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Stephen J. Sniegoski

The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel Hardcover – September 1, 2008

by Stephen J. Sniegoski (Author), Paul Gottfried PhD (Preface), Paul Findley (Foreword)

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Although it is generally understood that American neoconservatives pushed hard for the war in Iraq, this book forcefully argues that the neocons' goal was not the spread of democracy, but the protection of Israel's interests in the Middle East. Showing that the neocon movement has always identified closely with the interests of Israel's Likudnik right wing, the discussion contends that neocon advice on Iraq was the exact opposite of conventional United States foreign policy, which has always sought to maintain stability in the region to promote the flow of oil. Various players in the rush to war are assessed according to their motives, including President Bush, Ariel Sharon, members of the foreign-policy establishment, and the American people, who are seen not as having been dragged into war against their will, but as ready after 9/11 for retaliation.

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September 1, 2008
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"This is a riveting book." —Paul Craig Roberts, PhD, syndicated columnist; former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; and former associate editor, Wall Street Journal

"The time is right for an unvarnished examination of the origins, history, and agenda of the neoconservative policy bloc in Washington and in Tel Aviv. The Transparent Cabal helps to provide one." —Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, USAF (ret.), PhD

"The timing of Dr. Sniegoski's book could not be better. The only aspect of U.S. Middle East policy not in controversy is that no one knows what to do; Sniegoski's book may help the debate break through this barrier." —Joseph Douglass Jr., PhD, author, America the Vulnerable: The Threat of Chemical/Biological Warfare and Red Cocaine: The Drugging of America

"I have known Dr. Sniegoski for many years. He is a thorough researcher with a capacity for independent thought and the courage to advance and defend his analyses." —Wayne S. Cole, PhD, professor emeritus, University of Maryland

"Sniegoski leaves no stone unturned in exposing the Israeli-neocon alliance and its catastrophic consequences in the Middle East. Timely and important, his book should provoke a much-needed debate about who truly benefits from current US policies in the region." —Jonathan Cook, author, Israel and the Clash of Civilisations

"That the security of Israel has been central to the foreign-policy worldview of the neo-conservatives is one of the least discussed and most taboo aspects of the movement. Sniegolski has long been among the most dogged researchers who have tried to bring this to light." —Jim Lobe, Washington Bureau Chief, Inter Press Service (IPS).

"Sniegoski breaks new ground and pulls no punches in his analysis of the neocon-driven policies that brought about war with Iraq. He broadens the inquiry into many areas that desperately need sunshine and clarity." —Philip Giraldi, former CIA officer, partner in Cannistraro Associates, national security consultants, and contributing editor, The American Conservative

"Telling the truth in America today is more professionally risky than ever before, but happily Sniegoski couldn't care less. His rendition of recent American history is utterly absorbing." —Thomas Woods, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History

About the Author

Stephen J. Sniegoski is the author of many articles on political philosophy, World War II, communism, and the American war in Iraq. His essay "Neoconservatives, Israel, and 9/11: The Origins of the U.S. War on Iraq" is included in the anthology Neoconned! Again. He holds his doctorate from the University of Maryland, where he studied American diplomatic history under Dr. Wayne S. Cole, whose papers are now part of the Hoover Presidential Library Research Collection. He lives in Adelphi, Maryland. Paul Findley is a former congressman from Illinois and a cofounder of the Council for the National Interest, a Washington advocacy group. He is the author of They to Dare Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby. He lives in Jacksonville, Illinois. Paul Gottfried, PhD, is the author of Conservatism in America. He lives in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Enigma Editions (September 1, 2008)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 447 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932528172

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932528176

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 16 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #596,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#238 in Iraq History (Books)

#612 in Iraq War History (Books)

#721 in Israel & Palestine History (Books)

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dismas
Well Worth Reading
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2018
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The reviews of this book divide into two camps with nothing in the middle. I read the negative reviews. I don't have much to say about them other than that a person considering this book should simply ignore them. Is anyone else tired of hearing any legitimate criticism of the modern state of Israel referred to as "anti-semitism", or is it just me?

I learned quite a bit from reading this book. I recommend it. But I almost gave it a "four" only because it is so full of typos! My gosh, did no one proofread this book? That part is distracting. But if you can overlook the typos, the information is very good.
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David A. Thompson
How our current nightmare in the Middle East began.
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2017
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If you've ever wondered how we got into our current mess in the Middle East, read this book. Explains the powerful influence of a small group of 'experts' in the State Dept., WH,Congress, lobbies,think tanks, and academia, known as 'neocons', who high-jacked our foreign policy to serve the security interests of Israel. Makes sense out of a lot of events that seemed to make no sense at all.
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Concerned Citizen
How and Why Israel Promoted the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2014
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Every American should read this superb book about the intimate connection between the state of Israel and the Americans who planned and promoted the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 (and who still influence U.S. policy in the Middle East). This very well-researched and well-argued book will enlighten Americans who want to understand how the Jewish State of Israel powerfully shapes U.S. Middle East policy.

