The Band Must Be Playing Hava Nagila
Because suddenly we've got the Dancing Jews again:
This is the Counterpunch article that got some attention a week or two ago, now available to read online. As we've discussed, there's little new here, and the author tries to fill in the gaps in his narrative with major weasel words:
Intense political pressure apparently had been brought to bear.
There is sufficient reason - from news reports, statements by former intelligence officials, an array of circumstantial evidence, and the reported acknowledgment by the Israeli government - to believe that in the months before 9/11, Israel was running an active spy network inside the United States, with Muslim extremists as the target.
What's incendiary is the idea - supported, though not proven, by several pieces of evidence - that the Israelis did learn something about 9/11 in advance but failed to share all of what they knew with American officials.
It brings up concerns not only about Israel's obligation not to spy inside the borders of the United States, its major benefactor, but about its possible failure to have provided the U.S. adequate warning of an impending devastating attack on American soil.
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posted by Pat @ 5:12 PM
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7 Comments:
Man, how many times are you going to rehash this stuff. We won't know one way or the other because it is classified by the U.S. government. Do us a favor and start filing the FOIA to get it unclassified so you can have a conclusive answer.
Um, swing, you're the conspiracy theorist. Don't ask others to do your homework.
So when can we expect this FOIA work from you?
From the Counterpunch article:
"Israel's obligation not to spy inside the borders of the United States, its major benefactor"
OK, I'm pretty much a lefty and not much of a fan of Israel's behaviour in the occupied territories, or it foreign policy in general. Also, I'd like the world to be nice friendly place where people get on with each other. But even I don't expect any nation to feel morally obliged to not spy on another - ally or not. Singling out Israel for special condemnation on the basis that it had spies in the US is ridiculous and most likely antisemitic in motivation. It certainly doesn't add any credibility the nonsensical idea that Israel would deliberately allow 9/11 to go ahead, without warning the US.
Singling out Israel for special condemnation
Most of Europe and academia have no problem with this.
Of course, an intelligence failure, in Israel or anywhere else, is quite possible. Sometimes the intelligence of those working in intelligence is hardly intelligible.
So, we don't want them to spy but we do want access to all the information they get by doing so.
How does that work exactly?
Lefties in blaming Jews shocker!
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