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Navy Lt. Commander, U.S. intelligence officer and Arabic specialist, a special assistant and translator to Luti.

[Jewish]

President Bush’s chief Middle East adviser on the National Security Council (NSC); unofficial White House liaison to Jewish community on Mid East issues; worked as legal counsel to senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson (1912-83); convicted for false testimony in Iran Contra scandal; conservative views on Jewish identity, once stated: "Outside the land of Israel, there can be no doubt that Jews, faithful to the covenant between God and Abraham, are to stand apart from the nation in which they live. It is the very nature of being Jewish to be apart - except in Israel - from the rest of the population." [25] Condi Rice put Abrams in charge of Middle East policy, now deputy national security adviser 'in charge of the Middle East and democracy promotion'.

Long time staffer for Cheney; close associate of John Bolton; against international law while promoting United States' unilateralism.  [18]

[Jewish]

Billionaire casino mogul who owns Sands and Venetian casino/hotels, describes self as “the richest Jew in the world”, funds Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, placed on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations to the U.S. Trade Representative by President Bush in December 2007. [51], founder and financial backer of Freedom’s Watch, major supporter of AIPAC’s Israel tours for U.S. lawmakers, litigious, hates unions, on Board of Directors for the Republican Jewish Coalition, council member for US Holocaust Memorial Museum.  [50]

An office that seeks to align the foreign policy of the United States with that of Israel by using the establishment of ‘democracy’ as a cover story; Rachel Ehrenfeld president. [23]

“…consistently has ranked among the most powerful special-interest groups in the United States,” [2], alleged site of latest meeting and secrets transfer was Israeli embassy in Washington DC.

Umbrella organization for multiple neo-conservative persons and projects including recruitment and propaganda; sponsors 'NGOWatch'.

[Jewish]

Founder and CEO of Benador Associates, a public relations and media propaganda company; markets neo-cons to the public; works with the Middle East Forum; Her clients include some the nation's most fervid hawks, including Michael Ledeen, CharIes Krauthammer, Al Haig, Max Boot, Daniel Pipes, Richard Perle, and Judith Miller. During the Iraq war, Benador's assignment was to embed this squadron of pro-war zealots into the national media, on talk shows, and op-ed pages." [49]

[Christian]

Worked to block Iran-Contra criminal investigations; was in charge of the State Department's disarmament, proliferation, and WMD office; vociferous critic of the United Nations; nominated by W Bush to be American ambassador to the UN; senior vice-president of AEI; activist in the Federalist Society; frequently criticized for politicizing intelligence. [10] On Iran, June 2007: "we have to look at: 1, overthrowing the regime and getting in a new one that won't pursue nuclear weapons; 2, a last-resort use of force."

[Jewish]

Worked as consultant to AIPAC, staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but forced to resign after caught transferring secrets to AIPAC and a Mossad agent [8], worked with Perle. “Served as head of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a group dedicated to promoting strategic ties between the US and Israel and one in which Perle, Feith and Ledeen have long been active.” [1]

Created by Frank Gaffney in 1988 with the slogan “To promote world peace through American strength”. [24]

Ran Iraqi National Congress (INC) exile group, accused of siphoning information off to Iran and cut-out of the loop, fled Baghdad at the age of 13, in 1958, accused of bank fraud, embezzlement, and currency manipulation, invited by Perle to address the Defense Policy Board.

[Christian]

Dick Cheney's daughter, former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, expressed militant neo-con views and fervent desire of U.S. government to launch attack on Iran as soon as possible at AIPAC conference June 2008, 'Visiting Fellow' at AEI.

[Jewish]

Primarily a self-proclaimed expert on Russia and Central Asia issues at the conservative Heritage Foundation but he's also vocal on Arab/Palestinian issues always with the typical neo-con slant: pro-war, pro-empire, pro-Israel.

Associated with the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Project for the New American Century, and the Defense Policy Board.

Israel Lobby umbrella group that coordinates actions for manipulating U.S. government and social policy to favor the opinions and goals of right-wing Israeli interests. Revealing list: <member organizations>

[Christian ?]

Hawkish, low-visibility but influential on Bush and Cheney serving as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser, specializes in evading and undermining arms-control agreements, advocated military action against Cuba and nuclear strikes against North Korea, promotes U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, consistent supporter of Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy.

