Real History and the "War on Terror": "Al-Quds al-Arabi London, Wednesday, 26 February 2003. | American General Garner, candidate for Governor of Iraq, has close ties to the Zionist lobby
London: It is reported that the American General Jay Garner, the candidate to take over the post of civil administrator in Iraq after the change in regime, is close to the Zionist lobby and the ruling Likud party in Israel.
American Deputy Defense Secretary for Political Affairs, Douglas Feith, recently declared in testimony before the American Senate Foreign Relations Committee that retired general Jay Garner will head the department in charge of reconstruction and human assistance for Iraq in the Pentagon which will take on three chief tasks after the war in that country. They are: Civil administration, Humanitarian assistance, Reconstruction.
Feith said in his testimony that General Garner will take over supervision of work inside Iraq in coordination with the Central Military Command that will run the war in Iraq.
Intelligence Review magazine reports that General Garner has strong ties with prominent personalities in the camp of pro-Israeli hawks in Congress, and that he has ties with the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). Garner was one of 26 military men who visited Israel recently, who issued a statement that stressed the importance for the United States of the Jewish state's security, and said that a strong Israel represents a reserve that military planners and political leaders in the United States can count on."
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Friday, December 13, 2002
Real History and Sinister Dual Loyalties in Washington
Real History and Sinister Dual Loyalties in Washington: "A Rose By Another Other Name The Bush Administration's Dual Loyalties by KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISON former CIA political analysts December 13, 2002
SINCE the long-forgotten days when the State Department's Middle East policy was run by a group of so-called Arabists, U.S. policy on Israel and the Arab world has increasingly become the purview of officials well known for tilting toward Israel.
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The link between active promoters of Israeli interests and policymaking circles is stronger by several orders of magnitude in the Bush administration, which is peppered with people who have long records of activism on behalf of Israel in the United States, of policy advocacy in Israel, and of promoting an agenda for Israel often at odds with existing U.S. policy. These people, who can fairly be called Israeli loyalists, are now at all levels of government, from desk officers at the Defense Department to the deputy secretary level at both State and Defense, as well as on the National Security Council staff and in the vice president's office.
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Others among the neo-con policymakers have been more direct and open in expressing their pro-Israel views. Douglas Feith has been the most prolific of the group, with a two-decade-long record of policy papers, many co-authored with Perle, propounding a strongly anti-Palestinian, pro-Likud view. He views the Palestinians as not constituting a legitimate national group, believes that the West Bank and Gaza belong to Israel by right, and has long advocated that the U.S. abandon any mediating effort altogether and particularly foreswear the land-for-peace formula.Real History and Sinister Dual Loyalties in Washington
SINCE the long-forgotten days when the State Department's Middle East policy was run by a group of so-called Arabists, U.S. policy on Israel and the Arab world has increasingly become the purview of officials well known for tilting toward Israel.
...
The link between active promoters of Israeli interests and policymaking circles is stronger by several orders of magnitude in the Bush administration, which is peppered with people who have long records of activism on behalf of Israel in the United States, of policy advocacy in Israel, and of promoting an agenda for Israel often at odds with existing U.S. policy. These people, who can fairly be called Israeli loyalists, are now at all levels of government, from desk officers at the Defense Department to the deputy secretary level at both State and Defense, as well as on the National Security Council staff and in the vice president's office.
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Others among the neo-con policymakers have been more direct and open in expressing their pro-Israel views. Douglas Feith has been the most prolific of the group, with a two-decade-long record of policy papers, many co-authored with Perle, propounding a strongly anti-Palestinian, pro-Likud view. He views the Palestinians as not constituting a legitimate national group, believes that the West Bank and Gaza belong to Israel by right, and has long advocated that the U.S. abandon any mediating effort altogether and particularly foreswear the land-for-peace formula.Real History and Sinister Dual Loyalties in Washington