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Record US intel sharing with 'Israel' deepens complicity in Gaza: WSJ

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  • Source: The Wall Street Journal
  • 1 Apr 2024 20:17
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US sources attempt to deflect from complicity, claiming that the US does not share intelligence "specifically intended for ground or airstrike operations."

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  • Record US intel sharing with 'Israel' deepens complicity in Gaza: WSJ
    Israelis during a protest in support of Joe Biden outside the US Embassy Branch Office in " Tel Aviv" on March 30, 2023. (AP)

According to anonymous sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, a confidential memorandum that increased intelligence cooperation with "Israel" following October 7 has raised worries in Washington that the US is contributing to the genocide.

Sources are concerned that there is a lack of control over whether US-supplied intel is being used in attacks that target civilians. 

Read more: US arms package to 'Israel' 'obscene, wrong on many levels': Officials

Concerns over information sharing match those concerning the transfer of weapons to the occupation as the death toll in Gaza nears 33,000.

The memorandum was issued immediately after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, US sources reported. Although the current administration issued NSM-20, a document that represents a global policy allegedly aimed at strengthening safeguards and accountability for arms transfers, there has been no such issue with intelligence.

In an interview for WSJ,  Rep. Jason Crow (D., Colo.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, expressed concern about "making sure our intelligence sharing is consistent with our values and our national-security interests," adding that what the US was sharing with the occupation now was not "advancing our interests."

Crow claimed he spoke separately with a top Israeli military figure and US intelligence personnel and found "some pretty big inconsistencies" in the two sides' claims of the civilian casualties.

'Unprecedented levels' of intel sharing

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Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari divulged recently that in 30 years of his military career, he had now seen "unprecedented levels" of intelligence sharing.

US officials told WSJ that intelligence is focused on locating Hamas leaders, finding Israeli captives, and watching "Israel's borders", sharing only "raw intelligence" like live video feeds from drones flying over Gaza.

US sources attempted to deflect from complicity, claiming that the US does not share intelligence "specifically intended for ground or airstrike operations."

Of course, the US only turns a blind eye to it and when acknowledging any kind of civilian attack questions the real number of casualties, shifts the blame away from "Israel," while everlastingly awaiting "answers" from their Israeli partners.

Other officials claimed that when the US has information, it evaluates what an ally would do with the information before presenting it, and in some cases, may ask for additional assurances on how the ally would use such information.

One senior US intelligence official reported that the occupation does, in fact, provide assurances that operations using US intelligence are conducted in accordance with international law. 

How "Israel" has provided such assurances is still to be examined and even confirmed. On the contrary, the Israeli occupation has been responsible for more breaches of international law than fathomable since October 7, including using starvation as a weapon, collective punishment, domicide, attacking health establishments, and scores of other atrocities.

Michael Turner of Ohio, the House Intelligence Committee's Republican chairman, said on CBS's "Face the Nation" in December that the US was "filling gaps" in Israeli intel collection and being "cautious".

However, Washington director of Human Rights Watch Sarah Yager stated that the sharing has few restrictions and “essentially opens up the entire U.S. vault.”

The US has reported receiving assurances from the occupation that its funded weapons are being used in accordance with international law, while Human Rights Watch and Oxfam called "Israel's" assurances "not credible" and advocated for the end of weapons transfers.

On March 1, over 200 Members of Parliament from 12 nations pledged to lobby their governments for a prohibition on arms sales to "Israel", asserting that they refuse to be complicit in what they deem as “Israel’s grave violation of international law” during its current aggression on Gaza, where the killing of over 32,000 Palestinians has fueled public outrage.

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