President of the American Center for Democracy, an office that seeks to align the foreign policy of the United States with that of Israel by using the establishment of ‘democracy’ as a cover story. [23]

[Jewish]

Lawyer, Under Secretary, Pentagon #3, consultant for Likud party of Israel, “Feith's office enjoyed especially close links with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I Lewis Libby, to whom it "stovepiped" its analyses without having them vetted by professional intelligence analysts in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the DIA, or the State Department Bureau for Intelligence of Research (INR).” and “…served as a Middle East analyst in the National Security Council in the administration of former president Ronald Reagan (1981-89).” [1] Publicly opposed the Biological Weapons Convention, CW, ABM and nuclear weapons treaties and Oslo accord. [8] Feith was once described by General Tommie Franks as "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the Earth." Oversaw the Counterterrorism Evaluation Group that produced a classified report linking Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, a conclusion debunked by reputable analysts. [21]

[Christian]

Operates business magazine Forbes, ran for President in 1996 and 2000, has promoted harsh conservative social and economic policies, worth nearly half a billion dollars, constantly pushes his ‘flat-tax’ plan, supports expanded U.S. military that acts unilaterally, and of course an emphatic supporter of Israel. The neo-con viewpoint matches very closely with Forbes’ explaining why he is a founding member of the Project for the New American Century.

Created September 13, 2001, as the twin towers were still smoldering, FDD claims to be a non-partisan 'think tank' acting to preserve American democracy. Yet, as is so often the case with these groups despite the noble ideals on the masthead the actual agenda is of the Neo-conservative flavor as indicated by a slavishly pro-Israel stance (particularly favoring Israel's Likud party), distinctive anti-Islam discourse, and a tendency to package everything they dislike under the loaded term 'terrorism'. Despite the hollow platitudes FDD is simply yet another public relations office working to boost support for Israel in the United States.
Senator Joseph Lieberman, recently defeated in the Connecticut primary election, is listed on the FDD biographies webpage as a "distinguished adviser", while other people on the list include Kirkpatrick, Kristol, Perle, and many more.

[Jewish]

National director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) “…one of the largest Jewish organizations in North America.” and "The one clear fact that can be agreed upon is that there was a malicious and targeted leak that is more damaging than the actual allegations of Israeli spying - allegations that in all likelihood are baseless," Abraham Foxman. [3]

[Christian]

Accused spy under investigation by FBI, desk officer at Near East and South Asia office of the Pentagon, “devout Christian” [4] Currently on trial for passing secrets to Israel.

Propaganda machine started in August 2007 to maintain political support for continuing the war on Iraq, on “terrorism”, Iran, etc.; works closely with the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) and AEI. Key founder and financial backer: billionaire Sheldon Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corporation; key operators include Matt Brooks, head of the RJC, and Ari Fleischer, former mouthpiece for W. Bush administration. [48] As a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization can legally spend unlimited amounts of money in an election if promoting an issue and not a candidate. [51]

[Jewish]

Former Israeli deputy national security adviser, senior fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center on Science and Int’l Affairs, pushes for U.S. war on Iran.

[Jewish]

Former speechwriter for George W. Bush; notable accomplishments include the ‘Axis of Evil’ speech lumping three disparate nations into one singular threat to America; member of AEI; in 2003 co-authored book An End to Evil with Perle. Frum’s vision for a new world order is startling to say the least, he’s recommend that Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore join NATO and that Japan should build nuclear weapons to scare China into submission. [26]

Worked as an aide to Richard Perle undermining arms control agreements, among other things. Referred to as “Perle's Bulldog” in the Dep’t of Defense. Gaffney is a prolific writer who feverishly pushes the need to expand the United States’ military and to use that force against countries that oppose American interests throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East. Founded the Center for Security Policy (CSP) in 1988 with the slogan “To promote world peace through American strength”. [24]

Iranian Arms dealer, “In December 2001, Rhode and Franklin met in Europe with a shadowy Iranian arms dealer, Manichur Ghorbanifar, who, along with Ledeen, played a central role in the arms-for-hostages deal involving the Reagan administration, Israel and Iran in the mid-1980s that became known as the "Iran-Contra Affair." [1]

[Jewish]

Accused of receiving classified information from Franklin; number two diplomat at the Israeli embassy in Washington.

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, often had meetings with Luti, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, member of the Committee on the Present Danger, former member of Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies member.

