In June of 2018, Alison Weir described how Israel partisans in the Bush administration played a central role in pushing the U.S. into the disastrous Iraq war.
See the following resources and citations:
- Israel loyalists embedded in U.S. government pushed U.S. into Iraq War by Alison Weir, If Americans Knew, October 19, 2021
- White Man’s Burden by Ari Shavit, Ha’aretz, April 3, 2003
- Perles of Wisdom for the Feithful by Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz, October 1, 2002
- The Bush Neocons and Israel by Kathleen and Bill Christison, Counterpunch, December 2002
- Neo-Cons, Israel and the Bush Administration by Stephen Green, Counterpunch, February 2004
- The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel by Dr. Stephen J Sniegoski
- The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
Additional Resources:
- Oil for Israel: The Truth about the Iraq War, 15 Years Later by Gary Vogler. This oil insider writes of the Iraq war: “The oil agenda I discovered and experienced was to supply Iraq oil to Israel.” The players were the neocons in the Bush Administration… Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Lewis Libby, Marc Zell, and others…
Some additional books with information on this topic:
- Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market by Janine R. Wedel. Wedell discusses the “massive and concerted ’information’ effort conducted by the Neocon core and their associates, with crucial participation from certain columnists and reporters, that was essential in taking the United States to war in Iraq…Beginning in the mid-1970s, they employed methods ranging from the creation of alternative intelligence; to might-be-authorized, might-not-be authorized diplomacy; to setting up pressure groups; to suspending standard government process, always contesting government information, assessments, and expertise. These methods—perfected over the years—would be deployed in full force in the Neocon core’s effort to take the United States to war in 2003.”
- Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton by Diane Johnstone. Johnstone states: “…the neocons gained notoriety as architects of the disastrous invasion of Iraq. The main thinker behind this war was Bush’s Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Paul Wolfowitz…Two veterans of the defunct PNAC, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, returned in 2009 to found the Foreign Policy Institute (FPI). Robert Kagan is the current leading neocon theorist and the husband of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, instigator of the Ukrainian coup in early 2014.”
For information on the early roots of the Israel lobby, please see
- Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel by Alison Weir “Few Americans today are aware that US support enabled the creation of modern Israel. Even fewer know that US politicians pushed this policy over the forceful objections of top diplomatic and military experts.”
More information:
- Neoconservatives Articles from former CIA analysts, Pentagon officers, and journalists describing the activities of these increasingly powerful individuals. If there is anything that Americans should inform themselves on, it is this growing Israeli-centric influence on American policies.
- War on Iran? Is Iran Next? A list of articles, including Shahak’s important report, “Israel versus Iran” from Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and Foreign Policies, describing events that appear to forebode another American “preemptive war” – this time on Iran.
UPDATE:
On December 11, Code Pink said they would post Alison’s testimony on their website. Although we are disappointed that this information was not included in the live-feed testimonies given on Dec. 1–2 in Washington DC, covered by some news media, we’re pleased that it will be on their site.
Alison Weir is executive director of If Americans Knew, a think tank that provides information on Israel-Palestine, and president of the Council for the National Interest.
Following her trip as a freelance reporter to Gaza and the West Bank in early 2001, Alison founded If Americans Knew; she has since researched this issue intensively, travelled to the Middle East every few years, and has written a best-selling and meticulously sourced book on the history of the US-Israel relationship: Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the US Was Used to Create Israel.
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