In
response to Israeli intelligence gathering against the United States, the United
States has no choice in accepting these bold actions with a red facial hand
print and a straight face because of the amount of political influence that the
Israeli lobby holds, whether accumulated from the networking of Jewish capital
or the voting power of gentile Christian Zionism, over both political parties
of the American representative democratic system. The leading pro-Israel political influence on
American government is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
which is viewed as the strongest influence on “Congress, where support for
pro-Israeli policies is indeed bipartisan and passionately held”[1] by major
political party leaders and private sector giants with capital resources to
manipulate American foreign policy toward Israel through lobbying contributions,
each melting into the American melting pot of the desire for political
longevity, corporate capital accumulation, and the ethnic-religious ideology of
Zionism.
Pollard
and Israeli HUMINT
Allegedly
since the Cold War era, Israel has conducted intelligence gathering against the
United States in the political, industrial and technological fields, especially
in the area of nuclear weapons, and the most frequent method of this intelligence
gathering has been in the form of human intelligence (HUMINT), recruiting
American citizens or dual Israeli-American citizens to serve as agents for
Israel. One of the most famous cases of
Israeli intelligence gathering against the United States is the Jonathan
Pollard case. Pollard, an American born
Jew who served as a civilian terrorism analyst for the United States Navy, was
arrested on November 21, 1985 and “arraigned in federal district court on several
counts of espionage against the United States as a paid agent for the
government of Israel.”[2] Prior to his
arrest, Pollard was found seeking political asylum at the Israeli Embassy in
Washington. The state of Israel vigorously
denied that Pollard was a paid agent for decades, but eventually acknowledged state
sponsorship and publicly apologized to the United States for the infraction,
although since this Israeli admission “more Israeli spies have been arrested
and convicted by U.S. courts.”[3] Even
though Pollard has yet to be released from prison for “stealing tens of
thousands of secrets for Israel”[4], the state of Israel has already issued him
Israeli citizenship and has, with strong support from AIPAC pressure on Capitol
Hill, continuously attempted to bargain with various U.S. administrations for
Pollard’s release, especially during U.S. brokered peace talks between Israel
and the Palestinians. In exchange for
campaign funding from AIPAC contributors, both private and corporate, many
congressional members have come forward to publicly support Pollard’s release
as “Israel and pro-Israel groups in America have long lobbied U.S.
administrations to free Pollard”[5]. How
absurd it must sound in a state without representative democracy and lobbyist
organizations to hear a state representative, sworn to serve the people under
them, publicly support the release of an state-born citizen who has committed
espionage against his own country on behalf of a foreign government, although it
is not a secret that the human element can be easily bought and the ethnic
ideology of Zionism has no state borders except expanding Israeli borders.
Another
example of Israeli HUMINT recruitment of Americans for intelligence gathering
is the case of Richard Kelly Smyth, an American “NATO consultant with a high-level
security clearance, indicted for illegally shipping krytrons to Israel --
devices which can, among other uses, trigger nuclear weapons”[6]. While governments are often at play when concerning
intelligence gathering against the United States and other states, the private
sector motive for capital accumulation is also ever present in international intelligence
gathering, as was the case in the Smyth case involving technological devices to
trigger nuclear weapons. In the Smyth
case, “Smyth’s company, Milco Incorporated of Huntington Beach, California,
acted as the American agent for the deal on behalf of Heli Corporation, an Israeli
trading company”[7].
Despite
only listing two examples, the list of cases involving Israeli human intelligence
gathering against the United States stretches from the Cold War era to the
Obama Administration and shares the common characteristics of being publicly
downplayed by U.S. administrations and Congressional members of both parties,
and left unreported, usually through diversion tactics of excessively reporting
on other domestically inflammatory issues, by the media in the United States
which is predominantly owned by supporters of Zionism. Not only is the United States politically
paralyzed to take diplomatic actions to protect itself and its private sector
corporations against aggressive Israeli intelligence gathering through
diplomatic actions aimed to reduce Israeli human intelligence recruiting, heavy
pro-Israel lobbying on bipartisan American representative democracy has
recently engaged in a long-term campaign aimed to eventually grant Israel
acceptance into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, which would allow Israeli
citizens to enter the United States for ninety days or less without a visa.
U.S. Visa Waiver Program and the Agent of a Foreign
Power
The
United States Visa Waiver Program is a program under the Department of Homeland
Security that allows foreign nationals of designated countries to travel to the
United States for ninety days or less without first obtaining a visa, which could
open a flood gate for human intelligence gathering for a state with such an
intelligence gathering history as Israel against the United States[8]. Despite decades of Israeli intelligence
gathering against the United States, dual AIPAC sponsored versions of the 2014
“US-Israel Strategic Partnership Act, which includes a clause that would
trigger Israel’s entry into the waiver program”[9] easily passed through the
U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in 2013 and now only awaits reconciliation
and presidential signature to become law.
