In september 2000 there were still peace negotiations in progress between zionists and palestinians. Ariel sharon sought to provoke palestinian violence because he knew this would make such negotiations more difficult, if not impossible. Sharon had massacred palestinians throughout his adult life. He’d ordered the almost continual bulldozing of palestinian homes, properties, businesses, agricultural land, civic buildings, and utilities’ infrastructure. He also supports the demolition of the al aqsa mosque in jerusalem, the third holiest mosque in islam, to make way for the construction of the third jewish temple in preparation for the coming of the jewish messiah. Every palestinian knew about sharon’s terroristic and mass murdering past. When he took his infamous walk into the al aqsa mosque at the end of september 2000, he knew he could provoke a palestinian riot. Perhaps, he even hoped to re-ignite the palestinian intifada.

When the russians invaded afghanistan in 1979, the first reagan administration financed and armed osama bin laden and other moslem fundamentalist groups to drive the russians out of the country. During this war, osama bin laden set up his al quaeda network and training camps with american approval. After the russians were driven from afghanistan, bin laden turned his attention to america because of its financial, political, technological, and military, support for the zionist state in palestine which has been expropriating palestinian land and brutally massacring palestinians for the last fifty years. He must have been as incensed as the palestinians over sharon’s walk into the al aqsa mosque and the zionists' draconian response to the al aqsa intifada. It is believed that an islamic extremist thought up the idea of the p*ny bombings six years before the event took place, and approached osama bin laden for help. Quite when osama bin laden decided to support the retribution and began making preparations for it are not known. It is possible he may have decided to give the go-ahead for such an audacious attack as a response to sharon's al aqsa provocation. It has been alleged that osama tried to bring forward the p*ny bombings to make his support for the palestinians even more obvious i.e. more difficult for the zionist dominated american media to cover up the motivation for the attack. ..."the attack was conceived as revenge on the United States and American Jews for supporting Israel and the severe oppression of the Palestinians. Bin Laden wanted to move the timing of the operation up to spring of 2001 so as to "punish" the Israelis for their actions against the Palestinians in the second Intifadah. Khalid Shaikh Muhammad was mainly driven in planning the attack by his rage at Israel over the Palestinian issue." (Juan Cole ‘September 11 and Its Aftermath’ http://www.juancole.com/ September 11, 2004).

The issues at stake here are not merely who controls the american administration. After all, if jewish zionists won political power in america on the basis of their political astuteness in exploiting a political system with an inadequate political constitution then nobody would object. It is the fact that zionist-owned politicians, and the zionist-owned media, lied to the american people about the threat posed by saddam hussein. They lied that the war was for the benefit of america when it was for the benefit of the zionist state in palestine, and they lied that the war would make americans safer when it has put them in greater danger than before. In the past, when people were condemned as anti-semites for criticizing the zionist state in palestine, the proposition that zionists dominated american foreign policy, and were driving the country into a proxy zionist war, would have been regarded as beyond the political pale. However, the fact that bush went to war against iraq rather than wage a war on terror, leads to only one conclusion: that jewish zionists, and their allies, forced the american presidency into pursuing a proxy zionist war. Since the invasion of iraq, america has made little headway in the war on terror.

"There is speculation, always, in Washington corridors - not if there ARE any - but HOW many -- high-level Jewish American government officials are Zionist spies ( like the notorious Jonathan Pollard) for Israel." (Chad Powers 'Welcome to Amerisraelistan' The Jewish Tribal Review January 2002 http://jewishtribalreview.org/amerisrael.htm).

The following quote not merely suggests that ariel sharon believes that the zionists possess world domination but that they were responsible for pushing america into the proxy war against iraq, "Every time we do something, you (shimon peres) tell me americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear. Don’t worry about american pressure on israel; we, the jewish people, control america and the americans know it." (Zionist Prime Minister Ariel Sharon October 3, 2001 IAP News).

"America is on the brink of a global war that may well lead us to utter ruin. Cheered on by the Jewish media and the Jewish Lobby, the White House has already launched a series of devastating attacks on Afghanistan. The ultra-powerful Jewish Lobby now screams for a much wider war, a global war to supposedly protect us from terrorism. If the war is widened, it will not save us from terrorism; it will make certain that we suffer from it. It would radicalize and motivate millions of people around the world to support terrorism against America. Make no mistake about it, this war is a war against America! It can only deeply harm our nation and our people! Only Israel benefits from this war. The Zionist warmongers in media and government seek to use America's guns and money to strike devastating blows at Israel's enemies. They also know that the ensuing war fever will shift attention away from Israel's brutal terrorism and suppression against the Palestinian people." (David Duke 'America on the brink. Why we must oppose this Zionist war against America!' http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~bleep/september11/stormfront.html c. Feb 2002).

"No one in authority (in the american administration) will admit a calamitous reality that is skillfully shielded from the American people but clearly recognized by most of the world: America suffered 9/11 and its aftermath and may soon be at war with Iraq, mainly because U.S. policy in the Middle East is made in Israel, not in Washington." (Paul Findley ‘Liberating America From Israel’ http://www.alfredlilienthal.com
/liberating_america_from_israel.htm September 2002).

"Paul W. Schroeder, a veteran diplomatic historian, wrote for the American Conservative magazine on October, 21, 2002, "the unacknowledged real reason and motive behind the policy [is] security for Israel. . . . It would represent something to my knowledge unique in history. It is common for great powers to try to fight wars by proxy, getting smaller powers to fight for their interests. This would be the first instance I know where a great power (in fact, a superpower) would do the fighting as the proxy of a small client state." (Kurt Nimmo ‘Neocon pink slips and the fall of America’ http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/100204Nimmo/100204
nimmo.html October 2, 2004).

