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Israel conducts a large amount of spying on the USA and exports a large volume of military tech to China, but for domestic political reasons the DoD likes to ig
by slavboj 3y ago
Israel conducts a large amount of spying on the USA and exports a large volume of military tech to China, but for domestic political reasons the DoD likes to ignore them as a threat.
- hgsgm 3y agoIsrael spies for its own interests, which, per US gov foreign policy, align with US interests. Similar to France and UK.
- Spooky23 3y agoIsrael’s interests wrt the US are complicated. Israeli politicians campaign in the US. There’s a lot of mutual personal, commercial and government interests between the two countries that often are out of alignment with official positions. France also has a complicated relationship and does more adversarial spying.
- nashashmi 3y agoWith the attack on the USS Liberty, we know that alignment of interests is not always true.
- jb12 3y agoThe USS Liberty incident is so often used as a boogeyman to make Israel seem overtly malicious to the USA. Often forgotten is that the day before the incident, the Israeli air force accidentally bombed one of their own infantry columns.
- nashashmi 3y agoThe surviving veterans of the ship don’t think the attack was an accident. This does not compare with the Air Force’s accidental fire on friendlies.
- DropInIn 3y agoAny state based on racism and supremacist ideology and found and controlled by persons who were explicitly terrorists (likud descends directly from irgun etc) is a threat to not just the US but all of human kind... But you can't really say that about Israel because they'll use the default antisemitism attack, alongside various dogwhistles to encourage harassment, until you are silenced. Ed: a typo right after posting