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Pro-Israel Advisors, Who Are They?

By Mohammed Alomari

Updated September 12, 2002


The key to seeing the level of the Israeli lobby's influence on the
George Walker Bush (Bush Jr) Administration is watching the
appointments of the following Israelis and pro-Israel Jewish advisors
to posts in the White House or other Executive Branch Positions.

It is the war-mongering of many of these pro-Israeli advisors that is
driving all the hype of wanting to go to war against Iraq. The Israeli
lobby wants the United States to do Israel's dirty work by fighting
its proxy war against Iraq.

The reality of the situation is that no one in Washington, whether in
the Pentagon (top military brass, joint chiefs, etc) or in Congress,
wants this Israeli proxy war against Iraq. Only those connected to the
Israeli lobby want this war.

It is very important to know the identity of these pro-Israeli
officials within the administration in order to understand who is
behind this war-mongering and realizing that is serving Israeli
interests, not American interests.

It is unfortunate that Bush has picked these people to these top
posts. The sad fact for him is that in the instant that he decides not
to go to war against Iraq, the Israeli lobby will bring him down, like
they did to his father, a decade earlier.

Note: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is one of the
Israeli lobby's "think tank." Many of the Israeli lobby's "experts"
come from this front group, like Martin Indyk.

1). 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 is one of the leading pro-Israeli fanatics leading this Iraq war
mongering within the administration and now in the media.

2). Paul Wolfowitz----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 is the number two leader within the
administration behind this Iraq war mongering.

3). 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, like Perle and Wolfowitz, are campaigning hard for this Israeli
proxy war against Iraq.

4). 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.

5). 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 had a
part in the Watergate crimes, Southeast Asia mass murders, Chile
dictatorship, and more recently served as Serbian Dictator Slobodan
Milosevic's Advisor. He consistently advocates going to war against
Iraq. Kissinger is the Ariel Sharon of the U.S.

6). Dov Zakheim----Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller, and Chief
Financial Officer (CFO) for the Department of Defense. He is an
ordained rabbi and reportedly holds Israeli citizenship. Zakheim
attended 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.

7). 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 supports 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 hatred or stupidity, 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.

8). I. Lewis Libby -----Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff.
The chief pro-Israel Jewish advisor to Cheney, it helps explains why
Cheney is so gun-ho to invade Iraq. Libby is longtime associate of
Wolfowitz. Libby was also a lawyer for convicted felon and Israeli spy
Mark Rich, whom Clinton pardoned, in his last days as president.

9). 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.

10). 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.

11). 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.

12). 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 advocates going to war against Iraq.
Haass is also a member of the Defense Department's National Security
Study Group, at the Pentagon.

13). 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 setting up a Vichy-style
puppet government. He consistently advocates going to war against
Iraq.

14). Ari Fleischer----Official 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.

15). 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 supports going to war
against Iraq. Schlesinger is also a commissioner of the Defense
Department's National Security Study Group, at the Pentagon.

16). 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.

17). Michael Chertoff ----Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal
Division, at the Justice Department.

18). Joshua Bolten----Bush's Chief Policy Director, banker and former
legislative aide. Prominent in the Jewish community.

19). Steve Goldsmith----Senior Advisor to the President, and Bush's
Jewish domestic policy advisor. He also serves 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.

20). Adam Goldman-----White House's Special Liaison to the Jewish
Community.

21). 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.

22). 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, Linda Chavez, and reportedly very pro-Israel.
Their children are being raised Jewish.

23). Mark Weinberger-----Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax
Policy.

24). Samuel Bodman-----Deputy Secretary of Commerce. He was the
Chairman and CEO of Cabot Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts.

25). Bonnie Cohen-----Under Secretary of State for Management.

26). 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).

27). Lincoln Bloomfield-----Assistant Secretary of State for Political
Military Affairs.

28). Jay Lefkowitz-----General Counsel of the Office of Budget and
Management.

29). David Frum-----White House speechwriter.

30). Ken Melman-----White House Political Director.

31). Brad Blakeman------White House Director of Scheduling.

32). Colin Powell-----Secretary of State, ex-chairman of Joint Chiefs
of Staff, of Jamaican origin, he has one Jewish ancestor on his
father's side. He grew up in a heavily Jewish-populated neighborhood
in New York, and speaks Yiddish. The first day of being picked
(12/16/2000) he said he wanted to toughen sanctions on Iraq, and will
work to "re-energize the sanctions regime," even though he knows the
embargo has killed 2 million Iraqi civilians.

Now that Bush has hired these pro-Israel Jewish lobbyists to the
highest positions in the land, they have escalated the fanatical
war-mongering against Iraq, all the while they support the Israeli
war-criminal Sharon in his terrorism and mass-killings of Palestinian
civilians. It seems that the price of the acheiving the White House
involves selling out to the Israeli lobby, much like Clinton, before
him.

There are some hopeful signs coming out of the adminstration, however.
Despite this strong pro-Israeli presence within the administration, it
seems that Bush has not yet jumped on their band-wagon, and instead is
listening to the sensible leaders and advisors, like the Pentagon's
military brass, the U.S. intelligence community, other groups within
the federal government, as well as from America's friends and allies
around the world. No one wants this war except Israel, its agents, and
its lobbies around the world.

The question that remains unanswered is, will the Israeli lobby use
(or create) some scandal to blackmail Bush into attacking Iraq, like
they used Monica Lewinsky against Clinton to force him to launch
"Operation Desert Fox," in December 1998? Watch how many of the media
outlets and some politicians are blaming Bush for the all the
corporate scandals and the huge recession the U.S. is going through.

What Bush needs to do is use some common sense, and have some courage
to stand up to these pro-Israel bullies, and act in the best interests
of America, and not Israel. The first act for Bush should be to
replace these pro-Israeli fanatics with patriotic Americans.

That's all for now. Check back for more updates
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