of the Department of Defense.
Judicial Inc’s bio of Dov tells us Zakheim is a dual Israeli/American citizen and has been tracking the halls of US government for 25 years, casting defense policy and influence on Presidents Reagan, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. Judicial Inc points out that most of Israel’s armaments were gotten thanks to him. Squads of US F-16 and F-15 were classified military surplus and sold to Israel at a fraction of their value.
10) Kenneth Adelman One of many Pentagon Advisors, Adelman also sits on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board under Perle, and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor, who supported going to war against Iraq. Adelman frequently is a guest on Fox News, and often expresses extremist and often ridiculus anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. Through his racism or ignorance, he actually called Arabs “anti-Semitic” on Fox News (11/28/2001), when he could have looked it up in the dictionary to find out that Arabs by definition are Semites.
11) I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Vice President Dick Cheney’s ex-Chief of Staff. As chief pro-Israel Jewish advisor to Cheney, it help explains why Cheney is so gun-ho to invade Iran. Libby is longtime associate of Wolfowitz. Libby was also a lawyer for convicted felon and Israeli spy Marc Rich, whom Clinton pardoned, in his last days as president. Libby was recently found guilty of lying to Federal investigators in the Valerie Plame affair, in which Plame, a covert CIA agent, was exposed for political revenge by the Bush administration following her husband’s revelations about the lies leading to the Iraq War.
12) Robert Satloff U.S. National Security Council Advisor, Satloff was the executive director of the Israeli lobby’s “think tank,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Many of the Israeli lobby’s “experts” come from this front group, like Martin Indyk.
13) Elliott Abrams National Security Council Advisor. He previously worked at Washington-based “Think Tank” Ethics and Public Policy Center. During the Reagan Adminstration, Abrams was the Assistant Secretary of State, handling, for the most part, Latin American affairs. He played an important role in the Iran-Contra Scandal, which involved illegally selling U.S. weapons to Iran to fight Iraq, and illegally funding the contra rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. He also actively deceived three congressional committees about his involvement and thereby faced felony charges based on his testimony. Abrams pled guilty in 1991 to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to a year’s probation and 100 hours of community service. A year later, former President Bush (Senior) granted Abrams a full pardon. He was one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Reagan Administration’s State Department.
14) Marc Grossman Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He was Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources at the Department of State. Grossman is one of many of the pro-Israel Jewish officials from the Clinton Administration that Bush has promoted to higher posts.
15) Richard Haass Director of Policy Planning at the State Department and Ambassador at large. He is also Director of National Security Programs and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the first Bush (Sr) Administration who sat on the National Security Council, and who consistently advocated going to war against Iraq. Haass is also a member of the Defense Department’s National Security Study Group, at the Pentagon.
16) Robert Zoellick U.S. Trade Representative, a cabinet-level position. He is also one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Bush (Jr) Administration who advocated invading Iraq and occupying a portion of the country in order to set up a Vichy-style puppet government. He consistently advocates going to war against Iran.
17) Ari Fleischer Ex- White House Spokesman for the Bush (Jr) Administration. Prominent in the Jewish community, some reports state that he holds Israeli citizenship. Fleischer is closely connected to the extremist Jewish group called the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidics, who follow the Qabala, and hold very extremist and insulting views of non-Jews. Fleischer was the co-president of Chabad’s Capitol Jewish Forum. He received the Young Leadership Award from the American Friends of Lubavitch in October, 2001.
18) James Schlesinger One of many Pentagon Advisors, Schlesinger also sits on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board under Perle and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor, who supported going to war against Iraq. Schlesinger is also a commissioner of the Defense Department’s National Security Study Group, at the Pentagon.
19) David Frum White House speechwriter behind the “Axis of Evil” label. He lumped together all the lies and accusations against Iraq for Bush to justify the war.
20) Joshua Bolten White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Bolten was previously a banker, former legislative aide, and prominent in the Jewish community.
21) John Bolton Former UN Representative and Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Bolton is also a Senior Advisor to President Bush. Prior to this position, Bolton was Senior Vice President of the above mentioned pro-Israel thinktank, AEI. He recently (October 2002) accused Syria of having a nuclear program, so that they can attack Syria after Iraq. He must have forgotten that Israel has 400 nuclear warheads, some of which are thermonuclear weapons (according to a recent U.S. Air Force report).
23) David Wurmser Special Assistant to John Bolton (above), the under-secretary for arms control and international security. Wurmser also worked at the AEI with Perle and Bolton. His wife, Meyrav Wurmser, along with Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli military intelligence, co-founded the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri),a Washington-based Israeli outfit which distributes articles translated from Arabic newspapers portraying Arabs in a bad light.
24) Eliot Cohen Member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board under Perle and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor. Like Adelman, he often expresses extremist and often ridiculus anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. More recently, he wrote an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal openly admitting his rascist hatred of Islam claiming that Islam should be the enemy, not terrorism.
25) Mel Sembler President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. A Prominent Jewish Republican and Former National Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Export-Import Bank facilitates trade relationships between U.S. businesses and foreign countries, specifically those with financial problems.
26) Steve Goldsmith Senior Advisor to the President, and Bush’s Jewish domestic policy advisor. He also served as liaison in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (White House OFBCI) within the Executive Office of the President. He was the former mayor of Indianapolis. He is also friends with Israeli Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert and often visits Israel to coach mayors on privatization initiatives.
27) Adam Goldman White House’s Special Liaison to the Jewish Community.
28) Joseph Gildenhorn Bush Campaign’s Special Liaison to the Jewish Community. He was the DC finance chairman for the Bush campaign, as well as campaign coordinator, and former ambassador to Switzerland.
29) Christopher Gersten Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families at HHS. Gersten was the former Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Husband of Labor Secretary.
30) Mark Weinberger Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs.
31) Samuel Bodman Deputy Secretary of Commerce. He was the Chairman and CEO of Cabot Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts.
32) Bonnie Cohen Under Secretary of State for Management.
33) Ruth Davis Director of Foreign Service Institute, who reports to the Office of Under Secretary for Management. This Office is responsible for training all Department of State staff (including ambassadors).
34) Daniel Kurtzer Ambassador to Israel.
35) Cliff Sobel Ambassador to the Netherlands.
36) Stuart Bernstein Ambassador to Denmark.
37) Nancy Brinker Ambassador to Hungary
38) Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore.
39) Ron Weiser Ambassador to Slovakia.
40) Mel Sembler Ambassador to Italy.
41) Martin Silverstein Ambassador to Uruguay.
42) Lincoln Bloomfield Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs.
43) Jay Lefkowitz Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
44) Ken Melman White House Political Director.
45) Brad Blakeman White House Director of Scheduling.
VIII . Cast of characters on Sept. 11, 2001:
George W. Bush, President, Crypto-jew, 3rd tier Illuminati family, who pretended to be a born again Christian, Skull and Bones, two stolen elections,
Richard Cheney: VP:
Donald Rumsfeld, Sec. of Defense:
George Tenet (Cohen): Director, CIA
Michael Chertoff, as Asst. Attorney General, destroyed evidence at WTC, let all Israeli suspects return to Israel, and made sure there would not be a court case hearing on crime of 9/11. Goes on to be second Sec. of Dept. Homeland Security (America’s new Gestapo), then on to head the Chertoff Group.
Mueller, new Head of the FBI,
Myers, Joint Chiefs of Staff,
All of these men played their role in the orchestration of the tragic events on 9/11 – whether it was the planning; the propagation of the mythologically false, Zionist media-enforced official story; or the aftermath, with the illegal military occupations overseas. RAD can easily be found by placing the title into any Internet search engine.
All the reports of Muslim charities’ funding terror, the Al-Qaeda videos, and the bin Laden recordings have been the work of two Mossad-connected contractors.
1) The IntelCenter is run by Mossad agent Ben Venzke, and is notorious for releasing videos of an ‘al-Qaeda’ operative named Adam Yahiye Gadahn, whose real name has been revealed as Adam Pearlman; Pearlman is the grandson of a former director of Israel’s propaganda arm, the ADL of B’nai B’rith (14).
2) SITE Intelligence Group, founded by former IOF soldier Rita Katz, is the major provider of intelligence on ‘Islamic terror groups’ – not just for the Zionist media, but for the US Government’s agencies as well .
Who was in offical power on September 11, 2001
George W. Bush, President
7) RICHARD CHENEY: Vice-President of the United States 2001 to present; C.E.O. of the Halliburton Corporation between 1995-2000 (a period in which Halliburton’s off-shore tax havens increased from 9 to 44); member of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) with Donald Rumsfeld, Democrat James Woolsey and several others; U.S. Secretary of Defense 1989-93.
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8) DONALD RUMSFELD: U.S. Secretary of Defense 2001-2006; member of the Board of Directors of Zurich-based ABB Corporation during time (1999) that ABB sold two nuclear reactors to North Korea; C. E. O. of General Instrument Corporation 1990-1993; C. E. O. of G. D. Searle & Company during the time (1985) that Searle won approval from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration for aspartame.
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9) MARVIN BUSH: Member of the Board of Directors of Securacom, another firm entrusted with security for the Twin Towers as of 9/11/01 (also entrusted with security for United Airlines and Washington D.C.’s Dulles Airport as of 9/11/01) between 1996-2000.
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10) WIRT WALKER III: C.E.O. of Securacom (later Stratasec) between 1999-2003
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11) RICHARD MYERS: Acting Chairman of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11/01l; disregarded first airliner crash into a Twin Tower that morning to instead attend meeting with Senator Max Cleland; confirmed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by U. S. Senate on 9/30/01; served as such till 2005; Commander of North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) between August 1998-February 2000.
The Jewish Component:
A brief look at the activities of the following key (Jewish) figures in the 9/11 conspiracy serve to prove the point. These include:
1) A year before 9/11, the Jewish neoconservative think tank, Project For a New American Century, authored a document calling for a doubling of the US military budget in order to conduct “multiple-theatre wars” in the Middle East. The document, PNAC’s manifesto, was entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.” The document incorporates the 1982 Yinon Plan, authored by Israeli journalist, Oded Yinon, to launch a series of wars in the Middle East to invade and “balkanize” (partition) Israel’s oil-rich neighbors so that Israel can expand its borders to become “Greater Israel” (“Eretz Israel”). PNAC’s manifesto stated explicitly that the American people were unlikely to support the needed doubling of the military budget “absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event, such as a new Pearl Harbor.”
Privatization, Insider Trading, and Profiteering at World Trade Center
Who was in official power on September 11, 2001
United Jewish Appeal board member, ultra-Zionist Larry Silverstein, and former Haganah terrorist and Golani Brigade commando, billionaire Frank Lowy, whose mall conglomerate Westfield America was guaranteed 427,000 square feet of retail floor space. Eisenberg, Lauder, Lowy, and Silverstein all had close, friendly ties with Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Ariel Sharon;
Ronald Lauder, of the notorious Zionist company Estée Lauder Cosmetics, is a major player in the pro-Israel Lobby, boasting active membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, World Jewish Congress, Jewish National Fund, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Abraham Fund, Jewish Theological Seminary, and the ADL of B’nai B’rith. He also donated a school named after him, the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, to the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya, a Mossad training ground. Lauder was the chairman of two organizations, the New York State Commission on Privatization and the New York State Research Council on Privatization, that introduced the concept of privatization to the Port Authority, and aggressively lobbied for it after the introduction (24).
On July 23, 2001, Zionist Lewis Eisenberg, a prominent member of the pro-Israel Lobby, and the head of the Port Authority at the time, finalized the deal that would privatize the World Trade Center for the first time in its history (23)
Silverstein’s battle with the insurance company was eventually decided in his favor by Zionist Judge Michael Mukasey, who determined that the planes’ crashing into the Twin Towers constituted multiple terror attacks, and the fate of Building 7 wasn’t necessary for the ruling (27). Mukasey would play a crucial role in discharging the Mossad agents captured on 9/11, and would later go on to become Attorney General for war criminal George W. Bush’s administration (28).
2) Larry Silverstein, NYC businessman and personal friend of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who purchased the WTC complex just a few months before Sept. 11, 2001, insured them against terrorist attacks, and then pocketed some 4.5 billion dollars in insurance money. He also stated on TV, in regard to Building 7, “We made the decision to “pull it.”
3) 1) Michael Mukasey Recently appointed as US Attorney General (2007-2009). Mukasey also was the US District Judge in the litigation between developer Larry Silverstein and several insurance companies arising from the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.
1) RUDOLPH GIULIANI: Mayor of New York City between 1994-12/31/2001, collaborating with JEROME HAUER as his Director of Emergency Management between 1996-2000; Assistant U. S. District Attorney in the Southern District of New York 1970-1975, collaborating with Jules Kroll, the founder of Kroll and Associates / Kroll, Incorporated; Associate Attorney General of the United States 1981-83; U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York 1983-89, collaborating with MICHAEL CHERKASKY and ELIOT SPITZER.
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2) JEROME HAUER: Director of Mayor RUDOLPH GIULIANI’s Office of Emergency Management between February 1996 and March 2000 (as such he was primary in building the City’s Emergency Command Center on the 23rd floor of World Trade Center Building 7 and in warning about emergence of the West Nile Virus one year before it appeared in New York City); Managing Director of Kroll, Inc. on 9/11/01 (when he advised Dan Rather of CBS that demolition had not brought down a Twin Tower and that the day’s attacks bore “the fingerprints of Osama bin Laden”; Senior Adviser to U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for National Security and Emergency Management between June 2001 and November 2003; coordinator of the National Institute of Health’s investigation of anthrax deaths in Fall of 2001, deaths that came from the Ames strain of anthrax thought to be available only at the U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the N.I.H. investigation producing no suspects named by Jerome Hauer except Osama bin Laden and al Queda; current Director on the Boards of the companies Emergent Biosolutions and San Diego-based Hollis Eden Pharmaceuticals.
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6) LARRY SILVERSTEIN: Primary lease-holder of the Twin Towers and World Trade Center Buildings 4, 5, and 6 on 9/11/01, having taking official possession of the properties from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey seven weeks earlier; developer and primary owner of World Trade Center Building 7 on 9/11/01, linking him to Peter G. Peterson and Maurice Greenberg; recipient of insurance-awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars (WTC 7) or several billions of dollars (the Twin Towers) since 9/11/01; interviewee who told the Public Broadcasting System documentary ‘America Rebuilds’ of September 2002 that he and a New York Fire Department Commander had jointly decided on about WTC 7 on 9/11/01 to “pull it.”
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3) Michael Chertoff, Jew and dual Israeli-American citizen, was Assistant Attorney General on Sept. 11. He should have been the one to prosecute criminal investigation of the crimes of 9/11. Instead, he destroyed the evidence and allowed some 200 Israeli agents, including the five “dancing Israelis,” return to Israel without being questioned. He went on to be the first head of the Department of Homeland Security and then formed the “Chertoff Group” as a private “national security subcontractor” to cash in on the National Security Enterprise.
4) Alvin K. Hellerstein is the (Jewish) judge that paid the families of the 9/11 victims about a million dollars of “hush money” each so that they would not pursue court proceedings. Thus, due to the actions of Chertoff and Hellerstein, there never will be a trial that examines what actually happened on 9/11.
There are countless other examples of insider influence of Jews, “sayanim” (Jewish secret agents), Mossad, etc. in virtually all aspects of Operation 9/11. (See, for example, Rebekah Roth’s youtube videos, Christopher Bollyn’s books, and this website).
These well-documented connections prove that Jews/Israel control the U.S. government and covert operations of military/intelligence such as 9/11.
2) “All the (intelligence services) of America and Europe know well that the disastrous attack (of 9/11) has been planned and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part in Iraq and Afghanistan….. it could not be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel.”
Former Italian President, Francesco Cossiga, as reported in the newspaper Corriere della Sera, June 11, 2011:
3) Dr. Alan Sabrowsky, the former Director of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Army War College, said in a radio interview:
“It is one hundred percent certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation, period.” Dr. Sabrowsky also stated that high-level U.S. military officers know that Israel did it.
Christopher Bollyn, Solving 9/11: The Deception that Changed the World
4) A recent article, entitled “Six Jewish Companies Control 96% of the World’s Media” features this blatant boast by Israeli spokeswoman, Tzipora Menache:
“You know very well, and the stupid Americans know equally well, that we control their government, irrespective of who sits in the White House. You see, I know it and you know it that no American president can be in a position to challenge us even if we do the unthinkable. What can they (Americans) do to us? We control congress, we control the media, we control show biz, and we control everything in America. In America you can criticize God, but you can’t criticize Israel…”
5) We (Jews and Israel) control America and the Americans know it.” Israeli P.M., Ariel Sharon, Oct. 2001
6) I can pay half the working class to kill the other half.
