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Not only that Israel is no ally,
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but also that it is actually not a friend because it does actual damage to the
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United States through using its considerable access to Congress and the media to
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promote policies that are good neither for the United States nor for Israel.
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If the United States goes to war with Iran in the near future,
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It will not be because Tehran actually threatens America.
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It will be because Israel and its powerful lobby in the US have succeeded in
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creating an essentially false casus belli to mandate such action.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who once commented that 9-11 was good for Israel,
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has repeatedly sought to commit our government to draw red lines that would narrow
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options for the White House and de facto require it to take action with the
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military against Iran.
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Congress is meanwhile advancing legislation that would commit the United States to
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intervene militarily in support of a unilateral Israeli attack,
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meaning that Israel could easily be empowered to make the decision on whether or
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not the U.S.
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goes to war.
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Israel interferes in American elections,
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it has corrupted our Congress,
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its head of government publicly rebukes our own head of state,
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and its intelligence officers actually provide alarmist and inaccurate private
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briefings for American senators on Capitol Hill.
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I also would not doubt that Israel,
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accustomed to behaving with impunity towards its alleged friend and patron in Washington,
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might manufacture a pretext to draw the U.S.
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into a new conflict.
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something reminiscent of the Levon affair in Alexandria,
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Egypt in 1954,
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or the false flag attack on the USS Liberty in 1967.
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In short, Israel has no reluctance to use its enormous political and media clout in the U.S.
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to pressure successive administrations to conform to its own foreign and security policy views.
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Grant Smith has described how Friends of Israel stole enriched uranium from a
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Pennsylvania refinery to create a nuclear arsenal.
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More recently,
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we have learned how Arnon Milchan,
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a Hollywood producer born in Israel,
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arranged for the illegal purchase of 800 nuclear triggers.
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Milchan picked up an Oscar last Sunday without any interference from the FBI.
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Israel,
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which relies on Washington for billions of dollars in aid and also for political
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cover and international forum like the UN,
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does not spy discreetly,
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largely because it knows that few in Washington will seek to hold it to account.
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Israel, where government and business work hand in hand, has obtained significant advantage
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by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications.
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The US developed technology is then reversed engineered and used by the Israelis to
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support their own exports.
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Israel has sold advanced weapons systems to China that are believed to incorporate
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technology developed by American companies,
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including the Python 3 air-to-air missile and the Delilah cruise missile.
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There is evidence that Israel has also stolen Patriot missile avionics to
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incorporate into its own arrow system and that it used US technology obtained in
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its lobby fighter development program to help the Chinese develop their own J-10.
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Israel always features prominently in the annual FBI report called Foreign Economic
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and Industrial Collection.
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The 2005 report states,
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Israel has an active program to gather proprietary information within the United States.
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These collection activities are primarily directed at obtaining information on
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military systems and advanced computing applications
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that can be used in Israel's sizeable armaments industry.
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It adds that Israel recruits spies,
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uses electronic methods,
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and carries out computer intrusion to gain the information.
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A 1996 Defense Investigative Service report noted that Israel has great success
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stealing technology by exploiting the numerous co-production projects that it has
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with the Pentagon.
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It says,
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Placing Israeli nationals in key industries is a technique utilized with great success.
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A general accounting officer examination of espionage directed against American
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defense and security industries described how Israeli citizens residing in the U.S.
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had stolen sensitive technology to manufacture artillery gun tubes,
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obtained classified plans for reconnaissance systems,
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and passed sensitive aerospace designs to unauthorized users.
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The GAO concluded that Israel conducts,
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and this is a quote,
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conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any
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US ally.
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In June 2006,
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a Pentagon administrative judge overruled an appeal by an Israeli who had been
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denied a security clearance.
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If you can imagine that, an Israeli with a security clearance.
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at the Pentagon.
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But anyway,
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they overruled him when he appealed it and said,
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the Israeli government is actively engaged in military and industrial espionage in
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the United States.
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An Israeli citizen working in the US who has access to proprietary information is
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likely to be a target of such espionage.
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More recently,
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FBI counterintelligence officer John Cole has reported how many cases of Israeli
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espionage are dropped under orders from the Justice Department.
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He provides a conservative estimate of 125 viable investigations into Israeli
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espionage involving both American citizens and Israelis that were stopped due to
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political pressure.
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