A recent report by Newsweek magazine that Israel has spied on the United States at “an alarming level” and has done so “more than any other ally does” raises a very serious issue concerning how much Israel has betrayed America, which is something that the American mainstream media have time and again refused to debate in public. For clarification, the word “betrayed” here means something “damaging” to American national interests.
In fact, the case of Israel’s espionage on the U.S. is only one among different problems which have damaged American national interests due to the actions of Israel over the last few decades. Consider, for illustration, four major evidences as explained below.
Evidence #1: Israel’s Espionage on the U.S.
The first evidence for Israel’s betrayal of America has to do with Israel’s espionage on the U.S.
On May 7, 2014, AFP published a little known report by Newsweek magazine, which revealed several “classified” briefings in recent months given by “the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, the FBI and the National Counterintelligence Directorate,” in which there were shocking findings that “Israel spies on the United States more than any other ally does and these activities have reached an alarming level…The main targets are US industrial and technical secrets.”
Israel exploits different ways to spy on the U.S. For instance, Israel sought “legislation” in the U.S. that “would make it easier for Israeli citizens…to enter America” (without restriction), as reported by AFP. In 2013, the Obama administration and Congress worked out a legislation that “would let Israelis visit the United States without visas but not demand full reciprocal treatment for all Americans wishing to travel to the Jewish state,” due to its persistent discrimination against those Americans who are critical to Israel’s foreign policy or those who are of Middle Eastern descent—and the legislation created a new category of U.S. ally known as “major strategic partner” which designates “Israel as the only such nation” with this exceptional privilege, as reported by Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee on July 15, 2013.
Another common loophole exploited by Israel is to have “industrial espionage folks coming over here on trade missions or with Israeli companies working in collaboration with American companies, [or] intelligence operatives being run directly by the government, which…meant out of the [Israeli] Embassy,” as reported by Newsweek.
According to AFP, “a congressional staffer familiar with a briefing last January [in 2013] called the testimony ‘very sobering…alarming…even terrifying,’ and quoted another as saying the behavior was ‘damaging.’ ‘No other country close to the United States continues to cross the line on espionage like the Israelis do,’ said a former congressional staffer who attended another classified briefing in late 2013.”
In fact, according to the AFP report, “Israel’s espionage activities in America are unrivaled and go far beyond activities by other close allies, such as Germany, France, Britain and Japan, counter-intelligence agents told members of the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees, Newsweek said. ‘I don’t think anyone was surprised by these revelations, ‘ the former aide was quoted as saying. ‘But when you step back and hear…that there are no other countries taking advantage of our security relationship the way the Israelis are for espionage purposes, it is quite shocking’”.
Evidence #2: Israel’s Refusal to Help the U.S. on Budget Cuts at this Most Difficult Time
The second evidence for Israel’s betrayal of America has to do with Israel’s refusal to help the U.S. on budget cuts at this most difficult time of financial crisis.
It is no secret that Israel has depended on U.S. foreign aid, both military and economic, for decades (not just for years). For instance, Joel Bainerman, himself an Israeli, had long pointed out in the Middle East Quarterly, back in 1995, that, “from 1948 to 1993, U.S. military and economic aid to Israel amounted to approximately $37 billion…In 1994, Israel received $1.8 billion in military credits and $1.2 billion in economic aid, or 26 percent of the $11.5 billion total U.S. foreign aid bill.” By the early 2000s, total U.S. aid to Israel already exceeded $100 billion, as Richard H. Curtiss showed in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
In fact, no other country on Earth has year after year received so much more money from the U.S. than Israel, a country with only a few million people, has. In addition, Israel successfully sought the privilege of receiving “all of its annual foreign aid during the first month of each fiscal year, unlike other recipients who receive their aid in quarterly payments. The Israeli government therefore is able to invest its foreign aid in U.S. Treasury notes, thus realizing upwards” of so many more million dollars annually in interest, as Richard H. Curtiss showed.
