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'''David Wurmser''' is a [[neocon]] ideologue who advises [[Dick Cheney]] on the Middle East adviser. In 1996 he co-authored a policy paper for Israel's [[Likud]] party urging it to withdraw from the Oslo peace process. The report, titled "[http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm]", was published by the [[Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies]]. It 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. Other contributors to the report included Richard Perle and Douglas Feith.{{ref|cb}}
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'''David Wurmser''' is a [[neocon]] ideologue who advises [[Dick Cheney]] on the Middle East adviser. In 1996 he co-authored a policy paper for Israel's [[Likud]] party urging it to withdraw from the Oslo peace process. The report, titled "[http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm]", was published by the [[Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies]]. It 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. Other contributors to the report included Richard Perle and Douglas Feith.{{ref|cb}} Wurmser's 19998 book ''Tyranny's Ally'' subsequently served as the blue print for the invasion and occupation of Iraq.{{ref|jc}}  
  
 
Wurmser's Israeli-born wife [[Meyrav Wurmser]] is the co-founder of [[MEMRI]].  
 
Wurmser's Israeli-born wife [[Meyrav Wurmser]] is the co-founder of [[MEMRI]].  
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*{{note|his}} Brian Whittaker, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html US thinktanks give lessons in foreign policy], ''The Guardian'', August 19, 2002
 
*{{note|his}} Brian Whittaker, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html US thinktanks give lessons in foreign policy], ''The Guardian'', August 19, 2002
 
*{{note|cb}} [http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm], ([[Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies]] 1996)
 
*{{note|cb}} [http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm], ([[Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies]] 1996)
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*{{note|jc}} Jonathan Cutler, [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10185 Beyond Incompetence: Washington's War in Iraq], ''ZNet'', April 30, 2006
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Revision as of 19:00, 10 July 2007

David Wurmser is a neocon ideologue who advises Dick Cheney on the Middle East adviser. In 1996 he co-authored 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", was published by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies. It 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. Other contributors to the report included Richard Perle and Douglas Feith.[1] Wurmser's 19998 book Tyranny's Ally subsequently served as the blue print for the invasion and occupation of Iraq.[2]

Wurmser's Israeli-born wife Meyrav Wurmser is the co-founder of MEMRI.

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