Say, I thought the Israelis spied on the U.S., and were really her enemy or something like that. But if that’s true, why is Israel sending the U.S. military in Iraq top-secret Israeli IED detection technology, after simply being asked?
At the end of last month, Brigadier General Joseph Votel, a boyish-looking, tall and smiling American, made an urgent request to an old friend of his from Washington − also a brigadier general, but in the Golani Brigade rather than the Rangers − Nitzan Nuriel, the chief of the foreign liaison department of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. So urgent was the message that the Pentagon didn’t even update their military attache in Tel Aviv. Votel implored Nuriel to send him a top-secret item the IDF has developed that could be useful in combating the improvised explosive devices (IED) used against U.S. forces in Iraq.
Nuriel called the chief of the Engineering Corps, Brigadier General Shimon Daniel, who was the Northern Command chief engineering officer during the war against Hezbollah IEDs before the IDF withdrawal from Lebanon and who has been holding professional contacts with Votel and his aides for the past year and a half. Daniel convened the Israeli experts, Nuriel set off on the obstacle course of coordination and authorization – and within a record time of five days, the items in question and their manuals were on a plane headed overseas.
Funny. They keep on trying to insist that Israel is spying on the U.S., and yet, Israel is sharing top-secret technology at the drop of a hat.
Can we get the Jew-haters out of the FBI, please?
Ah, well, let it not be said that even a happy family does not have its moments of, let’s say, differences of opinions.
It’s not a big secret that both sides in this happy union do some little (or not so little) spying in the other’s bailiwick.
The only difference is what happens when the spying side gets caught, and here the only thing that counts is the size of the bludgeon.
A US citizen spying on us here would get a gentle reprimand and be escorted to Ben-Gurion airport. Maybe with a chance to partake of the goodies in the VIP lounge.
An Israeli citizen caught similarly would get the book thrown at him in most cases, plus of course the usual spiel from FBI, State Dept. and media.
During my military service I happened twice to have the honour of discovering and, eventually, escorting out US citizens with cameras and stuff in sensitive military areas. In both cases it was done politely, on the quiet and no one from the local media got wise to it.
So what? No big deal, if one considers that we are all doing what Elders wish us to do – but that’s another blog…
Just thought I’d let you in on this from Haaretz, which they picked up from LATimes:
Report: Jordanian spy agency replaces Mossad as key CIA ally
What is interesting is that they quote a n ex-CIA “insurgent” who has even used his position against his own President:
Now how about that given that the US has screwed its troops in Iraq using people from the Arab countries as translators.
Michael Scheuer is making a second career out of scapegoating Israel, and using his so-called bona fides as ex-CIA in the process.
It’s scary to think that analysts and agents like Scheuer were (are?) this country’s vanguard against foreign enemies.
I was appalled–but not amazed–when the reports on the bombing described Jordan as a forward-looking country. Not too many months ago, the Pew Research Center reported that Jordan was bucking the global trend of declining support for suicide bombings, and that it edged out Lebanon for the title of most anti-Jewish country on Earth. Jordan’s Parliament consistently rejects, as “unIslamic,” legislation introduced by the King to reform the penal code to, e.g., increase the punishment for honor killings.
Jordan is a sewer.
One thing I liked about that article, btw, was the report that the IDF had de-commissioned K-9s so that they could “enlist” with US forces operating in Iraq. It’s nice because there is cooperation, and it’s delicious because extremist Muslims tend not to be fond of dogs, and sometimes use “dog” as a slur for “Jew.” So now “Jewish dogs” are helping to put down the insurgency.