http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/nyregion/23spy.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

Lo and behold, in today's pinko, commie, America-hating NYTimes i discover a lengthy story "Ex-Engineer for Army Is Accused of Spying for Israel."  I won't say "I told you so."

Now, methinks 2008 could shape up as a pretty good year in the agitprop department as far as criticism of Israel is involved, the best since the nvasion of Lebanon in 1982.  With the 2 accused AIPAC spies,  Steven Rrosen and Keith Weissberg, scheduled to stand trial this year, and now this perfidious octogenerian on the road [we hope] to being brought to answer before the bar of justice, well, I may kiss off the anti-depresants temporarily.

I'm wondering, Ben-Ami Kadish is being charged for acts he allegdly committed in the 1980s, likely as part of the Jonathan Pollard spy ring.  Has not the statute of limitations run out on these acts?  And nothing more current on the part of anyone else?

I'm also wondering, given the serpentine ingenuity of the Mossad and the total gullibility of the US gov't and the US people, if Kadish in not possibly some really small fish being sacrificed to protect someone much bigger and higher up and important in the US gov't as he [or she?] continues to do Israel's dirty work?  Would not put it past our Most Relaible Allies In The Middle East.

Or maybe it's an attempt to spring JJP?  This oldster, decades later, takes the hit for the crimes of JJP, and viola, JJP's argument for release is that much stronger.  let's face it - this guy ain't getting the death penalty, and at 84 years old, any time he gets will no doubt be served at home with an ankle braclet. [And ALL of this assumes a conviction or a guilty plea]. You've got to give it to Israel -- their treachery is exceeded only by their smarts.

Here are some exceprts from the newws story:

"An 84-year-old former Army engineer in New Jersey was charged on Tuesday with leaking dozens of secret documents about nuclear arms, missiles and fighter jets to the Israeli government during the early 1980s, federal prosecutors said.

The engineer, Ben-Ami Kadish of Monroe Township, could face life in prison or possibly the death penalty if convicted on the most serious charge, prosecutors said."

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"The complaint specifically mentions three documents that Mr. Kadish is accused of leaking — one “concerning nuclear weaponry” containing “atomic-related information”; one regarding a modified version of an F-15 fighter jet that the United States sold to another country; and one containing information about the Patriot missile system."

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I especially appreciated Tom Casey's droll little bit of understatement to close out this excerpt.

"Like Mr. Pollard, Mr. Kadish is charged with conspiring to deliver documents related to national defense to a foreign government, with the intent that they be used to harm the United States. It is the most serious charge that Mr. Kadish faces.

After the exposure of the Pollard affair, Israel promised the United States that it would not operate agents on its soil again. Though Mr. Kadish is suspected of having operated at the same time as Mr. Pollard, and not afterward, another conviction would be embarrassing for Israel because its officials were supposed to have disclosed to the United States all relevant information about Israeli intelligence gathering at the time of Mr. Pollard’s arrest.

A State Department spokesman, Tom H. Casey, declined to speculate on the diplomatic fallout from Mr. Kadish’s arrest. “I would simply say, just as a general matter,” he said, “that 20-plus years ago during the Pollard case, we noted that this was not the kind of behavior we would expect from friends and allies, and that would remain the case today.” "

I can go on and on and on about this, but...  lemme tell you, I think this ought to put an end to our preoccupation with absurd  bullshit like Obama not wearing a flag pin in his lapel, or his macro political/sociolgical analyses of the plight of displaced industrial workers in the Keystone State, or Senator Clinton's hallucunations about sniper fire in Bosnia, or anything the intemperate Rev Wright is alleged to have said, or concerns about having firearms opried from cold, dead fingers.  This is as primal as it gets my friends.  Can you understand this?

I wonder if this will even get mentioned at any point on the campaign hustings?  I'm betting it won't.  

I wonder if Bush & company plan in any way to remonstrate with their masters in Tel Aviv.  Not very likely.

I wonder - do all the instictive, hard-wired pro-Zionist zealots love Israel as much this evening as they dithis morning?  No, I fear they love Israel all the more.








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THERE IS NO OIL on Israeli soil - except for the droppings of their tanks.  They have a rigth to exist - but I have to say that to think that they are our friends is somewhat less that an accurate portrayal of reality.  Would that we would exploit our own oil fields (which has almost completely stopped... anyway, until we are foreign oil less dependant - we are stuck with a mess...

George W Bush... did not help.  the sooner he goes - the better Thank god for our election cycle.

And let all the parties there have at it. Let them nuke the hell out of each other and turn that God forsaken desert into a big glass dome.  Can't use their oil because it's now radioactive.  Totally remove it as a topic of conversation.

there would be one immense if unrecognized benefit to US energy independence.

Imagine a world after petrofuels.  The US does not lift one drop of crude from any foreign country.  A prefect test to see how much political violence directed against the US in that part of the world is caused [1] by US support of Israel [2] the intrusive presence of the US in that part of the world, which supposedly "props up" anti-democratic Arab govt's in order to pump it's oil, bringing  all the corrosive changes of moderity and capitalism in it's wake, and [3] how much is due to fatal internecine political conflict between the Arabs/moslems themselves, which presumably could exist independently of 1 and 2.

I'll go to my grave firmly convinced the bulk of the answer lies in 1, with 2 and 3 being vastly overrated because many simply will never cop to the reality of 1.  Their choice.

Treason is "our problem"?  I'd say those suborning and aiding and abetting it have more than a little to do with it and more han a little to answer for.  But, don't hold your breath.