This parasitic dependence has now reached a critical point when the U.S. has been suffering from the most serious protracted financial crisis in the last few years since the Great Depression and thus has to painfully engage in budgets cuts (including the most important defense cuts). In the first few years of the Obama administration, even Hillary Clinton, the then Secretary of State, asked Israel to voluntarily cut its foreign aid from the U.S. as a way to help the U.S. at this most difficult time of financial crisis in U.S. history, so as to show “gratitude” to America for what the latter has done for its survival over the last decades. But Israel refused to help the U.S. at this most difficult time. Clinton therefore pointedly reminded the Jewish state that even American citizens did not receive money from the U.S. government in the way that Israel has time and again received from the U.S. over the last decades. Instead, Israel even asked for more money from the U.S. for its national missile defense (NMD) systems and socio-economic programs. When the U.S. needs help at this most difficult financial time, Israel is not there to help but makes the problem worse by asking even more money. Is this how Israel shows its “gratitude” to the U.S.?
Even “within Israel,…a growing number of analysts…recognize[e]…that economic dependence on foreign sources creates problems” (such as the inefficient “government-provided mortgages to homeowners,” “government subsidies to politically connected organizations, such as the kibbutzim, the Histadrut,…and the Kupat Cholim sick fund,” “politicized, inefficient water-distribution system,” and numerous other problems), as Bainerman wrote.
The most telling side of the harmful effect of this parasitic dependence of Israel on the U.S. resources is “Israel’s failing welfare system and raging poverty rate” in our time, as Shir Hever in the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem and Beit-Sahour thus explained: “The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs promotes…Israel [as] an image of a prosperous economy, a powerhouse of innovation,” but “OECD statistics…show that Israel suffers from extreme level of inequality, its [segregated] education system is among the worst in the OECD, and its poverty is the highest compared to all OECD countries….Israel’s overall tax income as a proportion of its GDP is higher than that of Chile, Mexico, and Turkey, for example, and is even higher than the weighted average of all OECD countries, but Israel’s poverty rate is the highest compared to all of these countries.”
It is therefore not surprising that “Arnon Gafny, who served as governor of the Bank of Israel in 1976-1981, points out that foreign aid has caused Israel to suffer from what economists call the ‘Dutch Disease,’ a generous but temporary gift (such as oil or external aid) that brings short-term benefits but impairs a country’s long-term competitiveness,” as Bainerman wrote.
Evidence #3: Israel’s Colonial Settlement against the U.S. Interests
The third evidence for Israel’s betrayal of America has to do with Israel’s colonial settlement against the U.S. wish, with damaging consequences to American national interests.
Over the years, the U.S. has time and again asked Israel to stop its colonial settlement in occupied territories that Israel annexed in its wars with the neighboring Arab states in the last few decades, since this has contributed to anti-American sentiment among many in the Arab world (and also in the rest of the world) that the U.S. is partially to blame due to its spoiled support of Israel.
Each time, Israel plays the “money card” by asking the U.S. for more money before it offers “concession” in regard to its colonial settlement in occupied territories, but each time, even after the money is given, Israel goes on to engage in colonial settlement in other parts of the occupied territories, so this long cycle (of a colonial settlement somewhere, a money request for concession, another colonial settlement somewhere else, another money request again for concession, and so on) continues, with no end in sight.
For instance, in 1999, the “newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak” wanted “to collect in advance an additional $1.2 billion in economic assistance promised by President Bill Clinton to former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for carrying out territorial withdrawals specified in the Wye agreement, signed in 1998,” but “neither Netanyahu nor Barak had yet carried out the withdrawals,” even after the U.S. administration at the time included “the payment in the fiscal year 2000 appropriation,” as Richard H. Curtiss explained.
In fact, as Richard H. Curtiss wrote, “even before the extras from the Pentagon and other federal budgets” were included, “the FY 00 appropriation” brought “the total of U.S. government grants and loans to Israel from 1949 through Oct. 31, 1999 to approximately $91,816,507,200….This is more than the total of U.S. aid to all of the countries of sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean combined. Yet these countries had a combined total population of 1.142 billion people in mid-1999, while Israel claimed a total 1999 population of 6.1 million. This means that Israel, with a population smaller than that of Hong Kong, receives about one-third of U.S bilateral foreign aid world-wide”.
Even John Kerry, the current U.S. Secretary of State, lost its patience and complained a few weeks ago that the colonial settlement by Israel constitutes a new “apartheid,” which is simply unacceptable. But Israel, with the support of the Jewish lobby in the U.S., continues its “apartheid” policy.
