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Thursday, January 02, 2014

Despicable: Why the US spies on Israel

I don't recall seeing this reported elsewhere. If it's true - and I have no reason to believe it's not - it places an entirely different light on President Obama's treatment of Prime Minister Netanyahu between 2009 and 2011. Additionally, if the claim below is true, it makes a farce of the complaint that Netanyahu favored Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 elections. If this is why Obama is spying on Israel, why shouldn't Netanyahu - even openly - favor Romney. Heck, if I'd known about this, I would have called on Netanyahu to endorse Romney publicly and damn the consequences (Hat Tip: IMRA).
Second, there is a matter of American interference in Israel’s internal affairs. The eavesdropping wasn’t just about trying to ascertain what Israeli leaders really think about the peace process and how much they’re willing to give up to advance it. It wasn’t just about getting an inside track on how Israel’s relations with China or Russia are advancing, or about arms deals that involve U.S. technology.
It was, according to reports, an attempt to gather information on politicians whose views aren’t in sync with those of the U.S. administration. This information was to be leaked to the local media in order to embarrass these figures and ruin their political careers.
It isn’t too hard to guess which politicians were being targeted. It stands to reason that it was those pesky “radical” right-wingers who oppose territorial compromise.
It's well known here that George H.W. Bush did all he could to help Yitzchak Rabin defeat Yitzchak Shamir in 1992, and that Bill Clinton did all he could to help Ehud Barak defeat Binyamin Netanyahu in 1999.  But at least those actions were out in the open. Only Obama has hidden behind wiretaps and spying and intercepted phone calls and emails.

America ought to be ashamed. Your government has no integrity - and even releasing Jonathan Pollard (as the editorial above joins so many others in advocating) won't restore it.

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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:49 PM

1 Comments:

At 7:35 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

well, there are significant differences from now to back-in-the-day: the Maronite militias are demobilized; Iran wasn't a major player then and is now... but on the other hand Iran's client, Syria, isn't able to do anything but muck about, but that includes detonating autos--plus jihadist yabobs from the Sunni side of the aisle filter into these conflicts looking for a fight. So who is carbombing the Hezzies? Who is this week's Crazy Joe Gallo of the Levant?

 

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