The lack of public discussion about the role of Israel in the thinking of "President Bush" is easier to understand, but weird nevertheless. It is the proverbial elephant in the room: Everybody sees it, no one mentions it. The reason is obvious and admirable: Neither supporters nor opponents of a war against Iraq wish to evoke the classic anti-Semitic image of the king's Jewish advisers whispering poison into his ear and betraying the country to foreign interests. But the consequence of this massive "Shhhhhhhhh!" is to make a perfectly valid American concern for a democratic ally in a region of nutty theocracies, rotting monarchies, and worse seem furtive and suspicious. Having brought this up, I hasten to add a few self-protective points. The president's advisors, Jewish and non-Jewish, are patriotic Americans who sincerely believe that the interests of America and Israel coincide. What's more, they are right about that, though they may be wrong about where that shared interest lies. Among Jewish Americans, including me, there are people who hold every conceivable opinion about war with Iraq with every variation of intensity, including passionate opposition and complete indifference." (Michael Kinsley ‘What Bush Isn't Saying About Iraq’ http://slate.msn.com/id/2073093/ Oct. 24, 2002).

"In 2003 the story will be confirmed that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was a secret Israeli plan designed to involve the U.S. long-term in the Arab-Israeli conflict, cynically sold to the Bush White House by neoconservatives as a reelection strategy." (Paul Craig Roberts ‘Predictions for 2003’ http://lewrockwell.com/orig3/predictions.html#roberts c. December 2002).

"Robert Dreyfus, a senior correspondent at The American Prospect, came close in a first class expose on how the Pentagon's "well-placed hawks" are muzzling the CIA so that intelligence data that contradicts the case for war is not presented to the White House. Dreyfus is blunt: "For Perle, Wolfovitz and Feith, an attack on Iraq is a strategic necessity, not because Saddam Hussein is a threat, but because America needs to display an overwhelming show of force to keep unruly Arabs and Muslims all over the world in line." However, Dreyfus still cannot mention the elephant in the room, namely that these well-placed hawks are Jewish-Americans and it is their hard-core Zionism that is shaping American foreign policy. Zionism is fast becoming a poisoned chalice, yet the US is poised for a war largely propelled by its agenda." (Ann Pettifer 'Zionism Unbound' Dissident Voice http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Pettifer_Zionism.htm 11.12.2002).

"But the most critical factor directing U.S. policymaking is the group of Israeli loyalists: neither Christian fundamentalist support for Israel nor oil calculations would carry the weight in administration councils that they do without the pivotal input of those loyalists, who clearly know how to play to the Christian fanatics and undoubtedly also know that their own and Israel's bread is buttered by the oil interests of people like Bush and Cheney. This is where loyalty to Israel by government officials colors and influences U.S. policymaking in ways that are extremely dangerous." (Kathleen and Bill Christison Counterpunch ‘A Rose By Another Other Name: The Bush Administration's Dual Loyalties’ http://www.counterpunch.org/christison1213.html 13.12.2002).

"Most of the vociferously pro-Israeli neo-conservative policymakers in the Bush administration make no effort to hide the fact that at least part of their intention in promoting war against Iraq (and later perhaps against Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and the Palestinians) is to guarantee Israel's security by eliminating its greatest military threats, forging a regional balance of power overwhelmingly in Israel's favor, and in general creating a more friendly atmosphere for Israel in the Middle East. Yet, despite the neo-cons' own openness, a great many of those on the left who oppose going to war with Iraq and oppose the neo-conservative doctrines of the Bush administration nonetheless utterly reject any suggestion that Israel is pushing the United States into war, or is cooperating with the U.S., or even hopes to benefit by such a war." (Bill and Kathleen Christon 'Israel, American Jews, And Bush's War On Iraq. Too Many Smoking Guns To Ignore' Rense.com cJanuary 2003).

"Outside the United States, it is widely understood that one of the true motives - not the exclusive motive but a real and significant one - behind the Bush administration's 2003 invasion of Iraq was the desire of the neocons in Washington to conquer Iraq in order to benefit Israel." (Bill and Kathleen Christison ‘Let's Stop a US/Israeli War on Iran: It's More Important Than Halting Nuclear Proliferation’ http://www.counterpunch.org/christison12292005.html December 29, 2005).

"The suggestion that the war with Iraq is being planned at Israel's behest, or at the instigation of policymakers whose main motivation is trying to create a secure environment for Israel, is strong. Many Israeli analysts believe this. The Israeli commentator Akiva Eldar recently observed frankly in a Ha'aretz column that Perle, Feith, and their fellow strategists "are walking a fine line between their loyalty to American governments and Israeli interests." (Kathleen and Bill Christison Counterpunch ‘A Rose By Another Other Name: The Bush Administration's Dual Loyalties’ http://www.counterpunch.org/christison1213.html 13.12.2002).

