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NOTES
1. Jonah Goldberg writes: "People who want to denounce the influence of Jews get to use the word 'neocon' when they really mean 'Jewish conservatives' without being held accountable." "RE: What the Heck is a 'Neocon'?"; "Blaming the Jews," Washington Post, March 12, 2003, p. A20.
2. Among the neoconservative defenders citing the anti-Semitic conspiracy are David Harsanyi, "Beware of the Neocons," FrontPageMagazine, August 13, 2002.
3. Paul Gottfried, "Goldberg Is Not the Worst," March 20, 2003.
4. Max Boot, "What the Heck Is a 'Neocon'?", December 30, 2002.
5. Paul Gottfried, The Conservative Movement (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993);
Peter Steinfels, The Neoconservatives: The Men Who Are Changing America's Politics (New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1979); Gary Dorrien, The Neoconservative Mind: Politics, Culture, and the War of Ideology
(Philadelphia: Temple University, 1993); and John Ehrman, The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and
Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
6. The "godfather" of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, obviously used the term. See Irving
Kristol, Reflections of a Neoconservative (New York: Basic Books, 1983). Kristol provided the catchy
definition of a neoconservative as a "liberal who has been mugged by reality."
As political scientist Benjamin Ginsburg puts it:
7. Jonah Goldberg, Goldberg File, National Review Online, "Jews and the War:
Listening to the Ugly Noses," March 13, 2003.
8. For Perle's current efforts to rake in the swag see Eric Alterman, "Perle,
Interrupted," The Nation, April 7, 2003; and Frida Berrigan, "Richard Perle: It Pays
To Be the Prince of Darkness," "In These Times," March 21, 2003.
9. Tony Blankley, "Sad end to civilized edifices," Washington
Times, March 13, 2003.
10. James D. Besser, "Jews
Increasingly Blamed For War: Backlash evident before first shot fired in Iraq; fury over Rep. Moran's
comments," Jewish Week, March 14, 2003.
11. Debra Orin, "Underground Undermining Saddam," New York Post, March 18, 2003.
12. Steve Sailer, "Analysis: Which American groups back war?," UPI, March 20, 2003.
13. Youssef M. Ibrahim, "Democracy: Be Careful What You Wish For," Washington Post, March
23, 2003, p. B3.
14. Sam Francis, "An Anti-War Column: Bush Likudniks seek to start 'World War IV'," March 20, 2003.
15. David Frum, "Unpatriotic Conservatives," March 19, 2003.
16. For the record, TLD editor-in-chief Nicholas Strakon reports that he does indeed take pleasure in any defeat of the Empire; but he also points out that he is
neither a paleocon nor so much as a blip on Frum's radar screen.
17. One prominent article that outlined this thesis was put forth by Oded Yinon, titled "A
Strategy for Israel in the 1980s," which appeared in the World Zionist Organization's periodical Kivunim in
February 1982. Summarizing this strategy in his The Zionist Plan for the Middle East (Belmont,
Mass.: Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc., 1982), the late Israel Shahak observed that
Yinon's essay "represents ... the accurate and detailed plan of the present Zionist regime (of Sharon and Eitan) for
the Middle East which is based on the division of the whole area into small states, and the dissolution of all the
existing Arab states."
Shahak continued: "To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division
of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend on the
ethnic or sectarian composition of each state. Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states
become Israel's satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation."
18. Washington's Farewell Address. Stranded on this page from off site?
One major factor that drew them inexorably to the right was their attachment to Israel and their
growing frustration during the 1960s with a Democratic party that was becoming increasingly opposed to
American military preparedness and increasingly enamored of Third World causes [e.g., Palestinian rights]. In the
Reaganite right's hard-line anti-communism, commitment to American military strength, and willingness to
intervene politically and militarily in the affairs of other nations to promote democratic values (and American
interests), neocons found a political movement that would guarantee Israel's security. (Benjamin Ginsberg, The
Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), p. 231.
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