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The Institute for Research: Middle East Policy (IRmep) held a Capitol Hill Forum on November 26, at the Rayburn House Congressional Office Building to discuss the likelihood that former American advisers to Israel have turned their 1996 policy plan for the Jewish state into today's U.S. policy used to invade Iraq and bully the rest of the Middle East. Among the paper's recommendations were toppling the government of Iraq, rolling back Syria and Iran, and electrifying support for Israel in the U.S. Congress in exchange for new missile defense contract opportunities. Saying he found it stunning that the same leaders now writing and shaping the U.S. policy have a history of looking out for Israel's interests, Farha noted that the decision to strike Iraq had been made even before 9/11, in accordance with the, Clean Break, plan.