--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > Who are all these Jewish neocons, besides wolfowitz? > > > > ************** > > There are many Jewish intellectuals, most famously Noam Chomsky, who > are opposed to U.S. support for Israel, but it is clear that the > Bush administration is heavily influenced by radical Zionists: > > "Richard Perle, chairman of Bush's quasi-official Defense Policy > Board, co-authored a 1996 paper with Douglas J. Eeith for the Likud > Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Entitled "A Clean Break: A New > Strategy for Securing the Realm," it advised Netanyahu to make "a > clean break from the peace process." Feith now holds one of the most > important positions in the Pentagon-deputy-under-secretary of > defense for policy. He argued in the National Interest in Fall 1993 > that the League of Nations mandate granted Jews irrevocable > settlement rights in the West Bank. In 1997, in "A Strategy for > Israel," Feith called on Israel to re-occupy "the areas under > Palestinian Authority control" even though "the price in blood would > be high." On Oct. 13, 1997, Feith and his father were given awards > by the right-wing Zionist Organization of America, which described > the honorees as "the noted Jewish philanthropists and pro-Israel > activists." > The radical Zionist right to which Perle and Feith belong is small > in number but it has become a significant force in Republican > policymaking circles. It is a recent phenomenon, dating back to the > late 1970s and 1980s, when many formerly Democratic Jewish > intellectuals joined the broad Reagan coalition. While many of these > hawks speak in public about global crusades for democracy, the chief > concern of many such "neo-conservatives" is the power and reputation > of Israel. William Kristol, editor of the right-wing Weekly > Standard, explained the reason for the rhetoric about global > democracy to the Jerusalem Post (July 27, 2000): "I've always > thought it was best for Israel for the U.S. to be generally engaged > and generally strong, and then the commitment to Israel follows from > a general foreign policy." > The liberalism and Democratic partisanship of most Jewish Americans > forces the Zionist right to find its popular constituency, not in > the Jewish community itself, but in the Protestant evangelical right > of Pat Robertson and others many of whose members share the > Christian Zionism of the early British patrons of Israel. In 1995, > after I exposed the anti-Semitic sources of Pat Robertson's theories > about a two-century-old Judaeo-Masonic conspiracy in an essay in The > New York Review of Books, Norman Podhoretz, the editor of > Commentary, denounced me rather than Robertson. Podhoretz conceded > that Robertson's statements about Jewish conspiracies were anti- > Semitic but argued that, in the light of Robertson's support for > Israel, he should be excused according to the ancient rabbinical > rule of batel b'shishim. > > http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/Israel_Lobby_US.html >
It would be quite a sight to see Perle and his ilk handed guns and pushed to the front lines of war- pissing their pants and blubbering like babies. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