"In private conversation, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has insisted that Hezbollah, not al Qaeda, is the world's most dangerous terrorist organization. How could that be, considering al Qaeda's global record of mass carnage? In truth, Hezbollah is the world's most dangerous terrorist organization from Israel's standpoint. While viciously anti-American in rhetoric, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah is focused on the destruction of Israel. Thus, Rice's comments suggest that the U.S. war against terrorism, accused of being Iraq-centric, actually is Israel-centric. That ties George W. Bush to Arik Sharon. What is widely perceived as an indissoluble Bush-Sharon bond creates tension throughout Islam. On balance, war with Iraq may not be inevitable but is highly probable. That it looks like Sharon's war disturbs Americans such as Chuck Hagel, who have no use for Saddam Hussein but worry about the background of an attack against him." (Robert Novak, Washington Post, December 26, 2002. Quoted in Bill and Kathleen Christon 'Israel, American Jews, And Bush's War On Iraq. Too Many Smoking Guns To Ignore' Rense.com cJanuary 2003); "In private conversation with... members of Congress, the former general [Sharon] leaves no doubt that the greatest U.S. assistance to Israel would be to overthrow Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. That view is widely shared inside the Bush administration, and is a major reason why U.S. forces today are assembling for war." (Chicago Sun-Times, Creator's Syndicate, Dec. 26, 2003. Quoted in Jeffrey Blankfort ‘A War for Israel’ http://www.leftcurve.org/LC28WebPages/WarForIsrael.html c.2003).

"In a Feb. 9 front-page article in the Washington Post, Robert Kaiser quotes a senior U.S. official as saying, "The Likudniks are really in charge now." Kaiser names Perle, Wolfowitz, and Feith as members of a pro-Israel network inside the administration and adds David Wurmser of the Defense Department and Elliott Abrams of the National Security Council. (Abrams is the son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz, editor emeritus of Commentary, whose magazine has for decades branded critics of Israel as anti-Semites.)." (Quoted in Patrick J. Buchanan ' Whose War?' The American Conservative (magazine) http://www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/cover.html 24.3.2003).

"These anomalies quickly melt away if we are willing to entertain a seldom-aired hypothesis. This may not be America's war at all, much less a war of the West against Islam or Islamists. Instead, could this be Israel's war against the Arabs fought through a proxy, the only proxy that can take on the Arabs? This will most likely provoke derisive skepticism. Could the world's only superpower be persuaded to fight Israel's war? Is it even possible? Could the tail wag this great dog?" (M. Shahid Alam 'Israel's Proxy War? The Motives For A Flawed War' CounterPunch.org http://www.counterpunch.com/alam02202003.html 21.2.2003).

"It now appears that the primary policymakers in the Bush administration have been the Likudnik neoconservatives all along. Control of Central Asia is secondary to control of the Middle East. In fact, for the leading neocons, the war on Afghanistan may simply have been an opening gambit, necessary for reaching their ultimate and crucial goal: U.S. control of the Middle East in the interests of Israel. That is analogous to what revisionist historians have presented as Franklin D. Roosevelt's "back door to war" approach to World War II. Roosevelt sought war with Japan in order to be able to fight Germany, and he provoked Japan into attacking U.S. colonial possessions in the Far East. Once the United States got into war through the back door, Roosevelt focused the American military effort on Germany." (Stephen J Sniegoski 'The war on Iraq: Conceived in Israel' www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_conc5.htm c.February 2003).

"Well, it might be unique in history (a great power to be dominated by a small client state), but it certainly is not unique in the survival skills of the Jewish mind. And what better way to use those skills than to infiltrate the political structure of a superpower so that you are able to use it in fighting wars of your choosing to serve your own security interests?" (Jim Moore 'When Sharon says Jump Bush says How High?' 'Ether Zone' 24.2.2003 http://www.etherzone.com/2003/moor022403.shtml).

"There are powerful zionists in the Bush Administration that are the primary architects of the "Attack Iraq" campaign because this strategy will ultimately advance Israel's' and the International Zionist's agenda in the Middle East and elsewhere around the globe. Among the principal Bush Administration Zionists pushing hardline policies against Islam are Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Ari Fleischer and Harlan Ullman. Richard Perle is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy and is presently Chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. Perle is also a former director of Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper. Paul Wolfowitz is Deputy Secretary of Defense and many believe that he is the principal Zionist in the Bush Administration behind the push to bomb Baghdad. Ari Fleischer is the White House Press Secretary who has tight connections with the Jewish dominated media in the USA. Harlan Ullman is the creator of the brutal military strategy called "Shock and Awe" that calls for a "Nagasaki-Hiroshima" type of massive attack on Baghdad and other Islamic targets." (Ernesto Cienfuegos US Congressman says Jews are behind war against Iraq La Voz de Aztlan 11.3.2003).

"About the Perle-Feith-Wurmser cabal, author Michael Lind writes: The radical Zionist right to which Perle and Feith belong is small in number but it has become a significant force in Republican policy-making circles. It is a recent phenomenon, dating back to the late 1970s and 1980s, when many formerly Democratic Jewish intellectuals joined the broad Reagan coalition. While many of these hawks speak in public about global crusades for democracy, the chief concern of many such "neo-conservatives" is the power and reputation of Israel." (Quoted in Patrick J. Buchanan ' Whose War?' The American Conservative (magazine) http://www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/cover.html 24.3.2003).

"Even before the war began, Rep. James Moran (D-Va.) suggested that Jewish leaders were banging the war drums. Moran was stripped of his leadership post in the Democratic caucus because of the comments." (Matthew E. Berger ‘Will some Jews’ backing for war in Iraq have repercussions for all?’ http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=16257&
sid=96807d845494c0da495bce8a3ba2af47 June 10th 2004). "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we wouldn't be doing this." (Forward, March 14 2003. Quoted in Jeffrey Blankfort ‘A War for Israel’ http://www.leftcurve.org/LC28WebPages/WarForIsrael.html c.2003). See also, "At times impassioned, at times resigned, Moran blasted the Bush administration for its rush to war but saved some of his harshest criticism for Jewish leaders in the United States. "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this," he said. "The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going and I think they should." (U.S. Rep. James Moran quoted in David Harrison 'Moran: War, Politics and Inevitability' The Connection Newspapers 5.3.2003).

