U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Israel Due to Its Treachery. Is Israel’s Long History of Deceit Finally Catching Up?

By Mark Farrell

What has become rather shocking to some recently is a little known fact: The U.S. has finally started to act against Israel’s treachery.

For decades, Israel has stolen top U.S. secrets and occasionally murdered U.S. citizens. The most widely known cases of such involved Jonathon Pollard, who stole an entire room-full of Top Secret documents for Israel; the U.S.S. Liberty, a U.S. ship that Israel bombed in an effort to make it appear as if Egypt had committed the act to start war between the two, resulting in 34 American deaths; the Lavon Affair, in which the U.S. Library of Information in Cairo was fire-bombed; and the most recent case involving the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, where the two heads are currently under indictment for taking more Top Secret documents. Rep. Paul Findley, a 22-year veteran congressman from Illinois, documented much of this in his book “They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby.”

While none of the above cases resulted in more than a slap on the wrist for Israel, the continuous selling of American Top Secrets to China has finally angered the U.S. government to take “some” action, even though many will argue that it is not enough. Reportedly, the U.S. government has stopped cooperating with Israel on several joint-efforts, and has also suspended shipments of night-vision goggles.

Israel has reportedly been selling Harpy Killer Drones, which are made with American technology, to China. This was not the first time that Israel has taken American technology and sold it to China. In 2000, Israel sold China American radar technology as well.

“Following the crisis, one can sense the repulsion toward Israel among lower- and middle-ranking officials in Washington,” a report issued by the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz remarked. “More and more of them are saying that it is not worth doing business with Israel.”

Surprisingly, little has been said about the sanctions in the mainstream press. One of the few places to mention these sanctions, the Guardian, a British paper, reported:

“An official at the US embassy in Tel Aviv said he was aware of the reports but would not comment on them. He said the information about the sanctions had come from the Israeli government and not the US.”

It is unlikely that Israel will suffer as a result of this. It has had business dealings with Russia, so it is likely to procure night-vision equipment from them. Further, there has been no talk among Congress about suspending Israel’s massive $4 billion yearly grants that it never repays.

Many Americans will obviously argue that it is too little, too late.

For more about the sanctions, see the article appearing in the Guardian: US acts over Israeli arms sales to China