[Christian]

Israel boosting apocalypse seeking preacher, Hagee leads the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio Texas, founded lobbyist group Christians United for Israel (CUFI), has stated that "The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching," and "The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God's plan for both Israel and the West... a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation [...] and [the] Second Coming of Christ." [41]

Main White House contact with Ahmad Chalabi's  INC, worked closely with Harold Rhode, senior fellow and deputy director at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy a group founded by AIPAC to influence policy-makers. [18]

Founded by Paul Weyrich and Edwin Feulner with the financial backing of beer baron Joseph Coors, major supporter of Reagan and Bush W administrations and associated panoply of social and military crusades, pioneered a new role for think-tanks by dropping objective research in favor of partisan rhetoric and active manipulation of government policy, called a ‘propaganda mill’ that spends half its $40 million budget on marketing, corporate donors are reported to include Scaife, GM, Ford, Proctor & Gamble, Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Chemical, Mobil Oil, and Smith Kline.

[Jewish]

Horowitz is the classic neocon; supported radical leftists during social turmoil of 60s then did a whiplash inducing shift in ideology to the far right beginning in the 70s. Regardless of the rhetoric the continuing theme throughout Horowitz’s career is an unquestioning support for Israel using whatever means most popular at the moment to push a Zionist agenda. His hot-buttons include supposed censorship of conservative (meaning pro-Zionist and anti-Palestinian) speech at U.S. universities; uses DiscoverTheNetworks.com to attack hated leftists (unions, anti-war activists, etc.); cofounder of Horowitz Freedom Center; editor or NewsMax and FrontPage mag, collected 2005 salary of $352,647 from his Horowitz Center sponsored by Sarah Scaife, Bradley, and Olin foundations. More at: David Horowitz Profile.

Founded by Herman Kahn, an infamous and enthusiastic advocate for nuclear warfare, The Hudson Institute has now been eclipsed in influence by AEI but was once the equivalent neo-con factor in U.S. politics, currently focuses on security issues, leadership has ties to right-wing pro-Israel groups such as Hudson’s chairman of the board Walter P. Stern who is vice president of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a director of the America-Israel Friendship League.

Jewish

Influential Middle East adviser to President Bill Clinton, founded Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), research director for AIPAC, director of Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brooking’s Institute [51].

IASPS is a think-tank based in Jerusalem, most famous for producing notorious 1996 document ‘A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm’ that pressured the Israeli government to dump the peace process and adopt an aggressive posture in favor of attacking neighboring states like Syria and Iraq, Douglas Feith and Richard Perle helped write the 'Clean Break' paper.

Founded in 1992 with the help of a CIA-connected public-relations firm called the Rendon Group. [5]

JINSA is an advocacy group for military cooperation and sponsorship of Israel by the United States, started by Stephen and Shoshana Bryen, Michael Ledeen was the first executive director, Richard Perle is a member of JINSA’s Board of Advisers and a spokesman.

[Jewish]

Associated with PNAC's production, promotes American sponsored wars and a vastly expanded military for the United States as well as the federal spending to go along with it, brother of Robert Kagan, ‘Kagan’ is the Russian equivalent for ‘Cohen’ in English.

[Jewish]

Analyst at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; started Project for the New American Century with William Kristol in 1997 [22], appointed by Elliott Abrams to lead Office of Public Diplomacy in mid 80s to promote support for the Contras in Nicaragua, brother of Frederick Kagan, ‘Kagan’ is the Russian equivalent for ‘Cohen’ in English.

[Christian]

[Jewish]

Chairman of the American Enterprise Institute, chairman of the hedge fund Caxton Associates, Forbes ranked as 85th richest American [42], uses wealth to support the New York Sun newspaper, AEI, influence politicians, and bankroll special interest groups.

[Jewish]

Weekly Standard editor; started Project for the New American Century with Robert Kagan in 1997 [22]; board of trustees member at Manhattan Institute.

[Jewish]

Member of American Enterprise Institute (AEI), has consulting firm 'Benador Associates', on JINSA Board of Advisors with Bryen, consultant for OSP [8] “Since the Iraq war, Feith's office has also lobbied hard within the US government for a confrontational posture vis-a-vis Iran and Syria, including actions aimed at destabilizing both governments - policies which, in addition to the ousting of Saddam, have been strongly and publicly urged by prominent, hardline neo-conservatives, such as Perle, Feith and Perle's associate at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Michael Ledeen, among others.” [1]

[Jewish]

Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, worked as a liaison between Feith's Pentagon policy office that extracted one-sided, unverified  intelligence, and VP Dick Cheney via the White House. Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice but had his prison sentence commuted by President George W. Bush. Libby is suspected of being an intelligence agent working for Israel's Mossad.

