US Directly Enables Israeli Attacks on Gaza: Documents
Mon Aug 4, 2014 2:59PM GMT
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Newly-released top secret documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the US government is directly enabling Israel’s military assaults on Gaza by sharing intelligence on “Palestinian targets” with Israeli spy services.
The US National Security Agency "maintains a far-reaching technical and analytic relationship with the Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU) sharing information on access, intercept, targeting, language, analysis and reporting," according to the documents dated April 13, 2013 and published on Monday by The Intercept.
“Over the last decade, the NSA has significantly increased the surveillance assistance it provides to its Israeli counterpart, the Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU; also known as Unit 8200), including data used to monitor and target Palestinians,” writes Glenn Greenwald, editor of The Intercept and confidante of Snowden.
In many cases, British and Canadian intelligence services also cooperate with the NSA and ISNU, according to the documents.
The American and British spy agencies rely on US-supported Arab regimes to provide “vital spying services regarding Palestinian targets,” writes Greenwald.
The intelligence relationship between the NSA and ISNU has prompted an expansion of spying cooperation between other US and Israeli spy services including the CIA, Mossad and Special Operation Division (SOD), the documents revealed.
The new revelations are at direct odds with Washington’s self-proclaimed stance that it plays no greater role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than that of a concerned bystander.
“The new Snowden documents illustrate a crucial fact: Israeli aggression would be impossible without the constant, lavish support and protection of the U.S. government, which is anything but a neutral, peace-brokering party in these attacks,” says Greenwald.
“And the relationship between the NSA and its partners on the one hand, and the Israeli spying agency on the other, is at the center of that enabling,” he adds.
More than 1,800 people have been killed and over 9,300 others injured in nearly a month of relentless Israeli airstrikes and ground attacks against the besieged Gaza Strip.
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presstv.ir
Newly-released top secret documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the US government is directly enabling Israel’s military assaults on Gaza by sharing intelligence on “Palestinian targets” with Israeli spy services.
The US National Security Agency "maintains a far-reaching technical and analytic relationship with the Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU) sharing information on access, intercept, targeting, language, analysis and reporting," according to the documents dated April 13, 2013 and published on Monday by The Intercept.
“Over the last decade, the NSA has significantly increased the surveillance assistance it provides to its Israeli counterpart, the Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU; also known as Unit 8200), including data used to monitor and target Palestinians,” writes Glenn Greenwald, editor of The Intercept and confidante of Snowden.
In many cases, British and Canadian intelligence services also cooperate with the NSA and ISNU, according to the documents.
The American and British spy agencies rely on US-supported Arab regimes to provide “vital spying services regarding Palestinian targets,” writes Greenwald.
The intelligence relationship between the NSA and ISNU has prompted an expansion of spying cooperation between other US and Israeli spy services including the CIA, Mossad and Special Operation Division (SOD), the documents revealed.
The new revelations are at direct odds with Washington’s self-proclaimed stance that it plays no greater role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than that of a concerned bystander.
“The new Snowden documents illustrate a crucial fact: Israeli aggression would be impossible without the constant, lavish support and protection of the U.S. government, which is anything but a neutral, peace-brokering party in these attacks,” says Greenwald.
“And the relationship between the NSA and its partners on the one hand, and the Israeli spying agency on the other, is at the center of that enabling,” he adds.
More than 1,800 people have been killed and over 9,300 others injured in nearly a month of relentless Israeli airstrikes and ground attacks against the besieged Gaza Strip.
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