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If you were a viewer of the McNeil Lehrer Report in the 80s you saw the first fruits of this propaganda push in abundance when think tank heroes/Reagan appointees/Likudite sympathizers such as like Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, Elliot Abrams and Paul Wolfowitzwere paraded across our screens almost nightly to ply their bellicose and Israel-centered view of the world to people (PBS viewers) who like to think of themselves as America’s thinking elite. All polite, articulate and calmly spoken, they made “muscular foreign policy” and the “show ‘em who’s boss” treatment of Arabs (and all of the other ungrateful brown people of planet for that matter) seem the most natural and sensible thing in the world.

During the Clinton years, these Neo-cons largely retreated into the think tanks to plan their next assault on power, letting less overtly bellicose pro-Israel types such as Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk (the US correlates of the Laborites Ehud Barack and Shimon Peres) manage Mideast affairs for the Clinton Administration.