FROM: RICHARD MELSON

December 20, 2003

The fundamental technique of the Neo-con Zionists is to cloak what their real intentions are—namely the overthrow of the current world system to be replaced by an Israel-American dominated "new world order"—in progressive gentility, benevolence and altruism.

Spokesmen like Bernard Lewis of Princeton (Cheney’s Arab and Muslim expert), Richard Perle of the Defense Policy Board, Douglas Feith, Undersecretary to Wolfowitz, always speak in dulcet tones about Arab and Muslim prospects, about how they admire Arabs and Muslims, always speaking "more in sorrow than in anger." Consider the Feldman/Feith team:

Noah Feldman, a professor at the New York University School of Law, has been named senior advisor for constitutional law in the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) for post-war Iraq.

Feldman is an Orthodox Jew. Born in Boston in 1970, he earned a D.Phil. in Islamic thought from Oxford University in 1994.

He serves as Professor since 2001 and is considered, by those who find it useful to do so, as the country’s leading expert on "Islam and democracy".

Feldman is also the author of After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, April 2003), in which he proposes that Islam and democracy are viable, and that the West — particularly the United States — should work to bring it about.

This is a perfect "setup" for Feith and company. An Orthodox Jewish expert with impeccable academic credentials sees no conflict between Islam and democracy. This means Feldman is the perfect constitutional expert for Arab and Muslim countries and it’s all carried out in a benign, sage-like, scholarly environment so nobody grasps the true nature of what Feith wants. If Islam and democracy were incompatible, then how could one hope to transform the Arab and Muslim worlds…it’s precisely that experts like Feldman believe the US begin the process of bringing democracy to these "wonderful people", that gives Feith and the neo-con Zionists the "global can-opener" they seek.

They can "take the high ground" and use "progressive" pro-Islam/pro-Arab arguments, cloaked in a well meaning, "genteel"presentation, to topple governments at will "because the Arabs and Muslims, being wonderful, deserve so much more".

What the neo-con Zionist have done—this is one of their fundamental tricks—is to paint themselves as avuncular reformers, humanitarian activists trying to help the world but what they really want is:

1. as many dead Arabs and Muslims as possible. Ben Wattenberg expressed this "demographic anxiety" in his book "The Birth Dearth".
2. Turmoil on a world scale to break up the current world system in favor of a "new world order" led by an Israel-American partnership. (the Iraq War was to be step one in this march). Turmoil also leads to enhanced weapons sales for Israel.
3. Maximum square miles for Israel. Maximum number of Jews in Israel. (Jackson-Vanik Amendment of 1974 to be strengthened to force Russia to "cough up" remaining Jews for Israel", to settle in the Territories, of course.
4. Death for the Roadmap, Abdullah Plan, etc. Jordan-is-Palestine.
5. Make "big bucks" on the side via Richard Perle’s companies like Trireme partners.

Points 1-5 above are concealed behind "gentility tricks" and scholastic giftwrappings.

An ally like Feldman also empowers Feith to rev up the "Israelization of Iraq". This is temporarily on hold but the idea is that their man, Ahmad Chalabi will come to power and recognize Israel and also rebuild the Mosul to Haifa oil pipeline. ( Noah Feldman was on "National Public Radio" in recent days.)

Another "angle of attack" by Feith and the neo-cons is in the oil area, expressed by the non-Jewish neo-con ally James Woolsey:

"The wealth produced by oil underlies the power of the three totalitarian movements in the Middle East that have chosen to make war on us: the ruling Iraqi Baathists and Iranian mullahs, and al Qaeda, which was spawned by Saudi money. [..] We are at war. We should start by asking what we can do, as soon as possible, to undercut our enemies' power. Other considerations should now follow, not lead. [..] If we do not act now, we will leave major levers over our fate in the hands of regimes that have attacked us or have fallen under the sway of fanatics who spread hatred of the U.S., and indeed of freedom itself. [..] For all of them, their power derives from their oil. It is time to break their sword."
R. James Woolsey, CIA Director, 1993-95, Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2002

One of the main organizations trying to achieve this neo-con goal of getting the oil wealth away from Arabs and Muslims is the IAGS:

Their current favorite book is:

Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Its Soul for Saudi Crude
by Robert Baer

One of their main "top guns" is the Professor Eliot Cohen, Wolfowitz’s close "buddy":

Eliot Cohen is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University. He graduated Harvard College in 1977 in government (political science) and received his Ph.D. there in the same subject in 1982. From 1982 to 1985 he was Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard, and Assistant Dean of Harvard College. In 1985 he became a member of the Strategy Department of the United States Naval War College. In February 1990 he joined the Policy Planning Staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he worked on a range of issues, including force planning and regional conflict, and in July of that year he was appointed professor of strategic studies at SAIS.
Eliot Cohen authored Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (Free Press, 2002,)

This is the same person who helped finalize Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. In the same way that Netanyahu’s book "Terrorism: How the West Can Win" was "assigned" to Ronald Reagan in 1986, Eliot Cohen’s "Supreme Command" was a "homework assignment" for Bush before the Iraq War. Conversations about this book between Bush and Cohen helped clinch Bush’s war decision.

The neo-con Zionist trick is: frame everything in terms of nurturant and reformist gentility and then show Bush that he also need not suffer from the problem his dad called mockingly, "the vision thing". Thus the neo-con Zionists are basicallly skilled "political psychiatrists".