[Jewish]

Vocal advocate for military action against Iraq and Iran, labeled the neo-conservative Democrat but aligns with Republicans on foreign policy, member of the Committee on the Present Danger, the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, adviser to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

[Jewish]

Neo-con, runs the New York Sun “a paper that functions as a journalistic SWAT team against individuals and institutions seen as hostile to Israel and Jews,” supposedly a popular read in the ‘think-tank’ crowd. The Sun loses $1 million a month but continuous funding is provided by rich backers. Lipsky’s heroes include Ronald Reagan, “Ze'ev Jabotinsky (the militant Zionist who admired Mussolini), Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon”, founding editor of the Forward newspaper called “the bible for the Yiddish-speaking masses of Manhattan's Lower East Side.” [42]

Protégé of Newt and aide in 1996, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near East affairs, ran cell Office of Special Plans, or OSP inside Pentagon with Wolfowitz and Feith, Luti came to the Pentagon from the office of Vice President Cheney, retired Navy captain.

[Jewish]

Currently a Senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), served as a consultant to Office of the Secretary of Defense, National Security Council, Department of State, and the U.S. military. Edward Luttwak is a notorious freestyle historian and another ‘expert’ on war and international relations, a real piece of work even for the genre with plenty of ‘solutions’ that are great for everyone else but would never apply to anyone he cared about. Luttwak displays the startlingly misapplied intelligence so characteristic of many neo-cons and think-tank spawned advisors that morph from obscure bookish analysts into outspoken advocates that write op-ed pieces and haunt the Sunday morning  TV talk-shows to sell the public and the politicians on self-defeating policies. Luttwak is currently promoting the incitement of ethnic strife and internal divisions inside Iran as a 'solution' to regional problems for the U.S. government. [39]

Funds the Project for the New American Century , the American Enterprise Institute, and the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC). [14]

‘Think tank’ for influencing political decision-making to favor conservative policies; heavy influence of lawyers and wealthy investors; writes policy script for presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani; see also William Kristol, Paul Singer.

The Middle East Forum is a self-described think tank that crafts information to direct the Middle East foreign policy of the United States towards serving the interests of Israel; “a fanatically pro-Zionist white paper mill”. [49] See also: Eleana Benador.

Rogue planning cell; not officially part of the intelligence community  and is thus immune to congressional oversight.

[Jewish]

Worked as chairman of Defense Policy Board (DPB); Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy during Reagan era; worked at AEI; once aide to Senator Henry Jackson; in 2003 co-authored book An End to Evil with Frum.

[Jewish]

Rabid and prolific pro-Israel, anti-Islam writer and speaker; connected to the Middle East Forum;  advises  Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Middle East affairs.

Prominent and outspoken member of AEI, continually promoting war on Iraq, aggression against Iran, torture as state policy, and similar neo-con views. Australian born, member of Committee on the Present Danger, gained experience manipulating U.S. Middle East foreign policy working with Senator Jesse Helms on Senate Intelligence Committee, signatory member of Project for the New American Century.

[Jewish]

[Christian]

Secretary of State, has close ties to AIPAC and speaks at their meetings.

[Jewish]

Former director of foreign policy issues at AIPAC. Public scrutiny forced AIPAC to cut Rosen from staff.

[Christian, Jewish background]

Has worked with Steve Forbes, Rush Limbaugh, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Natan Sharansky, the Heritage Foundation, and many other neo-cons, Formed the consulting company November Communications, written several novels about events in the Middle East based on Biblical prophecies, popular with Christians and Jews, see Epicenter book review below.

[Christian]

[Jewish]

Dedicated Zionist, idolized by neo-cons, Carter and Reagan got Sharansky out of the USSR in spy deal, immediately goes to Israel and becomes active with extreme views and multiple roles in Israeli government, advocates sole Jewish control over Jerusalem and no peace deals with neighbors, wrote book: The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny & Terror, calls U.S. policy a continuum with his friends Abrams, Perle, Feith, Libby, and Wolfowitz all connected through either Senator ‘Scoop’ Jackson or the Reagan administration, Bush’s terrorism speech rhetoric drawn from Sharansky’s own words, board member at Peace Watch, chairman of Coordination Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism (CFCA), more < here >.

