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Indeed, it was precisely because of the strategic importance of the Levant that Wurmser advocated overthrowing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in favor of an [[Iraqi National Congress]] (INC) closely tied to the Hashemite monarchy in Jordan.
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"Whoever inherits Iraq dominates the entire Levant strategically," he wrote in one 1996 paper for the Jerusalem-based [[Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies|Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies]] (IASPS). [http://www.domino.ips.org/ips%5Ceng.nsf/vwWebMainView/2573F507D7766E49C1256DC500747AF9/?OpenDocument]and[http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1020-10.htm]
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The paper, called [http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm '''''A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm'''''], was directed to incoming Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
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It featured a series of recommendations designed to end the process of Israel trading ''land for peace'' by transforming the ''balance of power'' in the Middle East in favor of an axis consisting of Israel, Turkey and Jordan.
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To do so, it called for ousting Saddam Hussein and installing a Hashemite leader in Baghdad. From that point, the strategy would be largely focused on Syria and, at the least, to reducing its influence in Lebanon.
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Among other steps, the report called for Israeli sponsorship of attacks on Syrian territory by '''"[[Israeli proxy forces]]"''' based in Lebanon and "striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select targets in Syria proper". [http://www.domino.ips.org/ips%5Ceng.nsf/vwWebMainView/2573F507D7766E49C1256DC500747AF9/?OpenDocument]and[http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1020-10.htm]
'''===Articles / Publications by David Wurmser'''
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===Articles===
*[http://www.pbs.org/arguing/nyintellectuals_krystol.html*Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest, "[http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/iraq/1448.html The Lie Factory], ''Mother Jones'', January 26, 2004.
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Wurmser has long called for the United States and Israel to work together to ''roll back'' the Ba'ath-led government in Syria. For the latter part of the 1990s, he wrote frequently to support a joint U.S.-Israeli effort to undermine then-President Hafez Assad in hopes of destroying Ba'athist rule and hastening the creation of a new order in the Levant to be dominated by "tribal, familial and clan unions under limited governments".
Wurmser has written extensively (books and articles) on the Middle East. His credits include: [[Wall Street Journal]], Wall Street Journal Europe, [[Washington Times]], [[Weekly Standard]], [[New Republic]], [[SAIS Review]], [[Middle East Quarterly]], Perspectives on Political Science, Strategic Review, Jobs & Capital, and [[The World and I]].
David Wurmser is married to Israeli born [[Meyrav Wurmser]] who, as head of Middle East studies at the neo-conservative [[Hudson Institute]], was the main author of a 1996 report by a task force convened by the IASPS and headed by Perle, called the 'Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000'.
Wurmser is a close friend and political ally at the AEI with [[Richard N. Perle]]. Perle wrote the introduction to Wurmser's book "Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat [[Saddam Hussein]]." [http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html]
== External links ==
*[http://www.meforum.org/docs/author/David+Wurmser Middle East Forum articles].
*[http://www.aei.org/publications/task.execute,filter./pub_byauthor_list.asp American Enterprise Institute publications].
*Seth Gitell, [http://www.forward.com/issues/1998/98.07.31/news.html Free Iraqi Resistance Calling on Jewry For Support in Quest to Depose Saddam. Allies of Chalabi Meet Ambassador Gold, Warn of White House Folly], ''Forward'', July 31, 1998: "An adviser to INC chairman [[Ahmad Chalabi]], [[Francis Brooke]], and a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, David Wurmser, met with Israel's permanent representative to the [[United Nations]], [[Dore Gold]], last Friday to begin the process of getting Israel to back the" [[Iraqi National Congress]] (INC).
*[http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/freemedia_wurmser092401.htm America Attacked: The Middle East. With David Wurmser, Director of Middle East studies for the American Enterprise Institute], Live Online Interview with ''The Washington Post'', September 24, 2001.