"Rep. Jim Kolbe, an Arizona Republican, asked Secretary of State Colin Powell directly on Thursday whether there was any truth to the claim that supporters of Israel or any other group were conspiring to influence U.S. policy. "It (policy on Iraq) is not driven by any small cabal that is buried away somewhere that is telling President Bush ... what our policies should be," Powell replied, speaking to a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee." (Jonathan Wright ‘U.S. Media Airs Alleged Jewish Role in Iraq War’ http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2377495 13.3.2003).

"We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars and destroy the Oslo Accords. We charge them with deliberately damaging U.S. relations with every state in the Arab world that defies Israel or supports the Palestinian people’s right to a homeland of their own. We charge that they have alienated friends and allies all over the Islamic and Western world through their arrogance, hubris, and bellicosity." (Patrick J. Buchanan ' Whose War?' The American Conservative (magazine) http://www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/cover.html 24.3.2003).

Last Night on the The McLaughlin Group, Dr. McLaughlin spent almost the entire show confronting Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report. The director skillfully changed cameras and got the reactions of Pat Buchanan as Dr. McLaughlin turned up the heat on Mr. Zuckerman. John McLaughlin is such a class guy that he did it in a round about way at first, then directly asked Zuckerman: "Will Israel benefit from a war led by US Marines in Iraq?" (I'm paraphrasing here). Zuckerman was clearly uncomfortable, and the director kept getting reaction shot of Pat Buchanan. Finally, Pat Buchanan jumped in and heatedly said to Zuckerman, "After Iraq, then it's Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia." Very interesting. Nobody came out and said "The cat's out of the bag on the Zionist controlled media." But McLaughlin and Pat Buchanan sure acted like everybody knew it." (Tony Comment in 'Buchanan Charges Zionists with 'Warmongering' (http://www.rense.com/general35/buch.htm march 2003).

"Seemingly, all this is good for Israel. America controls the world, we control America. Never before have Jews exerted such an immense influence on the center of world power." (Uri Avnery ‘The Night After: The Easier the Victory, the Harder the Peace’ Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery04102003.html April 10, 2003).

"In an exclusive interview with Israel’s daily Yediot Aharonot recently, National Security Adviser Dr. Condoleezza Rice said that the "security of Israel is the key to security of the world." Rice added that she feels "a deep bond to Israel." (Avraham Shmuel Lewin ‘Rice: Israel’s Security Is Key To Security Of Rest Of World’ Jewish Press http://www.jewishpress.com/news_article_print.asp?article=2380 14.05.2003).

"The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history." (Ari Shavit 'White Man’s Burden" Haaretz May 4, 2003).

"Count me among those who accept that the Jewish commitment of leading neoconservatives has become a critical influence on U.S. policies, and that the effectiveness of the neoconservatives is greatly enhanced by their alliance with the organized Jewish community. " (Kevin MacDonald ‘Thinking About Neoconservatism’ http://VDare.com/ September 18, 2003).

The malaysian prime minister mathahir mohammed declared at an international Islamic Conference in Kuala Lumpur in mid-October, 2003 that "today the Jews rule the world by proxy [and] They get others to fight and die for them."

"As to the real reason for the war in Iraq, well that is all too easy to answer. The Iraq war which is spiraling out of control was actually about oil, but not oil destined for the United States. Israel, through deception, instigated the conflict in an attempt to gain access to Iraqi oil. I am sure that many are familiar with the pipeline which runs from Iraq into Jordan and at one time continued on to Haifa. While the pipeline was used to ship oil to Jordan the flow to Palestine was cutoff in 1948. Israel actually had military plans to attack Iraq on its own and steal the oil as outlined in an extensive 17 April article, updated 06 May 2003, by Joe Vialls entitled "Israel's Blitzkrieg on Middle East Oil" That said, Israel lacks the military resources for an extended campaign and direct ground access as well as the manpower to be able to hold a position in Southern Iraq, especially with the continued intafada and the likelihood that Syria and Iran would oppose such a move and attack Israeli positions in Iraq and Israel as well. So with few operational options to implement Israel did the next best thing it instigated a proxy war to be fought by the United States." (John Anast ‘Iraq: How Did We Get Here?’ http://www.nowarforisrael.com November 7th 2003).

"An Israeli journalist writing in Israel’s daily Haaretz newspaper dared to point out something that would have drawn howls if printed in the all-too-scared American press. Wrote journalist Avi Shavit on Feb. 11, "The war on Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history." (Andrew I. Killgore ‘The War on Iraq Has "Outed" the Neoconservatives—Hopefully for Good’ Washington report on Middle East Affairs http://www.wrmea.com/archives/June_2004/0406019.html June 2004, page 19).