And this has damaged American national interests abroad, as Richard H. Curtiss thus explained: “During the more than half a century that has elapsed since the creation of Israel on May 15, 1948, the U.S. has lost tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars as a result of the Arab economic boycott, and more as a result of the 1973 Arab political oil boycott that touched off a recession in the U.S. and the industrialized countries. There also are incalculable costs associated with the vastly increased security outlays for U.S. government installations at home and abroad necessitated as a result of U.S. support for Israel in its long-standing disputes with its Arab neighbors,” and the current displeasure of the U.S. with Israel’s colonial settlement is only another chapter of an endless cycle of the same old problem in the past few decades.
Evidence #4: Israel’s Pivot to China
And the fourth evidence for Israel’s betrayal of America has to do with Israel’s pivot to China, the main rival to the U.S. dominance in the world.
For decades, Israel has enjoyed the unlimited access to the most advanced U.S. military technology and weapons (often in the form of military aid, which means that Israel often did not pay for them), but Israel has passed U.S. military technology to China.
For instance, only a few months ago, a U.S. investigation discovered that “secret U.S. missile and electro-optics technology was transferred to China…by Israel, prompting anger from the U.S.,” and the U.S. investigation “concluded that technology, including a miniature refrigeration system manufactured by Ricor and used for missiles and in electro-optic equipment, was sent to China, according to the Israeli newspaper Maariv. Another Israeli news site, Aretz Sheva, reports the U.S. is concerned the technology could ultimately find its way to Iran, which last year sought to buy military equipment from China for its nuclear program,” as reported by Bryant Jordan on December 24, 2013.
But this is not an isolated case, as “Israel has a long record of getting U.S. military technology to China. In the early 1990s then-CIA Director James Woolsey told a Senate Government Affairs Committee that Israel had been selling U.S. secrets to China for about a decade. More than 12 years ago the U.S. demanded Israel cancel a contract to supply China with Python III missiles, which included technology developed by the U.S. for its Sidewinder missiles, the Associated Press reported in 2002,” as Jordan wrote.
In addition, it is widely known that the U.S. was also angered when “Israel violated agreements by exporting restricted US technology it buys with yearly US subsidies. This was the case with the largely US-funded Lavi fighter-plane program. Israel…passed on technology to Beijing. China’s F-10 fighter jet is believed to be almost identical to the Lavi”—and the reason is that “Israel’s military industry is dependent on exports for its survival. And arms sales to China are among its most lucrative businesses,” in a report by The Insider.
And now the International Comparison Programme in the World Bank had recently announced in 2014 that China is to surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest economy by the end of this year (2014), as measured in terms of “the total GDP of the country as reflected in purchasing power parity” (PPP), and “both The Financial Times and The Economist” reported that “China would surpass the United States who has held the spot since 1890, the title being held by China before that,” as Armand Holmes wrote on April 30, 2014.
With this strategic shift of the global balance of power in mind, Israel is already steadily changing its foreign policy direction by pivoting to Asia, especially in its relation to China (and to a lesser extent, India), in preparation for the steady decline of America on the world stage.
Already, in April, 2014, “Israeli President Shimon Peres arrived in Beijing…for a three-day state visit to China. Peres’ trip was the first visit to China by an Israeli president since 2003, although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a trip to China in May 2013. Netanyahu’s visit itself was noteworthy, as it was the first such trip by an Israeli Prime Minister since 2007,” as reported by Shannon Tiezzi for The Diplomat on April 09, 2014.
In fact, Israel’s Economic Ministry chief scientist, Avi Hasson, confirmed last year that “[China] was second last year after the United States in terms of joint projects between Israel and foreign firms,” in a report by Forbes on May 26, 2014. The “$300 million research project focused on nanotechnologies” between Tel Aviv University and Beijing’s Tsinghua University in 2014 is a good example of this increasing trend, as reported by Ariel David for the Register-Guard on May 19, 2014. And “China…has surpassed Europe as the second leading source of high-tech capital [in Israel]. There are also growing calls in Israel to restart the arms trade with China, although currently U.S. pressure has prevented this from happening,” as Shannon Tiezzi wrote.
Most importantly, “in an interview with Chinese press, Peres made clear Israel’s admiration for China’s ability to raise millions out of poverty without relying on foreign aid. Peres said that ‘China can do a great service to the Middle East’ by showing the region how to ‘save itself, with its own hand, their own countries, not by dollars and not by Rubles, but [by] really mobilizing the people to come together.’ This sentiment hints at one possible motivating factor in Israel’s courting of China: a desire to balance against over-reliance on American aid and support,” as Shannon Tiezzi wrote.
