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Arash
March 21, 2006
Profs Document Hijacking of U.S. Foreign Policy
By Kurt Nimmo
It comes as no surprise two “of America’s top scholars” [1], having released an
article [2] criticizing the hijacking of American foreign policy by AIPAC [3], the
neocons, and the tiny outlaw state of Israel, are unable to get a hearing in the
corporate media. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of
Harvard’s Kenney School “say that [AIPAC] is so strong that they doubt their article
would be accepted in any US-based publication”, reports United Press International.
“They claim that the Israel lobby has distorted American policy and operates against
American interests, that it has organized the funneling of more than $140 billion
dollars to Israel and ‘has a stranglehold’ on the U.S. Congress, and its ability to
raise large campaign funds gives its vast influence over Republican and Democratic
administrations, while its role in Washington think tanks on the Middle East
dominates the policy debate”.
Mearsheimer and Walt come close to stating what many of us have known for some time—a
clique of Straussian neocons [4], wedded to radical Likudites in Israel, and share
“close ties to pro-Israel groups like JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs) [5] or WINEP (Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy) [6]”, exploited
nine eleven to “adopt the general goal of ousting Saddam” and push forward
“preventive war”, that is to say invasions of sovereign Muslim and Arab nations, a
plan long in the tooth and at the heart of Likudite Zionism.
Unfortunately, the authors do not arrive at the natural conclusion—not only did the
neocons exploit nine eleven, they orchestrated it from within the Pentagon, as a
previous cabal of Pentagon insiders, including the Joint Chiefs, attempted to create
an earlier nine eleven by way of Operation Northwoods [7]. Fortunately for the
American and Cuban people, that earlier plan was eighty-sixed by Robert McNamara and
John F. Kennedy. No such luck with nine eleven.
Mearsheimer and Walt name names—Elliot Abrams, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, William
Kristol, Bernard Lewis, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, key
members of the inner circle of the neocon clique. It is interesting a name not
normally associated with the neocons is mentioned—Bernard Lewis [8].
It was the elderly “Arabist” Bernard Lewis who urged “Lebanonization” in the Arab and
Muslim Middle East. “In 1992, in the aftermath of the Second Persian Gulf War, Lewis
celebrated in the pages of the New York Council on Foreign Relations’ Foreign Affairs
that the era of the nation-state in the Middle East had come to an inglorious end,
and the entire region should expect to go through a prolonged period of
‘Lebanonization’—i.e., degeneration into fratricidal, parochialist violence and
chaos”, write Scott Thompson and Jeffrey Steinberg. [9]
“Lebanonization” is a reference to the implementation of the Sykes-Picot Agreement by
the French under the League of Nations in the 1920s, dividing Lebanon into five
provinces based along ethnic and religious lines. Of course, this artificial
construct eventually resulted in a bloody civil war between Lebanese Christians and
Muslims, exacerbated by the Israeli lebensraum policy of ethnically cleansing
Palestinians (this conflict resulted in the death of over a 100,000 people and
created 900,000 refugees), and was intensified and prolonged by an Israeli invasion
and political and military participation by the United States.
Lewis concluded his Foreign Affairs article by predicting the “Lebanonization” of the
entire region with the notable exception of Israel: “Most of the states of the Middle
East … are of recent and artificial construction and are vulnerable to such a
process. If the central power is sufficiently weakened, there is no real civil
society to hold the polity together, no real sense of common national identity or
overriding allegiance to the nation-state. The state then disintegrates—as happened
in Lebanon—into a chaos of squabbling, feuding, fighting sects, tribes, regions and
parties,” a process well underway at this moment in Iraq.
“For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the
centerpiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel,”
Mearsheimer and Walt continue. “The combination of unwavering support for Israel and
the related effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region has inflamed Arab and
Islamic opinion and jeopardized not only U.S. security but that of much of the rest
of the world. This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the
U.S. been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in
order to advance the interests of another state?”
It is a situation, the authors conclude, created by the influence of AIPAC, an
organization representing the Jabotinsky-Likudite faction in Israel. According to
Thompson and Steinberg, Bernard Lewis’ son, Michael, is “the director of the
American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) super-secret ‘opposition research
section’. This is one of the most important wellsprings of propaganda and
disinformation, presently saturating the U.S. Congress and American media with
war-cries for precisely the Clash of Civilizations Bernard Lewis has been promoting
for decades”. Defecting AIPAC staffer Gregory Slabodkin told the Washington Report in
1992 that AIPAC’s secret “opposition research section” concentrates on “releasing
derogatory (and generally false or misleading) information about American ‘enemies of
Israel’ to their rivals in the media and academia”. [10]
Israel “works ruthlessly to suppress questioning of its role, to blacken its critics
and to crush serious debate about the wisdom of supporting Israel in U.S. public
life”, the UPI summarizes the not destined for prime-time conclusions of Mearsheimer
and Walt.
