Richard Melson

The Strategic Dialog Center (SDC) is a think-tank based at Netanya Academic College in Netanya, Israel. Its founding co-chairman is Michael Gorbachev.

The SDC is part of a wider Zionist/neo-con strategy which wants to show the world that Washington decisions are all "vetted", approved, and crafted not by the White House or Congress, who have "outsourced" or "off-shored" this function to Israel and its neo-con operatives. Thus, while much passion and ink is devoted to the outsourcing of "call centers" and software to Bangalore, India, no one discusses this much more historic case, the hand-off of American policy-making to Israel and the neo-cons. Some of the leading and most virulent neo-cons are of course, not themselves Jewish, as in the case of former CIA head, James Woolsey, whose name you see below.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, Powell, et al have been bent to Israel’s will and recently the Pope and UN Secretary Kofi Annan too "genuflected" before Israel. (decrying anti-Semitism is the current codeword or fig leaf for this surrender. Elie Wiesel and Abraham Foxman "accepted" the UN surrender a few days ago)

This signals to the whole world that Israel and the neo-con machinery is "sui generis," the actual power center behind Washington decisions and that therefore, Israel, the Jews, and the neo-cons rule. This is why Israeli leaders keep "changing the game" and putting the world off balance, to show that they decide and the world submits and not the other way.

On 6th May 2003, the SDC held it's first US conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Organized around "Global Terrorism - The Way Ahead", the audience was treated to a wealth of experience from such distinguished speakers as former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt (senior negotiator in the Serbian-Bosnian conflict), former Indonesian President Abdurrachman Wahid, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and former Director of Mossad Danny Yatom. Other eminent speakers included James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA; Louis Freeh, former Director of the FBI; Assaf Hafetz, former Israeli Police Commissioner; Maj Gen (ret) Mansour Abu Rashid from Jordan who recounted his fight against Israel in several wars and how subsequently both countries had established a lasting peace; Steven Emerson, well-known and highly respected journalist who now heads The Investigative Project; as well as many other prominent business leaders and security experts.

Mikhail Gorbachev (co-chair), former President of the USSR.

Ehud Barak (co-chair), former Prime Minister of Israel.

Prince Hassan Bin Tallal of Jordan (co-chair).

Dr. Mustafa Khalil, former Prime Minister of Egypt.

Karl Bildt, former Prime Minister of Sweden.

Sergei Stepashin, former President of Russia.

Frederick W. De Klerk, former President of South Africa.

Abdurrahman Wahid, former President of Indonesia.

Giulio Andreotti, former Prime Minister of Italy.

Berndt Schmidtbauer, former German Intelligence Minister.

Dan Meridor, former Israel Government Minister.

Danny Yatom, MK, Maj.Gen.(ret),former Mossad chief.

Louis Freeh, former FBI director, USA.

Ya’akov Perry, former Shin Bet chief.

Sandy Berger, former US presidential adviser on National Security.

Martin Indyk, former US Ambassador to Israel.

Edwin Core, director international program, University of Oklahoma.

Ari Shuali, Dr. Giora Eliraz, Dr. Mishka Ben David, Dr. Shmuel Bar, former Mossad officials.

Att. Yehoshua Horesh Tel Aviv.

Att. Ram Caspi Tel Aviv.

Att. Yehuda Raveh Jerusalem.

Att. Zaki Kamal Dalyat al-Karmel.

Cmdr (ret) Arieh Amit, Cmdr (ret) Gabi Last, Commissioner (ret) Assaf Hefetz, former Israel Police Commissioner.

David Altman, vice president for development, Netanya College.

Dr. Moshe Amirav, public policy expert, Haifa University.

Aviva Palter, Netanya College

Dr. Muli Peleg, strategic affairs expert, Netanya College.

Dr. Nitza Nahmias, international treaties expert, Haifa University.

Dr. Reuven Pedatzur, strategic affairs expert, Netanya College.

Gen. Mansour Abu-Rashid,, director Peace and Development Center, Jordan.

Lt. Gen (ret) Moshe Levi, former IDF Chief of Staff.

David Ivry, Maj.Gen.(ret), former Israel Ambassador to Washington.

Maj.Gen.(ret) Yomtov Samya, Maj.Gen.(ret) Ya’akov Amidror. Menashe Raz journalist.

Moshe Keret, director Israel Aircraft Industries.,

Moshe Ortasse, Bsc aircraft expert

Yitzhak Mayer, former Israel Ambassador to Switzerland.

Prof. Aharon Kleiman, Political Science Dept.,Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Aristide Zollberg, University of New York.

Prof. Avi Ben-Zvi, Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Bernard Pinchuk, rector Netanya College.

Prof. Dan Diner, historian, Hebrew University Jerusalem.

Prof. David Singer, University of Michigan.

Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor, director International Security Research Center, Haifa.

Prof. Galia Golan, Hebrew University Jerusalem.

Prof. Harvey Starr, Political Sciences Dept., Boston College, USA.

Prof. Mark Jurgenmeyer, University of California.

Prof. Peter Wallenstein, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Prof. Shaul Mish’al, oriental studies expert, Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Shlomi Michaels, Columbia University, NY.

Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Israeli Foreign Minister.

Prof. Sinai Deutsch, rights laws expert, dean Law School, Netanya College.

Prof. Theodor Postol, MIT.

Prof. William Gameson, Sociology Dept., University of South Carolina.

Prof. Yosef Ginat, oriental studies expert, Haifa University, former PM adviser.

Prof. Ze’ev Ma’oz, head School of Government, Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Zvi Arad, mathematician, president of Netanya College.

Poju Zabludowicz, London.

Shmuel Dankner, Dankner Investments.

Yitzhak Teshuva, Delek Company.

Yossi Ackerman, president Elbit Company.

Jerry and Michael Feldman, GP Strategies USA.

Dr. Shlomo Kalish, Jerusalem Ventures,

Elisha Yanai, president Motorola.

Claude Breitman, Architect.

Arthur Birch, ECSI International USA.

Aubrey Balkind, USA.

Trevor Chinn, London.

Trevor Spiro, Spiro Group, UK.