Michael Makovsky

Michael Makovsky is the director of the National Security Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), a group founded by several former senators, including George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and Tom Daschle. Despite his apparent bipartisan credentials, Makovsky is a hawkish partisan on Middle East policy, especially on Iran. Closely associated with many neoconservative figures, Makovsky worked in the Donald Rumsfeld Pentagon under Douglas Feith as an advisor to the notorious Office of Special Plans. Before joining the George W. Bush administration, he worked as an energy market analyst for trading companies.

His brother is David Makovsky, another neocon, is the "Ziegler distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)". Michael Makovsky acquired an Israeli citizenship, served in the Israeli military, and he spent some time in a West Bank settlement. He also befriended Yigal Amir, the assassin of Yitzhak Rabin. Justin Raimondo adds: "He was reportedly a member, in his student days at least, of the neo-fascist "Betar" organization, which has a military structure (members wear uniforms, and engage in "drills") and calls for a 'Greater Israel.'"

External Resources

 * Right-Web: Profile: Michael Makovsky
 * BPC: Profiles: Michael Makovsky
 * Justin Raimondo, The Worms in the Apple, Antiwar.com, 18 September 2009 (Accessed: 16 February 2012)