"Iraq under Saddam Hussein did not pose a threat to the United States but it did to Israel, which is one reason why Washington invaded the Arab country, according to a speech made by a member of a top-level White House intelligence group. IPS uncovered the remarks by Philip Zelikow, who is now the executive director of the body set up to investigate the terrorist attacks on the United States in September 2001 -- the 9/11 commission -- in which he suggests a prime motive for the invasion just over one year ago was to eliminate a threat to Israel, a staunch U.S. ally in the Middle East. Zelikow's casting of the attack on Iraq as one launched to protect Israel appears at odds with the public position of President George W. Bush and his administration, which has never overtly drawn the link between its war on the regime of former president Hussein and its concern for Israel's security. Zelikow made his statements about "the unstated threat" during his tenure on a highly knowledgeable and well-connected body known as the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), which reports directly to the president. He served on the board between 2001 and 2003. "Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I'll tell you what I think the real threat (is) and actually has been since 1990 -- it's the threat against Israel," Zelikow told a crowd at the University of Virginia on Sep. 10, 2002, speaking on a panel of foreign policy experts assessing the impact of 9/11 and the future of the war on the al-Qaeda terrorist organisation. "And this is the threat that dare not speak its name, because the Europeans don't care deeply about that threat, I will tell you frankly. And the American government doesn't want to lean too hard on it rhetorically, because it is not a popular sell," said Zelikow." (Emad Mekay ‘IRAQ: War Launched to Protect Israel - Bush Adviser’ Inter Press Service News Agency March 29 2004).

"Last month, Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) wrote in a newspaper column in his home state that he believed the Bush administration went to war to secure Israel and win Jewish votes. He followed the column with a speech on the Senate floor, chastising the American Israel Public Affairs Committee for its influence over Middle East policy." (Matthew E. Berger ‘Will some Jews’ backing for war in Iraq have repercussions for all?’ http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=16257&
sid=96807d845494c0da495bce8a3ba2af47 June 10th 2004).

"In fact, there is a cabal that has been driving U.S. foreign policy under the Bush administration, and some of its members; notably, Elliot Abrams and Michael Ledeeen, were part of the last cabal that operated in Washington under the Reagan administration, the one that brought us the Iran-Contra scandal. .. there seems to be more than enough proof that a significant number of Jewish aficionados of Israel played a decisive part in getting the U.S. to invade and occupy Iraq." (Jeffrey Blankfort ‘A War for Israel’ http://www.leftcurve.org/LC28WebPages/WarForIsrael.html c.2003).

"A week later, retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, a former presidential envoy in the Middle East, suggested in an interview with CBS News that hawks in the Bush administration backed the Iraq war in part to strengthen Israel, and named some prominent Jews in the administration as the plan’s key architects." (Matthew E. Berger ‘Will some Jews’ backing for war in Iraq have repercussions for all?’ http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=16257&
sid=96807d845494c0da495bce8a3ba2af47 June 10th 2004).

"The answer to your question is that instead of focusing on how to bring a peaceful settlement, both parties (republicans and democrats in america) concede their independent judgment to the pro-Israeli lobbies in this country because they perceive them as determining the margin in some state elections and as sources of funding. They don’t appear to agree with Tom Friedman, who wrote that memorable phrase, "Ariel Sharon has Arafat under house arrest in Ramallah and Bush under house arrest in the Oval Office." Virtually no member of Congress can say that, and so we come to this paradoxical conclusion that there is far more freedom in Israel to discuss this than there is in the United States, which is providing billions of dollars in economic and military assistance." (Ralph Nader ‘Conservatively Speaking’ The American Conservative http://www.amconmag.com/2004_06_21/cover.html June 21, 2004 issue).

"Former US Senator James Abourezk (D-South Dakota) in a speech before the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee last June: "The Israeli lobby has put together so much money power that we are daily witnessing US senators and representatives bowing down low to Israel and its US lobby. Make no mistake. The votes and bows have nothing to do with the legislators' love for Israel. They have everything to do with the money that is fed into their campaigns by members of the Israeli lobby. My estimate is that at least $6 billion flows from the American Treasury to Israel each year. That money, plus the political support the US gives Israel at the United Nations, is what allows Israel to conduct criminal operations in Palestine with impunity." Al-Ahram, June 20-27, 2002. Quoted in Jeffrey Blankfort ‘The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions’ http://www.leftcurve.org/LC27WebPages/IsraelLobby.html c.2004).

At this point in time jewish groups can no longer ignore the proposition that the invasion of iraq was a proxy zionist war. They are now having to do their best to ridicule this once extremist idea , "No matter their view of the invasion (of iraq), American Jewish officials want to debunk the idea that Jews fostered the war or that, if they supported it, benefit to Israel was a primary factor. Many of the neo-conservatives who staunchly supported the war are Jewish, making it easier for detractors to claim they were motivated by their support for Israel." (Matthew E. Berger ‘Will some Jews’ backing for war in Iraq have repercussions for all?’ http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=16257&
sid=96807d845494c0da495bce8a3ba2af47 June 10th 2004).

.. "the small group of conservative neo-cons who now control the American government ..." (William James Martin ‘The Dogma of Richard Perle Zionism and Legal Skepticism’ Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/martin07012004.html July 1, 2004).

"In an effort at damage control, the Israel lobby is making a concerted effort to smear whomever states the obvious: a great deal of the "intelligence" used to lie us into war came directly from Tel Aviv and was "stovepiped" into the White House by neocon White House advisors, and that, in retrospect, this war has been to the strategic advantage of one and only one nation on earth: Israel. It was only after 9/11 that the neocons became the dominant tendency." (Justin Raimondo ‘Israel Unleashed: The real reason for the biggest foreign policy blunder in American history’ antiwar.com http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=2933 July 5, 2004).

October 22, 2004: "As the Bizarro Effect begins to fade, Americans are starting to wake up to the reality that their own troops were rushed into war to shore up the political fortunes of Israel's Likud party. The Sharon government could not have long survived without the political support of George W. Bush, and the systematic reduction and elimination of Israel's regional enemies: including not only the invasion of Iraq but U.S. sanctions imposed on Syria, U.S. approval of the "security wall," and a looming confrontation with Iran." (Justin Raimondo ‘Bizarro Bush’ http://antiwar.com/justin/ October 22, 2004).