Jay Gould, 19th century robber baron
7) Goyim [non-Jews] were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel… With gentiles [Christians], it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant… That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew [‘synagogue of Satan – Revelation 3:9]. Why are gentiles [Christians] needed? They will work, and they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”
– Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Senior Sephardic posek and Talmudic scholar for Israel. Source: “Yosef: Gentiles exist only to serve Jews,” Jerusalem Post, October 18, 2010.
9) “The two internationals of finance and revolution work with ardor. They are the two fronts of the Jew’s International. There is a Jewish conspiracy against all nations. It occupies almost everywhere the avenues of power, a double assault of Jewish revolution and Jewish finance.”
Rene Greuse, La Nuveau Mercure, Paris, 1927
10) “The first Jesuits were Jews: that mysterious Russian diplomacy which so alarms Western Europe is organized and principally carried on by the Jews; that mighty revolution (of 1848) which will be in fact a second and greater Reformation, and of which so little is as yet known in England, is entirely developing under the auspices of Jews, who almost monopolize the professorial chairs of Germany.
NEANDAR, Founder of spiritual Christianity and who is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Berlin is a Jew.
Benary, equally famous, and in the same university is a Jew.
Wehl, the Arabic Professor of Heidelberg, is a Jew.
A few years back we were applied to by Russia. Now there has been no friendship between the Court of St. Petersburg and my family. It has Dutch connections which have generally supplied it; and our representations in favour of the Polish Hebrews, a numerous race, but the most suffering and degraded of all the tribes, has not been very agreeable to the Czar.
However circumstances drew to an approximation between the Romanoffs and the Sidonias (Rothschilds). I resolved to go myself to St. Petersburg. I had on my arrival an interview with the Russian Minister of Finance, Count Cancrin; I beheld the son of a Lithuanian Jew.
The loan was connected with the affairs of Spain. I resolved on repairing to Spain from Russia. I had an audience immediately on my arrival with the Spanish minister, Senor Mendizabel; I beheld one like myself, the son of a Neuvo Christiano, a Jew of Aragon.
In consequence of what transpired at Madrid, I went straight to Paris to consult the President of the French Council.; I beheld the son of a French Jew.
We fixed on Prussia, and the President of the Council made an application to the Prussian minister, who attended a few days after our conference. Count Arnim entered the cabinet, and I beheld a Prussian Jew.
So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”(pp. 294-252)
11) “We are interested in the diminution, the killing out of the goyim. Our power is in the chronic shortness of food and physical weakness of the working classes because by all that this implies he is made the slave of our will and he will not find in his own authorities either strength or energy to set against our will. Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the worker more surely than it was given to the aristocracy by the legal authority of kings. By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the mobs and with our hands we shall wipe out all of those who hinder us on our way.”
Rabbi Reichorn
12) It is the Jews who are the secret inner council of the principal organized horrendous movements at work in the world with which organized government has to contend: 1) Grand Orient Freemasonry (center in Paris), 2) Theosophy with its innumerable manifestations, 3) Nationalism of an aggressive kind, now represented by Pan-Germanism, 4) International Finance, 5) Social Revolution.
Maj.-Gen. Count Cherep-Spiridovich,The Secret World Government or “The Hidden Hand (1926)
13) We must look at the Jews not only as a distinct race, but as on aliens. It would be a most awful humiliation to be ruled by this, the most base race on earth.
Napoleon, La Vieille France, N-305.
14) Chabadniks, Zionists & 9/11 Insiders by M.K. Styllinski
“At this point, the reader may be forgiven for thinking that all these war-mongering corporatists, Zionists and rapacious banksters are simply in it for the money and the power. Important as those things are for essential psychopaths there is also the underlying foundation of the military-occult complex suffused with a masonic branch of Existential Satanism which have traditionally relied on psychological warfare to achieve their ends. Within the Zionist Establishment, the Mossad hierarchy and Chabad Lubavitch is a form of Kabbalistic Satanism with links to Order of Zion freemasonry, in turn, connected to the overall global occult elite. Those whose personalities have been irrevocably altered and fragmented as a part of MK-ULTRA programs (which are the ones we know about) have undoubtedly been carefully positioned within the political establishment.”
Yikes…. Here is proof of the unholy alliance between fanatical Zionist/Jewish supremacists and their lackeys, the Freemasons and the Christian Evangelicals as well as the Bush II White House, and the U.S. Defense Department! And their goal, as per the “Bible Code Specialist, Michael Drosnin, and Deputy Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz?: To fulfill Biblical prophecy and bring on the apocalypse! Holy Genocide!
My opinion and conviction: America must bring these arch criminals to justice or these insane psychopaths will “stage” the apocalypse predicted in the Book of Revelation in order to establish their longed-for “Jewish Utopia”/”Jewish Universal Empire.”
On March 11, 2002, Zakheim gathered with over 500 emissaries of Chabad from all corners of the world in order to celebrate the birthday of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the spiritual guru of Chabad. The big bash took place just opposite the Pentagon 9/11 crash site. Considering what we have discovered so far about Chabad Lubavitch and Zionism it is more than a little ironic that there was a party for a guru who extolled the virtues of a messianic Jewish theocracy hosted by insider Dov Zakheim who had managed to furnish Israel with more weapons than any other Jewish individual in the history of arms brokering.
Petition to White House: End (Israeli) Dual Citizens From Serving in US Government
Past and Present dual-Israeli-US Citizens in Government:
1. Attorney General (R) – Michael Mukasey
2. Head of Homeland Security (R) – Michael Chertoff
3. Chairman Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board (R) – Richard Perle
4. Deputy Defense Secretary (D) – Paul Wolfowitz
5. Under Secretary of Defense (D) – Douglas Feith
6. National Security Council Advisor (R) – Elliott Abrams
7. Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff (R) – Lewis “Scooter” Libby
8. White House Deputy Chief of Staff (R) – Joshua Bolten
9. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs – Marc Grossman
10. Director of Policy Planning at the State Department (R)– Richard Haass
11. U.S. Trade Representative (R) – Robert Zoellick
12. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board (R) – James Schlesinger
13. UN Representative (R) – John Bolton
14. Under Secretary for Arms Control – David Wurmser
15. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Eliot Cohen
16. Senior Advisor to the President (R) – Steve Goldsmith
17. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary – Christopher Gersten
18. Assistant Secretary of State – Lincoln Bloomfield
19. Deputy Assistant to the President – Jay Lefkowitz
20. White House Political Director – Ken Melman
21. National Security Study Group – Edward Luttwak
22. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Kenneth Adelman
23. Defense Intelligence Agency Analyst (Former) – Lawrence (Larry) Franklin
24. National Security Council Advisor – Robert Satloff
25. President Export-Import Bank U.S. – Mel Sembler
26. Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs – Mark Weinberger
27. White House Speechwriter – David Frum
28. White House Spokesman (Former) – Ari Fleischer
29. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Henry Kissinger who reportedly said, “Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
30. Deputy Secretary of Commerce – Samuel Bodman
31. Under Secretary of State for Management – Bonnie Cohen
32. Director of Foreign Service Institute – Ruth Davis
Current members:
Senate:
•Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California)
•Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-Maryland)
•Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin)
•Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota)
•Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California)
•Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin)
•Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey) – Died 6/3/2013
•Senator Joe Lieberman (Connecticut) (Independent)
•Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan)
•Senator Bernard Sanders (Democratic Socialist)
•Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York)
•Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon)
House of Representatives:
•Representative Gary Ackerman (D-New York)
•Representative John H. Adler (D-New Jersey) – Died 4/4/2011
•Representative Shelley Berkley (D-Nevada)
•Representative Howard Berman (D-California)
•Representative Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee)
•Representative Susan Davis (D-California)
•Representative Eliot Engel (D-New York)
•Representative Bob Filner (D-California)
•Representative Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts)
•Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona)
•Representative Alan Grayson (D-Florida)
•Representative Jane Harman (D-California)
•Representative Paul Hodes (D-New Hampshire)
•Representative Steve Israel (D-New York)
•Representative Steve Kagen (D-Wisconsin)
•Representative Ronald Klein (D-Florida)
•Representative Sander Levin (D-Michigan)
•Representative Nita Lowey (D-New York)
•Representative Jerry Nadler (D-New York)
•Representative Jared Polis (D-Colorado)
•Representative Steve Rothman (D-New Jersey)
•Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois)
•Representative Adam Schiff (D-California), allegedly tied to a pedophile ring operated out of the ‘Standard Hotel’.
•Representative Allyson Schwartz (D-Pennsylvania)
•Representative Brad Sherman (D-California)
•Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida)
•Representative Henry Waxman (D-California)
•Representative Anthony Weiner (D-New York)
•Representative John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky)
Dual Citizens
1) Michael Mukasey Recently appointed as US Attorney General. Mukasey also was the judge in the litigation between developer Larry Silverstein and several insurance companies arising from the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.
2) Michael Chertoff Former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, at the Justice Department; now head of Homeland Security.
3) Richard Perle One of Bush’s foreign policy advisors, he is the chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board. A very likely Israeli government agent, Perle was expelled from Senator Henry Jackson’s office in the 1970’s after the National Security Agency (NSA) caught him passing Highly-Classified (National Security) documents to the Israeli Embassy. He later worked for the Israeli weapons firm, Soltam. Perle came from one of the above mentioned pro-Israel think tanks, the AEI. Perle is one of the leading pro-Israeli fanatics leading this Iraq war mongering within the administration and now in the media.
4) Paul Wolfowitz Former Deputy Defense Secretary, and member of Perle’s Defense Policy Board, in the Pentagon. Wolfowitz is a close associate of Perle, and reportedly has close ties to the Israeli military. His sister lives in Israel. Wolfowitz came from the above mentioned Jewish thinktank, JINSA. Wolfowitz was the number two leader within the administration behind this Iraq war mongering. He later was appointed head of the World Bank but resigned under pressure from World Bank members over a scandal involving his misuse of power.
5) Lawrence (Larry) Franklin The former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst with expertise in Iranian policy issues who worked in the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and reported directly to Feith’s deputy, William Luti, was sentenced January 20, 2006, “to more than 12 years in prison for giving classified information to an Israeli diplomat” and members of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Franklin will “remain free while the government continues with the wider case” and his “prison time could be sharply reduced in return for his help in prosecuting” former AIPAC members Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, [who] are scheduled to go on trial in April [2006]. Franklin admitted that he met periodically with Rosen and Weissman between 2002 and 2004 and discussed classified information, including information about potential attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq. Rosen and Weissman would later share what they learned with reporters and Israeli officials.” (source: sourcewatch.com).
6) Douglas Feith Under Secretary of Defense and Policy Advisor at the Pentagon. He is a close associate of Perle and served as his Special Counsel. Like Perle and the others, Feith is a pro-Israel extremist, who has advocated anti-Arab policies in the past. He is closely associated with the extremist group, the Zionist Organization of America, which even attacks Jews that don’t agree with its extremist views. Feith frequently speaks at ZOA conferences. Feith runs a small law firm, Feith and Zell, which only has one International office, in Israel. The majority of their legal work is representing Israeli interests. His firm’s own website stated, prior to his appointment, that Feith “represents Israeli Armaments Manufacturer.” Feith basically represents the Israeli War Machine. Feith also came from the Jewish thinktank JINSA. Feith, like Perle and Wolfowitz, are campaigning hard for this Israeli proxy war against Iraq.
Feith was investigated by the FBI under suspicion of leaking classified information to Israel, being that he was Larry Franklin’s boss when Franklin leaked those documents to Rosen and Weissman of AIPAC. For that he was forced to leave the National Security Council. Feith was also investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee for sexing up ‘intelligence’ that was used to justify invading Iraq.
7) Edward Luttwak Member of the National Security Study Group of the Department of Defence at the Pentagon. Luttwak is reportedly an Israeli citizen and has taught in Israel. He frequently writes for Israeli and pro-Israeli newspapers and journals. Luttwak is an Israeli extremist whose main theme in many of his articles is the necessity of the U.S. waging war against Iraq and Iran.
8) Henry Kissinger One of many Pentagon Advisors, Kissinger sits on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board under Perle. For detailed information about Kissinger’s evil past, read Seymour Hersch’s book (Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House). Kissinger likely had a part in the Watergate crimes, Southeast Asia mass murders (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos), Installing Chilean mass murdering dictator Pinochet, Operation Condor’s mass killings in South America, and more recently served as Serbia’s Ex-Dictator Slobodan Milosevic’s Advisor. He consistently advocated going to war against Iraq. Kissinger is the Ariel Sharon of the U.S. Unfortunately, President Bush nominated Kissinger as chairman of the September 11 investigating commission. It’s like picking a bank robber to investigate a fraud scandal. He later declined this job under enormous protests.
9) Dov Zakheim Dov Zakheim is an ordained rabbi and reportedly holds Israeli citizenship. Zakheim attended Jew’s College in London and became an ordained Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in 1973. He was adjunct professor at New York’s Jewish Yeshiva University. Zakheim is close to the Israeli lobby.
Dov Zakheim is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2000 a co-author of the Project for the New American Century’s position paper, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, advocating the necessity for a Pearl-Harbor-like incident to mobilize the country into war with its enemies, mostly Middle Eastern Muslim nations.
He was appointed by Bush as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that an audit discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books. That story, as mentioned, was buried under 9-11’s rubble. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim’s watch. We can only guess where that cash went.
Despite these suspicions, on May 6, 2004, Zakheim took a lucrative position at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the most prestigious strategy consulting firms in the world. One of its clients then was Blessed Relief, a charity said to be a front for Osama bin Laden. Booz, Allen & Hamilton then also worked closely with DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is the research arm of the Department of Defense.
Judicial Inc’s bio of Dov tells us Zakheim is a dual Israeli/American citizen and has been tracking the halls of US government for 25 years, casting defense policy and influence on Presidents Reagan, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. Judicial Inc points out that most of Israel’s armaments were gotten thanks to him. Squads of US F-16 and F-15 were classified military surplus and sold to Israel at a fraction of their value.
10) Kenneth Adelman One of many Pentagon Advisors, Adelman also sits on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board under Perle, and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor, who supported going to war against Iraq. Adelman frequently is a guest on Fox News, and often expresses extremist and often ridiculus anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. Through his racism or ignorance, he actually called Arabs “anti-Semitic” on Fox News (11/28/2001), when he could have looked it up in the dictionary to find out that Arabs by definition are Semites.
11) I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Vice President Dick Cheney’s ex-Chief of Staff. As chief pro-Israel Jewish advisor to Cheney, it help explains why Cheney is so gun-ho to invade Iran. Libby is longtime associate of Wolfowitz. Libby was also a lawyer for convicted felon and Israeli spy Marc Rich, whom Clinton pardoned, in his last days as president. Libby was recently found guilty of lying to Federal investigators in the Valerie Plame affair, in which Plame, a covert CIA agent, was exposed for political revenge by the Bush administration following her husband’s revelations about the lies leading to the Iraq War.
12) Robert Satloff U.S. National Security Council Advisor, Satloff was the executive director of the Israeli lobby’s “think tank,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Many of the Israeli lobby’s “experts” come from this front group, like Martin Indyk.
13) Elliott Abrams National Security Council Advisor. He previously worked at Washington-based “Think Tank” Ethics and Public Policy Center. During the Reagan Adminstration, Abrams was the Assistant Secretary of State, handling, for the most part, Latin American affairs. He played an important role in the Iran-Contra Scandal, which involved illegally selling U.S. weapons to Iran to fight Iraq, and illegally funding the contra rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. He also actively deceived three congressional committees about his involvement and thereby faced felony charges based on his testimony. Abrams pled guilty in 1991 to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to a year’s probation and 100 hours of community service. A year later, former President Bush (Senior) granted Abrams a full pardon. He was one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Reagan Administration’s State Department.
14) Marc Grossman Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He was Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources at the Department of State. Grossman is one of many of the pro-Israel Jewish officials from the Clinton Administration that Bush has promoted to higher posts.
15) Richard Haass Director of Policy Planning at the State Department and Ambassador at large. He is also Director of National Security Programs and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the first Bush (Sr) Administration who sat on the National Security Council, and who consistently advocated going to war against Iraq. Haass is also a member of the Defense Department’s National Security Study Group, at the Pentagon.
16) Robert Zoellick U.S. Trade Representative, a cabinet-level position. He is also one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Bush (Jr) Administration who advocated invading Iraq and occupying a portion of the country in order to set up a Vichy-style puppet government. He consistently advocates going to war against Iran.
