Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies
Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies is a Jerusalem based right-wing think-tank with connections to prominent US neocons. In 1996 the think tank published a policy paper for Israel's Likud party urging it to withdraw from the Oslo peace process. The report, titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm", advised the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "to work closely with Turkey and Jordan to contain, destabilize, and roll-back" regional threats, help overthrow Saddam Hussein, and strike "Syrian military targets in Lebanon" and possibly in Syria proper. Prominent amongst its authors were Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Douglas Feith.[1]
Neocon Nexus
The following neocons have contributed to IASPS publications:
- Richard Perle
- Douglas Feith
- David Wurmser - Director of Research in Strategy and Politics Program (1996)
- Meyrav Wurmser
Funders
Staff
- Robert Loewenberg - President
- Zev Golan - Executive Director, Jerusalem
- Robert Heiler - Executive Director, Washington
- Ophira Kamar - Secretary, Jerusalem
- William R. Van Cleave - Director, Division for Research in Strategy
- David Yerushalmi - Of-Counsel
Affiliations
Member of the Economic Freedom Network
Contact
Website: http://www.israeleconomy.org
References
- ^ IASPS Website A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, (Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies 1996)
- ^ Mediatransparency.org Website Funders (accessed on June 26, 2006
- ^IASPS Website Staff (accessed on June 26, 2006)
