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.

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

• Sarah Scaife Foundation
• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

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

• Yakir Plessner
• Yossi Laster
• Paul Michael Wihbey
• Yuval Levin

Affiliations

• Society of Americans for National Existence a project of the IASPS.

Contact

Website: http://www.israeleconomy.org