By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept | https://firstlook.org/ theintercept/2014/08/04/cash- weapons-surveillance/
04 August 14
The U.S. government has long lavished
overwhelming aid on Israel, providing cash, weapons and surveillance
technology that play a crucial role in Israel’s attacks on its neighbors. But
top secret documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden shed
substantial new light on how the U.S. and its partners directly enable Israel’s
military assaults – such as the one on Gaza.
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. In many cases,
the NSA and ISNU work cooperatively with the British and Canadian spy agencies,
the GCHQ and CSEC.
The relationship has, on at
least one occasion, entailed the covert payment of a large amount of cash to
Israeli operatives. Beyond their own surveillance programs, the American and
British surveillance agencies rely on U.S.-supported Arab regimes, including
the Jordanian monarchy and even the Palestinian Authority Security Forces, to
provide vital spying services regarding Palestinian targets. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/04/cash-weapons-surveillance/
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