The latest addition is David Wurmser, a neoconservative strategist who has long called for the United States and Israel to work together to "roll back" the Ba'ath-led government in Syria, who joins Cheney's staff as an adviser on the Middle East.
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Wurmser, whose Israeli-born spouse, Meyrav Wurmser, heads Middle East studies at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, was the main author of a 1996 report by a task force convened by the IASPS and headed by Perle, called the "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward2000 ." The paper, called "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" (www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm), was directed at incoming Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
It featured a series of recommendations designed to end the process of Israel trading "land for peace" by transforming the "balance of power" in the Middle East in favor of an axis consisting of Israel, Turkey, and Jordan. To do so, it called for ousting Saddam Hussein and installing a Hashemite leader in Baghdad. From that point, the strategy would be largely focused on Syria and, at the least, reducing its influence in Lebanon.
Among other steps, the report called for Israeli sponsorship of attacks on Syrian territory by "Israeli proxy forces" based in Lebanon and "striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select targets in Syria proper." |
