<snip> Perle has close business ties with Conrad Black, chairman of Hollinger International Inc., which owns more than 400 daily and weekly newspapers in Canada, the United States, Britain, Israel and Australia. Hollinger papers include London's Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Jerusalem Post. Perle uses these papers and others to trumpet his anti-Saddam sentiments and to tangle with political figures, such as British Minister Clare Short, who opposes the Perle line on Iraq. Black, a Canadian, recently joined fellow media kingpin Rupert Murdoch in defending British Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to stick with Bush's war aims, despite overwhelming domestic opposition.
Perle is a top executive of Hollinger Digital Inc., which is the media management and investment arm of Hollinger. Perle is listed on various corporate boards through his association with Hollinger. Whether or not Perle speaks for Bush, the president's recent reasoning on Iraq follows a pattern found in Perle's writings, particularly in a lengthy piece for Israel Insider, which uses numerous non-sequiters in its emotionally-charged connection of Saddam to terrorist activity. </snip>
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Richard_N._PerleThis is from an
official biography at the American Enterprise Institute:
<snip> Professional Experience
-Member, Defense Policy Board; Chairman, 2001-2003
-Chairman and chief executive officer, Hollinger Digital, Inc.
-Director, Jerusalem Post </snip>
http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.49,filter./scholar.aspOn edit: While it's not particularly germane to the JP's rhetoric about Hanan Ashrawi, it's perhaps worth noting that she is a non-practicing Episcopalian.