{"id":4379,"date":"2008-06-26T22:11:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T05:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2008-06-27T06:14:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T13:14:49","slug":"when-a-map-is-worth-a-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/26\/when-a-map-is-worth-a-thousand-words\/","title":{"rendered":"When A Map Is Worth a Thousand Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or maybe even 674 pages, the length of Douglas Feith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent opus, War and Decision<\/em>. <\/p>\n

As you can imagine, Israel does not figure prominently in Feith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book, and you would never guess from reading it that, as early as 1996, Feith \u00e2\u20ac\u201d along with David Wurmser and their common mentor, Richard Perle \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was already thinking that the ouster of Saddam Hussein was the key to transforming the regional balance of power decisively in favor of Israel, thus permitting a Likud-led Israel to make a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clean break\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from the Oslo peace process and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153secure the realm\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, as well as its pre-1967 borders. <\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t intend to review of the book, at least now. But the map that appears next to Feith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Introduction\u00e2\u20ac\u009d depicting Iraq and its neighbors as of 2003 offers some insight into his worldview and Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rightful place \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or, more precisely, its size \u00e2\u20ac\u201d within it:<\/p>\n

<\/a> <\/p>\n

Not much space for a Palestinian state, is there? Good strategic depth around Jerusalem. Looks like the Golan isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t supposed to revert to Syria, either. No suggestion of occupation. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all Israeli. <\/p>\n

Incidentally, In his book, Feith claims that it was Fred Ikle that got him the undersecretary for policy job, but I have it on excellent authority that it was Perle, the only man who Rumsfeld (who himself referred to the West Bank and Gaza as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153so-called occupied territories\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) believes is his intellectual equal, whose recommendation was decisive. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good to know that the Washington Post still considers Perle credible enough to give him space on its op-ed page to warn against the perils of multilateralism in dealing with Iran, as it did today.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Visit Lobelog.com<\/a> for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service’s Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or maybe even 674 pages, the length of Douglas Feith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent opus, War and Decision. As you can imagine, Israel does not figure prominently in Feith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book, and you would never guess from reading it that, as early as 1996, Feith \u00e2\u20ac\u201d along with David Wurmser and their common mentor, Richard Perle \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}