The SPOTLIGHT     February 4, 1991

          LEADING IRAQ WAR ADVOCATE HAS INTERNATIONALIST AGENDA 

   If there's one single member of Congress who can take credit for the deaths
of American boys and girls in the Persian Gulf, it's Rep. Stephen Solarz (D-
N.Y.)  Here's his whole sordid story.

                         By Michael Collins Piper  

   Who engineered congressional approval of the resolution that backed President
George Bush's drive for war against Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein?

   None other than Rep. Stephen Solarz (D-N.Y.), the Israel lobby's chief
legislative tactician on Capital Hill.

   A.M. Rosenthal of the New York Times recently describe Solarz as "the
Democrat to whom the country (i.e., the United States) owes most."

   Many American nationalists might dispute that claim, considering Solarz's
record.

   A leading member of the Rockefeller family's Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR), Solarz is perhaps the Establishment's most reliable legman in Congress. 
He is also, beyond question, one of the most liberal lawmakers in Washington. 

   Since he first came to Congress, Solarz has consistently received remarkably
low rating from Liberty Leader, the biennial congressional scorecard issued by
Liberty Lobby, the Washington based populist institution.

   The most recent edition of the ledger, which rates lawmakers on the basis of
their support for the interests of America's consumers, taxpayers and voters,
gave Solarz a 20 percent rating, based on his votes on 10 key issues during the
first session of 101st Congress.

   On every crucial issue of concern to the global power brokers, Solarz has
been in the forefront of the action, both in Washington and around the world,
shuttling back and forth on secret missions designed to advance the drive for
the "New World Order" of which his ally, President George Bush, now speaks
freely.

   From the toppling of anti-communist Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos to the
campaign against America's allies in South Africa to the maneuvering on behalf
of Britian's war against Argentina over the Falklands, Solarz has been a major
player.

   NEVER WENT TO WAR

   A career politician who sat out the Vietnam War as a graduate student at
Columbia University and as a youthful member of the New York state Assembly from
1968 to 1974 (at which time he was elected to Congress), Solarz himself has
never seen military action nor even served in the military.

   This has not stopped Solarz, however, from urging on U.S. military
intervention when it serves the peculiar needs of his political backers, most
notably the Israel lobby and its wide-ranging network of political action
committees that consistently line his campaign coffers.

   Although his cronies in the corruption-ridden Brooklyn Democratic political
machine from which he emerged ensure Solarz hefty re-election percentages every
two years, Solarz regularly maintains one of the largest campaign war chests in
Congress.

   Despite his hawkish views toward the Middle East, Solarz made a name for
himself as a fierce critic of America's anti-communist war in Vietnam.  Clearly
Solarz - as with all Zionists - opposed the war in Vietnam as the wrong war, not
because they worked for peace.

   Solarz is the protege of David Rockefellar's top geopolitical adviser,
Columbia University Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, the founder of Rockefeller's
Trilateral Commission (another globalist pressure group).  As such, he was
ensured entry into the international Establishment.

DELIVERING FOR ISRAEL

   A high-ranking member of both the House of Foreign Affairs Committee and the
House of Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Solarz is well placed to
advance the CFR Israel lobby agenda.

   In fact, in 1981, in a taxpayer-subsidized newsletter to his constituents,
Solarz made it a matter of public record that when he was elected to Congress,
in his own words, he "deliberately sought an assignment to the Foreign Affairs
Committee precisely because he wanted to be in a position to be helpful to
Israel."

   In his newsletters boldfacedly entitled "Delivering for Israel", Solarz
bragged how he and "some of the other friend of Israel on the Foreign Affairs
Committee" were able to increase aid to that foreign country by $660 million
during that session of Congress.

   "It is a story," he wrote, "of how legislative maneuvering and political
persistence managed to prevail over fiscal constraints", at a time he described
as being plagued with "double-digit inflation, with all sorts of cutbacks in
spending and the overall level of our foreign aid program likely to decline.

   "We were able," crowed Solarz, "to provide Israel with an increase in
military and economic aid in one year alone which is the equivalent of almost
three years of contributions of the national (U.S.) United Jewish Appeal."

   Solarz's most recent service to Israel was, of course, engineering
congressional support for President George Bush's demand for war against Iraq,
the Arab nation long perceived by Israel to be its major "enemy" (This despite
the fact that Israel itself helped arm Iraq in its long and bloody war against
Iran.)

   In fact it was Solarz who lead a panel of Israel's staunchest supporters in
America in forming a "bipartisan" pressure group, the Committee for Peace and
Security in the Gulf," which lobbied, along with the American-Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC), in favor of war.

REPUDIATES MONROE DOCTRINE

   Another of Solarz's pet projects was promoting American involvement in
Britian's 1982 war against Argentina over the Falkland Islands.

   The vote was taken with little more than a dozen congressmen present, shortly
after Solarz and his House cronies had spread the word that no such vote would
be taken on the floor that day.  The Establishment forgot to tell you about
that, but you read it in the SPOTLIGHT (August 23, 1982)

   One lawmaker, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), later denounced Solarz's
interventionists trick and called for the immediate repudiation of the
illegitimate resolution, pointing out that even the House on Foreign Affairs
Committee had yet to hold a single day of hearings on the crises.

   Clearly Solarz has risen to prominence, particularly as far as the conduct
of America's foreign policy is concerned.  By watching Solarz's actions closely,
it is simple to know precisely which way the internationalist Establishment is
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