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The Neocons… They're Back Published by Americans for The Link Middle East Understanding, Inc. Volume 45, Issue 3 Link Archives: www.ameu.org July-August 2012 The Neocons… They’re Back By John Mahoney The Link Page 2 AMEU Board About This Issue of Directors Jane Adas (Vice President ) The names of those pictured on our refugee camp, when a 15-year-old stone- Elizabeth D. Barlow front cover are, on the left, from top to throwing Palestinian told a Wall Street Edward Dillon bottom: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, I. Journal reporter that he’d like to become Lewis Libby, and Douglas Feith; and on a doctor. Inspired by that account, Fahim, Rod Driver the right, from top to bottom: David a Palestinian-American living in Virginia, John Goelet Wurmser, William Kristol, John Bolton, along with his wife Nancy, founded the David Grimland and Michael Ledeen. Hope Fund. By the time of his death on Richard Hobson ( Treasurer ) April 16 of this year, the Hope Fund had Each of the above played a prominent made it possible for 32 impoverished Pal- Anne R. Joyce role in the buildup to the U.S. war in Iraq, estinian refugees from the West Bank, Hon. Robert V. Keeley as detailed in our Sept.-Oct. 2004 Link Gaza, Jordan and Lebanon to obtain un- Kendall Landis “Timeline for War.” Eight years later, dergraduate education at American col- Robert L. Norberg (President ) Americans are again being told that an- leges. We are pleased to note that, as a other Middle East country is threatening Hon. Edward L. Peck result of Fahim’s Link article, the Hope us — and Israel. Donald L. Snook Fund received substantial support from Rosmarie Sunderland Those who pushed for regime change our readers. in Iraq are now pushing for regime James M. Wall All our Link issues going back to 1968 change in Iran by all necessary means, are now archived on our website and including force. They are commonly re- AMEU National easy to download. So it was of interest to Council ferred to as neoconservatives, or neo- us—and of no little surprise—to learn cons, and while our cover title proclaims Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr. that the most downloaded issue is our they’re back, truth is, they never went William R. Chandler April-May 1998 Link “The Jews of Iraq” by away. Kathleen Christison Naeim Giladi. In his opening paragraph, Paul Findley Sylvia Schwarz is a member of the In- Naeim, born an Iraqi Jew, says he is writ- Moorhead Kennedy ternational Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. ing because he wants to tell Americans, Ann Kerr On page 14 she tells AMEU president Bob and especially American Jews, “that Jews Nancy Lapp Norberg about her organization. For from Islamic lands did not emigrate will- George E. Mendenhall those who may feel a bit depressed after ingly to Israel; that, to force them to reading our feature article, I urge you to Mary Norton leave, Jews killed Jews; and that, to buy visit the IJSN website: www.ijsn.net. Don W. Wagner time to confiscate ever more Arab lands, Jews on numerous occasions rejected Miriam Ward, RSM Our video selection is found on page genuine peace initiatives from their Arab 15. Due to space limitations, we were un- Executive Director able to include our book page in this is- neighbors.” sue. Our complete catalog of books, in- Naeim put his body where his words cluding several that are now out-of-print, AMEU ( ISSN 0024-4007 ) are and left Israel, bringing his family to grants permission to may be found on our recently redesigned America, where he worked as a security reproduce material from The website: www.ameu.org. guard. For the preparation of his article, Link in part or in whole. * * * he invited three of us from AMEU to his AMEU must be credited and modest home in White Stone, New York. one copy forwarded to our Sadly, we report the deaths of two But before we could talk about the arti- office at 475 Riverside Drive, previous Link writers: Fahim Qubain and Room 245, New York, New cle, his wife Rachael, also from Iraq, York 10115-0245. Tel. 212- Naeim Giladi. treated us to a multi-course Arabic meal. 870-2053; Fax 212-870- Fahim’s Link (“One Man’s Hope,” Jan.