Again the political clout of AIPAC can be easily observed as “in the
House, the most partisan branch of U.S. government, less than 10 percent of the
representatives regularly vote against AIPAC-backed bills”[10] and the same successful
results can be found within the U.S. Senate.
It is impossible for U.S. counter intelligence to compete with foreign
lobbying machines when the organization of AIPAC “as a whole has given almost
$96 million in congressional campaign contributions”[11] since 1996. It doesn’t take a signals intelligence
(SIGINT) officer to decipher and read this intelligence.
The AIPAC organization itself has faced public
accusations of being an agent of a foreign government power for decades and has
even been investigated for espionage as “the federal government has at times
looked into AIPAC”[12]. Steven J. Rosen,
“then-director of foreign-policy issues for AIPAC, was investigated in 2007 for
collecting classified U.S. information from government officials and passing it
on to American reporters and Israeli officials” [13], only to have the U.S.
Attorney drop the charges in 2009 under political pressure from civil liberty
groups, congressional sub-committee hearings starring bought-and-paid-for
Congressional representatives, and current U.S. administration.
Conclusion
The United States has no options when it comes to
possibly taking diplomatic actions to reprimand the state of Israel on a major
scale in response to Israeli intelligence gathering against the United States,
because any negative actions towards Israel or terminology reprimanding Israel
would never make it through the chambers of the U.S. Congress. The United States must simply silently
acknowledge that American representative democracy has been compromised and
major reforms are required within Congress and U.S. lobbying laws to protect
the United States from intelligence vulnerabilities, although it is highly
unlikely those reforms would ever make it out of the House or Senate.
Notes
[1] Fisher, Max.
2013. “Who’s Afraid of AIPAC: Is
Everything We Think About Lobbying and Foreign Policy Wrong?” Washington Post, October 30, 2013. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/30/whos-afraid-of-aipac-is-everything-we-think-about-lobbying-and-foreign-policy-wrong/
[2] McConnell, Jeff. 1986.
“Israeli Spies in the US,” Middle East Report 138, No. 16 (January 1986): 35-45. Accessed on December 28, 2014. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us
[3] Stein, Jeff. 2014.
“Israel Won’t Stop Spying on the U.S.”
Newsweek. May 6, 2014. http://www.newsweek.com/israel-wont-stop-spying-us-249757
[4] Stein, Jeff. 2014.
“Israel Won’t Stop Spying on the U.S.”
Newsweek. May 6, 2014. http://www.newsweek.com/israel-wont-stop-spying-us-249757
[5] Stein, Jeff. 2014.
“Israel Won’t Stop Spying on the U.S.”
Newsweek. May 6, 2014. http://www.newsweek.com/israel-wont-stop-spying-us-249757
[6] McConnell, Jeff. 1986.
“Israeli Spies in the US,” Middle East Report 138, No. 16 (January 1986): 35-45. Accessed on December 28, 2014. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us
[7] McConnell, Jeff. 1986.
“Israeli Spies in the US,” Middle East Report 138, No. 16 (January 1986): 35-45. Accessed on December 28, 2014. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us
[8] Department of Homeland
Security. 2014. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Visa
Waiver Program” Accessed December 28,
2014. http://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/visa-waiver-program
[9] Jerusalem Post Staff. 2014.
“Report: US lawmakers wary of Israeli spying hesitate on visa waiver”
Jerusalem Post, April 19, 2014. Accessed
on December 28, 2014. http://www.jpost.com/International/Report-US-lawmakers-wary-of-Israeli-spying-hesitate-on-visa-waiver-349897
[10] University of Southern California
Annenberg Digital Library. “AIPAC:
America’s Pro-Israel Lobby” University
of Southern California, News 21 Archive.
Accessed on December 28, 2014. http://usc.news21.com/madeline-story/aipac-overview.html
[11] University of Southern California
Annenberg Digital Library. “AIPAC:
America’s Pro-Israel Lobby” University
of Southern California, News 21 Archive.
Accessed on December 28, 2014. http://usc.news21.com/madeline-story/aipac-overview.html
[12] Lake, Eli. 2011.
“FBI took long look at AIPAC activities”
Washington Times, January 18, 2011.
Accessed on December 28, 2014. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/18/fbi-took-long-look-at-aipac-activities/?page=all
[13] Lake, Eli. 2011.
“FBI took long look at AIPAC activities”
Washington Times, January 18, 2011.
Accessed on December 28, 2014. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/18/fbi-took-long-look-at-aipac-activities/?page=all
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