December 3, 2004: "For the first time, we have solid evidence that the Israeli government has actively sought, with some success, to penetrate the policymaking apparatus that steers the U.S. ship of state. The neocons have often been accused ­ including in this space ­ of hijacking American policy in the Middle East and utilizing U.S. military power to Israel's advantage. Now we are beginning to get the full picture of exactly how ­ with the full knowledge and active collaboration of the Israeli government ­ this was done." (Justin Raimondo ‘Jail the War Party For treason’ http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4106 December 3, 2004).

April 1, 2005: "This arcane bit of dialogue refers to the key role played by Feith, DoD deputy director for policy, in doing an end-run around the mainline intelligence agencies - the CIA, the DIA, the Air Force intelligence unit, and others - by creating a special unit known as the Office of Special Plans (OSP). This unit was created by Paul Wolfowitz (now on his way to the World Bank) and its head, one Abram Shulsky, was directly under Feith. As reported by Seymour Hersh, Julian Borger, and Karen Kwiatkowski - a former Pentagon analyst who worked in close proximity to this secretive agency - the OSP manufactured the case for going to war with Iraq by "stovepiping" (as Hersh put it) raw intelligence straight from the INC's lie factory to the very top of the intelligence-consuming food chain. Curveball's fallacies - massaged and validated by the OSP - wound up on the president's desk via the Office of the Vice President, where Scooter Libby and his minions pumped Chalabi's oily prevarications directly into the intelligence pipeline that led to the White House.

May 6, 2005: "The "special relationship" between Israel and the United States is about to get a thorough examination as the murky doings of the Mossad in the U.S. are exposed to the light of day. That relationship has so far consisted of the U.S. not only paying a good many of Israel's bills, but also of us fighting their wars for them. As Professor Paul W. Schroeder pointed out in a footnote to a piece in The American Conservative, the U.S. going to war with Iraq: "Would represent something to my knowledge unique in history. It is common for great powers to try to fight wars by proxy, getting smaller powers to fight for their interests. This would be the first instance I know where a great power (in fact, a superpower) would do the fighting as the proxy of a small client state."" (Justin Raimondo ‘Larry Franklin and the Axis of Espionage’ http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5857 May 6, 2005).

June 17, 2005: .."the chief subject of Wolfowitz's concern: Israel, whose interests frame and define the Wolfowitzian view of the region. Israel was and is the great unadmitted factor in all this. As far as Wolfowitz is concerned, the reason we went to war was not to seize and defang Saddam's nonexistent "weapons of mass destruction," nor to sever his nonexistent links to al-Qaeda, but to secure Israel's interests in the region. That's why we're in Iraq today, and why we may be in Syria, Lebanon, and/or Iran tomorrow. However, when they (the american public) find out who lied us into war, and why ­ when they discover that American girls and boys are dying and being horribly wounded in order to make life a little bit easier for the Israeli state, and specifically for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, I wonder if they'll begin to get a little hot under the collar. Particularly as our Justice Department rounds up a coven of Israeli spies in the Pentagon, and charges Israel's Washington lobbyists with espionage. Yes, a good deal of this is "old news" ­ but the Israeli connection is new. And if, as there's ample reason to believe, it can be shown that the Israelis fed us (via Chalabi and the Office of Special Plans) a stream of lies to rationalize a war to save their asses, the growing scandal that they were stealing our secrets blind and selling weapons to China all along may well provide the tipping point in the public's attitude toward the war ­ and toward our "special relationship" with Israel. If a foreign nation, namely Israel, was involved in an effort to lie us into war by feeding us false "intelligence" ­ and planting such intelligence via its agents in the U.S. government ­ then the American people have a right to know. As I said on the eve of the invasion: "this war is treason." Once we find ourselves on the path to finding out that this is literally true, then I won't feel vindicated. Only sick to my stomach ­ and mad as hell." (Justin Raimondo ‘Behind the Downing Street Memos Lurks the specter of treason’ http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6343 June 17, 2005).

June 17, 2005: "The chief beneficiaries of the conquest of Iraq, and subsequent threats against both Iran and Syria, have been, in descending order, Israel, Iran, and Osama bin Laden. Al-Qaeda has used the invasion as a recruiting tool and training ground for its global jihad against the United States. Iran has extended its influence deep into southern Iraq and has penetrated the central government in Baghdad. In the long run, however, Israel benefits the most, as a major Middle Eastern Arab country fragments into at least three pieces and the U.S. military is ineluctably drawn into neighboring countries." (Justin Raimondo ‘AIPAC and Espionage: Guilty as Hell’ http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7454 September 30, 2005).

"Pro-Likud intellectuals established networks linking Defense and the national security advisers of Vice President Dick Cheney, gaining enormous influence over policy by cherry-picking and distorting intelligence so as to make a case for war on Saddam Hussein. And their ulterior motive was to remove the most powerful Arab military from the scene, not because it was an active threat to Israel (it wasn't) but because it was a possible deterrent to Likud plans for aggressive expansion (at the least, they want half of the West Bank, permanently). It should be admitted that the American Likud could not make US policy on its own. Its members had to make convincing arguments to Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush himself. But they were able to make those arguments, by distorting intelligence, channeling Ahmad Chalabi junk, and presenting Big Ideas to men above them that signally lacked such ideas. (Like the idea that the road to peace in Jerusalem ran through Baghdad. Ha!)." (Juan Cole ‘Israeli Spy in Pentagon Linked to AIPAC’ http://www.juancole.com/ August 28, 2004).

