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He [Douglas Feith] opposed the Camp David Agreements because they meant that
Israel would give up 'Judea and Samaria', as he refers to the West Bank.
Our Website's special correspondent on Middle Eastern affairs reports:
IT SEEMS that there is a little more to the story [of the Pentagon's new special office
for spreading disinformation] than The New York Times saw fit to print.
The NYT noted that the new Office of Strategic Influence would be under General
Simon P. Worden and that Worden, in turn, will report to one Mr. Douglas J. Feith
who, it says, is under Secretary of Defense for policy, and a man with whom Worden
has close ties.
Feith, it seems has some interesting ties of his own, as reported in Arabic by the
Beirut newspaper as-Safir yesterday, February 20, 2002. Writing up the New York
Times story for his Arabic readers the Beirut paper's veteran Washington
correspondent, Hisham Milhem, supplemented it with the following information:
"What the New York Times didn't say about the background of Douglas Feith, the
person politically in charge of implementing the plan, is that he is among the most
intense partisans of Israel in the administration of President Bush (right). He opposed
the Camp David Agreements because they meant that Israel would give up 'Judea
and Samaria' as he refers to the West Bank.
"He claims that the Palestinians do not constitute a people in the recognized sense of
the word, and that Jordan should be their homeland. Feith rejects what he considers
the 'claims' of the Arabs that the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the
Palestinians
who have no homeland. He claims, rather, that inasmuch as the Arabs reject
Zionism that an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories will not solve the
conflict.
"In the eighties and nineties Feith expressed criticism of any American policies that
could be interpreted as pressure on Israel. One example of this was his criticism of
President Bush, senior, when he withheld guarantees for loans to Israel, and
because his administration put pressure on the government of Itzhak Shamir to
participate in the Madrid Conference. Feith advised Washington to demand that the
Arabs 'abandon the principle of land for peace' claiming that this principle will lead
to
the breakup of Israel in stages.
"Feith also demanded that the West Bank and Gaza no longer be described as
representing 20 percent of Palestine as delineated under the British Mandate,
because, he claimed, it is Jordan that represents 80 percent of 'Palestine' in
accordance with the British Mandate.
"Feith rejected the Oslo, Hebron, and Wye Plantation Agreements. He described
Oslo as an agreement that would lead to unilateral Israeli concessions and inflate
Palestinian expectations. Notably, he objected to the Hebron and Wye River
Agreements, despite the fact that these agreements were signed by Benjamin
Netanyahu whom Feith supports and to whom he has given political counsel. Feith,
together with Richard Perle, a former Defense Department official, are among the
most prominent supporters of Israel in Washington. (He works currently as an
adviser to the Defense Department, though he is not considered an employee of it).
"Feith and Perle prepared a political plan for the new Israeli Prime Minister in 1996,
Benjamin Netanyahu. Feith formerly worked with Perle in the Defense Department.
Among proposals tabled by Feith and Perle were 'total withdrawal from the peace
process,' and a reemphasis of Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza
through a rejection of the principle of 'land for peace.'
"Feith is considered one of the most prominent supporters of an attack on Iraq and
the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein. He also calls for punitive measures
against Syria to compel it to pull its military forces out of Lebanon.
"Before joining the Defense Department last year, most of the work done by the legal
office founded by Feith in Washington was limited to representing Israeli companies
and interests, in particular representing Israeli companies that manufacture Israeli
weapons, especially those that undertake joint ventures with American militiary
aircraft and rocket manufacturers.
"In 1989 Feith registered a consulting company that he headed with the Justice
Department as an agent of the Turkish government in order to strengthen military
ties between Washington and Ankara. This step was interpreted in the Turkish press,
however, as of great importance because it reinforced Turkish relations with the
'Jewish Lobby' in Washington."
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