Israel caught trading with Iran

[Marcus]

War is a racket...

http://www.maxajl.com/?p=5400

"So Congress just appropriated 235.7 million dollars for the David’s Sling and Arrow 3 missile defense systems, alongside investment for the development of a system to defend “Israel from outer space, against Iranian missiles” (serious). That is tossed into the pot atop $205 million to fund the Iron Dome missile batteries, and $3 billion in regular military aid, most of which gets re-routed to American industry.

Even David’s Sling is developed by Raytheon, an American company, and Rafael, an Israeli company. Israel is a mecca for high-technology production, which is what military investment is meant to augment. No shock that it occurs with and in Israel when 55 percent of Israel’s exports are in high-technology, 71 Israeli companies are listed on the NASDAQ, and Intel has 6,000 jobs over there. Nice investment opportunities, clearly, which get subsidized by the US government, and brokered and lubricated by the lobby, which represents the 20 percent of American “warm Jews” – short-hand for the Jewish upper-class and the liberal opinion-makers and managerial class who know who butters their bread and gives them the illusion of power.

Now, here’s when the labyrinthine conspiracies get interesting. The Ofer Brothers Group has allowed subsidiary companies to dock at Iranian ports and recently sold a tanker to Iran through one of its subsidiaries, which has prompted the US State Department to impose sanctions against the company. On the one hand, the Israeli government is attempting to get the US to remove the sanctions. On the other, a former Mossad chief, Meir Dagan, thinks it’s much ado about very little. And in any event, reports Haaretz, “a discussion by the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee on the Ofer Brothers' dealings with Iran was halted after 15 minutes because of warnings from the defense establishment that they might damage the State of Israel.”

The same State of Israel which has been pushing the US, through its domestic lobbying tentacle, AIPAC, to attack Iran for reasons of national security? What is going on here? "

[Marcus]

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