This is the first time that a politically conventional mainstream brutish newspaper has mentioned the idea that a cabal of jews were behind the invasion of iraq. "Political foes of Paul Wolfowitz like to portray him as a leading light in Washington's so-called 'Zionist conspiracy', part of a small cabal of Jewish neo-conservatives driving a blindly pro-Israel policy in the Middle East. The US deputy secretary of defence was one of the original architects of the war to overthrow Saddam Hussein and remains an enthusiastic advocate of spreading democracy in the Middle East, despite the setbacks in Iraq. For his detractors, it is evidence that he is pursuing an agenda hostile to Arab regimes, particularly ones as virulently opposed to Israel as Saddam's." (Philip Sherwell ‘Revealed: the special relationship behind America's Middle East policy’ Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08
/01/wolf01.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/08/01/ixworld.html August 1st 2004). As whatreallyhappened wryly observe, the telegraph's attitude is, "Okay, so, yeah, maybe America IS doing all this war thing for Israel, but only an anti-Semite would object!" http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

"One of Bush’s goals in going to war was to enhance Israel’s security by installing a friendly, pro-Western government in Iraq. His mistake was to assume that the United States could win over Arab hearts and minds while defending and subsidizing Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians." (Rachelle Marshall ‘Death, Destruction, and Torture as Bush Brings Democracy to the Middle East’ Washington Report on Middle East Affairs http://www.wrmea.com/archives/July_Aug_2004/0407006.html July/August 2004, pages 6-8).

The threat of a missile attack on Israel was one reason justifying a pre-emptive strike against Iraq, Gen. Tommy Franks said. Franks, who retired from the U.S. military last year after leading the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, said he supported the Bush administration policy of pre-emption. "The reason we could not afford to give up time is because we wanted the water infrastructure to remain in place," Franks said Monday at the National Press Club. "We wanted the oil infrastructure in Iraq to remain in place. We did not want to subject ourselves and Israel to the potential consequence of a long-range missile being fired into Tel Aviv or Jerusalem."" (‘Franks: Threat on Israel justified pre-emption’ JTA Global News Service of the Jewish People http://www.jta.org/ c.August 2004).

"Is there anyone out there that still thinks Israel was not the prime motivation for invading Iraq and that main objective included securing oil for Israel first? Israel and persons in our government tied to military and energy contracts are the exclusive beneficiaries of 9/11. Israel hold over 40% of the contracts in Iraq, they receive more "free" armaments and increased funds from the United States and Sharon now has license due to President Bush to completely annihilate the Palestinians. And is there anyone who still believes they are not the primary influencer and decision makers for our defense and international policy?" (WhatReallyHappened http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ August 10th 2004).

"But when the bombs drop, who really benefits? Once again it’s our ‘plucky, democratic ally’ who has managed to drag the world’s only superpower into its perpetual, ethnic-based war against its besieged regional enemies." (Mark Green with Wendy Campbell ‘Exit Neo-Conservatives, Enter Neo-Liberals’ http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/
July/10%20o/Exit%20Neo-Conservatives,%20Enter%20Neo-Liberals
%20By%20Mark%20Green%20with%20Wendy%20Campbell.htm
August 7th 2004).

"The real story of how we were lied into war, and by whom, is getting out there, in dribs and drabs, but the true loyalties and organizational affiliations of this self-described "cabal" have remained obscure, until fairly recently. What we've been saying, in this space, for close on two years, is now being said openly by a dissident wing of the American foreign policy establishment, including General Anthony Zinni, former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and diplomatic envoy, CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, and noted intelligence expert James Bamford." (Justin Raimondo ‘Indict the War Party For treason’ http://antiwar.com/justin/ September 20, 2004).

"The neocons are getting ready to confront one of the biggest espionage scandals in the annals of spookery: the story of how Israel launched a covert operation designed to lure and lie us into war. It wouldn't be the first time a smaller, weaker nation maneuvered a larger imperial power into doing their fighting for them, but never before had such a job been pulled off with such finesse ­ and so openly! Oh, sure, the espionage part of it was undercover, naturally enough, but the aboveground open conspiracy was a much bigger, more expensive operation. The architecture of the neoconservative movement, an extensive and complexly interwoven network of thinktanks, foundations, magazines, newspapers, and action organizations, is an impressive edifice. But the underground adjunct served a vital function: it allowed the neocons' foreign allies to better control the terms of the "special relationship" between the U.S. and Israel." (Justin Raimondo ‘A Neocon By Any Other Name’ http://antiwar.com/justin/ September 29, 2004).

"As we now know, or should know if we pay attention, Iraq was invaded at the behest of Israel and a small clan of extreme right-wing Likudites. Philip Zelikow, executive director of Bush's 9/11 whitewash commission, admitted as much during a speech delivered at the University of Virginia on September 10, 2002. "Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I'll tell you what I think the real threat (is) and actually has been since 1990—it's the threat against Israel," said Zelikow." (Kurt Nimmo ‘Neocon pink slips and the fall of America’ http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/
100204Nimmo/100204nimmo.html October 2, 2004).

