Thursday, March 5, 2015

2015-03-03 Noam Chomsky: U.S. Thinks of Israel as an 'Offshore Military Base'

2015-03-03 Noam Chomsky: U.S. Thinks of Israel as an 'Offshore Military Base'
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Beyond all media distractions....
And an interesting quote:
"It’s a very close alliance, and deep enough—so, for example, one of the interesting leaks from WikiLeaks was a U.S. government study of—a Pentagon study of sites in the world that are of such high significance that we must protect them at all costs. One of them was right near Haifa. It was the Rafael military industries. It’s one of the main producers of drones and other high-tech military equipment. And the relation—and that’s one of the highest—strategic sites of highest importance. And, in fact, the relationship is so close that Rafael actually transferred its management offices to Washington, where the money is and the contacts are."
http://www.alternet.org/…/noam-chomsky-us-thinks-israel-off…
The U.S. helped provide the arms to Israel in last year's destruction of Gaza.
ALTERNET.ORG

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