“Not surprisingly, the Jewish establishment organizations are lining up behind AIPAC
and not too subtly rolling out the traditional big guns by suggesting that the
accusations themselves might be motivated by anti-Semitism”, writes Michael Lerner.
“AIPAC and a variety of closely linked Jewish organizations regularly use the
anti-Semitism card to attack anyone who dares criticize the occupation of the West
Bank. Increasingly dominated by Jewish neo-cons and their worldview, the Jewish
establishment has moved far to the right in the past two decades, spurred in part by
Aipac’s powerful impact”.
As we know, the neocon “worldview” is one of endless conflict and misery abroad and
subversion of American ideals at home. The Straussian neocons—and it is important to
stress the Straussian aspect with its Machiavellian philosophy and fascist ideology
taking cues from the authoritarian idealism of a Nazi jurist, Carl Schmitt—are
decidedly behind schedule on implementing the next phase of their master plan,
gleaned in part from Oded Yinon’s “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s”, of attacking
and balkanizing Iran. [11]
Once again, Bush reminds us of the tight relationship between Israel’s territorial
aspirations and its connection to the military prowess (now in obvious decline) of
the United States. “The threat from Iran is, of course, their stated objective to
destroy our strong ally Israel. That’s a threat, a serious threat. It’s a threat to
world peace”, said our Caesar. “I made it clear, and I’ll make it clear again, that
we will use military might to protect our ally Israel”.
In fact, this is the only approach, as long ago sketched out by the Straussian
neocons and their Jabotinksyite overlords, and diplomacy is but a shell game
introduced to make the neocons appear reasonable, when in fact they are neo-Jacobin
radicals. [12]
Bush’s neocons, in control of the Pentagon, plan to eventually attack Iran, certainly
not this month as initially speculated, but some time down the road, maybe this
summer, maybe next year, but eventually, as the Straussian neocons, the anti-American
AIPAC, and the reprehensible Israeli Jabotinskyite racists have long planned, even if
it results in the ultimate destruction of America.
Notes:
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[1] http://www.nationalvanguard.org/images/teaser/mearsheimer_and_walt.jpg
John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt
[2] Harvard study shows role of Zionism in U.S. foreign policy
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8730
The Israel Lobby
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011/$File/rwp_06_011_walt.pdf
[PDF -1.4MB]
[3] American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee&oldid=45533899
http://www.franklingate.com/
http://www.antiwar.com/cole/?articleid=3467
[4] Straussian neocons: Masterminds of America’s Foreign Policy
http://www.islamonline.net/english/Views/2003/10/article03.shtml
Dr. Shadia Drury is a world renowned expert on Straussians and Neocons
http://www.uregina.ca/arts/CRC/
Leo Strauss
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leo_Strauss
http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=1210&name=Leo-Strauss
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521599369.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.larouchepub.com/spanish/images/LeoStrauss.jpg
http://www.larouchepub.com/spanish/images/LeoStrauss2.jpg
http://portland.indymedia.org/icon/2003/08/271005.jpg
[5] JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs)
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1508
http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=1524&name=JINSA
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020902&s=vest
http://www.rense.com/general39/tenet.htm
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=13826
http://www.dailykos.com/tag/JINSA
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jewish_Institute_for_National_Security_Affairs
[6] WINEP (Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy)
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1568
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=washington_institute_for_near_east_policy_(winep)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7454
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/AIPAC's_Overt_Covert_Ops.html
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero040603.html
[7] Operation Northwoods
U.S. planned fake terror attacks on it's own citizens to create support for Cuban war
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html
[8] Bernard Lewis
http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur6461.html?lang=en
Bernard Lewis talks about Iran
http://www.isracast.com/transcripts/300106a_trans.htm
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-2323
http://www.namebase.org/xlef/Bernard-Lewis.html
Bernard Lewis: Historian or Lobbyist for War?
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/March_2006/0603074.html
Lewis of Arabia
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040913&s=glass
Bernard Lewis: Scholarship or Sophistry?
http://www.counterpunch.org/alam06282003.html
Jew Bernard Lewis denied the Armenian Genocide, in order to protect the interest of
Israel's ally, the turks
http://www.hr-action.org/armenia/LeMonde.htm
Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050501faessay84305/bernard-lewis/freedom-and-justice-in-the-modern-middle-east.html?mode=print
[9] British Svengali Behind "Clash Of Civilizations"
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2846b_lewis_profile.html
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19920901faessay5893/bernard-lewis/rethinking-the-middle-east.html?mode=print
[10] AIPAC's super-secret "opposition research section"
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0993/9309012.html
[11] “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s”
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/zionist_plan.html
[12] Neo-Jacobins Push For World War IV
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts8.html