"There is another aspect of the Israeli connection to the war on Iraq, which many people wish to believe is all about oil for the US, rather than the Zionist ideology that is actually the driving force behind the push for a war on the entire Middle East, which began with Afghanistan, and moved onward to Iraq, and threatens to expand to Iran, Saudi Arabia, and even Syria, which is not an oil exporting country (which just goes to show once again: it’s not just about the oil!) (Wendy Campbell ‘The Secret Relationship Between Israel and Oil: What the US Media Hides’ Al-Jazeerah http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%2
0opinions/October/6o/The%20Secret%20Relationship%20
Between%20Israel%20and%20Oil%20What%20the%20US%
20Media%20Hides%20By%20Wendy%20Campbell.htm
October 6, 2004).

"The United States imports about 62 percent of its oil and other petroleum products. Only about 11 percent of domestic usage comes from the Persian Gulf countries. Saudi Arabia, for example, supplies about 7.2 percent of domestic usage. Our main imports by far come from Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria. From January to July 2004, Saudi Arabia was fourth, just ahead of Nigeria and behind Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela. Iraq was sixth. These figures are from the American Petroleum Institute. We are bogged down in the Middle East because of Israel, not oil. Iraq was perceived as a threat to Israel, not to Saudi Arabia and certainly not to us. A man who at one time prepared the president's daily intelligence briefing told me years ago that there was never any indication whatsoever that Iraq was going to invade Saudi Arabia. We just used that as an excuse for the first Gulf War." (Charley Reese ‘Not What You Think’ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7338.htm November 20th 2004).

"The problem is, the US people have no way out of the Zionist takeover. While Neo-Cons and Right-wingers are guilty of starting World War Three, of introducing Fascist measures against the American population, of premeditated aggression against sovereign Iraq and of unrestrained support for the racist Jewish State …… Every publicist, every internet user in America and Europe knows by now that the ‘only superpower' was taken over by the Likudniks, the supporters of the right-wing Likud and its bloody leader General Sharon." (Israel Shamir ‘The Shadow of Zog’ http://www.israelshamir.net/english/shadowofzog.html no date).

"While during other election years Israeli politicians would be busy drawing up wish lists of goodies like F16s, loan guarantees, loan forgiveness, this year with the Americans fighting Israel's war in Iraq, such demands would be construed as a bit too crass."

"The only major beneficiary of the US war in Iraq is the State of Israel: The war destroyed a major supporter of the Palestinian Intifada and Israel got a free hand in its terror and territorial colonization Palestinian land." (James Petras ‘The meaning of war: A heterodox perspective’ http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=12606 January 2005); "The war in Iraq is a clear case in which the loyalties of the key architects of the war were distinct from those of the ruling class, who were barely taken into account, let alone consulted. The ruling ideology of the architects of war was ‘Israel First, Last and Always’. To cover the Israel-centered war plans, the Zionists fabricated a series of "threats" to US interests which were made to parallel those faced by Israel: threats of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and Muslim fundamentalism. Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate literature circulated in the mass media, in influential journals and talk shows as an army of Zionists ideologues went into an ideological frenzy ­ infecting the US body politic ­ and setting off a secondary wave of vituperative froth from fundamentalist Christians, neo-conservative allies and liberal congress-people." (James Petras ‘The meaning of war: A heterodox perspective’ http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=12606 January 2005).

Hersh states, "One of the ways - one of the things that you could say is, the amazing thing is we are been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government. Just how and why and how they did it so efficiently, will have to wait for much later historians and better documentation than we have now, but they managed to overcome the bureaucracy and the Congress, and the press, with the greatest of ease. It does say something about how fragile our Democracy is. You do have to wonder what a Democracy is when it comes down to a few men in the Pentagon and a few men in the White House having their way. What they have done is neutralize the C.I.A. because there were people there inside - the real goal of what Goss has done was not attack the operational people, but the intelligence people. There were people - serious senior analysts who disagree with the White House, with Cheney, basically, that's what I mean by White House, and Rumsfeld on a lot of issues, as somebody said, the goal in the last month has been to separate the apostates from the true believers. That's what's happening. The real target has been "diminish the agency." I'm writing about all of this soon, so I don't want to overdo it, but there's been a tremendous sea change in the government. A concentration of power."

"I have always believed that the issue of US control over Iraqi oil was subsidiary to ideological goals. Now that we see oil prices near $50 with no apparent prospect of returning below $30, some are beginning to realize that if regime change in Iraq was about oil, it hasn't succeeded. Had the Administration's purpose been about providing US drivers with a steady and cheap supply of Middle East oil, the last thing they would have done was go to war against Iraq. Rather, I argue, war against Iraq was driven by a coterie of neoconservatives who have a long record of supporting a Likudnik agenda of destabilizing and fragmenting all of Israel's potential enemies.8 Those like Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Doug Feith, Eliot Abrams and others in senior government positions are interested in extending U.S. military power abroad not in the interests of democracy as they claim, but in order to sow chaos, confusion, and violent conflict." (Ronald Bleier ‘The Israeli Palestinian Conflict and the Spread of Empire and Desolation’ http://desip.igc.org/1-27-05talk.html January 27, 2005).

"The US and Israel have inspired terrorism by 55 years of their own policies in the Middle East, rather than tackle the root causes of such dissention, which they have no intention of doing as this will go against their interests. Until Israel and its puppet states, the US and UK, are brought to book by the world community the causes of world terror will go unaddressed and continue into the distant future. However, they all know this, and care little for the consequences for ordinary people, as they invoke police state legislation and practices to tackle a problem entirely of their own creation. Besides, its role as a suitable smokescreen to enact global war could not be more fortuitous, given their long term objectives of control of the world’s oil reserves and Israeli "control by proxy" of a completely neutered and divided Middle East."