- “It’s our Arab culture,” Naeim said 2050; E-mail: proudly. [email protected]; Website: March 2007) began with an incident that took place in Dec. 1987, in a West Bank John Mahoney www.ameu.org. Executive Director The Link Page 3 The Neocons Today Richard N. Perle Our 2004 Link traced Richard Perle’s pivotal role Between June 5 - 6, 2007, an international gath- among the neocons in launching President Bush’s ering called the Democracy & Security Conference invasion of Iraq. Dubbed “The Prince of Darkness,” took place in Prague, the Czech Republic. Sponsored, he was chair of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board in part, by the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies (DPB), which provided the rationale for war and co- in Jerusalem, its List of Participants included Shel- ordinated public opinion both inside and outside the don Adelson, the casino and hotel magnate, worth administration. an estimated $21.5 billion, who, with his wife Miriam, recently gave $22 million to Newt Gingrich’s In 2006, Perle traveled to Libya twice to meet presidential campaign, a campaign in which the for- with Col. Qadhafi. He went as a paid senior adviser mer speaker referred to Palestinians as “an invented to the Monitor Group, a Boston-based consulting people.” firm, whose project was to enhance the profile of Libya and Muammar Qadhafi. Other prominent fig- Other participants included: Natan Sharansky, a ures the Monitor recruited to travel to Libya were member of the Likud party who, in 2006, formed the Princeton Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis and Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies and who, in Nicholas Negroponte, the brother of John Negro- 2009, became chair of the Jewish Agency for Israel, ponte, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and first ever the organization in charge of immigration and ab- director of national intelligence. The Monitor group sorption of Jews worldwide into the Jewish state; charged the government of Libya $250,000 per Richard Perle, former chair of the Bush administra- month ($3-million per year), plus expenses that were tion’s Defense Policy Board during the invasion of not to exceed $2.5 million. Iraq in 2003; Jose Maria Aznar, former prime minis- ter of Spain, who actively encouraged and supported Also in 2006, Perle received a phone call from an the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq; and U.S. Iranian prisoner, a 30-year-old “student” by the Senator Joseph Lieberman, also an outspoken sup- name of Amir-Abbas Fakhravar. From his cell in the porter of the Iraq invasion. notorious Evin prison in Iran, Fakhravar had been phoning the pro-monarchist satellite station in Los There, too, was Reza Pahlavi, identified on the Angeles. How he came by a phone in prison is un- List of Participants as “Opposition Leader to Clerical known. Equally astonishing is his explanation that Regime of Iran.” He is Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the prison authorities, after torturing him, let him son of the deposed Iranian dictator Mohammed Reza out of prison to take a university exam, expecting Shah Pahlavi and heir to the Peacock throne, who him to return voluntarily. Instead, he went on the now lives in Maryland, from where he calls for re- lam for 10 months before showing up in Dubai, gime change in Iran. The American Israel Public Af- where Perle was there waiting for him. fairs Committee (AIPAC ), the major pro-Israel lobby in the U.S., and the conservative Washington D.C. From Dubai, Perle arranged Fakhravar’s entry think tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), into the United States, and commenced his public have both come out for regime change in Iran, and relations tour with a private lunch at the American AIPAC has indicated its support for the return of Enterprise Institute, where the “opposition leader” Reza Pahlavi to the throne. met State Department and Pentagon officials, as well as the neoconservative hawk, Michael Ledeen. Once again the drums of war are beating to top- ple yet another Middle East leader. In our Sept.-Oct. The celebrated dissident was interviewed by 2004 Link “Timeline for War,” we traced the buildup Perle in a 2007 documentary, “The Case for War: In to President Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. Now, in Defense of Freedom,” part of a PBS series “America this issue, we go back to look at the protagonists of at the Crossroads.” In it, Fakhravar called upon that war—often referred to as neoconservatives or Americans to send the Marines into his country to neocons—and we ask what are they up to now? stop the Hitler-like dictators from making nuclear bombs. The Link Page 4 In a Jan. 20, 2007 interview with Ynet, Fakhravar Wolfowitz’s determination to topple Saddam predicted that, if the West did launch a military at- was reinforced by an unlikely foreign national by the tack on Iran, “the top brass will flee immediately … name of Shaha Riza. Paul and Shaha had met in 1999 many of the mid-level officials will shave off their and had become romantically involved, even though beards, don ties, and join the (civilians) in the street.” each at the time was married. A British national and Muslim, with family roots in Libya, Turkey, Syria And in meetings with members of the U.S.- and Saudi Arabia, Shaha held a degree in Interna- Iranian community, Fakhravar said that he respected tional Relations from Oxford University, with a focus Reza Pahlavi and would support the people of Iran if on spreading democracy in Middle Eastern coun- they voted for a constitutional monarchy.
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