17) Ari Fleischer Ex- White House Spokesman for the Bush (Jr) Administration. Prominent in the Jewish community, some reports state that he holds Israeli citizenship. Fleischer is closely connected to the extremist Jewish group called the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidics, who follow the Qabala, and hold very extremist and insulting views of non-Jews. Fleischer was the co-president of Chabad’s Capitol Jewish Forum. He received the Young Leadership Award from the American Friends of Lubavitch in October, 2001.
18) James Schlesinger One of many Pentagon Advisors, Schlesinger also sits on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board under Perle and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor, who supported going to war against Iraq. Schlesinger is also a commissioner of the Defense Department’s National Security Study Group, at the Pentagon.
19) David Frum White House speechwriter behind the “Axis of Evil” label. He lumped together all the lies and accusations against Iraq for Bush to justify the war.
20) Joshua Bolten White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Bolten was previously a banker, former legislative aide, and prominent in the Jewish community.
21) John Bolton Former UN Representative and Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Bolton is also a Senior Advisor to President Bush. Prior to this position, Bolton was Senior Vice President of the above mentioned pro-Israel thinktank, AEI. He recently (October 2002) accused Syria of having a nuclear program, so that they can attack Syria after Iraq. He must have forgotten that Israel has 400 nuclear warheads, some of which are thermonuclear weapons (according to a recent U.S. Air Force report).
23) David Wurmser Special Assistant to John Bolton (above), the under-secretary for arms control and international security. Wurmser also worked at the AEI with Perle and Bolton. His wife, Meyrav Wurmser, along with Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli military intelligence, co-founded the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri),a Washington-based Israeli outfit which distributes articles translated from Arabic newspapers portraying Arabs in a bad light.
24) Eliot Cohen Member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board under Perle and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor. Like Adelman, he often expresses extremist and often ridiculus anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. More recently, he wrote an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal openly admitting his rascist hatred of Islam claiming that Islam should be the enemy, not terrorism.
25) Mel Sembler President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. A Prominent Jewish Republican and Former National Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Export-Import Bank facilitates trade relationships between U.S. businesses and foreign countries, specifically those with financial problems.
26) Steve Goldsmith Senior Advisor to the President, and Bush’s Jewish domestic policy advisor. He also served as liaison in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (White House OFBCI) within the Executive Office of the President. He was the former mayor of Indianapolis. He is also friends with Israeli Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert and often visits Israel to coach mayors on privatization initiatives.
27) Adam Goldman White House’s Special Liaison to the Jewish Community.
28) Joseph Gildenhorn Bush Campaign’s Special Liaison to the Jewish Community. He was the DC finance chairman for the Bush campaign, as well as campaign coordinator, and former ambassador to Switzerland.
29) Christopher Gersten Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families at HHS. Gersten was the former Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Husband of Labor Secretary.
30) Mark Weinberger Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs.
31) Samuel Bodman Deputy Secretary of Commerce. He was the Chairman and CEO of Cabot Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts.
32) Bonnie Cohen Under Secretary of State for Management.
33) Ruth Davis Director of Foreign Service Institute, who reports to the Office of Under Secretary for Management. This Office is responsible for training all Department of State staff (including ambassadors).
34) Daniel Kurtzer Ambassador to Israel.
35) Cliff Sobel Ambassador to the Netherlands.
36) Stuart Bernstein Ambassador to Denmark.
37) Nancy Brinker Ambassador to Hungary
38) Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore.
39) Ron Weiser Ambassador to Slovakia.
40) Mel Sembler Ambassador to Italy.
41) Martin Silverstein Ambassador to Uruguay.
42) Lincoln Bloomfield Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs.
43) Jay Lefkowitz Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
44) Ken Melman White House Political Director.
45) Brad Blakeman White House Director of Scheduling.
Sayanim Identified by: Texe Marrs
1) Lloyd Blankfein, Jewish CEO of Goldman Sachs Bank, the wealthiest and most crooked bank in America, stated “I work for God” (Marrs: Who is his God? Satan. How do I know? The Bible says theirs is the Synagogue of Satan.)
2) Jewish Senator of New York, Charles Schumer (one utube shows him stating at a Synagogue: “As you know I am one of the guardians of Israel. I always do what is best for Israel”)
3) Jewish Congressman, Eric Cantor, second ranking in the House of Representatives behind the House Speaker.
4) Sayanim spy and Jewish millionaire businessman, Abraham Feinberg, who according Marrs’ book, “The Conspiracy of the Six-Pointed Star,” is “the Jew who bribed President Harry Truman,” by paying him $2 million to establish the nation of Israel in 1948. Marrs: “I have it on tape! Abraham Feinberg has admitted that not only did he give cash to Harry Truman, but he arranged that each time Truman stopped into a town where he was giving a campaign speech, a delegation of Jews would visit Truman secretly and give him more cash! They have so much audacity that they now admit that for all these years they have been bribing our politicians! FBI archives also prove that Feinberg (and 100’s of other sayanim, including Jewish spies Rosenberg and Oppenheim) was involved in providing American nuclear secrets and materials for nuclear bombs to Israel! We know from FBI files that have now been released that Abraham Feinberg had 70 other sayanim working for him. And each of them had 70 more under them. This is how they work, on the principle of 70’s.
(Historical context: The Jews ran the Soviet Union throughout its entire 70-year history. Soviet dictator, Stalin, went along with the dictates of his Jewish advisors. But to get Israel established as an official nation, Jews needed the support of both America as well as the Soviet Union. What is clear is that Abraham Feinberg, who owned a corporation in New York City, was a sayan for the government of the Jews even before Israel was created a nation in 1948. Jews had long had a secret international government. The World Zionist Congress met in 1898 to advance its goal of founding of the nation of Israel. This was fifty years before there was a nation of Israel! Do you understand what I’m telling you? Jews have worked behind the scenes against the countries in which they lived all the way back to the days of the Roman Empire. The Romans destroyed Jerusalem and banished them from Israel. But wherever they went, they began to work together, like the mafia, working silently, covertly to destroy their host countries, whether it be Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Canada, or America. For millennia they have worked together, covertly, for the kingdom of Israel, a dictatorship of the proletariat, headed by an Israeli king to come, a Messiah who will rule the world for the great serpent of the Jewish Kabbalah.
Read my book, Conspiracy of the Six-Pointed Star, you will see that their true god is the serpent god, Satan himself. And the leading Jewish Rabbis know who they worship. The average Jew doesn’t. They think they worship some nebulous God, Jehovah, but they don’t know much about him because they don’t read the Old Testament anymore. Even the Rabbis don’t read the Old Testament. You can go to a Jewish seminary, a Yeshiva, and spend five years and not read one sentence out of the Old Testament. I used to work with Rabbis when I was a chaplain in the Air Force. I asked an Orthodox Jewish rabbi; “Do you study the Old Testament?” He answered: “No, I don’t study it at all. That’s just a book of myths. I study the Talmud. All the leading rabbis study the Talmud. It is our daily guide for living. The Talmud is life.”
Friends, the Talmud is death. And it will be the death of America if we allow the sayanim, the agents of the Israeli Mossad spy agency, to continue operating in America. Some of the sayanim don’t even know they are working for Mossad. You see, each has a boss over him, who has a boss over him, who has a boss over him, etc. They work together hand in glove for the glory of the coming Messiah, who is not Jesus, but who in fact, is the antichrist, 666.
Believe me, these sayanim, these Israelis spies, are not loyal Americans. They are traitors to this country. They have burrowed into all segments of American society and will treacherously betray our great nation, our Constitution, its founders, and our way of life. The shocking thing is that not all of the sayanim who work for Mossad and its side-kick agency, the Shin Bet secret police, are Jews. There are even people who claim they are Christian Zionists.) Here are some famous sayanim:
5) Bill Clinton. A few years ago, Clinton spoke to a group of Rabbis and told them that he put Israel ahead of all other countries and stated: “If Israel ever gets in a war with another nation, I will put on an Israeli uniform and die in a trench for Israel.”
6) Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff under Obama, now governor of Chicago, is a Jew with dual Israeli-American citizenship. He served as an Israeli intelligence officer for Israel during the Persian Gulf War of 1991. When Emanuel worked as a confidant in the Clinton White House, he oversaw the hiring, placing, and instruction of another sayanim, a young aide named Monica Lewinsky.
7) Arno Froese, the “Christian Zionist” minister of Midnight Call and Friends of Israel Ministry, tried to convince Marrs to join his pro-Zionist/Israel-first ministry. Marrs relates that some years ago, Froese promised Marrs that it would be extremely lucrative for Marrs to back Israel’s cause because many Christian Zionists would generously support his ministry and he would become very rich.
8) Monica Lewinsky, as a young operative, was sent to Israel where she was given special training. Rahm Emanuel, one of the chief confidants in the Clinton White Houser, placed Lewinsky in the White House as an aide with instructions to be especially receptive to Clinton’s sexual advances.
9) Governor Sarah Palin, a Christian Zionist
10) Senator Joseph Lieberman, Jew
11) Senator John McCain, sayanim spy
12) Senator Lindsay Graham
(Sayan are often “recruited” to the “cause” by being bribed by Israeli agents. They have files of “dirty secrets” on influential people which can be used to control these influential people if and when Israel needs their help. Nearly all people of influence, even extending to university professors, are spied upon in this manner and “control files” are developed by which they can be brought into line for Israel’s interests, if needed).
13) Vice President Joseph Biden
14) Oppenheimer, Jew who was in charge of the Manhattan Project.
15) Dr. Henry Kissinger, German Jew
16) Council on Foreign Relations. 75% of its members are Jews; most are part of the sayanim.
17) Newt Gingrich, House Speaker. When he ran for President the Jewish, Las Vegas casino mogul, Sheldon Adelson, gave him millions for his campaign.
18) When Gingrich was House Speaker, Gingrich’s second wife, Marian, was given the job of placing Jewish spies in positions as secretaries, legislative assistants, etc. In this way, Jewish spies were placed in every office of the House of Representatives.
19) Senator Rick Santorum. When Santorum was running for President, it was arranged that he had a Rabbi as his Chief of Staff and office manager.
20) Senator Arlen Spectre, Jewish sayan.
21) Hillary Rodham Clinton, William Clinton’s wife, is Jewish and comes from a Jewish family.
22) Representative Nancy Pelosi (California) married a millionaire Jew.
23) Stalin was a gentile, but he had three straight Jewish wives. All were sayanim who watched over him.
24) Dick Morris, American political author and commentator.
25) Rachel Maddow, television host of CSNBC
26) Jack Ruby (Rubenstein), Texas Jewish mafioso who killed Lee Harvard Oswald
27) Famous members of the Evangelical community, including Paul and Jan Crouch, Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, and Pat Robertson
28) the Knights of Malta
29) Supreme Court Judge, John Roberts
30) Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, of Bain Capital, Chairman of the Board, Odie Kadish of the Israeli Mossad. Romney worked for the Jews
31) Facebook, Myspace, Google, Microsoft, Dell, Yahoo- are all run by Jews. All of the CEO’s who lead these corporations were helped by powerful Jewish interests. Thus, we are all watched, spied upon, by these sayanim.
32) The Department of Homeland Security, was established by Jew Michael Chertoff.
33) Big Brother and the Police State- the sayanim.
AND ALL OF THE FOLLOWING POWERFUL MEDIA MOGULS ARE JEWS!:
1) Jonathan Miller, Chairman and CEO of America Online, AOL.
2) Neil Shapiro, President of NBC News.
3) Jeff Gaskin, Executive Vice President of Programming of NBC News.
4) David Weston, President of ABC News.
5) Sumner Redstone, (his real name is not Redstone, he has a Jewish name); CEO of Viacom, the world’s biggest media giant. It owns Viacom Cable, CBS, MTV, Blockbuster video rentals, even BET (Black Entertainment Network).
6) Robert Iger, Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company that owns Disneyland and Disney World.
7) Rupert Murchoch.
8) Mel Karmazin, President of CBS.
9) Don Hewitt, former Executive Producer of 60 Minutes.
10) Jeff Fager, Executive Producer of 60 Minutes.
11) Sandy Grushow, Chairman of Fox Entertainment.
12) Lloyd Brown, Chairman of ABC Entertainment.
13) Barry Meyer, Chairman of Warner Brothers.
14) Sherry Lansing, Chairman of Paramount Motion Pictures.
15) Brad Segal, President of Turner Entertainment.
16) Harvey Weinstein, CEO of Miramax Films.
17) Marty Peretz, publisher The New Republic (heavily pro-Israel).
18) Arthur Sulzberg, Publisher of New York Times, the Boston Globe, etc.
19) William Safire, columnist for the New York Times
20) Tom Friedman, columnist for the New York Times
21) Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post columnist, Zionist.
22) Richard Cohen, Washington Post columnist.
23) Jeff Jacobi, columnist for the Boston Globe.
24) Ari Fleisher, President George Bush’s first press secretary (also a Jewish rabbi of the Lubbavitcher sect, the worst of the Jews because they believe that all gentiles are bunch of cattle and insects).
25) Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Communications, Inc.
26) Wolf Blitzer, CNN Late Edition.
27) Larry King, of Larry King Live, ranked by Jews in a poll as the world’s No. 1 admired (Jew).
28) Ted Koppel, retired newcaster.
29) Paula Zahn, CNN host.
30) Mike Wallace, TV anchor
31) Ron Rosenthal, Managing Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle
32) Barbara Walters, news anchor
33) Michael Adeen, Editor
34) Bruce Nussbaum, Business Week.
35) The Meyer family. former owners of the Washington Post.
36) Howard Feinman, Chief political columnist, Newsweek.
37) William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard
38) Michael Savage, (this is not his real name, he’s a crypto-Jew), radio commentator
39) Samuel and Donald Newhouse, own 26 newspapers in 22 cities, and the Conde Nast Media Group, including Parade Magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Self, the New Yorker, the Sunday Newspaper Supplement, American City Business Journals, cable systems in millions of homes, and Associated Press, that puts out 90% of the news in all the newspapers, Random House, and Advance Publications (second largest publishing empire in the U.S.)
40) Bill Braunstein, San Francisco Chronicle.
41) Michael Medvet, radio talk show host, owns 124 stations
42) Dennis Prager, radio talk show host.
43) Ben Wattenberg, PBS TV commentator.
44) Peter Kann, CEO of Wall Street Journal in Paris.
45) Ralph Roberts, founder and CEO of Comcast Cable TV.
46) Lawrence Kirschbaum, CEO of AOL-TimeWarner Book Group.
I’m tired of reading! I could give you a list of the thousands and thousands. But look at the talking heads on TV. Tonight Fox News is going to tell you what’s going on in Iraq. A talking head pops up. Look at his name…. Berstein, Schulenberg. It will ALWAYS be Jewish… 99% of the time. They run things, folks. They run America!
John Whitley had an article on Rense.com entitled “Seven Jewish Americans control most U.S. Media.” Seven people! We have a nation of 300 million! Seven people! They are:
1) Gerald Levin, CEO and Director of AOL-TimeWarner. Jew.
2) Edgar Bronfman Sr., Chairman of Seagram Company, and his son Edgar 3) 3) Bronfman, Jr., head of Universal Studios and number of other operations.
4) Michael Eisner now Lew Iger, Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Company.
5) Sumner Redstone, Chairman and CEO of Viacom.
6) Dennis Dammerman, Vice Chairman of General Electric, that runs by one of the largest media empires of the world. The financial networks on TV.
7) Peter Cherin, President and CEO of Newscorp. He works for Rupert Murdoch, a Zionist Jew.
Mr. Whitley says these seven people control ABC, CBS, NBC, Turner Broadcasting Company, CNN, MTV, Universal Studios, MCA records, Goeppen Records, DGC Records, GRP Records, Rising Tide Records, Curb and Universal Records, Inner Scope Records, Polygram. All the record companies.
At the bottom of the article they have comment section. A woman named Donna Halprin said. “Hi Jeff, I’m Jewish and I take exception to what you are saying.” Hey Donna, how can you take exception….. Facts are facts.
They even control the comedy industry. Look at the comedians today… they are all Jews.
1) The characters on Seinfeld are all Jews.
2) Ben Stiller is a Jew.
3) Adam Sandler is a Jew.
They control the media. They tell the Jay Lenos and David Lettermans to have these comedians on their shows.
4) George Carlin
5) Allan King
6) Lenny Bruce
7) Robert Klein
8) Sarah Silverman. She goes on her HBO TV special and talks about having sex with Jesus.
Appendix 1. Stunning Jewish Success Dominates American Media Compiled by Jeffrey Blankfort 12-6-4
1) MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN, owner of NY Daily News, US News & World Report and chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying groups.
2) LESLIE MOONVES, president of CBS television, great-nephew of David Ben-Gurion, and co-chair with Norman Ornstein of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.
