FEBRUARY-MARCH 2008

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. "[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions." -- Henry Kissenger, World Affairs Council Press Conference, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel , April 19th 1994

Philip Weiss summarizes Heilbrunn as follows.
Philip Weiss reviews They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, by Jacob Heilbrunn in The Long Fuse to the Iraq War in The American Conservative.(see Books Review pg.JB,editor)

Neoconservative ideas might have been confined to small magazines, but the neocons stunned themselves in the 1970s by gaining traction in American political life—through the offices of Washington Sen. Henry Jackson (whom a Saudi ambassador called "more Jewish than the Jews"). With Jackson's support, the neocons staged their first great victory, pressuring the Soviet Union to free Jews. After Daniel Patrick Moynihan won his New York Senate seat with "strong Jewish support" in 1976, the neocons had a second home.

The initial Neocon focus on the Soviet Union is suggestive, for Neoconservatism despite the claim of Schachtmanite origins is just the latest face of American Jabotinskianism, and Neocons naturally returned to Jabotinsky's home base in order to score a theoretically easy victory.   What did they win?   J.J. Goldberg points out the following in Jewish Power, Inside the American Jewish Establishment, p. 173.

Once the Soviets scrapped their deal with Kissinger, they never made any attempt to meet the emigration benchmark and win most-favored-nation rights. In Washington, no one tried to repeal the Stevenson amendment, which might have made a Jackson waiver more enticing to the Soviets. The two laws remained on the books throughout the remainder of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War, symbols of ideological purity turned brittle. They constituted an impossible hurdle to trade between the two superpowers. Soviet Jewish emigration continued to rise and fall over the years, but solely as a matter of Soviet whim, reflecting Kremlin perceptions of U.S.-Soviet relations. Western bargaining power had been eliminated.

Richard Perle and company were learning the art of manipulation and subversion that became so useful later. The actual results were of lesser importance.

The Soviet Refusenik drama showed some interesting gaps in American Zionist control. Russian Jews preferred to come to the USA, and the organized Jewish community helped them. Such assistance created a conflict, which was never fully resolved until the Soviet Union collapsed, and Soviet Jews seized upon Zionist identity as an alternative to the Soviet identity with which they had been reasonably happy despite the claims of Soviet Jewish activists in the USA.   The sudden transmutation of Soviet Jewish identity reverberated in the USA where American Russian Jews suddenly discovered Zionism. Today the David Project and similar organizations have large outreach and education programs targeting Russian American Jews, and many of the most extreme and racist anti-Muslim Israel advocates in the USA have Russian Jewish origins.

"The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission - founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens."  -- Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, Ph.D., former German defense ministry official and advisor to former NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner

 - comment by xymphora

I’ve been saying for some time that the Arabs have to stop waiting for help from elsewhere and follow the Hezbollah model of making their own luck.  The Jewish Billionaires and the two-faced American Jewish community will ensure for the foreseeable future that the world is against the Palestinians.  We are witnessing what may be the biggest development in years.  The destruction of the wall between Gaza and Egypt (what the Jewish Billionaires are nervously calling a ‘shopping spree’), and the odd reaction of Egypt since, appears to be part of a Hamas-Egyptian plan.  Hamas has one big thing that Egypt needs:  the ability to be a moderating influence on the Muslim Brotherhood (this factor means that Egypt has no motivation to try to make Gaza an Egyptian colony).  If Hamas can use Egypt to break out of the stifling trap of being completely dependent on Israel, it would completely alter the balance of power, all without the need to rely on non-existent Israeli or American or European morality.