In the long haul, Israel aims to establish a sort of “Jewish lobby” in China, so as to maintain some influence on the next superpower—just as it had done the same vis-a-vis America in the past few decades. To what extent this will be successful remains to be seen in future history, but the Chinese are wise enough to learn from history that it does not want to be another America for Israel (or for anyone else, for that matter).
Conclusion
These four evidences for Israel’s betrayal of America as explained above are illustrative, not exhaustive, of course. The important point to remember here is not that Israel has never done anything which benefits the U.S. (which is absurd, obviously), but that the American mainstream media have, more often than not, portrayed Israel’s relation with America in a one-dimensional (propagandistic) perspective in its kowtow to the Jewish lobby. And one main consequence of this one-dimensional perspective is its damage to American national interests in the past few decades, because the American public remains uninformed (or more correctly, misinformed) about it.
As the old saying goes, only a fool will continue to do the same old thing which has damaged his own interests.
How could Mossad’s involvement with 9/11/01 be left out? Controlled demolition of the two world trade center towers @110 stories and later in the day the 47 story building #7 which came down in 6.5 seconds?
how can rational people (at least on the surface) can bring irrational arguments?
Bullshit
“The important point to remember here is not that Israel has never done anything which benefits the U.S. (which is absurd, obviously)”
Can anyone give examples of anything Israel has done to benefit the USA?
I can think of 2 examples:
#1)911
September 11, 2013) Former Green Party Nominee for President of the
United States and Six-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney puts 9/11 in a
larger context while speaking at a special event from ReThink911 in
Times Square.
http://youtu.be/d5x3AAal0cY
ReThink911 | September 11, 2013 – NYC | Cynthia McKinney
(NYC,
September 11, 2013) Former Green Party Nominee for President of the
United States and Six-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney puts 9/11 in a
larger con…
youtube.com
#2)The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967
When you logically consider the creation of the State of Israel, it must rank as the most stupid idea ever.
The King Crane commission of 1919, came to the conclusion that a Jewish State in Palestine was untenable, it would require the removal of the ethnic population and could only be sustained by force of arms.
Yet the west pushed it through, and the King Crane prophesies were realised, not just stupid, but crazy.
The plan
operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become
an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the
whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab
states.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33220.htm
Yet here in the US media and Congress the Israelis are lauded as saviors, as the civilized example in the ME. Meanwhile Muslim Americans, defamed on every instance, are going out on missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, vetted, coming back with missing limbs.
The problem is not in our security appartus. It is in our political and social structures
Muslim American interpreters, linguists, field agents*
America has betrayed Israel and is working with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Obama and Muslim Brotherhood
9/7/12 Obama has the America Military doing a Military exercise with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Israel enemy. So whose side is he on?
Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the US government.
http://muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/part-1-the-threat-doctrine-of-shariah-the-muslim-brotherhood/
FBI, Justice Department and Homeland Security purged of all Agents that believe the “Muslim Brotherhood” to be dangerous.
Muslim Brotherhood White House Staff:
Rashad Hussain, Huma Abedin, Daliah Mogahed, Kifa Mustapha, Momamed Elibiary, and Mohamed Magid.
See Part 8: Team Obama & the Islamists | The Muslim Brotherhood in America
http://muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/pa (this goes to lecture 9, so go back to 8)
Part 8: Team Obama & the Islamists The Obama administration has greatly exacerbated the penetration of the U.S. government achieved during the George W. Bush administration. This part of the course will concentrate on illustrative examples of Muslim Brotherhood-associated individuals who have
bee…
Contact your representative in congress and demand an investigation and Vote!
FRANK GAFFNEY
Frank Gaffney is the Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C.
Many Americans are Blind, Deaf and Dumb
We are in an Islamic Cultural War. That has no Borders
Islamic Culture must destroy Western Culture OR
Western Culture must destroy Islamic Culture.
Stealth Jihad will destroy America!
It is a Genocidal War.
Islamic Culture = Evil: Western Culture = Civilization
Choose Freedom or Slavery
This is a battle between Light and Darkness or Good and Evil or Knowledge and Slavery
Decided
which side you are on?