3) JONATHAN MILLER, chair and CEO of AOL division of AOL-Time-Warner
4) NEIL SHAPIRO, president of NBC News
5) JEFF GASPIN, Executive Vice-President, Programming, NBC
6) DAVID WESTIN, president of ABC News
7) SUMNER REDSTONE, CEO of Viacom, “world’s biggest media giant” (Economist, 11/23/2) owns Viacom cable, CBS and MTVs all over the world, Blockbuster video rentals and Black Entertainment TV.
8) MICHAEL EISNER, major owner of Walt Disney, Capitol Cities, ABC.
9) RUPERT MURDOCH, Owner Fox TV, New York Post, London Times, News of the World (Jewish mother)
10) MEL KARMAZIN, president of CBS
11) DON HEWITT, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes, CBS
12) JEFF FAGER, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes II. CBS
13) DAVID POLTRACK, Executive Vice-President, Research and Planning, CBS
14) SANDY KRUSHOW, Chair, Fox Entertainment
15) LLOYD BRAUN, Chair, ABC Entertainment
16) BARRY MEYER, chair, Warner Bros.
17) SHERRY LANSING. President of Paramount Communications and Chairman of Paramount Pictures’ Motion Picture Group.
18) HARVEY WEINSTEIN, CEO. Miramax Films.
19) BRAD SIEGEL., President, Turner Entertainment.
20) PETER CHERNIN, second in-command at Rupert Murdoch’s News. Corp., owner of Fox TV
21) MARTY PERETZ, owner and publisher of the New Republic, which openly identifies itself as pro-Israel. Al Gore credits Marty with being his “mentor.”
22) ARTHUR O. SULZBERGER, JR., publisher of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and other publications.
23) WILLIAM SAFIRE, syndicated columnist for the NYT.
24) TOM FRIEDMAN, syndicated columnist for the NYT.
25) CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post. Honored by Honest Reporting.com, website monitoring “anti-Israel media.”
26) RICHARD COHEN, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post
27) JEFF JACOBY, syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe
28) NORMAN ORNSTEIN, American Enterprise Inst., regular columnist for USA Today, news analyst for CBS, and co-chair with Leslie Moonves of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.
29) ARIE FLEISCHER, Dubya’s press secretary.
30) STEPHEN EMERSON, every media outlet’s first choice as an expert on domestic terrorism.
31) DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN, owner of the Village Voice and the New Times network of “alternative weeklies.”
32) DENNIS LEIBOWITZ, head of Act II Partners, a media hedge fund
33) KENNETH POLLACK, for CIA analysts, director of Saban Center for Middle East Policy, writes op-eds in NY Times, New Yorker
34) BARRY DILLER, chair of USA Interactive, former owner of Universal Entertainment
35) KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
36) RICHARD LEIBNER, runs the N.S. Bienstock talent agency, which represents 600 news personalities such as Dan Rather, Dianne Sawyer and Bill O’Reilly.
37) TERRY SEMEL, CEO, Yahoo, former chair, Warner Bros.
38) MARK GOLIN, VP and Creative Director, AOL
39) WARREN LIEBERFORD, Pres., Warner Bros. Home Video Div. of AOL- TimeWarner
40) JEFFREY ZUCKER, President of NBC Entertainment
41) JACK MYERS, NBC, chief.NYT 5.14.2
42) SANDY GRUSHOW, chair of Fox Entertainment
43) GAIL BERMAN, president of Fox Entertainment
44) STEPHEN SPIELBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks
45) JEFFREY KATZENBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks
46) DAVID GEFFEN, co-owner of Dreamworks
47) LLYOD BRAUN, chair of ABC Entertainment
48) JORDAN LEVIN, president of Warner Bros. Entertainment
49) MAX MUTCHNICK, co-executive producer of NBC’s “Good Morning Miami”
50) DAVID KOHAN, co-executive producer of NBC’s “Good Morning Miami”
51) HOWARD STRINGER, chief of Sony Corp. of America
52) AMY PASCAL, chair of Columbia Pictures
53) JOEL KLEIN, chair and CEO of Bertelsmann’s American operations
54) ROBERT SILLERMAN, founder of Clear Channel Communications
55) BRIAN GRADEN, president of MTV entertainment
56) IVAN SEIDENBERG, CEO of Verizon Communications
57) WOLF BLITZER, host of CNN’s Late Edition
58) LARRY KING, host of Larry King Live
59) TED KOPPEL, host of ABC’s Nightline
60) ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN Reporter
61) PAULA ZAHN, CNN Host
62) MIKE WALLACE, Host of CBS, 60 Minutes
63) BARBARA WALTERS, Host, ABC’s 20-20
64) MICHAEL LEDEEN, editor of National Review
65) BRUCE NUSSBAUM, editorial page editor, Business Week
66) DONALD GRAHAM, Chair and CEO of Newsweek and Washington Post, son of
67) CATHERINE GRAHAM MEYER, former owner of the Washington Post
68) HOWARD FINEMAN, Chief Political Columnist, Newsweek
69) WILLIAM KRISTOL, Editor, Weekly Standard, Exec. Director
Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
70) RON ROSENTHAL, Managing Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
71) PHIL BRONSTEIN, Executive Editor, San Francisco Chronicle,
72) RON OWENS, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)
73) JOHN ROTHMAN, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)
74) MICHAEL SAVAGE, Talk Show Host, KFSO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco) Syndicated in 100 markets
75) MICHAEL MEDVED, Talk Show Host, on 124 AM stations
76) DENNIS PRAGER, Talk Show Host, nationally syndicated from LA. Has Israeli flag on his home page.
77) BEN WATTENBERG, Moderator, PBS Think Tank.
78) ANDREW LACK, president of NBC
79) DANIEL MENAKER, Executive Director, Harper Collins
80) DAVID REZNIK, Editor, The New Yorker
81) NICHOLAS LEHMANN, writer, the New York
82) HENRICK HERTZBERG, Talk of the Town editor, The New Yorker
83) SAMUEL NEWHOUSE JR, and DONALD NEWHOUSE own Newhouse Publications, includes 26 newspapers in 22 cities; the Conde Nast magazine group, includes The New Yorker; Parade, the Sunday newspaper supplement; American City Business Journals, business newspapers published in more than 30 major cities in America; and interests in cable television programming and cable systems serving 1 million homes.
84) DONALD NEWHOUSE, chairman of the board of directors, Associated Press.
85) PETER R KANN, CEO, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s
86) RALPH J. & BRIAN ROBERTS, Owners, Comcast-ATT Cable TV.
87) LAWRENCE KIRSHBAUM, CEO, AOL-Time Warner Book Group
9/11: Israel’s Grand Deception (TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015, http://www.abeldanger.net/2015/03/911-israels-grand-deception.html)
by Jonathan Azaziah, Friday, September 17, 2010, Source: Mask of Zion
“All the (intelligence services) of America and Europe know well that the disastrous attack (of 9/11) has been planned and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part in Iraq and Afghanistan….. it could not be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel.”
Former Italian President, Francesco Cossiga, as reported in the newspaper Corriere della Sera, June 11, 2011:
Dr. Alan Sabrowsky, the former Director of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Army War College, said in a radio interview:
“It is one hundred percent certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation, period.” Dr. Sabrowsky also stated that high-level U.S. military officers know that Israel did it.
Christopher Bollyn, Solving 9/11: The Deception that Changed the World
PNAC: Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century: (2000)
Authors: Donald Kagan, Gary Schmidtt (Zionists)
Contributions were provided by many of its elite Zionist members, including:
3) Gary Bauer,
4) Robert Bernstein,
5) US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton,
6) Rudy Boschwitz, former
7) CIA agent William F. Buckley Jr.,
8) Frank Carlucci (CIA murderer of Prime Minister of the Congo Patrice Lumumba),
war criminal Vice President Dick Cheney,
8) Eliot Cohen,
9) David Epstein,
10) Frank Gaffney,
11) Aaron Friedberg,
12) Charles Krauthammer, aide to the Vice President Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby,
13) Lewis Lehrman,
14) Martin Peretz,
15) Richard Perle (who was pegged by the FBI for spying for Israel in the 1970s, but never prosecuted),
16) Norman Podhoretz,
17) AIPAC official Stephen Rosen, war criminal Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,
18) Randy Scheunemann,
19) Pentagon official Abram Shulsky,
20) architect of the first genocide against Iraq, Stephen Solarz,
21) Caspar Weinberger,
22) architect of the second genocide against Iraq, Paul Wolfowitz,
23) Heritage Foundation Director Larry Wortzel, and
24) Rabbi Dov Zakheim (9).
Cast of characters on Sept. 11, 2001:
George W. Bush, President, Crypt-jew, 3rd tier Illuminati family, who pretended to be a born again Christian, Skull and Bones, two stolen elections,
Richard Cheney: VP:
Donald Rumsfeld, Sec. of Defense:
Michael Chertoff, as Asst. Attorney General, destroyed evidence at WTC, let all Israeli suspects return to Israel, and made sure there would not be a court case hearing on crime of 9/11. Goes on to be second Sec. of Dept. Homeland Security (America’s new Gestapo), then on to head the Chertoff Group.
Mueller, new Head of the FBI,
Mueller, Joint Chiefs of Staff,
All of these men played their role in the orchestration of the tragic events on 9/11 – whether it was the planning; the propagation of the mythologically false, Zionist media-enforced official story; or the aftermath, with the illegal military occupations overseas. RAD can easily be found by placing the title into any Internet search engine.
All the reports of Muslim charities’ funding terror, the Al-Qaeda videos, and the bin Laden recordings have been the work of two Mossad-connected contractors.
The IntelCenter is run by Mossad agent Ben Venzke, and is notorious for releasing videos of an ‘al-Qaeda’ operative named Adam Yahiye Gadahn, whose real name has been revealed as Adam Pearlman; Pearlman is the grandson of a former director of Israel’s propaganda arm, the ADL of B’nai B’rith (14). SITE Intelligence Group, founded by former IOF soldier Rita Katz, is the major provider of intelligence on ‘Islamic terror groups’ – not just for the Zionist media, but for the US Government’s agencies as well .
Privatization, Insider Trading, and Profiteering at World Trade Center
Who was in offical power on September 11, 2001
The WT DealC: Larry Silverstein,
United Jewish Appeal board member, ultra-Zionist Larry Silverstein, and former Haganah terrorist and Golani Brigade commando, billionaire Frank Lowy, whose mall conglomerate Westfield America was guaranteed 427,000 square feet of retail floor space. Eisenberg, Lauder, Lowy, and Silverstein all had close, friendly ties with Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Ariel Sharon;
Ronald Lauder, of the notorious Zionist company Estée Lauder Cosmetics, is a major player in the pro-Israel Lobby, boasting active membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, World Jewish Congress, Jewish National Fund, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Abraham Fund, Jewish Theological Seminary, and the ADL of B’nai B’rith. He also donated a school named after him, the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, to the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya, a Mossad training ground. Lauder was the chairman of two organizations, the New York State Commission on Privatization and the New York State Research Council on Privatization, that introduced the concept of privatization to the Port Authority, and aggressively lobbied for it after the introduction (24).
On July 23, 2001, Zionist Lewis Eisenberg, a prominent member of the pro-Israel Lobby, and the head of the Port Authority at the time, finalized the deal that would privatize the World Trade Center for the first time in its history (23)
Silverstein’s battle with the insurance company was eventually decided in his favor by Zionist Judge Michael Mukasey, who determined that the planes’ crashing into the Twin Towers constituted multiple terror attacks, and the fate of Building 7 wasn’t necessary for the ruling (27). Mukasey would play a crucial role in discharging the Mossad agents captured on 9/11, and would later go on to become Attorney General for war criminal George W. Bush’s administration (28).
ugust 26th and September 11th 2001, a group of financial speculators, identified as Israeli citizens by the SEC, short sold 38 stocks and purchased put options in mass on Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AIG, Swiss Re and Munich Re, United Airlines and American Airlines. All of these companies were directly involved with the 9/11 attacks. The Israeli speculators were never investigated any further, and they were most certainly not arrested (29)
Head of Security of WTC:
Avraham Bendor, former head of Shin Bet, and
Peter Zvi Malkin, agents that worked with Isser Harel since he founded Mossad, gained control of the World Trade Center’s security through an agreement with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1987.
The name of the company was Atwell Security of Tel Aviv, a subsidiary of Eisenberg Group, owned by Israeli tycoon and Mossad-connected arms dealer, Shaul Eisenberg.
Exec. Director of the Port Authority: Stephen Berger, who has deep connections with other criminals in the Zionist network behind the 9/11 attacks,
PNAC: Zionist neoconservative think tank…
William Kristol
Robert Kagan
DHS is headed by Jews:- Brother Nathaniel
Michael Chertoff – Former head of Homeland Security. Current principal of The Chertoff Group, dubbed as a security consultancy company.
The Chertoff Group is the primary consultant to Homeland Security, staffed by former DHS officers with Jews holding the highest positions as principals, senior advisers, top staffers, and ‘experts’ on national security.
Indeed, all of these JEWS at the Chertoff Group are current advisers to DHS.
And, of course, there’s all the Gentile shills like Michael Hayden whose fat paychecks signed by Chertoff are solid evidence that they’ve sold their souls to the Jews.
At the same time, loads of Jews staff Homeland Security itself. Noah Kroloff, a Jew at Chief of Staff was just replaced by another Jew, Amy Shlossman.
The chief diplomatic officer at DHS is the Jew, Alan Bersin.
And two Jews: David Heyman and Alan Cohn, are heads of policy. Yes, “policy” at Homeland Security is led and shaped by Jews.
So NEXT TIME you hear all the ‘truthers’ at infowars complaining about Homeland Security’s “policy” then quickly chime in with: Did you know that JEWS shape the “policy” at DHS?
(Jones will likely BAN you from ever posting again on his site for simply stating the facts.)
Chertoff enjoys the dubious distinction of being awarded a multi-million dollar contract by Congress to put hundreds of RapiScan “porno-scanners” in TSA lines throughout our nation’s airports.
In 2012, Chertoff was appointed head of the US division of BAE Systems, Europe’s largest weapons-maker, seeking via his influence a bigger piece of the Pentagon’s budget pie.
As the primary consultant to Homeland Security with advanced weapons now at his disposal, we can clearly see the fruit of Chertoff’s consulting services.
Owing to Chertoff’s counsel, Homeland Security has purchased enough bullets, weapons and armored vehicles to wage a 7 year war on the American people.
Don’t be fooled. Janet Napolitano, an alleged lesbian who Alex Jones calls “Big Sis,” is nothing more than Chertoff’s puppet.
Chertoff and his fellow Jews along with high-ranking Jews within DHS wield all the power necessary to grease the gears at America’s Cheka Unit known as Homeland Security.
And these same Jews who run the federal police are slowly but surely absorbing the local police as well…all in the name of fighting extremism NOT ‘terrorists.’ And that’s scary…
Looking back over history, it seems to be evident that the spread of secret societies, illuminism, theurgy, and spiritism has always been a sure precursor of revolutions and the fall of Crowns. From its commencement the reign of Nicolas II of Russia was one long succession of mystics, prophets, and Illumines-instruments of the “Hidden Hand” who, by their strange practices and sometimes scandalous lives, contributed not a little to bring discredit upon the Court of Russia, eventually led to its downfall, and through death and destruction initiated the Jew-led Soviet rule with its dream of World Revolution and World Domination- the dream of Grand Orient Illuminised Masonry.
And according to Disraeli, men of Jewish race were found at the head of every such political secret society. George Sand also wrote: ” There are moments when the history of Empires only nominally exists, and when there is nothing really alive but the sects hidden within them.”
The mother of all these secret societies is Judaeo-Masonry, whose principles are identical with those realised with Revolution. As Claudio Jannet says: “It extends itself throughout the entire world, covering itself with mystery, acting in all parts of the social body within it, by secret links, individual societies apparently most different. Its doctrines are everywhere the same universality thus explains the unity and universality of Revolution.”
Their plan is to rule over a Universal World State, and for this purpose they have need of passive yet gifted instruments. As Dion Fortune, herself, writes: “The Masters receive souls as pupils, not for the benefit of the soul, but for the benefit of the Great Work; a man is not trained for the sake of curiosity or enthusiasm, but only in so far as he is of value as a servant.”
From Appendix 8: From “Trail of the Serpent,” on this website)
Cass Sunstein
In the youtube presentations and article below in Section II we learn that former University of Chicago Law Professor, Cass Sunstein, a Jew who headed the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) and sits on the NSA Oversight Panel, wrote a book entitled: “Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas.”
In 2009, President Obama appointed Sunstein to be the “Information Czar,” i.e., head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs” (OIRA) after he co-authored a 2008 white paper, with A. Vermuelle, entitled “Conspiracy Theories.” In this paper, he urged government to put online trolls on the payroll to harass dangerous “conspiracy theorists” and to hire undercover agents to infiltrate the lives of “conspiracy theorists” in order to frame them and discredit them.
