Richard Melson

The Israelization of Washington Policy: Neo-Con Mechanisms

By Richard Melson

One of the main Israel-to-Washington "think tanks" is the

Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS).

IASPS has very strong ties to Richard Perle and Douglas Feith and the Washington branch office is a major neo-con hub today.
This IASPS cooperated with Perle and Feith on the "A Clean Break" document that was published with IASPS in 1996 and became the basis for the Bush Iraq War in 2003.
If you read the following IASPS mission statement below, you will see mention of this quite clearly…I have emboldened the relevant paragraphs:

The Institute's Mission – Apparent and Actual in a Nutshell
The apparent aim of IASPS is to develop strategic and allied policies dedicated to maintaining the existence of Israel.
But this conflicts with the main policies of Israel – all founded in socialism. Israel and Jews are anti-capitalist and anti-nationalist – in principle but also in historical experience.
Whether it is the principle against national existence or creating the factors that incapacitate nations, Jewish history is the history of a non-national people.
IASPS's attempts to change this, in Israel by programs and policies favoring markets, and in the U.S. by pointing to the anti-Semitic effects of socialism, have realized substantial success. Still, the fact is Israel is on the path of national extinction. This fact is most notably evident in the peace process.

Conclusion: IASPS should intensify its market policy program in Israel. But this will not be enough.
To maintain Israel's existence in the face of the points above, IASPS has adopted an indirect approach: to develop strategic policies world-wide and particularly for the U.S., effecting reform of Israel and maintaining the existence of the U.S.
What helps the U.S. strategically helps Israel. For example, IASPS devised IEDC in 1991-1994, and crafted the Mideast "vision the Bush administration…honed at least since 1996, with the writing of a paper entitled 'A Clean Break,'" which became U. S. policy in 2003. (Bryan Bender, Janes)
But note what all the newsmen missed: IASPS encouraged its Iraq strategy based on Israel doing the fighting in exchange for the U.S. forcing Israel to abandon socialism by ending aid. In these two vital respects, fighting and aid, the U.S. did not do what is best for Israel and itself.

Conclusion: Israel is the Advanced Case of U.S. decline. Israeli policies in support of democracy – which in its purpose and effect means anti-capitalism and anti-nationalism, a World State – now undermine America's national existence. These policies in favor of a world-wide democracy – multiculturalism, Muslim immigration, diversity, and others linked to these, all rooted in the equality of murder and killing – in effect to suicide-bombing, are among the nine candles of American Jews.
Conclusion: the actual aim of IASPS is the reform of America in the interest of Western societies or what can sustain nations in Judeo-Christian foundations.
This shows you how pathological the Israel/Washington/neo-con triadic relationship has become.
Some IASPS principals describe themselves as follows:

WHO & WHEN?

IASPS-Jerusalem was founded in 1984 by its president, Professor Robert J. Loewenberg. Loewenberg founded IASPS after making aliyah to Israel from the U.S., where he remains a citizen. Loewenberg took his Ph.D from Yale University in 1972 after several years of teaching at Hotchkiss Prep School in Lakeville, Connecticut. Prior to that, he attended Columbia University (BA 1962), which he attended after three years in the U.S. Navy. Before immigrating to Israel, Loewenberg was a tenured professor at Arizona State University. His published books and monographs include The Peace Process: An Introductory Essay (part 1); The Israeli Fate of Jewish Liberalism (with Edward Alexander); Emerson, An American Idol; Freedom's Despots; and Equality on the Oregon Frontier. He has edited other books and contributed to collections on a wide range of subjects including SDI, foreign aid and economic policy, and has also published numerous articles in scholarly journals as well as oped! s in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Times, Insight Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. He oversees all IASPS activities. William R. Van Cleave is the director of the Division for Research in Strategy. Professor Van Cleave is currently the Head of the Defense and Strategic Studies Department at Southwest Missouri State University. Prior to arriving at Missouri he was Professor of International Relations and Director of the Defense and Strategic Studies Program at the University of Southern California from 1967-87. Professor Van Cleave is a Senior Research Fellow in National Security Affairs at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. His past professional experience includes being a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the USSR, Special Assistant for Strategic Policy and Pla! nning in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, member of the "B-Team" effort to review national intelligence on the USSR and to produce a competitive National Intelligence Estimate and a Member of the Executive Committee of the Committee on the Present Danger. He has also been a consultant to numerous government agencies. From 1979 to 1981 he was Senior Advisor and Defense Policy Coordinator to Ronald Reagan and Director of the Department of Defense Transition Team. Professor Van Cleave is the author of numerous scholarly books and journal articles. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the California State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School
Go to: www.iasps.org

Note: The Committee on The Present Danger, highlighted above, from the 1970's, was an incubator of the neo-con movement and was peopled largely by erstwhile Jewish "lefties" who became "righties" to bend the world for Israel. (Ben Wattenberg of the TV talk show "Think Tank" is an examplar-RM.)

Israelization of Washington Policy, Part II

Richard Melson

Washington has come to be dominated by a "twisted pair":