# The Clean Break Report, Israel and the Neoconservative Dual Loyalty Debate

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120739445590905192
- Source account: [@TheVikingNomad\_](https://x.com/TheVikingNomad_)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:02
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate

## Transcript

[0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=1) In 1996, a group of neocons wrote a report intended as advice for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=9) It called for a clean break with the peace process, rolling back Syria, and removing Saddam Hussein from power, an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=20) Amongst those who contributed, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, now number three at the Pentagon, David Wurmser, now in the State Department, and Meyrav Wurmser.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=30) It was no more than a mental exercise done in a think tank, um, uh, by a group of people.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=38) Um, yes, many of us are Jewish. There's no need to apologize for that.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=43) Um, uh, most of us, all of us, in fact, are pro-Israel.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=50) Uh, some of us more fiercely so than the oth- than, than others.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=54) But we have no problem also criticizing Israel.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=57) That, that paper in 1996, the, the Clean Break paper, that was the paper that led to accusations of, of dual loyalty.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=66) Charges of dual loyalty touch on raw emotions.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=69) Professor Eliot Cohen is one of America's top military historians.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=73) We met as the progress of the war seemed in the balance.

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=77) In a narrow military sense, the achievements look, you know, pretty remarkable.

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=81) Um, you know, 50 miles outside Baghdad, a lot of bad things that could have happened haven't happened yet.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=88) Professor Cohen is also an advisor to the Pentagon and has been involved with both the AEI and the Project for the New American Century.

[1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=96) You've expressed some concern over the idea that this is all a conspiracy whipped up by a group of, quotes, "neoconservative hawks" who are somehow allied to Israel, and you've expressed- Well- ... worries about that.

[1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=105) Explain what you're concerned about. Look, sometimes the word neoconservative is used when what they really would like to say is Jew.

[1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=114) They being? People who use that kind of language.

[1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QglWulkHKYWX/en/the-clean-break-report-israel-and-the-neoconservative-dual-loyalty-debate?t=119) And as a Jew, I find it offensive.