(ETK comment: Doesn’t this sound a lot like “gang stalking?”)
Sunstein stated: “Government may ban conspiracy theorizing. Government may impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories.”
Sunstein also urges the repealing of the 2nd Amendment, saying the Second Amendment never intended that American citizens have guns.
From Laurent Guyenot Who are the Neoconservatives?
The Fall of Henry Jackson and the Rise of Neoconservatism in the Republican Party
In the 1970s Jackson was involved with two of the most important neocon groups of the period.
In 1976 he convened Team B, headed by Richard Pipes (a Harvard University Soviet expert), and including Paul Nitze, Wolfowitz, and Seymour Weiss (former director of the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs). Albert Wohlstetter, who was Wolfowitz’s Ph.D. advisor at the University of Chicago, was a major catalyst for Team B. Jackson was also close to the Committee on the Present Danger. Formed in November 1976, the committee was a Who’s Who of Jackson supporters, advisors, confidants, and admirers from both the Democratic and Republican parties, and included several members associated with the SD/USA:
Paul Nitze, Eugene Rostow, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Max Kampelman, Lane Kirkland, Richard Pipes, Seymour Martin Lipset, Bayard Rustin, and Norman Podhoretz. CPD was a sort of halfway house for Democratic neocons sliding toward the Republican Party.
writings of Charles Krauthammer and then those of Elliot Abrams,127 eventually became an incessant drumbeat in the campaign for the war in Iraq. Krauthammer also broached the now familiar themes of unilateral intervention and he emphasized the danger that smaller states could develop weapons of mass destruction which could be used to threaten world security.128
Neoconservative Portraits
As with the other Jewish intellectual movements I have studied, neoconservatives have a history of mutual admiration, close, mutually supportive personal, professional, and familial relationships, and focused cooperation in pursuit of common goals. For example, Norman Podhoretz, the former editor of Commentary, is the father of John Podhoretz, a neoconservative editor and columnist. Norman Podhoretz is also the father-in-law of Elliott Abrams, the former head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (a neoconservative think tank) and the director of Near Eastern affairs at the National Security Council. Norman’s wife, Midge Decter, recently published a hagiographic biography of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, whose number-two and number-three deputies at the Pentagon, respectively, are Wolfowitz and Feith. Perle is a fellow at the AEI.134 He originally helped Wolfowitz obtain a job with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1973. In 1982, Perle, as Deputy Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, hired Feith for a position as his Special Counsel, and then as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Negotiations Policy. In 2001, Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz helped Feith obtain an appointment as Undersecretary for Policy. Feith then appointed Perle as chairman of the Defense Policy Board. This is only the tip of a very large iceberg.
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss is an important influence on several important neoconservatives, particularly Irving and Bill Kristol. Strauss was a classicist and political philosopher at the University of Chicago. He had a very strong Jewish identity and viewed his philosophy as a means of ensuring Jewish survival in the Diaspora.135 As Strauss himself noted, “I believe I can say, without any exaggeration, that since a very, very early time the main theme of my reflections has been what is called the ‘Jewish Question.’ ”136
Much of Strauss’s early writing was on Jewish issues, and a constant theme in his writing was the idea that Western civilization was the product of the “energizing tension” between Athens and Jerusalem—Greek rationalism and the Jewish emphasis on faith, revelation, and religious intensity.137 Although Strauss believed that religion had effects on non-Jews that benefited Jews, there is little doubt that Strauss viewed religious fervor as an indispensable element of Jewish commitment and group loyalty—ethnocentrism by any other name:
Some great love and loyalty to the Jewish people are in evidence in the life and works of Strauss…. Strauss was a good Jew. He knew the dignity and worth of love of one’s own. Love of the good, which is the same as love of the truth, is higher than love of one’s own, but there is only one road to the truth, and it leads through love of one’s own. Strauss showed his loyalty to things Jewish in a way he was uniquely qualified to do, by showing generations of students how to treat Jewish texts with the utmost care and devotion. In this way he turned a number of his Jewish students in the direction of becoming better Jews.138
Strauss believed that liberal, individualistic modern Western societies were best for Judaism because the illiberal alternatives of both the left (communism) and right (Nazism) were anti-Jewish. (By the 1950s, anti-Semitism had become an important force in the Soviet Union.) However, Strauss believed that liberal societies were not ideal because they tended to break down group loyalties and group distinctiveness—both qualities essential to the survival of Judaism. And he thought that there is a danger that, like the Weimar Republic, liberal societies could give way to fascism, especially if traditional religious and cultural forms were overturned; hence the neoconservative attitude that traditional religious forms among non-Jews are good for Jews.139 (Although Strauss believed in the importance of Israel for Jewish survival, his philosophy is not a defense of Israel but a blueprint for Jewish survival in a Diaspora in Western societies.)
The fate of the Weimar Republic, combined with the emergence of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, had a formative influence on his thinking. As Stephen Holmes writes, “Strauss made his young Jewish-American students gulp by informing them that toleration [secular humanism] was dangerous and that the Enlightenment—rather than the failure of the Enlightenment—led directly to Adolph Hitler.”140 Hitler was also at the center of Strauss’s admiration for Churchill—hence the roots of the neocon cult of Churchill: “The tyrant stood at the pinnacle of his power. The contrast between the indomitable and magnanimous statesman and the insane tyrant—this spectacle in its clear simplicity was one of the greatest lessons which men can learn, at any time.”141 I suspect that, given Strauss’s strong Jewish identity, a very large part of his admiration of Churchill was not that Churchill opposed tyrants, but that he went to war against an anti-Jewish tyrant at enormous cost to his own people and nation while allied with another tyrant, Joseph Stalin, who had by 1939 already murdered far more people than Hitler ever would.
Strauss has become a cult figure—the quintessential rabbinical guru, with devoted disciples such as Allan Bloom.142 Strauss relished his role as a guru to worshiping disciples, once writing of “the love of the mature philosopher for the puppies of his race, by whom he wants to be loved in turn.”143 In turn, Strauss was a disciple of Hermann Cohen, a philosopher at the University of Marburg, who ended his career teaching in a rabbinical school; Cohen was a central figure in a school of neo-Kantian intellectuals whose main concern was to rationalize Jewish nonassimilation into German society.
Strauss understood that inequalities among humans were inevitable and advocated rule by an aristocratic elite of philosopher kings forced to pay lip service to the traditional religious and political beliefs of the masses while not believing them.144 This elite should pursue its vision of the common good but must reach out to others using deception and manipulation to achieve its goals. As Bill Kristol has described it, elites have the duty to guide public opinion, but “one of the main teachings [of Strauss] is that all politics are limited and none of them is really based on the truth.”145 A more cynical characterization is provided by Stephen Holmes: “The good society, on this model, consists of the sedated masses, the gentlemen rulers, the promising puppies, and the philosophers who pursue knowledge, manipulate the gentlemen, anesthetize the people, and housebreak the most talented young”146—a comment that sounds to me like an alarmingly accurate description of the present situation in the United States and elsewhere in the Western world. Given Strauss’s central concern that an acceptable political order be compatible with Jewish survival, it is reasonable to assume that Strauss believed that the aristocracy would serve Jewish interests.
Strauss’s philosophy is not really conservative. The rule by an aristocratic elite would require a complete political transformation in order to create a society that was “as just as possible”:
Nothing short of a total transformation of imbedded custom must be undertaken. To secure this inversion of the traditional hierarchies, the political, social and educational system must be subjected to a radical reformation. For justice to be possible the founders have to “wipe clean the dispositions of men,” that is, justice is possible only if the city and its citizens are not what they are: the weakest [i.e., the philosophic elite] is supposed to rule the strongest [the masses], the irrational is supposed to submit to the rule of the rational.147 [emphasis in original]
Strauss described the need for an external exoteric language directed at outsiders, and an internal esoteric language directed at ingroup members.148 A general feature of the movements I have studied is that this Straussian prescription has been followed: Issues are framed in language that appeals to non-Jews rather than explicitly in terms of Jewish interests, although Jewish interests always remain in the background if one cares to look a little deeper. The most common rhetoric used by Jewish intellectual and political movements has been the language of moral universalism and the language of science—languages that appeal to the educated elites of the modern Western world.149 But beneath the rhetoric it is easy to find statements describing the Jewish agendas of the principal actors.
And the language of moral universalism (e.g., advocating democracy as a universal moral imperative) goes hand in hand with a narrow Jewish moral particularism (altering governments that represent a danger to Israel).
It is noteworthy in this respect that the split between the leftist critics of Strauss like Shadia Drury and Stephen Holmes versus Strauss’s disciples like Allan Bloom and Harry V. Jaffa comes down to whether Strauss is properly seen as a universalist. The leftist critics claim that the moral universalism espoused by Strauss’s disciples is nothing more than a veneer for his vision of a hierarchical society based on manipulation of the masses. As noted, the use of a universalist rhetoric to mask particularist causes has a long history among Jewish intellectual and political movements, and it fits well with Strauss’s famous emphasis on esoteric messages embedded in the texts of great thinkers. Moreover, there is at least some textual support for the leftist critique, although there can never be certainty because of the intentionally enigmatic nature of Strauss’s writings.
I am merely adding to the leftist critique the idea that Strauss crafted his vision of an aristocratic elite manipulating the masses as a Jewish survival strategy. In doing so, I am taking seriously Strauss’s own characterization of his work as centrally motivated by “the Jewish question” and by the excellent evidence for his strong commitment to the continuity of the Jewish people. At a fundamental level, based on my scholarship on Jewish intellectual and political movements, one cannot understand Strauss’s well-attested standing as a Jewish guru—as an exemplar of the familiar pattern of an intellectual leader in the manner of Boas or Freud surrounded by devoted Jewish disciples—unless he had a specifically Jewish message.
The simple logic is as follows: Based on the data presented here, it is quite clear that Strauss understood that neither communism nor fascism was good for Jews in the long run. But democracy cannot be trusted given that Weimar ended with Hitler. A solution is to advocate democracy and the trappings of traditional religious culture, but managed by an elite able to manipulate the masses via control of the media and academic discourse. Jews have a long history as an elite in Western societies, so it is not in the least surprising that Strauss would advocate an ideal society in which Jews would be a central component of the elite. In my view, this is Strauss’s esoteric message. The exoteric message is the universalist veneer promulgated by Strauss’s disciples—a common enough pattern among Jewish intellectual and political movements.
On the other hand, if one accepts at face value the view of Strauss’s disciples that he should be understood as a theorist of egalitarianism and democracy, then Strauss’s legacy becomes just another form of leftism, and a rather undistinguished one at that. In this version, the United States is seen as a “proposition nation” committed only to the ideals of democracy and egalitarianism—an ideology that originated with Jewish leftist intellectuals like Horace Kallen.150 Such an ideology not only fails to protect the ethnic interests of European Americans in maintaining their culture and demographic dominance, it fails as an adequate survival strategy for Jews because of the possibility that, like Weimar Germany, the U.S. could be democratically transformed into a state that self-consciously opposes the ethnic interests of Jews.
The most reasonable interpretation is that neocons see Strauss’s moral universalism as a powerful exoteric ideology. The ideology is powerful among non-Jews because of the strong roots of democracy and egalitarianism in American history and in the history of the West; it is attractive to Jews because it has no ethnic content and is therefore useful in combating the ethnic interests of European Americans—its function for the Jewish left throughout the 20th century.151 But without the esoteric message that the proposition nation must be managed and manipulated by a covert, Jewish-dominated elite, such an ideology is inherently unstable and cannot be guaranteed to meet the long-term interests of Jews.
And one must remember that the neocons’ public commitment to egalitarianism belies their own status as an elite who were educated at elite academic institutions and created an elite network at the highest levels of the government. They form an elite that is deeply involved in deception, manipulation and espionage on issues related to Israel and the war in Iraq. They also established the massive neocon infrastructure in the elite media and think tanks. And they have often become wealthy in the process. Their public pronouncements advocating a democratic, egalitarian ideology have not prevented them from having strong ethnic identities and a strong sense of their own ethnic interests; nor have their public pronouncements supporting the Enlightenment ideals of egalitarianism and democracy prevented them from having a thoroughly anti-Enlightenment ethnic particularist commitment to the most nationalistic, aggressive, racialist elements within Israel—the Likud Party, the settler movement, and the religious fanatics. At the end of the day, the only alternative to the existence of an esoteric Straussian message along the lines described here is massive self-deception.
Sidney Hook
Born in 1902, Sidney Hook was an important leader of the anti-Stalinist, non-Trotskyist left. Hook’s career is interesting because he illustrates an evolution toward neoconservatism that was in many ways parallel to the Shachtmanites. Indeed, Hook ended up as honorary chairman of the SD/USA during the 1980s.152 Hook became a socialist at a time when virtually all socialists supported the Bolshevik revolution as the only alternative to the anti-Jewish government of the tsar.153 As a professional philosopher, he saw his role as an attempt to develop an intellectually respectable Marxism strengthened with Dewey’s ideas. But until the Moscow Trials of the 1930s he was blind to the violence and oppression in the USSR. During a visit to the USSR in 1929, “I was completely oblivious at the time to the systematic repressions that were then going on against noncommunist elements and altogether ignorant of the liquidation of the so-called kulaks that had already begun that summer. I was not even curious enough to probe and pry, possibly for fear of what I would discover.”154 During the 1930s, when the Communist Party exercised a dominant cultural influence in the United States, “the fear of fascism helped to blur our vision and blunt our hearing to the reports that kept trickling out of the Soviet Union.”155 Even the Moscow Trials were dismissed by large sectors of liberal opinion. It was the time of the Popular Front, where the fundamental principle was the defense of the Soviet Union. Liberal journals like the New Republic did not support inquiries into the trials, citing New York Times reporter Walter Duranty as an authority who believed in the truth of the confessions.
Unlike the Shachtmanites, Hook never accepted Trotsky because of his record of defending “every act of the Soviet regime, until he himself lost power.”156 “To the very end Trotsky remained a blind, pitiless (even when pitiable) giant, defending the right of the minority vanguard of the proletariat—the Party—to exercise its dictatorship over ‘the backward layers of the proletariat’—i.e., those who disagreed with the self-designated vanguard.”157
Hook became a leader of the anti-Stalinist left in the 1930s and during the Cold War, usually with John Dewey as the most visible public persona in various organizations dedicated to opposing intellectual thought control. His main issue came to be openness versus totalitarianism rather than capitalism versus socialism. Like other neoconservatives, from the 1960s on he opposed the excesses of the New Left, including affirmative action. Sidney Hook received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan. Like many neoconservatives, he never abandoned many of his leftist views: In his acceptance speech, Hook stated that he was “an unreconstructed believer in the welfare state, steeply progressive income tax, a secular humanist,” and pro-choice on abortion.158 Sounding much like SD/USA stalwart Joshua Muravchik,159 Hook noted that socialists like himself “never took the problem of incentives seriously enough.”160
Like Strauss, Hook’s advocacy of the open society stemmed from his belief that such societies were far better for Judaism than either the totalitarian left or right. Hook had a strong Jewish identification: He was a Zionist, a strong supporter of Israel, and an advocate of Jewish education for Jewish children.161 Hook developed an elaborate apologia for Judaism and against anti-Semitism in the modern world,162 and he was deeply concerned about the emergence of anti-Semitism in the USSR.163 The ideal society is thus culturally diverse and democratic:
No philosophy of Jewish life is required except one—identical with the democratic way of life—which enables Jews who for any reason at all accept their existence as Jews to lead a dignified and significant life, a life in which together with their fellowmen they strive collectively to improve the quality of democratic, secular cultures and thus encourage a maximum of cultural diversity, both Jewish and non-Jewish.164
Stephen Bryen
Despite his low profile in the George W. Bush administration, Stephen Bryen is an important neocon. Bryen served as executive director of JINSA from 1979 to 1981 and remains on its advisory board. He is also affiliated with the AEI and the CSP. Richard Perle hired Bryen as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Reagan administration. At the Pentagon, Perle and Bryen led an effort to extend and strengthen the Export Administration Act to grant the Pentagon a major role in technology transfer policy. This policy worked to the benefit of Israel at the expense of Europe, as Israel alone had access to the most secret technology designs.165 In 1988 Bryen and Perle temporarily received permission to export sensitive klystron technology, used in antiballistic missiles, to Israel.
