Israeli transfer of U.S. military technology to China.

Much of the criticism came not only from the U.S. mainstream but also from officials otherwise friendly toward Israel. Nearly a dozen U.S. official reports accused Israel of various improprieties, and most of them pertained to its dealings with China.

Perhaps the most devastating of these was the report of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, (popularly known as the Cox Report . . .). The declassified portion explicitly identified Israel as one of the suppliers of high-tech weapons to China and charged that Israel "has provided both weapons and technology to the PRC [Peoples' Republic of China], most notably to assist the PRC in developing its F-10 fighter and airborne early warning aircraft." ^[1]

The billions in support provided by the U.S. to Israel would, it appears, seem to require supplementation by chicken feed contracts with the Chinese involving critically important U.S. technology.

The Colonel's visceral overwhelming support for any action that the Israelis take in response to Muslim outrages is not offered without a certain amount of anger toward the Israelis over their dealings with the Chinese (including their probable transfer of Patriot anti-missile system technology to them) and their deliberate attack on the U.S.S. Liberty.

The book Operation Cyanide makes a convincing case that Israel was not solely to blame in that attack and we will not revisit that issue at this time. However, on the issue of transfer of U.S. military technology to the Chinese, the Israelis seem unilaterally to have made "____ ___" state policy so far as the U.S. is concerned.

Thus, while we gleefully watch Israel pound the perfidious putzes of "Palestine"^[2] we do note the discordance between what a true ally would do and what Israel has done at other times. Some price needs to be paid, does it not?

Notes
^[1] "At What Cost Israel-China Ties?" By P. R. Kumaraswamy, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2006 (footnotes omitted, brackets in original).
^[2] We are less enthusiastic about attacks on Lebanon, but we do not know the full story about what targets have been attacked there. If the target list turns out to be somewhat inclusive, shall we say, it might have something to do with the failure of the "good" Lebanese in the government of Lebanon to rein in Hizbollah. If they couldn't do that, that should not prevent Israel from doing the job for them, though the means available to them are much more clumsy. Nobody worried too much, you'll recall, that U.S. "precision" bombing of Germany was anything but.