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Don’t write off Israel-US ties
Ron Ben-Yishai
Published: 23.04.08, 02:19
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1. Kadish Affair
Kurt Obermeier ,   Arizona USA   (04.23.08)
I fail to understand why Israel needlessly risks its special relationship with the US with these criminal acts. It angers me to no end to think that, as an american tax payer, some of my tax money goes to Israel and funds Israels spy operations against my country. We support you overtly. Why stab us in the back covertly???
2. Free Jonathan Pollard NOW!! 23 years are enougth!
Yael   (04.23.08)
3. to #1
I.N.Cognito ,   Brooklyn, USA   (04.23.08)
Mr. Obermeier, do you honestly think that US has no spies in Israel? In UK? In Germany? etc... This is all just normal run-of-the-mill stuff. All countries spy on each other. Even when they are BFF (best friends forever). This seems to me to be just a behind-the-scenes game of the different agencies in the US government. Something along the lines of the BBC show "Yes, Minister" and its sequel "Yes, Prime Minister."
4. USA-Today
Mike ,   USA   (04.23.08)
USA Government fully and blindly supports the Zionist state and keeps it alive...and look what USA is getting in return !!!...I wonder how USA would react if the spy were Syrian or Egyptian.. To the Americans..>.Enjoy your Israel
5. american congress
bri ,   phil usa   (04.23.08)
will still give full support to israel no matter what
6. When will Israel catch an American spy in Israel?!
Everyone.has.spys   (04.23.08)
We should catch one and disgrace the hypocrites in USA. I'm sure Israel is buzzing with American spys, get one will you already!
7. #6 Yes! get one and exchange for Shalit
(04.23.08)
8. Israeli espionage
Goldberg ,   NYC, USA   (04.23.08)
Let us not forget the Israeli Firsters who used fabricated "evidence" of WMD and Niger documents to get the US into the war in Iraq! The upper levels of the gov't are rotten with such traitors whose only alligience is with Israel. Don't think for a moment that these villians are not spies and traitors.
9. These guys are just stooges and decoys
Chanalau, Tova ,   London, UK   (04.23.08)
Assuming the Mo55ad is serious about spying in the US it is not going to use such obvious undercover men as Jews with Israeli sounding names. Chances are these are fall-guys who were set up specifically in order to be caught by the FBI dummies, whilst the real 'Spy in the Whitehouse', the Israeli mole, was never caught and is quite likely still there.
10. THEY SEND SUICIDE BOMBERS IN RETURN FOR AMERICAN SUPPORT!
TO #4   (04.23.08)
11. what about you my friends?
michel ,   paris   (04.23.08)
What about the american espionage on Israel and their western allies? Anyway is obvious for everybody that the timming of this affair is well done to destroy the confidence and friendship between US and Israel, and that the SD is happy.
12. Pollard's "Sin": He PERMITTED ISRAEL To ACT IN ITS DEFENSE
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (04.23.08)
The new "spy" case is most likely concocted to stir up Jew-hate, PLEASE Global ISLAM and KEEP HERO of the FREE WORLD - POLLARD IN JAIL! http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24659 September 26, 2001 Terror in the U.S. and the Jonathan Pollard case By Larry Dub © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com "... thanks to Jonathan Pollard, Israel was ready with gas masks and sealed rooms when Iraq attacked her during the Gulf War... The usual sentence for spying for an ally is 2-4 years... Indeed, the Government's own Victim Impact Statement (VIS), which was submitted to the court prior to sentencing indicated that Pollard's greatest "sin" was that by giving Israel vital security information which permitted the Jewish state to act in its own defense, he had made Israel "too strong" and thus angered America's "moderate" Arab allies..." JEWS and OTHER NON-MUSLIMS MUST HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS It must not be a crime to protect innocents! Free Pollard Now
13. victim to be blamed
observer   (04.23.08)
how did they recruit IN the American Army a Zionist who fought for the Haganah? perhaps for his previous experience!
14. #9, when is UK going to reopen the Cap Arcona affair?
Jake   (04.23.08)
What is it? 2045 or so? We are still waiting for a British apology for the mass killing of concentration camp survivors. But what do you care about them? Let them eat cake, right?
15. Is President Bush a friend of Israel ?
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (04.24.08)
Palestinian violence has escalated since the 1994 PA establishment and PA officials have produced an unbroken record of unfulfilled promises and outright deception. Yet President Geprge W. Bush in his January 28 State of the Union Address, reassured the Palestinians that “America will do, and I will do, everything we can to help them achieve …a Palestinian state by the end of this year”. Nevertheless, US-favored PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who in 1957 with Arafat co-founded the al Fatah terrorist group, assumed the role of his predecessor. Like Muslim Brotherhood, Marxist-trained Jihadist Arafat, neither does Abbas “recognize that confronting terror is essential to achieving a state where his people can live in dignity and at peace with Israel” as President Bush declared. Abbas remains committed to the organization’s raison d’etre – destroying Israel and expelling the Jewish people from the region. Despite public Fatah-Hamas leadership disagreements, branding one another “murderers and thieves”, Abbas arranged on Jan. 30 to give Hamas $3.1 billion of 7.7 billion that international donor community pledged last December in Paris. Learn more about the deceit and abuses of Mahmoud Abbas at : http://xrl.us/bi7kh
16. In the US or against the US?
Keith McLennan ,   Sydney, Australia   (04.24.08)
Ron, you say that after Pollard's arrest, the Israeli government banned "any intelligence activity in the US." Surely that should read "any activity against the US"? The reason Pollard got a long jail term is not that he worked with Israeli intelligence inside the US, but that he, an American, worked with them against the US. And so, it appears, has Kadesh.
17. #15 PA was not spying in America, Israel wa.
(04.24.08)
18. Support Israeli independence. Write those ties off.
Adam ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (04.28.08)
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