“Two senior colleagues in [the Department of Defense] who wish to remain anonymous have confirmed that this attempt by Bryen to obtain klystrons for his friends was not unusual, and was in fact ‘standard operating procedure’ for him, recalling numerous instances when U.S. companies were denied licenses to export sensitive technology, only to learn later that Israeli companies subsequently exported similar (U.S. derived) weapons and technology to the intended customers/governments.”166
It is surprising that Perle was able to hire Bryen at all given that, beginning in 1978, Bryen was investigated for offering classified documents to the Mossad station chief of the Israeli embassy in the presence of an AIPAC representative.167 Bryen’s fingerprints were found on the documents in question despite his denials that he had ever had the documents in his possession. (Bryen refused to take a polygraph test.) The Bryen investigation was ultimately shut down because of the failure of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to grant access to the Justice Department to files important to the investigation, and because of the decision by Philip Heymann, the chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and later Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, to drop the case.
Heymann is Jewish and had a close relationship with Bryen’s lawyer, Nathan Lewin. Heymann’s Jewish consciousness can be seen from the fact that he participated in the campaign to free Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard and expunge his record —a major effort by a great many Jewish organizations and Jewish activists such as Alan Dershowitz. There were reports that Heymann was attempting to bypass Attorney General Janet Reno by preparing a Justice Department recommendation for presidential clemency, and that Heymann’s behavior may have been a factor in his resignation shortly thereafter.168
Despite this history of covert pro-Israeli activism, in 2001 Bryen was appointed, at the urging of Paul Wolfowitz, to the China Commission, which monitors illicit technology transfers to China, a position that requires top secret security clearance.169 Many of the illicit technology transfers investigated by the commission are thought to have occurred via Israel.
Charles Krauthammer
In his 1995 book, John Ehrman regards Charles Krauthammer as a key neoconservative foreign policy analyst because Krauthammer was on the cutting edge of neocon thinking on how to respond to the unipolar world created by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Krauthammer has consistently urged that the U.S. pursue a policy to remake the entire Arab world—a view that represents the “party line” among neoconservatives (e.g., Michael Ledeen, Norman Podhoretz, Bill Kristol, David Frum, and Richard Perle170). In a speech at the AEI in February 2004, Krauthammer argued for a unilateral confrontation with the entire Arab-Muslim world (and nowhere else) in the interests of “democratic globalism.” He advocated a U.S. foreign policy that is not “tied down” by “multilateralism”: “the whole point of the multilateral enterprise: To reduce American freedom of action by making it subservient to, dependent on, constricted by the will—and interests—of other nations. To tie down Gulliver with a thousand strings. To domesticate the most undomesticated, most outsized, national interest on the planet—ours.”171 Democratic globalism is aimed at winning the struggle with the Arab-Islamic world:
Beyond power. Beyond interest. Beyond interest defined as power. That is the credo of democratic globalism. Which explains its political appeal: America is a nation uniquely built not on blood, race or consanguinity, but on a proposition—to which its sacred honor has been pledged for two centuries…. Today, post-9/11, we find ourselves in an…existential struggle but with a different enemy: not Soviet communism, but Arab-Islamic totalitarianism, both secular and religious…[D]emocratic globalism is an improvement over realism. What it can teach realism is that the spread of democracy is not just an end but a means, an indispensable means for securing American interests. The reason is simple. Democracies are inherently more friendly to the United States, less belligerent to their neighbors, and generally more inclined to peace. Realists are right that to protect your interests you often have to go around the world bashing bad guys over the head. But that technique, no matter how satisfying, has its limits. At some point, you have to implant something, something organic and self-developing. And that something is democracy. But where? The danger of democratic globalism is its universalism, its open-ended commitment to human freedom, its temptation to plant the flag of democracy everywhere.
It must learn to say no. And indeed, it does say no. But when it says no to Liberia, or Congo, or Burma, or countenances alliances with authoritarian rulers in places like Pakistan or, for that matter, Russia, it stands accused of hypocrisy. Which is why we must articulate criteria for saying yes….
I propose a single criterion: where it counts…. And this is its axiom: We will support democracy everywhere, but we will commit blood and treasure only in places where there is a strategic necessity—meaning, places central to the larger war against the existential enemy, the enemy that poses a global mortal threat to freedom.
Where does it count today? Where the overthrow of radicalism and the beginnings of democracy can have a decisive effect in the war against the new global threat to freedom, the new existential enemy, the Arab-Islamic totalitarianism that has threatened us in both its secular and religious forms for the quarter-century since the Khomeini revolution of 1979 … There is not a single, remotely plausible, alternative strategy for attacking the monster behind 9/11. It’s not Osama bin Laden; it is the cauldron of political oppression, religious intolerance, and social ruin in the Arab-Islamic world—oppression transmuted and deflected by regimes with no legitimacy into virulent, murderous anti-Americanism. It’s not one man; it is a condition.172
Krauthammer is a Jew and his Jewish identification and pro-Israel motivation is typical of Jewish neoconservatives, as is his obeisance to the idea that America is a proposition nation, rather than a nation founded by a particular ethnic group—an ethnocultural creation of Western Europe that should attempt to preserve this heritage. The same attitude can be seen in Irving Kristol’s comment that the U.S. is an “ideological nation” committed to defend Israel independent of national interest (see above). This ideology was the creation of leftist Jewish intellectuals attempting to rationalize a multicultural America in which European-Americans were just one of many cultural/ethnic groups.173
He is a regular columnist for the Jerusalem Post and has written extensively in support of hard-line policies in Israel and on what he interprets as a rise in age-old anti-Jewish attitudes in Europe. In 2002 Krauthammer was presented with Bar-Ilan University’s annual Guardian of Zion Award at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. His acceptance speech reveals an observant Jew who is steeped in Jewish history and the Hebrew tradition. The 1993 Oslo Accords are termed “the most catastrophic and self- inflicted wound by any state in modern history”; this disastrous policy was based on “an extreme expression of post-Zionistic messianism.”174 Krauthammer rejected the “secular messianism” of Shimon Peres as more dangerous than the religious messianism of Gush Emunim (a prominent settler group with a message of Jewish racialism and a vision of a “Greater Israel” encompassing the lands promised to Abraham in Genesis—from the Nile to the Euphrates175) or of certain followers of the Lubavitcher Rebbe because of its impact on shaping contemporary Jewish history.
Krauthammer is also deeply concerned with anti-Semitism:
What is odd is not the anti-Semitism of today [in Europe], but its relative absence during the last half-century. That was the historical anomaly. Holocaust shame kept the demon corked for that half-century. But now the atonement is passed. The genie is out again. This time, however, it is more sophisticated. It is not a blanket hatred of Jews. Jews can be tolerated, even accepted, but they must know their place. Jews are fine so long as they are powerless, passive and picturesque. What is intolerable is Jewish assertiveness, the Jewish refusal to accept victimhood. And nothing so embodies that as the Jewish state.176
Another barometer of Jewish identification is Krauthammer’s take on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. In sentiments similar to those of many other Jewish activists and writers, he terms it a “blood libel,” “a singular act of interreligious aggression,” a “spectacularly vicious” personal interpretation.177 Gibson’s interpretations “point overwhelmingly in a single direction — to the villainy and culpability of the Jews.” The crucifixion is “a history of centuries of relentless, and at times savage, persecution of Jews in Christian lands.” One gets the impression of a writer searching as best he can to find the most extreme terms possible to express his loathing of Gibson’s account of the Christian gospel.
Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz’s background indicates a strong Jewish identity. His father Jacob was a committed Zionist throughout his life and in his later years organized protests against Soviet treatment of Jews.178 Jacob was deeply concerned about the Holocaust,179 and, in his own reminiscences of his teenage years, Paul recalls reading books about the Holocaust and traveling to Israel when his father was a visiting professor at an Israeli university. Wolfowitz reads Hebrew, and his sister married an Israeli and lives in Israel.180 At the University of Chicago the professors mentioned in his account of the period are all Jewish:181 Albert Wohlstetter, his Ph.D. advisor; Leo Strauss (Wolfowitz’s original intent when enrolling at the University of Chicago was to study with Strauss, and he ended up taking two courses from him); Strauss’s disciple Alan Bloom, whose Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students (1987) is a neocon classic; and Saul Bellow, the novelist.
Also indicative of a strong Jewish identity is a conversation Wolfowitz had with Natan Sharansky, Israeli Cabinet Minister and leader of a right wing, pro-settlement political party, at a conference on Middle East policy in Aspen, Colorado, in 2002. The conference was arranged by Richard Perle under the auspices of the AEI. Wolfowitz and Sharansky walked to a reception, because the latter, as an observant Jew, could not drive on the Sabbath. Sharansky noted that the walk “gave us a chance to talk about everything — Arafat, international terrorism, Iraq and Iran and, of course, Jewish history, our roots and so on.”182 Wolfowitz is married to Clare Selgin, and they have three children, Sara, David, and Rachel.183
Ravelstein is Bellow’s fictionalized but essentially accurate description of Alan Bloom and his circle at the University of Chicago.184 It is of some interest because it recreates the Jewish atmosphere of Wolfowitz’s academic environment. Wolfowitz was a member of Bloom’s circle at Cornell University and chose the University of Chicago for his graduate training because of the presence there of Leo Strauss, most likely at the urging of Bloom. Wolfowitz and Bloom maintained a close relationship after Bloom moved to the University of Chicago and during Wolfowitz’s later career in the government. Wolfowitz was one of the “favored students” of Bloom described in Robert Locke’s comment that “Favored students of the usually haughty Bloom were gradually introduced to greater and greater intimacies with the master, culminating in exclusive dinner parties with him and Saul [Bellow] in Bloom’s lavishly furnished million-dollar apartment.”185
As depicted by Bellow, Bloom emerges as the quintessential guru, surrounded by disciples—a “father” who attempts not only to direct his disciples’ careers but their personal lives as well.186 His disciples are described as “clones who dressed as he did, smoked the same Marlboros”; they were heading toward “the Promised Land of the intellect toward which Ravelstein, their Moses and their Socrates, led them.”187 “To be cut off from his informants in Washington and Paris, from his students, the people he had trained, the band of brothers, the initiates, the happy few made him extremely uncomfortable.”188 Bloom in turn is depicted as a “disciple” of the Strauss character, Felix Davarr: “Ravelstein talked so much about him that in the end I was obliged to read some of his books. It had to be done if I was to understand what [Ravelstein] was all about.”189
Bloom’s Ravelstein is depicted as very self-consciously Jewish. A theme is the contrast between “crude” Jewish behavior and genteel WASP behavior—a theme described beautifully and authoritatively in the writings of John Murray Cuddihy.190 And there is the acute consciousness of who is a Jew and who isn’t; all of Ravelstein’s close friends are Jews.
There is an intense interest in whether non-Jews dislike Jews or have connections to fascism. And there is a fixation on the Holocaust and when it will happen again: “They kill more than half of the European Jews…There’s no telling which corner it will come from next.”191 Ravelstein thought of Jews as displacing WASPs: He “liked to think of living in one of the tony flat buildings formerly occupied by the exclusively WASP faculty.”192
Following Strauss, Bloom thought of Western civilization as the product of Athens and Jerusalem, and is said to have preferred the former, at least until the end of his life, when Jerusalem loomed large: Bellow’s narrator writes, “I could see [Ravelstein/Bloom] was following a trail of Jewish ideas or Jewish essences. It was unusual for him these days, in any conversation, to mention even Plato or Thucydides. He was full of Scripture now”—all connected to “the great evil,” the belief during the World War II era “that almost everybody agreed that the Jews had no right to live…a vast collective agreement that the world would be improved by their disappearance and their extinction.”193 Ravelstein’s conclusion is that “it is impossible to get rid of one’s origins, it is impossible not to remain a Jew. The Jews, Ravelstein…thought, following the line laid down by [his] teacher Davarr [Strauss], were historically witnesses to the absence of redemption.”194
Ravelstein recounts a conversation with the Wolfowitz character, Philip Gorman, which reflects Wolfowitz’s well-known desire to invade Iraq in 1991:
Colin Powell and Baker have advised the President not to send the troops all the way to Baghdad. Bush will announce it tomorrow. They’re afraid of a few casualties. They send out a terrific army and give a demonstration of up-to-date high-tech warfare that flesh and blood can’t stand up to. But then they leave the dictatorship in place and steal away….195
Wolfowitz has had a close relationship with Richard Perle beginning with their service in the office of Sen. Henry Jackson.196 He also has a long record of pro-Israel advocacy. In 1973 he was appointed to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA); Mark Green notes that “Wolfowitz…brought to ACDA a strong attachment to Israel’s security, and a certain confusion about his obligation to U.S. national security.”197 In 1978, he was investigated for providing a classified document to the Israeli government through an AIPAC intermediary, but the investigation ended without indictment. (As Paul Findley shows, leakage of classified information to Israel by American Jews is routine within the Departments of State and Defense—so routine that it is accepted as a part of life in these departments, and investigations of the source of leaks are seldom performed.198) Later, in 1992, the Department of Defense discovered that Wolfowitz, as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, was promoting the export to Israel of advanced AIM-9M air-to-air missiles. The sale was canceled because Israel had been caught selling the previous version to the Chinese. Until his appointment as Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Bush administration, Wolfowitz was on the Advisory Board of WINEP, and was a patron of Dennis Ross, who was Ambassador to Israel in the Clinton Administration before becoming director of Policy and Strategic Planning at WINEP.
Wolfowitz wrote a 1997 Weekly Standard article advocating removal of Saddam Hussein, and signed the public letter to President Clinton organized by Bill Kristol’s Project for the New American Century urging a regime change in Iraq. Within the George H. W. Bush administration, Wolfowitz was “the intellectual godfather and fiercest advocate for toppling Saddam.”199 Wolfowitz has become famous as a key advocate for war with Iraq rather than Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of September 11.200 Richard Clarke recounts an incident on September 12, 2001, in which President Bush asked a group at the White House for any information that Saddam Hussein was involved in the September 11 attacks. After Bush left, a staffer “stared at [Bush] with her mouth open. ‘Wolfowitz got to him.’”201
Former CIA political analysts Kathleen and Bill Christison note that “One source inside the administration has described [Wolfowitz] frankly as ‘over-the-top crazy when it comes to Israel.’”202 Although they find such an assessment insufficiently nuanced, they acknowledge that zealotry for Israel is a prime motivator for Wolfowitz. Journalist Bill Keller is much more cautious:
You hear from some of Wolfowitz’s critics, always off the record, that Israel exercises a powerful gravitational pull on the man. They may not know that as a teenager he spent his father’s sabbatical semester in Israel or that his sister is married to an Israeli, but they certainly know that he is friendly with Israel’s generals and diplomats and that he is something of a hero to the heavily Jewish neoconservative movement. Those who know him well say this—leaving aside the offensive suggestion of dual loyalty—is looking at Wolfowitz through the wrong end of the telescope. As the Sadat story illustrates, he has generally been less excited by the security of Israel than by the promise of a more moderate Islam.203
This is a remarkable statement. “The Sadat story” refers to Wolfowitz’s very positive reaction to Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat’s speech to the Knesset as part of the peace process between Israel and Egypt. Obviously, it is silly to suppose that this event shows Wolfowitz’s relative disinterest in Israel’s security. Moreover, statements linking Wolfowitz to Israel are always off the record, presumably because people fear retaliation for stating the obvious. Thus Bill Keller coyly manages to document the associations between Wolfowitz and Israel while finding assertions of dual loyalty “offensive” rather than a well-grounded probability.
One of Joshua Muravchik’s apologetic claims is that “in fact the careers of leading neoconservatives have rarely involved work on Middle East issues.”204 This is false. For example, Wolfowitz wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. During the Carter administration, he prepared the Limited Contingency Study, which emphasized the “Iraqi threat” to the region, and during the Reagan administration he lobbied against selling AWACS to Saudi Arabia and against negotiating with the Palestinians; during the George H. W. Bush administration he was Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, a position where he “would once again have responsibility for arms control, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, the areas to which he had devoted the early years of his career.”205
Richard Perle
Like Wolfowitz and the Strauss-Bloom nexus at the University of Chicago, for Perle
the defining moment in our history was certainly the Holocaust…. It was the destruction, the genocide of a whole people, and it was the failure to respond in a timely fashion to a threat that was clearly gathering…We don’t want that to happen again…when we have the ability to stop totalitarian regimes we should do so, because when we fail to do so, the results are catastrophic.206
Richard Perle first came into prominence in Washington as Senator Henry Jackson’s chief aide on foreign policy. He organized Congressional support for the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which angered Russia by linking bilateral trade issues to freedom of emigration, primarily of Jews from the Soviet Union to Israel and the United States. In 1970 Perle was recorded by the FBI discussing classified information with the Israeli embassy. In 1981 he was on the payroll of an Israeli defense contractor shortly before being appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, a position responsible for monitoring U.S. defense technology exports.207 During his tenure in the Reagan administration Perle recommended purchase of an artillery shell made by Soltan, an Israeli munitions manufacturer. After leaving his position in the Defense Department in 1987, he assumed a position with Soltan. Like many other former government officials, he has also used his reputation and contacts in the government to develop a highly lucrative business career. For example, although he did not personally register as a lobbyist, he became a paid consultant to a firm headed by Douglas Feith that was established to lobby on behalf of Turkey.208 At the present time, Perle is on the board of directors of Onset Technology, a technology company founded by Israelis Gadi Mazor and Ron Maor with R&D in Israel. Onset Technology has close ties to Israeli companies and investment funds.209 He is a close personal friend of Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.210
Perle was the “Study Group Leader” of a 1996 report titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” published by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), an Israeli think tank. The membership of the study group illustrates the overlap between Israeli think tanks close to the Israeli government, American policy makers and government officials, and pro-Israel activists working in the United States. Other members of this group who accepted positions in the George W. Bush administration or in pro-Israel activist organizations in the U.S. include Douglas Feith (Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy), David Wurmser (member of IASPS, a protégé of Perle at AEI, and senior advisor in the State Department), Mayrev Wurmser (head of the Hudson Institute [a neocon thinktank]), James Colbert of JINSA,and Jonathan Torop (WINEP).
