Report: US Furious at Israel Equipment Transfer to China

[Jesus Malverde]

Source: Arutz Sheva

A top Israeli defense official was forced to step down last week, according to Maariv Sunday, after the United States expressed fury at Israel's decision to sell military equipment to China.

Meir Shalit, the Department Head for Defense Exports at the Defense Ministry, announced his resignation last week. While Shalit did not announce the reasons behind his resignation, the report claims that he voluntary resigned after US official investigations last month over the transfer revealed that the move took place with his approval. Shalit apologized to the US in a visit late last week.

The conflict, according to the daily, stems from different interpretations of the military weapon support contract between the US and Israel.

Israel explained to US officials that sensitive components of the equipment had been removed before the transfer and were being held in Europe.


Read more: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/175404#.UrcX95G9XOE

[Jesus Malverde]

1. New USA-Israeli Crisis Involving Defense Exports to China

The head of the DECA at the IMOD is expected to resign after the U.S. expressed it`s anger over the deal

Another crisis in USA-Israeli relations involving the selling of advanced technologies by Israel to China: the Head of the Defense Export Control Agency (DECA) at IMOD, Meir Shalit, is expected to announce his resignation this week owing to the transfer of an advanced technological device to a european company, which then transfered it to China.

Shalit has returned this weekend from a trip to the USA, where he officially explained to the Americans how the aforesaid Israeli export ended up in China. According to findings in Israel, the technology was sold to a european company who transfered it to China.

Both the USA and Israel fear that the advanced technology in question has been leaked by China to Iran. The new affair, revealed here for the first time, is not connected to last week's revelations, based on documents leaked by a former employee of the NSA, according to which the USA had eavesdropped on senior Israeli officials.

However, this is not the first time that USA-Israeli relations are marred in connection with the transfer of advanced technologies to China. In the late 1990s, the Americans became enraged at Israel owing to a transaction sanctioned by the Director General of the Israel Ministry of Defense at the time, Major-General (res.) Ilan Biran, involving the selling of the Falcon surveillance aircraft to China. Israel was forced to cancel the transaction and even pay damages to the Chinese in the amount of about US$ 300 million.

http://www.israeldefense.com/?CategoryID=483&ArticleID=2648

[2banon]

6. I wasn't aware of incidents occurring in the 90's

quite astonishing history of betrayal considering we finance their defense. just wow.

[okaawhatever]

24. Yep. There have also been "stolen" F-16 engines and quite a few other things. They sell us out in a

second militarily. They've worked with Russia for years, but China has been more recent.

[cosmicone]

2. Israel is no friend of the US. n/t

[SoapBox]

8. Agreed

[TxVietVet]

9. Remember the Israelis attacked USS Liberty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

[boomersense]

10. Israel is the US's No. One enemy and has been before most here were born. I still maintain Israel

was the false flag in 9-11.

[PatrynXX]

16. Mom's older than Israel though

and a couple of uncles tsk tsk. need like a slight history lesson on how the false country of Israel land came to be.

[olddad56]

17. I think it is a close call between Israel and Saudi Arabia as to who is the bigger enemy.

[King_David]

21. ' I still maintain Israel was the false flag in 9-11.'

Welcome to DU, enjoy your stay here.

[Plucketeer]

11. And yet we POUR

borrowed dollars on them while cutting funds for US veterans! I really and truly hope there IS a "rapture" where ALL the crazies leave this planet to those of us who think rationally!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

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[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Hey Tues...pls. educate me

I don't catch all the rule changes here.....
what is this about losing alerting privileges????

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. If someone alerts on a post and the verdict comes back 0-6

unanimous to Leave It Alone then that Alerter looses their alerting privileges for 24 hours. I think it was implemented to cut back on frivolous alerts. There may be a thread about it in the Announcements Forum. This is my understanding. Hope it helps.

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. Ahhh....yes, does help.

Thanks.

[2banon]

25. good! eom

[PatrynXX]

15. that much is clear

bit odd for Israel to be Supporting Iran .. sounds like they intend for a war. hard to just lob bombs over for no reason. Not talking Israeli people but the Govt is a bunch of Terrorists

[Joe Bacon]

3. Cut them loose.

It's time to cut Israel loose and tell AIPAC to go to hell.

[mike_c]

4. can't have one of our best beneficiaries competing with us....

[chuckstevens]

5. Let The Excuses Begin!

I'm so tried of the apologists of Israel making excuses. Yet to contradict myself, Israel is not the problem: It's the loony tune LaCood? party of the Prime Minister. They need to be voted out at the first opportunity.

[Jesus Malverde]

7. The product Israel sold the Chinese is a miniature cooling system for missiles..nt

[Ghost Dog]

22. Ah. n/t

[TwilightGardener]

12. The US is also concerned that Britain is going to allow private companies

to have shared US/British defense technology--and thus lose control of it. Maybe it's time to reassess our partnerships and hold our technology a little closer to the vest. In the case of Israel--shame on them. And shame on Congresscritters who want to double and triple the amount of military aid we give them, if this is what they do with it.

[Scootaloo]

13. Dammit, we sold that shit to you so you could oppress a civilian population!

Not so you could pawn it off for a profit!

Yeah. The US has no room for "outrage" on this one, since it's outrageous that we're arming Israel in the first fucking place.

[Jesus Malverde]

23. at the very heart of the new affair...

So, at the very heart of the new affair, the Americans have become enraged recently after discovering that DECA had sanctioned the selling of an advanced technological device (a miniature cooling system by Ricor Cryogenic & Vacuum Systems, used for miniaturized electro-optical equipment and even for missile mechanisms), which ednded up in Chinese hands. Israel is committed to adhering to US dictates on the Chinese issue in view of the strategic relations between Israel and the USA, and also because the USA, for its part, regularly provides Israel with advanced technologies of its own along with defense aid on the scope of about US$ 3 billion per year.

http://www.israeldefense.com/?CategoryID=483&ArticleID=2648

The company that sold the state of the art military technology to China:

http://www.ricor-usa.com/

[cosmicone]

26. They knew what they were doing

They were buying China's vote against Iran in the UNSC and most probably, knowing how the Chinese government operates, there was a quid pro quo in place.

This based upon the fact that Israel doesn't need money from selling the little parts.

[sendero]

27. You see why I Laugh Out Loud..

.... when someone repeats the oft-stated lie, that Israel is "our friend in the Middle East".

Israel is no one's friend.

[L0oniX]

28. +1 indeed LMFAO

[Marrah_G]

29. We give them money and tech and then they sell it to china?

Wtf?

[Octafish]

30. What are friends for?

Japan and Toshiba are another couple that come to mind, except We the People did not subsidize them.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/research/groups/csss/alpha/About-proliferation/Case-Studies/Machine-Tools/Toshiba-Kongsberg.aspx

[Jesus Malverde]

31. Last night I google image searched

"Frank church gun" the #2 hit was a great thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3510598



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