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The plan calls for the creation of a private governing entity and allows the hiring of Western mercenaries for security.

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The group is chaired by John Hannah, who served as deputy national security advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney from 2001 to 2005 and then as Cheney’s national security advisor (2005-2009), replacing Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who resigned his position after being indicted for perjury. Libby, who was later given a full pardon by former President Donald Trump, is also a member of the Gaza task force.

Another prominent member of the task force is the founder and chairman of the hawkish Vandenberg Coalition, Elliott Abrams, who served as the senior director for Near East and North African Affairs in the National Security Council under Bush from 2002 to 2009 and more recently as the Special Envoy for Venezuela and Iran under Trump. Ironically, Abrams, who also served as the NSC’s Senior Director for Democracy under Bush, played a key role in supporting an attempted armed coup by Hamas’s chief rival, Fatah, in 2007 after Hamas swept the 2006 Palestinian elections. The coup attempt sparked a brief but bloody civil war in Gaza, which eventually resulted in Hamas’ consolidation of power in the Strip.

. Eric Edelman (ret.), a fourth member of the task force, served as Cheney’s principal deputy national security adviser from 2001 to 2003 and then as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the number three position at the Pentagon, under Rumsfeld and his successor, Robert Gates, from 2005 to 2009, as U.S. troops struggled to contain the mainly Sunni resistance to the U.S. occupation in Iraq.

I assume their first choice was the preserved head of Henry Kissinger in a jar, but he was busy.

[-] owen@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Holy fuck. I would assume they also have Dr Doom as a special advisor

[-] protist@mander.xyz 15 points 8 months ago

The plan, which was published as a report Thursday by the hard-line neo-conservative Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, or JINSA, and the Vandenberg Coalition

This is coming from people who aren't in government. No way in hell the current government even looks at this, but Netanyahu might

[-] Binthinkin@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Basically they hired a bunch of idiot scumbags.

Saved you a click.

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