Many Americans know a “Good Muslim” But they are wrong they know a “Bad Muslim” a Bad Muslim is a Good human. A “Good Muslim” would be following Sharia Law, killing and raping you. Islam in America is weak once it becomes strong many Bad Muslims will be become Good Muslims. Bill Warner, Center for the Study of Political Islam.
“The Hebrew Bible has 5.6% of political violence; The Islamic Trilogy Koran, Sira and Hadith have 31% political violence. “The words devoted to political violence in Islam 327,547; the Bible 34,039″ The Political violence of the Koran is eternal and universal. The Political violence of the Bible is for a particular historical time and place.” Bill Warner, Center for the Study of Political
Islam.
Good Muslim, Bad Person
http://youtu.be/_KAkdrb4sHI
Bill Warner,
PhD: Jihad vs Crusades
http://youtu.be/I_To-cV94Bo
Bill Warner – A Taste of Islam
http://youtu.be/YjBDDC4wVxk
Three Stages of Jihad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERou_Q5l9Gw
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/p/jihad.html
Jihad proceeds in stages. Stage One: Stealth Jihad. Stage Two: Defensive Jihad.
Stage Three: Offensive Jihad.
Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill
Warner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y
The history of Islam in Europe and how it effects
us to this day. This is a history based on numbers and facts that you may not
see anywhere else and explain…
A Rational Study of Radical Islam, by Dr. Bill
Warner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9sYgqRtZGg
Dr. Bill Warner talks about Islam, Muslims,
Hadith, Sira and the Koran to (Islamic Doctrine), give a better understanding
of such things as dualism, the law …
A New
- Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret by Dr Bill Warner: http://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y
Islamic Culture is a Slave Culture
Many Muslims see us as Keffers and Dimmi’s and Blacks as slaves. Keffers sub human for Christians and Dimmi’s sub human for Jews, Black translates into Arabic as Slave. Women have no classification, they are just things in Islamic culture, lower then slaves. Talking to them as a civilized person is like a slave talking to a Master.
In the book: “The Third Choice” by Mark Durie: One choice become Islamic, second
choice a slave, third death. Add one choice if you act now, Freedom.
Michael Coren & Gavin Boby on Muslim rape gangs in England
http://youtu.be/t-FwQ5IrfKc
20 Idiots Guide toIslam- Islam and Slavery – Part 20 (140 million African black Slaves die under
enslavement to Islam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQPeSCeq9jc
5 Idiots Guide to Islam- Women in Islam – Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqGBqlb3HNg
Torture of Christian kids to become MUSLIMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCHd0uhHAkU
Islam: 270 Million Bodies in 1400 Years – What Every Kafir Must
Know!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbPIgSNfuzE
This vid consolidates the points in Frontpage’s interview with Bill Warner “Islam:
270 Million Bodies in 1400 Years”. May every kaffir wake up and smell the
c…
MUSLIM SLAVE TRADE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFIaja1JRf8
MUSLIM SLAVE TRADE
If you don’t believe me go your you nearest Arab town or city, go to the market of
local coffee house and there you will be able to sell your wife or daughter and
you might be able to pay off your mortgage.
I hope the moderator leaves at least one of yours posts in place so we can see what irrational ignorant nastiness is lurking in the dark fringes of our society.
St. Paul said “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”. Every human being and every human institution is a mixture of good and evil. The Muslim Brotherhood is not an evil organization, Islam is not an evil religion. I have some advice for you. Go along to your local mosque and actually talk to some Muslims as one human-being to another. I guarantee they will not kill you or rape you.
The post is about America and Israel. Nations are not totally evil or totally good either. But I say to you that the most evil nation in the world over the last 70 years has been the USA, which has rained down death and destruction from the skies on the people of the world in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Vietnam, in Cambodia, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Yemen, in Libya, and probably other places as well; not to mention its re-introduction of assassination and torture as instruments of state policy. And, on a smaller scale, the most evil nation in the Middle East over the same period has been Israel, with its history of ethnic cleansing, its two wars of expansion, its continued occupation and colonization of territory outside its borders, its violation of human rights, its violations of international law, and its development of nuclear weapons based on technology stolen from the USA.
Bunch of useless garbage as all you Liberals are.
oy vey, shut it down with the antisemitism, goy