Despite Joshua Muravchik’s apologetic claims,211 the “Clean Break” report was clearly intended as advice for another of Perle’s personal friends,212 Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then the new prime minister of Israel; there is no indication that it was an effort to further U.S. interests in the region. The purpose was to “forge a peace process and strategy based on an entirely new intellectual foundation, one that restores strategic initiative and provides the nation the room to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism.” Indeed, the report advises the United States to avoid pressure on the Israelis to give land for peace, a strategy “which required funneling American money to repressive and aggressive regimes, was risky, expensive, and very costly for both the U.S. and Israel, and placed the United States in roles it should neither have nor want.” The authors of the report speak as Jews and Israelis, not as U.S. citizens: “Our claim to the land—to which we have clung for hope for 2000 years—is legitimate and noble.”Much of the focus is on removing the threat of Syria, and it is in this context that the report notes, “This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq—an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right—as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.”213
Proposals for regime change, such as found in “A Clean Break,” have a long history in Israeli thought. For example, in 1982 Israeli strategist Oded Yinon echoed a long line of Israeli strategists who argued that Israel should attempt to dissolve all the existing Arab states into smaller, less potentially powerful states. These states would then become clients of Israel as a regional imperial power. Neocons have advertised the war in Iraq as a crusade for a democratic, secular, Western-oriented, pro-Israel Iraq—a dream that has a great deal of appeal in the West, for obvious reasons. However, it is quite possible that the long-term result is that Iraq would fracture along ethnic and religious lines (Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds). This would also be in Israel’s interests, because the resulting states would pose less of a threat than the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. As Yinon noted, “Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel.”214
Former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson has suggested that the dissolution of Iraq may well have been a motive for the war:
A more cynical reading of the agenda of certain Bush advisers could conclude that the Balkanization of Iraq was always an acceptable outcome, because Israel would then find itself surrounded by small Arab countries worried about each other instead of forming a solid block against Israel. After all, Iraq was an artificial country that had always had a troublesome history.215
And as the Iraqi insurgency has achieved momentum, there is evidence that Israeli military and intelligence units are operating in Kurdish regions of Iraq and that Israel is indeed encouraging the Kurds to form their own state.216 There is little doubt that an independent Kurdish state would have major repercussions for Syria and Iran, as well as for Israel’s ally Turkey, and would lead to continuing instability in the Middle East. A senior Turkish official noted, “If you end up with a divided Iraq, it will bring more blood, tears, and pain to the Middle East, and [the U.S.] will be blamed…From Mexico to Russia, everybody will claim that the United States had a secret agenda in Iraq: you came there to break up Iraq. If Iraq is divided, America cannot explain this to the world.”
Elliott Abrams
Some of Elliott Abrams’ neoconservative family and professional associations have been described above. In December 2002 Abrams became President Bush’s top Middle East advisor. He is closely associated with the Likud Party in Israel and with prominent neocons (Richard Perle, Bill Kristol, Marc Paul Gerecht, Michael Ledeen, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Paul Wolfowitz) and neocon think tanks (PNAC, AEI, CSP, JINSA).217 Because of his reputation as a strongly identified Jew, Abrams was tapped for the role of rallying Jews in support of
Reagan in the 1980 campaign.218
Abrams is also an activist on behalf of Jewish continuity. The purpose of his book Faith and Fear: How Jews Can Survive in Christian America is to shore up Jewish religious identification, avoid intermarriage, and avoid secularization in order to assure Jewish continuity. In this regard it is interesting that other prominent neocons have advocated interracial marriage between whites and blacks in the U.S. For example, Douglas J. Besharov, a resident scholar at the AEI, has written that the offspring of interracial marriages “are the best hope for the future of American race relations.”219
In Faith and Fear, Abrams notes his own deep immersion in the Yiddish-speaking culture of his parents and grandparents. In the grandparents’ generation, “all their children married Jews, and [they] kept Kosher homes.”220 Abrams acknowledges that the mainstream Jewish community “clings to what is at bottom a dark vision of America, as a land permeated with anti-Semitism and always on the verge of anti-Semitic outbursts.” The result is that Jews have taken the lead in secularizing America, but that has not been a good strategy for Jews because Jews themselves have become less religious and therefore less inclined to marry other Jews. (This “dark vision of America” is a critical source of the “Culture of Critique” produced by Jewish intellectual movements; it is also a major reason why the Jewish community has been united in favor of large-scale nonwhite immigration to America: Diluting the white majority and lessening their power is seen as preventing an anti-Jewish outburst.221) Following Strauss, therefore, Abrams thinks that a strong role for Christianity in America is good for Jews:
In this century we have seen two gigantic experiments at post-religious societies where the traditional restraints of religion and morality were entirely removed: Communism and Nazism. In both cases Jews became the special targets, but there was evil enough even without the scourge of anti-Semitism. For when the transcendental inhibition against evil is removed, when society becomes so purely secular that the restraints imposed by God on man are truly eradicated, minorities are but the earliest victims.”222
Douglas Feith
Like most of his cronies, Feith has been suspected of spying for Israel. In 1972 Feith was fired from a position with the National Security Council because of an investigation into whether he had provided documents to the Israeli embassy. Nevertheless, Perle, who was Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy, hired him as his “special counsel,” and then as his deputy. Feith worked for Perle until 1986, when he left government service to form a law firm, Feith and Zell, which was originally based in Israel and best known for obtaining a pardon for the notorious Marc Rich during the final days of the Clinton administration. In 2001, Douglas Feith returned to the Department of Defense as Donald Rumsfeld’s Undersecretary for Policy, and it was in his office that Abraham Shulsky’s Office of Special Plans (OSP) was created. It was OSP that originated much of the fraudulent intelligence that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have used to justify the attack on Iraq. A key member of OSP was David Wurmser who, as indicated above, is a protégé of Richard Perle.223
Retired army officer Karen Kwiatkowski describes Feith as knowing little about the Pentagon and paying little attention to any issues except those relating to Israel and Iraq.224 Feith is deferential to the Israeli military. As Kwiatkowski escorted a group of Israeli generals into the Pentagon:
The leader of the pack surged ahead, his colleagues in close formation, leaving us to double-time behind the group as they sped to Undersecretary Feith’s office on the fourth floor…. Once in Feith’s waiting room, the leader continued at speed to Feith’s closed door. An alert secretary saw this coming and had leapt from her desk to block the door. “Mr. Feith has a visitor. It will only be a few more minutes.” The leader craned his neck to look around the secretary’s head as he demanded, “Who is in there with him?”
Unlike the usual practice, the Israeli generals did not have to sign in, so there are no official records of their visits.225 Kwiatkowski describes the anti-Arab, pro-Israel sentiment that pervaded the neocon network at the Department of Defense. Career military officers who failed to go along with these attitudes were simply replaced.
Feith has a strong Jewish identity and is an activist on behalf of Israel. While in law school he collaborated with Joseph Churba, an associate and friend of Meir Kahane, founder of the racialist and anti-Western Jewish Defense League. During the late 1980s to early 1990s he wrote pro-Likud op-ed pieces in Israeli newspapers, arguing that the West Bank is part of Israel, that the Palestinians belong in Jordan, and that there should be regime change in Iraq. He also headed the CSP and was a founding member of One Jerusalem, an Israeli organization “determined to prevent any compromise with the Palestinians over the fate of any part of Jerusalem.226
He is an officer of the Foundation for Jewish Studies, which is “dedicated to fostering Jewish learning and building communities of educated and committed Jews who are conscious of and faithful to the high ideals of Judaism.”227 In 1997 Feith and his father (a member of Betar, the Zionist youth movement founded by Vladimir Jabotinsky) were given awards from the ZOA because of their work as pro-Israel activists. The ZOA is a staunch supporter of the most extreme elements within Israel. Feith’s law partner, L. Marc Zell of the firm’s Tel Aviv office, is a spokesman for the settler movement in Israel, and the firm itself is deeply involved in legal issues related to the reconstruction of Iraq, a situation that has raised eyebrows because Feith is head of reconstruction in Iraq.228
Zell was one of many neocons close to Ahmed Chalabi but abandoned his support because Chalabi had not come through on his prewar pledges regarding Israel—further evidence that aiding Israel was an important motive for the neocons. According to Zell, Chalabi “said he would end Iraq’s boycott of trade with Israel, and would allow Israeli companies to do business there. He said [the new Iraqi government] would agree to rebuild the pipeline from Mosul [in the northern Iraqi oil fields] to Haifa [the Israeli port, and the location of a major refinery].”229 Another partner in the law firm of Feith and Zell is Salem Chalabi, Ahmed Chalabi’s nephew. Salem Chalabi is in charge of the trial of Saddam Hussein.230
Abraham Shulsky
Abram Shulsky is a student of Leo Strauss, a close friend of Paul Wolfowitz both at Cornell and the University of Chicago,231 and yet another protégé of Richard Perle. He was an aide to neocon Senators Henry Jackson (along with Perle and Elliot Abrams) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and worked in the Department of Defense in the Reagan administration. During the George W. Bush administration, he was appointed head of the Office of Special Plans under Feith and Wolfowitz. The OSP became more influential on Iraq policy than the CIA or the Defense Intelligence Agency,232 but is widely viewed by retired intelligence operatives as manipulating intelligence data on Iraq in order to influence policy.233 Reports suggest that the OSP worked closely with Israeli intelligence to paint an exaggerated picture of Iraqi capabilities in unconventional weapons.234 It is tempting to link the actions of the OSP under Shulsky with Strauss’s idea of a “noble lie” carried out by the elite to manipulate the masses, but I suppose that one doesn’t really need Strauss to understand the importance of lying in order to manipulate public opinion on behalf of Israel.
The OSP included other neocons with no professional qualifications in intelligence but long records of service in neoconservative think tanks and pro-Israel activist organizations, especially the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Examples include Michael Rubin, who is affiliated with AEI and is an adjunct scholar at WINEP, David Schenker, who has written books and articles on Middle East issues published by WINEP and the Middle East Quarterly (published by Daniel Pipes’ MEF, another pro-Israel activist organization), Elliott Abrams, David Wurmser, and Michael Ledeen. The OSP relied heavily on Iraqi defectors associated with Ahmed Chalabi, who, as indicated above, had a close personal relationship with Wolfowitz, Perle, and other neocons.235
Michael Ledeen
Michael Ledeen’s career illustrates the interconnectedness of the neoconservative network. Ledeen was the first executive director of JINSA (1977–1979) and remains on its board of advisors. He was hired by Richard Perle in the Defense Department during the Reagan years, and during the same period he was hired as special advisor by Wolfowitz in his role as head of the State Department Policy Planning Staff. Along with Stephen Bryen, Ledeen became a member of the China Commission during the George W. Bush administration. He was also a consultant to Abraham Shulsky’s OSP, the Defense Department organization most closely linked with the manufacture of fraudulent intelligence leading up to the Iraq War. The OSP was created by Douglas Feith, who in turn reports to Paul Wolfowitz. As noted above, he is resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at AEI.
Ledeen has been suspected of spying for Israel.236 During the Reagan years, he was regarded by the CIA as “an agent of influence of a foreign government: Israel,” and was suspected of spying for Israel by his immediate superior at the Department of Defense, Noel Koch.237 While working for the White House in 1984, Ledeen was also accused by National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane of participating in an unauthorized meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres that led to the proposal to funnel arms through Israel to Iran in order to free U.S. hostages being held in Lebanon—the origins of the Irangate scandal.238
Ledeen has been a major propagandist for forcing change on the entire Arab world. Ledeen’s revolutionary ideology stems not from Trotsky or Marx, but from his favorable view of Italian fascism as a universalist (nonracial) revolutionary movement.239 His book, War on the Terror Masters, is a program for complete restructuring of the Middle East by the U. S. couched in the rhetoric of universalism and moral concern, not for Israel, but for the Arab peoples who would benefit from regime change. Ledeen is a revolutionary of the right, committed to “creative destruction” of the old social order:
“Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity, which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace. Seeing America undo traditional societies, they fear us, for they do not wish to be undone. They cannot feel secure so long as we are there, for our very existence—our existence, not our politics—threatens their legitimacy. They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission….”
Behind all the anti-American venom from the secular radicals in Baghdad, the religious fanatics in Tehran, the minority regime in Damascus, and the multicultural kleptomaniacs in the Palestinian Authority is the knowledge that they are hated by their own people. Their power rests on terror, recently directed against us, but always, first and foremost, against their own citizens. Given the chance to express themselves freely, the Iraqi, Iranian, Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian people would oust their current oppressors. Properly waged, our revolutionary war will give them a chance.240
Bernard Lewis
The main intellectual source for imposing democracy on the Arab world is Bernard Lewis, the Princeton historian who argues that Muslim cultures have an inferiority complex stemming from their relative decline compared to the West over the last three hundred years. (Such arguments minimize the role of Israel and U.S. support for Israel as a sourse of Arab malaise. However, there is good evidence that the motives of Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 conspirators derive much more from U.S. support for Israel than a general anti-Western animus.241) He contends that Arab societies with their antiquated, kinship-based structure can only be changed by forcing democracy on them.242 Wolfowitz has used Lewis as the intellectual underpinning of the invasion of Iraq: “Bernard has taught how to understand the complex and important history of the Middle East, and use it to guide us where we will go next to build a better world for generations to come.”243 During the 1970s Lewis was invited by Richard Perle to give a talk to Henry Jackson’s group, and, as Perle notes, “Lewis became Jackson’s guru, more or less.” Lewis also established ties with Daniel Patrick Moynihan and with Jackson’s other aides, including Wolfowitz, Abrams, and Gaffney. One of Lewis’s main arguments is that the Palestinians have no historical claim to a state because they were not a state before the British Mandate in 1918.
Lewis also argues that Arabs have a long history of consensus government, if not democracy, and that a modicum of outside force should be sufficient to democratize the area—a view that runs counter to the huge cultural differences between the Middle East and the West that stem ultimately from very different evolutionary pressures.244 Lewis, as a cultural historian, is in a poor position to understand the deep structure of the cultural differences between Europe and the Middle East. He seems completely unaware of the differences in family and kinship structure between Europe and the Middle East, and he regards the difference in attitudes toward women as a mere cultural difference rather than as a marker for an entirely different social structure.245
Lewis’s flawed beliefs about the Middle East have nevertheless been quite useful to Israel—reflecting the theme that Jewish intellectual movements have often used available intellectual resources to advance a political cause. Not only did he provide an important intellectual rationale for the war against Iraq, he is very close to governmental and academic circles in Israel—the confidant of successive Israeli Prime Ministers from Golda Meir to Ariel Sharon.246
Dick Cheney
By several accounts, Vice President Cheney had a “fever” to invade Iraq and transform the politics of the Middle East and was the leading force within the administration convincing President Bush of the need to do so.247 As with the other Jewish intellectual and political movements I have reviewed, non-Jews have been welcomed into the movement and often given highly visible roles as the movement’s public face. Among the current crop in this intellectual lineage, the most important non-Jews are Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, both of whom have close professional and personal relationships with neoconservatives that long pre-date their present power and visibility. Both Cheney and Rumsfeld have been associated with Bill Kristol’s PNAC (which advocated a unilateral war for regime change in Iraq at least as early as 1998)248 and the CSP, two neocon think tanks; Cheney was presented with the ADL’s Distinguished Statesman Award in 1993 and was described by Abraham Foxman as “sensitive to Jewish concerns.”249 When Cheney was a Congressman during the early 1980s, he attended lunches hosted for Republican Jewish leaders by the House leadership. Cheney was described by Marshall Breger, a senior official in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administration as “very interested in outreach and engaging the Jewish community.”250 He was also a member of JINSA, a major pro-Israel activist organization, until assuming his office as vice president.
