Post by Moses on Jun 15, 2005 21:03:32 GMT -5
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
We know that Douglas Feith was one of the authors of the "Clean Break" paper generated for the Likud party in 1996. We also know that he is law partners with an Israeli settler.
What I was not aware of, but which was listed in a previous GIR post, is that his father, Dalck Feith, was active in a territorial maximalist group called "Betar". Betar is a 'revisionist Zionist' group that has youth/campus organizations in the US and UK. www.betar.co.uk/ideology.php
Betar - The love of the entire land of Israel. Betar supports the concept of a Jewish state with a Jewish Majority in its biblical-homeland. The entire land of Israel as given to the Jewish people by G-d with it's eternal capital Jerusalem. We therefore wholeheartedly support the settlement of all of Israel including Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan Heights, and support the rights of all Jews to live anywhere in Israel.
If you go through the Betar website it is clear this is an extreme organization. One has to wonder if Douglas attend these "camps" as a child?
Either way, it is just beyond the pale that a man with these associations went on to become the number three man at the Pentagon in charge of gathering information about Iraq during the build up to the invasion. It would have been difficult to find anyone more bias.
We know the results. Feith formed the Office of Special Plans (OSP) which generated the WMD data on Iraq that we now know to be false. This led us to invade Iraq and cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and seventeen hundred (1700) American lives with no end in sight.
posted by Brian at 1:08 PM
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
We know that Douglas Feith was one of the authors of the "Clean Break" paper generated for the Likud party in 1996. We also know that he is law partners with an Israeli settler.
What I was not aware of, but which was listed in a previous GIR post, is that his father, Dalck Feith, was active in a territorial maximalist group called "Betar". Betar is a 'revisionist Zionist' group that has youth/campus organizations in the US and UK. www.betar.co.uk/ideology.php
Betar - The love of the entire land of Israel. Betar supports the concept of a Jewish state with a Jewish Majority in its biblical-homeland. The entire land of Israel as given to the Jewish people by G-d with it's eternal capital Jerusalem. We therefore wholeheartedly support the settlement of all of Israel including Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan Heights, and support the rights of all Jews to live anywhere in Israel.
If you go through the Betar website it is clear this is an extreme organization. One has to wonder if Douglas attend these "camps" as a child?
Either way, it is just beyond the pale that a man with these associations went on to become the number three man at the Pentagon in charge of gathering information about Iraq during the build up to the invasion. It would have been difficult to find anyone more bias.
We know the results. Feith formed the Office of Special Plans (OSP) which generated the WMD data on Iraq that we now know to be false. This led us to invade Iraq and cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and seventeen hundred (1700) American lives with no end in sight.
posted by Brian at 1:08 PM