The U.S. government has long lavished overwhelming aid on Israel, providing cash, weapons and surveillance technology that play a crucial role in Israel’s attacks on its neighbors. But top secret documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden shed substantial new light on how the U.S. and its partners directly enable Israel’s military assaults – such as the one on Gaza.
Over the last decade, the NSA has significantly increased the surveillance assistance it provides to its Israeli counterpart, the Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU; also known as Unit 8200), including data used to monitor and target Palestinians. In many cases, the NSA and ISNU work cooperatively with the British and Canadian spy agencies, the GCHQ and CSEC.
The relationship has, on at least one occasion, entailed the covert payment of a large amount of cash to Israeli operatives. Beyond their own surveillance programs, the American and British surveillance agencies rely on U.S.-supported Arab regimes, including the Jordanian monarchy and even the Palestinian Authority Security Forces, to provide vital spying services regarding Palestinian targets.
The new documents underscore the indispensable, direct involvement of the U.S. government and its key allies in Israeli aggression against its neighbors. That covert support is squarely at odds with the posture of helpless detachment typically adopted by Obama officials and their supporters.
President Obama, in his press conference on Friday, said ”it is heartbreaking to see what’s happening there,” referring to the weeks of civilian deaths in Gaza – “as if he’s just a bystander, watching it all unfold,” observed Brooklyn College Professor Corey Robin. Robin added: ”Obama talks about Gaza as if it were a natural disaster, an uncontrollable biological event.”
PsyOps 101: appear to sympathize with the victims while never alienating the victimizers.
Obama also said Friday that the Left shouldn’t get all “sanctimonious” just because they told us early on that the US was “torturing some folks” after 9-11. He also said that even though the CIA was guilty of the crime of torture they “did a lot of good.” Maybe Obama will let us in on what good the CIA really is? Or what good it has ever done? Unfortunately that never happens in a dictatorship….err democracy…..because it’s a state secret. So we’ll just have to take our politicians word for it. Frankly that crap is wearing very thin with the Left which has grown sick and tired of America’s pro-neocon (Zionist) foreign policy. Where is that 6300 page report by the way?
Yep the CIA did so much GOOD bringing down Mossadeq, it did so much GOOD trying to kill Castro and teaching Lee Harvey Oswald about assassinating Presidents, it did so much GOOD in Chile, and in Libya — how is all that working out, by the way? If the CIA would just assassinate fellow spies like James Bond that would be one thing. We’d never need to hear about blowback.