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The Qana massacre illustrates Israel's relation to the mosaic of State-sponsored terror, the politics of the disenfranchised - amongst which we now must include the marginalization of the United Nations itself! - and the terror reprisals which these actions spawn in a never-ending vicious circle of violence, on both sides with no moderating third-party power to intervene.

So it follows that Qana partially sets the stage for the United States Neo-conservative policy toward Israel, inspiring the document, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" which so influenced George W Bush on his Road to War in Iraq.

In 1953 very few Americans had ever heard the name of Kermit Roosevelt, and today certainly no American recalls the name with the exception of the odd history student or two. But just as certainly, key CIA operative Kermit Roosevelt installed the Shah Reza Pahlavi's royal family in power while taking out the democratic rule of Mossadegh.

It is interesting to note that British imperial power could not interest Truman in the Mossadegh coup, while Eisenhower farmed out the job to the Dulles brothers within a matter of days subsequent to taking presidential power - the reason? An International communist conspiracy of course; or at least that was how Eisenhower and Dulles bought the bill of goods from the British, just like Congress bought the WMD threat in the "war on terror" today.

But today the grave threat is that Ledeen's Neo-conservative call to confrontation with Iran will proceed as Neo-conservatives have planned since 1997.

NOTES AND REFERENCE MATERIAL

[1] ''The New Imperialism'' David Harvey, Oxford University Press, 2003

[2] Douglas Feith has publically and privately maintained extremist views, including repudiation of the Oslo Peace Accords while advocating war versus the Palestinian people; Feith opposed the Biological Weapons Convention in 1986; Feith opposed the 1988 Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty and the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997, and Feith opposed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in the year 2000. Feith's 1992 article in Commentary magazine stated: "It is in the interest of U.S. and Israel to remove needless impediments to technological cooperation between them. Technologies in the hands of responsible, friendly countries facing military threats, countries like Israel, serve to deter aggression, enhance regional stability and promote peace thereby." In 1982 Feith was expelled from his position at the National Security Council subsequent to investigations relating to leaking secret information to an official at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Subsequent to Feith's dismissal he was hired as an assistant to Special Counsel by Richard Perle [at that time Perle was DoD Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy] and Feith was promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary for Negotiations Policy. Feith's office is presently under investigation by the FBI for espionage in the Franklin spy affair; Larry Franklin and another "specialist" from Douglas Feith's office, Harold Rhode, were among the officials who established contacts with the Iranian arms dealer, Manucher Ghorbanifar, and Iranian refugees abroad which led to the Iran Contra scandal under Ronald Reagan.