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The document goes on to state that "Jordan has
challenged Syria's regional ambitions recently by
suggesting the restoration of the Hashemites in Iraq ...
Since Iraq's future could affect the strategic balance in
the Middle East profoundly, it would be
understandable that Israel has an interest in
supporting the Hashemites in their efforts to redefine
Iraq."
Six years later, members of that same group
supported the half-baked idea to crown Jordan's
Prince Hassan as Iraq's ruler.
If anyone was looking to use Franklin to sock Feith in
the weak spot of dual loyalty, in order to hurt Bush,
they could have located its sources in that very same
open document. Its authors provided the head of a
foreign government tips on manipulating U.S.
members of Congress. They suggested that he take
advantage of the period remaining before the
November '96 presidential and congressional
elections to obtain "a benign American reaction" for
his/their policy. In exchange for the free advice. they
asked for Netanyahu's help in recruiting members of
Congress who "care 'Very much about missile
defense" to counter an agreement with Russia on
reining in proliferation of long-range missiles.
Feith and his friends promised in that document that
Israeli support for the missile plan would assist efforts
to relocate the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem. That initiative, sponsored by the
Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, was the
brainchild of the neoconservatives and their friends at
AIPAC., It utterly contravened the view held by
president Bill Clinton and prime minister Yitzhak
Rabin that initiatives of that sort do not help build trust
between Israel and the Palestinians. Perhaps that is
the strongest proof of all that the neoconservatives
and Jewish lobbyists do not serve two masters. They
serve themselves, and that's the trouble.
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