Executive director of the Project for the New American Century, wrote book called Silent Warfare with Shulsky.

[Jewish]

Director of OSP, Senate intelligence committee staffer for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, wrote book called Silent Warfare with Schmitt.

[Jewish]

Former corporate lawyer, now the secretive billionaire owner of Elliott Associates hedge fund, started ‘vulture’ style investment funds buying up debt from poor countries and then through lawsuits and interest payments collecting more than the original amount of the loan; funds Rudolph Giuliani’s presidential campaign; Giuliani’s senior policy adviser on the Middle East; advocates bombing Iran, active use of U.S. military force and supporting Israel; JINSA board member [47]; Manhattan Institute trustee.

[Jewish]

Chairman of the Hudson Institute,  Vice President of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and a director of the America-Israel Friendship League.

Founded by Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, The Israel Project (TIP) is yet another front organization manipulating U.S. policy-makers with its donor-based cash machine while promoting Israel as a paragon of peace, equality, and … you know the routine; headquarters in Jerusalem and Washington DC; TIP slogan: “We fight the war of words and images to make our global Jewish family safer.” What’s notable about TIP is the board of advisors that includes Senators Chambliss (R-GA), Coleman, (R-MN), Nelson (D-FL), Santorum (R-PA), Spector (R-PA), Wyden (D-OR), and Representatives Andrews (D-NJ), Berkley (D-NV), Davis (R-VA), Engel (D-NY), Pallone (D-NJ), Porter (R-NV), Saxton (R-NJ), Sherman (D-CA), Wilson (R-SC). Robert and Yadelle Sklare are listed as funding TIP Jerusalem.

A 'think tank' founded by Martin Indyke and AIPAC in the mid 1980s to influence federal policy-makers. See also: John P. Hannah [18] and the Hudson Institute.

Senior Middle East analyst at AIPAC and Iran specialist. Public scrutiny forced AIPAC to cut Weissman from staff.

[Jewish]

Former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Defense in Bush administration, created Pentagon unit to manage all military counter-intelligence operations called Counter Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA) later accused of domestic spying [20], moved into position as President of World Bank. “[I]t is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces and his army - hard to imagine."  - Paul Wolfowitz to a Congressional committee in 2003.

[Christian]

Former CIA director,  co-chairs the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), member of and advisor to Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Chairman of Freedom House. advisor to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), advocates war on Iraq, Iran and Syria, pro-nuclear weapons and U.S. missile dominance, multiple business interests like Benador Associates, is the VP for defense industry consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.

[Jewish]

Director of Middle East studies for AEI, recruited by Feith and Rhode to be Pentagon consultant, wanted U.S. support for the Iraqi National Congress (INC), “spent years calling for a pre-emptive invasion of Baghdad” senior adviser to Undersecretary of State John Bolton [5], wrote 1999 book: ‘Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein’, married to Meyrav Wurmser.

[Jewish]

Director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Hudson Institute, stated that neo-cons used their influence in the Bush administration to block UN pressure to halt Israel's attacks on Hezbollah and Lebanon during the short 2006 war that ultimately ended in retreat after Israel failed to achieve the publicly stated military and political objectives: "The neo-cons are responsible for the fact that Israel got a lot of time and space ... They believed that Israel should be allowed to win." [35], married to David Wurmser.

[Jewish]

The Pentagon's chief financial officer from 2001 to 2004, signed Project for the New American Century, currently (2006) a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. ''In 2003, I don't think anybody predicted it [the war on Iraq] would go as long as World War II and the wear and tear on equipment would be as intense.'' [32]

Former law partner with Feith, served as a spokesman in Israel for the Jewish settler movement on the occupied West Bank.

Self description: “fighting for the Jewish people and the Land of Israel”; works to expunge criticism of Israel and Zionism from public discourse while expanding ties between Israel and the United States, billionaire Sheldon Adelson a major funder.

[Jewish]

Bush W. administration’s deputy secretary of state, former U.S. trade representative, vice chairman of international operations at investment bank Goldman Sachs, former consultant for the Enron corporation, current president of World Bank; pushes hard for ‘free trade’ agreements with particular focus on poor and developing countries.