In addition to the Freedman Doctrine's justification of military intervention in "rogue states" such as Iraq, Freedman has admitted that he "instigated" a pre-war seminar for the British Prime Minister, because he was "aware of misgivings among some specialists in Iraq about the direction of policy." Clearly, Freedman has no such "misgivings" himself about the illegal invasion of Iraq. It was, he claims, motivated by "rather noble criteria."
In his recent book, A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East, Freedman is dismissive of those who suspect less "noble" motives for the war.
"Another popular theory," he writes, "is that U.S. foreign policy was effectively hijacked by a group of neoconservatives with a grand design to reshape the Middle East. A conspiratorial version of this theory argues that the aim was to help Israel, by removing a leading rejectionist state from the scene."
Presumably, the consistency of the prescriptions that runs from Oded Yinon's "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s," through Perle, Feith and Wurmser's "A Clean Break," to the so-called "Bush Doctrine" is merely coincidental. Evidently, the learned Professor of War Studies needs to read "The Israeli Origins of the Middle East War Agenda" in Stephen Sniegoski's The Transparent Cabal.
Perhaps it is also "conspiratorial," or worse, to wonder about the
media's hyping a book which obscures why America "confronts" Israel's
enemies in the Middle East, while one which exposes the Zionist agenda
gets the silent treatment. But it certainly is cause for concern when
Freedman's book, which also opts for the euphemism of a "security
fence" to describe Israel's Apartheid Wall, and repeatedly refers to
the illegally occupied West Bank as Judea and Samaria, is given such
credence.
Despite its obvious shortcomings, A Choice of Enemies won the 2009
Lionel Gelber Prize, awarded to "the world's best non-fiction book in
English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global
issues." The prize is presented by the Munk Centre for International
Studies, which was financed by Peter Munk, the chairman and founder of
Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold-mining corporation.
In 1944, Munk was one of the 1700 Hungarian Jews-mainly young Zionists and some of the more affluent members of the Jewish community-whose lives were spared at the expense of the 450,000 non-Zionist and less fortunate Jews the Zionist leader Rezsà � Kasztner helped send to their deaths. Kasztner's collaboration with the Nazis, which Adolf Eichmann described as "a good bargain," is the subject of Ben Hecht's Perfidy.
Perhaps one day an equally outraged American or British writer will dramatize the perfidy of Philip Zelikow or Lawrence Freedman in sending his unwitting compatriots to fight and die in wars for Israel. But for the time being, their treason looks set to remain obscure.
Just as the Zelikow-directed 9/11 Commission suppressed evidence that the main motive for the September 11 attacks was American support for Israel, Freedman's presence on the Chilcot Inquiry is a clear indication that there will be no inquiry into the role of Zionist insiders in taking Britain to war against Iraq-a country that posed a threat not to British interests but to Israel's regional hegemony.
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