Cheney has also had a close involvement with leading Israeli politicians, especially Natan Sharansky, Secretary of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs in the Likud government and the prime architect of the ideology that the key to peace between Israel and the Arab world, including the Palestinians, is Arab acceptance of democracy. When President Bush articulated the importance of Palestinian democracy for the Middle East peace “roadmap” in his June 2002 policy speech,
Sharansky could have written the speech himself, and, for that matter, may have had a direct hand in its drafting. The weekend prior to the speech, he spent long hours at a conference [organized by Richard Perle and] sponsored by the AEI in Aspen secluded together with Vice President Cheney and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. The Bush speech clearly represented a triumph for the Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz axis in the administration over the State Department, which was eager to offer the Palestinians a provisional state immediately.”251
Both Cheney and Rumsfeld have close personal relationships with Kenneth Adelman, a former Ford and Reagan administration official.252 Adelman wrote op-ed pieces in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal in the period leading up to the war, and he, along with Wolfowitz and Irving Lewis “Scooter” Libby (Cheney’s chief of staff), were guests of Cheney for a victory celebration in the immediate aftermath of the war (April 13, 2003).253 Adelman has excellent neocon credentials. He was a member of the Committee on the Present Danger in the 1970s and UN Ambassador during the Reagan Administration, and worked under Donald Rumsfeld on three different occasions. He was a signatory to the April 3, 2002, letter of the Project for a New American Century to President Bush calling for Saddam Hussein’s ouster and increased support for Israel. The letter stated, “Israel is targeted in part because it is our friend, and in part because it is an island of liberal, democratic principles—American principles—in a sea of tyranny, intolerance, and hatred.”
The advocacy of war with Iraq was linked to advancing Israeli interests: “If we do not move against Saddam Hussein and his regime, the damage our Israeli friends and we have suffered until now may someday appear but a prelude to much greater horrors…. Israel’s fight against terrorism is our fight. Israel’s victory is an important part of our victory. For reasons both moral and strategic, we need to stand with Israel in its fight against terrorism.”254 Adelman’s wife, Carol, is affiliated with the Hudson Institute, a neoconservative think tank.
Cheney’s role in the ascendancy of the neocons in the Bush administration is particularly important: As head of the transition team, he and Libby were able to staff the subcabinet levels of the State Department (John Bolton) and the Defense Department (Wolfowitz, Feith) with key supporters of the neocon agenda. Libby is a close personal friend of Cheney whose views “echo many of Wolfowitz’s policies”; he “is considered a hawk among hawks and was an early supporter of military action against terrorism and particularly against Iraq.”255 He is Jewish and has a long history of involvement in Zionist causes and as the attorney for the notorious Marc Rich. Libby and Cheney were involved in pressuring the CIA to color intelligence reports to fit with their desire for a war with Iraq.256 Libby entered the neocon orbit when he was “captivated” while taking a political science course from Wolfowitz at Yale, and he worked under Wolfowitz in the Reagan and the Bush I administrations.257 He was the coauthor (with Wolfowitz) of the ill-fated draft of the Defense Planning Guidance document of 1992, which advocated U.S. dominance over all of Eurasia and urged preventing any other country from even contemplating challenging U.S. hegemony.258 (Cheney was Secretary of Defense at that time.) After an uproar, the document was radically altered, but this blueprint for U.S. hegemony remains central to neocon attitudes since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Donald Rumsfeld
As noted above, Rumsfeld has deep links with neoconservative think tanks and individual Jews such as Ken Adelman, who began his career working for Rumsfeld when he headed the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Nixon administration. Another close associate is Robert A. Goldwin, a student of Leo Strauss and Rumsfeld’s deputy both at NATO and at the Gerald Ford White House; Goldwin is now resident scholar at the AEI.
Rumsfeld also has a long history of appealing to Jewish and Israeli causes. In his 1964 campaign for reelection to Congress as representative from a district on the North Shore of Chicago with an important Jewish constituency, he emphasized Soviet persecution of Jews and introduced a bill on this topic in the House. After the 1967 war, he urged the U.S. not to demand that Israel withdraw to its previous borders and he criticized delays in sending U.S. military hardware to Israel.259 More recently, as Secretary of Defense in the Bush II administration, Rumsfeld was praised by the ZOA for distancing himself from the phrase “occupied territories,” referring to them as the “so-called occupied territories.”260
Despite these links with neoconservatives and Jewish causes, Rumsfeld emerges as less an ideologue and less a passionate advocate for war with Iraq than Cheney. Robert Woodward describes him as lacking the feverish intensity of Cheney, as a dispassionate “defense technocrat” who, unlike Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Feith, would have been content if the U.S. had not gone to war with Iraq.261
Daniel Pipes
Many neoconservatives work mainly as lobbyists and propagandists. Rather than attempt to describe this massive infrastructure in its entirety, I profile Daniel Pipes as a prototypical example of the highly competent Jewish lobbyist. Pipes is the son of Richard Pipes, the Harvard professor who, as noted above, was an early neocon and an expert on the Soviet Union. He is the director of the MEF and a columnist at the New York Post and the Jerusalem Post, and appears on the Fox News Channel. Pipes is described as “An authoritative commentator on the Middle East” by the Wall Street Journal, according to the masthead of his website.262 A former official in the Departments of State and Defense, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the U.S. Naval War College.
He is the author of twelve books on the Middle East, Islam, and other political topics; his most recent book is Militant Islam Reaches America (published by W.W. Norton, 2002), a polemic against political Islam which argues that militant Islam is the greatest threat to the West since the Cold War. He serves on the “Special Task Force on Terrorism and Technology” at the Department of Defense, has testified before many congressional committees, and served on four presidential campaigns.
Martin Kramer is the editor of the Forum’s journal. Kramer is also affiliated with Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. His book, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America, has been a major impetus behind the recent effort to prevent criticism of Israel on college campuses. The book was warmly reviewed in the Weekly Standard, whose editor, Bill Kristol, is a member of the MEF along with Kramer. Kristol wrote that “Kramer has performed a crucial service by exposing intellectual rot in a scholarly field of capital importance to national wellbeing.”
The MEF issues two regular quasi-academic 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.” A recent article on weapons of mass destruction claims that Syria “has more destructive capabilities” than Iraq or Iran. The Middle East Intelligence Bulletin “specializes in covering the seamy side of Lebanese and Syrian politics,”263 an effort aimed at depicting these regimes as worthy of forcible change by the U.S. or Israeli military. The MEF also targets universities through its campus speakers bureau, seeking 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 U.S. universities.
The MEF is behind Campus Watch, an organization responsible for repressing academic discussion of Middle East issues at U.S. universities. Campus Watch compiles profiles on professors who criticize Israel: A major purpose is to “identify key faculty who teach and write about contemporary affairs at university Middle East Studies departments in order to analyze and critique the work of these specialists for errors or biases.” The MEF also develops “a network of concerned students and faculty members interested in promoting American interests on campus.”264
Again we see the rhetoric of universalism and a concern with “American interests” produced by people who are ethnically Jewish and vitally concerned with the welfare of Israel. Recently Campus Watch has decided to discontinue its dossiers because over one hundred professors asked to be included in their directory of suspicious people. Nevertheless, Campus Watch continues to print names of people whose views on the Middle East differ from theirs. The MEF, along with major Jewish activist organizations (the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the Anti-Defamation League), has succeeded in getting the U.S. House of Representatives to overwhelmingly approve a bill that would authorize federal monitoring of government-funded Middle East studies programs throughout U.S. universities. The bill would establish a federal tribunal to investigate and monitor criticism of Israel on American college campuses.
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
Rather than profile all of the many neoconservative think tanks and lobbying groups, I will describe JINSA as a prototypical example. JINSA attempts to “educate the American public about the importance of an effective U.S. defense capability so that our vital interests as Americans can be safeguarded [and to] inform the American defense and foreign affairs community about the important role Israel can and does play in bolstering democratic interests in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.”265 Typical of Jewish intellectual movements is that Jewish interests are submerged in a rhetoric of American interests and ethical universalism—in this case, the idea that Israel is a beacon of democracy.
In addition to a core of prominent neoconservative Jews (Stephen D. Bryen, Douglas Feith, Max Kampelman, Michael Ledeen, Joshua Muravchik, Richard Perle, Stephen Solarz), JINSA’s advisory board includes a bevy of non-Jewish retired U.S. military officers and a variety of non-Jewish political figures (e.g., Dick Cheney) and foreign policy analysts with access to the media (e.g., Jeane Kirkpatrick) who are staunch supporters of Israel. As is typical of Jewish intellectual movements, JINSA is well funded and has succeeded in bringing in high-profile non-Jews who often act as spokesmen for its policies. For example, the former head of the Iraq occupation government, General Jay Garner, signed a JINSA letter stating that “the Israel Defense Forces have exercised remarkable restraint in the face of lethal violence orchestrated by the leadership of [the] Palestinian Authority.”
JINSA reflects the recent trend of American Jewish activist groups not simply to support Israeli policies but to support the Israeli right wing. For JINSA, “‘regime change’ by any means necessary in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority is an urgent imperative. Anyone who dissents—be it Colin Powell’s State Department, the CIA or career military officers—is committing heresy against articles of faith that effectively hold there is no difference between US and Israeli national security interests, and that the only way to assure continued safety and prosperity for both countries is through hegemony in the Middle East—a hegemony achieved with the traditional Cold War recipe of feints, force, clientism and covert action.”266 Note the exclusionary, us versus them attitude typical of the Jewish intellectual and political movements covered in The Culture of Critique.
Part of JINSA’s effectiveness comes from recruiting non-Jews who gain by increased defense spending or are willing to be spokesmen in return for fees and travel to Israel. The bulk of JINSA’s budget is spent on taking a host of retired U.S. generals and admirals to Israel, where JINSA facilitates meetings between Israeli officials and retired but still-influential U.S. flag officers. These officers then write op-ed pieces and sign letters and advertisements championing the Likudnik line. In one such statement, issued soon after the outbreak of the latest intifada, twenty-six JINSAns of retired flag rank, including many from the advisory board, struck a moralizing tone, characterizing Palestinian violence as a “perversion of military ethics” and holding that “America’s role as facilitator in this process should never yield to America’s responsibility as a friend to Israel,” because “friends don’t leave friends on the battlefield.”267 Sowing seeds for the future, JINSA also takes U.S. service academy cadets to Israel each summer and sponsors a lecture series at the Army, Navy, and Air Force academies.
JINSA also patronizes companies in the defense industry that stand to gain by the drive for total war. “Almost every retired officer who sits on JINSA’s board of advisers or has participated in its Israel trips or signed a JINSA letter works or has worked with military contractors who do business with the Pentagon and Israel.”268 For example, JINSA advisory board members Adm. Leon Edney, Adm. David Jeremiah, and Lieut. Gen. Charles May, all retired, have served Northrop Grumman or its subsidiaries as either consultants or board members. Northrop Grumman has built ships for the Israeli Navy and sold F-16 avionics and E-2C Hawkeye planes to the Israeli Air Force, as well as the Longbow radar system to the Israeli Army for use in its attack helicopters. It also works with Tamam, a subsidiary of Israeli Aircraft Industries, to produce an unmanned aerial vehicle.
JINSA is supported not only by defense contractor money but also by deeply committed Zionists, notably Irving Moscowitz, the California bingo magnate who also provides financial support to the AEI. Moscowitz not only sends millions of dollars a year to far-right Israeli West Bank settler groups like Ateret Cohanim, he has also funded land purchases in key Arab areas around Jerusalem. Moscowitz provided the money that enabled the 1996 reopening of a tunnel under the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, which resulted in seventy deaths due to rioting. Also involved in funding JINSA is New York investment banker Lawrence Kadish, who also contributes to Republican causes. Again, we see the effects of the most committed Jews. People like Moscowitz have an enormous effect because they use their wealth to advance their people’s interests, a very common pattern among wealthy Jews.269
The integration of JINSA with the U.S. defense establishment can be seen in the program for its 2001 Jackson Award Dinner, an annual event named after Senator Henry Jackson that draws an “A-list” group of politicians and defense celebrities. At the dinner were representatives of U.S. defense industries (the dinner was sponsored by Boeing), as well as the following Defense Department personnel: Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; Under Secretary of Defense Dov Zakheim (an ordained rabbi); Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Young; Dr. Bill Synder, the Chairman of the Defense Science Board; the Honorable Mark Rosenker, Senior Military Advisor to the President; Admiral William Fallon, Vice Chief of Naval Operations; General John Keane, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army; General Michael Williams, Vice Commandant of the Marines; Lieutenant General Lance Lord, Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force. Also present were a large number of U.S. flag and general officers who were alumni of JINSA trips to Israel, as well as assorted Congressmen, a U.S. Senator, and a variety of Israeli military and political figures. The 2002 Jackson Award Dinner, sponsored by Northrup Grumman, honored Paul Wolfowitz. Dick Cheney was a previous recipient of the award.
JINSA is a good illustration of the point that whatever the deeply held beliefs of the non-Jews who are involved in the neoconservative movement, financial motives and military careerism are also of considerable importance—a testimony to the extent to which neoconservatism has permeated the political and military establishments of the United States. A similar statement could be made about the deep influence of neoconservatism among intellectuals generally.
Conclusion
The current situation in the United States is really an awesome display of Jewish power and influence. People who are very strongly identified as Jews maintain close ties to Israeli politicians and military figures and to Jewish activist organizations and pro-Israeli lobbying groups while occupying influential policy-making positions in the defense and foreign policy establishment. These same people, as well as a chorus of other prominent Jews, have routine access to the most prestigious media outlets in the United States. People who criticize Israel are routinely vilified and subjected to professional abuse.270
Perhaps the most telling feature of this entire state of affairs is the surreal fact that in this entire discourse Jewish identity is not mentioned. When Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, Michael Rubin, William Safire, Robert Satloff, or the legions of other prominent media figures write their reflexively pro-Israel pieces in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, or the Los Angeles Times, or opine on the Fox News Network, there is never any mention that they are Jewish Americans who have an intense ethnic interest in Israel. When Richard Perle authors a report for an Israeli think tank; is on the board of directors of an Israeli newspaper; maintains close personal ties with prominent Israelis, especially those associated with the Likud Party; has worked for an Israeli defense company; and, according to credible reports, was discovered by the FBI passing classified information to Israel—when, despite all of this, he is a central figure in the network of those pushing for wars to rearrange the entire politics of the Middle East in Israel’s favor, and with nary a soul having the courage to mention the obvious overriding Jewish loyalty apparent in Perle’s actions, that is indeed a breathtaking display of power.
One must contemplate the fact that American Jews have managed to maintain unquestioned support for Israel over the last thirty-seven years, despite Israel’s seizing land and engaging in a brutal suppression of the Palestinians in the occupied territories—an occupation that will most likely end with expulsion or complete subjugation, degradation, and apartheid. During the same period Jewish organizations in America have been a principal force—in my view the main force—for transforming America into a state dedicated to suppressing ethnic identification among Europeans, for encouraging massive multiethnic immigration into the U.S., and for erecting a legal system and cultural ideology that is obsessively sensitive to the complaints and interests of non-European ethnic minorities—the culture of the Holocaust.271 All this is done without a whisper of double standards in the aboveground media.
I have also provided a small glimpse of the incredible array of Jewish pro-Israel activist organizations, their funding, their access to the media, and their power over the political process. Taken as a whole, neoconservatism is an excellent illustration of the key traits behind the success of Jewish activism: ethnocentrism, intelligence and wealth, psychological intensity, and aggressiveness.272 Now imagine a similar level of organization, commitment, and funding directed toward changing the U.S. immigration system put into law in 1924 and 1952, or inaugurating the revolution in civil rights, or the post-1965 countercultural revolution: In the case of the immigration laws we see the same use of prominent non-Jews to attain Jewish goals, the same access to the major media, and the same ability to have a decisive influence on the political process by establishing lobbying organizations, recruiting non-Jews as important players, funneling financial and media support to political candidates who agree with their point of view, and providing effective leadership in government.273 Given this state of affairs, one can easily see how Jews, despite being a tiny minority of the U.S. population, have been able to transform the country to serve their interests. It’s a story that has been played out many times in Western history, but the possible effects now seem enormous, not only for Europeans but literally for everyone on the planet, as Israel and its hegemonic ally restructure the politics of the world.
History also suggests that anti-Jewish reactions develop as Jews increase their control over other peoples.274 As always, it will be fascinating to observe the dénouement.
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