Stephen Sniegowski provides a detailed look at the network of die-hard pro-Israel Neoconservatives who have worked in the U.S. government, in think tanks, and in the news media to shape American foreign policy to serve the needs of Israel at the expense of the U.S. From media baron Rupert Murdoch, whose 175 newspapers around the world ALL editorialized in favor of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, to deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, to Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol, to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and later Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, to Vice President Dick Cheney, to the Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Richard Perle, the neoconservatives successfully persuaded President George W. Bush to invade Iraq to promote Israel's foreign policy interests.

Sniegowski describes how the Neocons promoted lies about Saddam Hussein's supposed Weapons of Mass Destruction and his supposed ties to al-Qaeda terrorists from a network of think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Middle East Media Research Institute, Hudson Institute, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Middle East Forum, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Center for Security Policy, and the Project for a New American Century (PNAC).

He also traces the influence of Israeli Zionist Oded Yinon on the American Neoconservatives. Yinon wrote an article in 1982 entitled "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s" that called for Israel to bring about the dissolution of many of the Arab states and their fragmentation into a mosaic of ethnic and sectarian groupings. This is basically what is happening to Iraq and Syria today. He also called for Israelis to accelerate the emigration of Palestinians from Israel, whose border he believed should extend to the Jordan River and beyond it.

Yinon's article influenced a paper written for the Israeli Likud government of Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996 by American neoconservatives Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm". This paper stated that Netanyahu should "make a clean break" with the Oslo peace process and reassert Israel's claim to the West Bank and Gaza. Like Yinon's article, it also called for the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the weakening of Syria to promote Israel's interests. It was written five years BEFORE the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. These same three men - Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser - who advised Netanyahu's Israeli government on issues of national security would later advise President George W. Bush to pursue virtually the same policies regarding the Middle East.

If you want to understand how and why powerful pro-Israel neoconservatives in the U.S. misled Americans and convinced President George W. Bush to order the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, and how they persuaded the U.S. Congress to give Bush the authority to order the invasion, read this outstanding book.
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The Failure of American Government
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2010
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Another episode in the sad story of recent American government. It starts with a 1996 paper entitled "A Clean Break, A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" published by an Israeli think tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies. The principal idea was to foment war in the Middle East and consequently destabilize Israel's enemies.

The policy was adopted by the Israeli pro-settler right wing and Jewish activists in and around the Clinton and Bush administrations such as Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser (who all helped produce the original document). They identified as targets Iraq, Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia and were handed a golden opportunity after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre. Iraq was falsely presented as an Al Qaeda base and the media planted with stories about an imminent attack on the United States using WMD. Despite the CIA knowing all along that the WMD didn't exist, the US still invaded Iraq and the story was quietly and unbelievably changed to "building democracy".

As Sniegoski points out, the war has exceeded the cost of Vietnam and the same activists, now working through Hillary Clinton are looking for "incidents" in Iraq to trigger the next phase of the plan which is a US attack on Iran.

UPDATE October 2014:

And it gets worse: The 911 story itself keeps morphing. Google "Building 7", YouTube "911 Missing Links" or check the article at http://911speakout.org/7TOCPJ.pdf.
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Severo
A cornerstone in the quest for understanding the current Middle East Crisis.
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016
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Important book for those trying understand the chaos that is currently reigning in the Middle East. From the lies based NEOCON attack on Iraq trumpeted by the mainstream USA media as a fight to save Western Civilization, to the rise of ISIL. This books will make those connections clear. No informed American can afford to not know the names Oded Yinon, AIPAC, The Clean Break, The NEOCONS. Knowledge is indeed power.
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A. Mather
The Most Critical Book on 9/11
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2016
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Although the author avoids the issue of the creation of 9/11, he recognises its convenience for the pro-Israel neo-conservative agenda. What he does do is comprehensively and overwhelmingly demonstrate the role of Jewish extremist (hard line) and Jewish-sympathising players in forming an agenda that would be harmful to the US and to the world, but which would massively promote Israel's power and hegemony in the Middle East by dismembering Arab/Muslim nations, the enemies of Israel. As we have seen, Iraq was just the beginning. Syria has followed, and Iran is constantly targeted as a threat. Disturbing abuse of the world's most powerful military, hijacked by an Israel lobby that has no regard for common sense or pragmatic values, including other nations' right to exist.
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The Transparent Cabal is the best documented book about the Neocon influence on the American ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2016
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The Transparent Cabal is the best documented book about the Neocon influence on the American foreign policy I have read. It is more detailed than The Israel Lobby written by Mearsheimer and Walt. A very recent book about this influence is "Congress and the shaping of the Middle-East" by Beattie. A book I also highly recommend
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