When
Kermit Jr.
was 27, his father, a man who tended to drink heavily, committed
suicide in Alaska where he had been stationed as an intelligence officer
with the U.S. Army. In the late 1940s he was on the board of directors
of an organization called the Institute of Arab American Affairs. This
organization republished an article by him in Foreign Affairs in
pamphlet form that made the argument that "US support of Zionism will be
detrimental to long term US interests in the Middle East."
The
irony is that this Kermit was who botched Iran up when the country
tried to nationalize their resources to protect itself from abuse. The
end result of Roosevelt's actions ironically brought in the Ayatolahs... Israel's greatest nemesis.
Amideast, formerly
American Friends of the Middle East, originally the Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land, an organization created to oppose the creation of Israel. Its co-founder Kermit Roosevelt Jr had come out of the board of the Institute of Arab-American Affairs, which was headed by the same man who headed the Arab League's office in the United States
