FROM: RICHARD MELSON

September 22, 2003

Washington has come to be dominated by a "twisted pair": Israel-based Zionist think tanks in bed with Neo-Con groups in Washington itself. Relentless anti-Arab and anti-Muslim/anti-Third world pseudo-analysis is the staple and the US print and broadcast media are their venue. Access to US media gives access to US government and vice versa.

It is this Zionist/neo-con tie up which is dominant among all pressure groups in Washington and the White House and US Congress quake before it.

One of the key players is the Herzliya-Israel based International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, called ICT for short, founded in 1996.

Some of the main persons behind ICT are:

Board of Directors

Shabtai Shavit Chairman, Board of Directors, former director of the Israeli Intelligence Agency (Mossad) Uriel Reichman President of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Aharon Scherf Former director of Israel’s Foreign Affairs Division and senior official in prime minister’s office

Staff

Executive Team	Dr. Boaz Ganor - Executive Director Dikla Alani - Office Manager Pnina Yarden - Translation & Editing
Educational Outreach	Col. (res.) Jonathan (Yoni) Fighel - Educational Director
Internet Team	Yael Shahar - Web Design & Publishing
Research Team	Reuven Paz - Senior Researcher Dr. Ely Karmon - Senior Researcher
Advisory Team	Adv. Dan Mirkin Israel Sulganik CPA Ronen Zavlic

Board of Trustees

Avner Azulai Executive Director, The Rich Foundation Professor Amatzia Baram University of Haifa and Georgetown University, Associate Professor of Middle East History, and former Chairman of Department of Middle East History, Haifa University, speciality: Iraq General (Ret.) Yanush Ben-Gal Chairman of the Board of Directors, Israel Aircraft Industries Ron Ben-Ishai Military Correspondent, Israel Channel 1 TV Colonel (Ret.) Eliezer Cohen Captain, El Al Airlines Amir Eli Director General, Youth Aliya Institutions, the Jewish Agency General (Ret.) Shlomo Gazit Assistant Chairman, Center for Special Studies. Former Head of IDF Military Intelligence and co-ordinator of Government operations in the Administered Territories Carmi Gillon Israeli Ambassador to Denmark. Former Head of General Security Services Dr. Amnon Goldberg Partner in S. Horowitz & Co. Law Firm Michael Gurdus Israel Broadcasting Authority - Correspondent Michael Kahanov General Manager, Brinks (Israel) Ltd. Professor Ariel Merari Director, Political Violence Research Unit. Founder and Former Head of Hostage Negotiation and Crisis Management Unit, Israel Defense Forces Dr. Yossi Olmert Expert on Middle Eastern Affairs Rafi Peled Former Commissioner of Police Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yigal Pressler Former Advisor to the Prime Minister on Counter-Terrorism Colonel (Ret.) Nahman Shai Chairman, Israel Broadcasting Authority. Former IDF Spokesman Zeev Schiff Military Commentator, "Ha'aretz" Gad Yaacobi Chairman of the Board of Directors, Israel Electric Corporation Major General (Ret.) Eli Zeira Former Director of Military Intelligence, IDF

If you watch "The News Hour" on public TV or listen to National Public Radio, you will frequently hear such boardmemembers as Boaz Ganor, Executive Director of ICT (on "NPR" in recent weeks demanding a civil war among Palestinians) and ICT’s Professor Amatzia Baram of Haifa University, Israel’s Iraq expert, who spent 2003/4 as key theoretician on Iraq at the United States Institute of Peace.(!)

These operatives have learned the trick of "gentility" or "pseudo-gentility" where you try to sound constructive and mild on American TV and radio to flummox the American listener into not understanding the true purposes.

A particular example of an ICT/neo-con tie up in this Zionist/neo-con/media triad is evident to anyone reading the "Boston Herald", say, whose main neo-con theoretician is Don Feder, a supporter, like Sharon, of Milosevich. (Milosevich, the convicted war criminal, is presented by Feder as wonderful because he was heroically facing up to international Islamic terrorism in Kossovo and Albania). In his "Boston Herald" columns,

Feder often quotes his friend Boaz Ganor of the ICT, mentioned and listed above.

In other words, the ICT is a central player in the Zionist/neo-con/media "triple helix" which powers this Israelization of Washington policy.

ICT says of itself:

"The Institute sets its sights on the big picture: to win the war against terrorism and not merely the individual battles. Although ICT provides situational recommendations to the private sector, this is a peripheral activity. The Institute aims to affect policy at the highest levels, in joint cooperation with the world community."

Go to: www.ict.org.il