| Author | Message | | Guest | | Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 8:20 pm Post subject: Israel responsible for North Korea's nukes |
| Subj: Israel responsible for North Korea's nukes
Date: 10/19/02 9:02:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: BGJDAVID
It has been reported that North Korea has developed nuclear weapons and much of the technology came from China. Well, guess what? Who do you think sold U.S. technology to China? Right!!! It was Israel. Now do you see why I have said time and time again - Israel has done more harm to the United States than any other nation on earth, including Iraq,
Libya, and Syria combined.
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Look Who's Arming China
Pat Buchanan January 29, 1999
"China's army conducted a military exercise last month with simulated missile firings against Taiwan and also for the first time conducted mock attacks on U.S. troops in the region ... "
That was the jolting lead of a Jan. 26 story by Bill Gertz of The Washington Times. With those mock attacks, China is sending a message: We will collar Taiwan and drag the renegade province back to the embrace of the Motherland, even if it means war with America.
In 1996, Bill Clinton sent two carrier battle groups to respond to China's menacing of Taiwan. The confrontation dissolved. By practicing with silo-housed missiles, and targeting U.S. troops in Korea, in Japan and on Okinawa, China is saying: Next time, we do not back down.
China's imperial intentions are clear: Seize all the disputed islands off Asia's coast, especially the Spratlys. Build up nuclear and conventional missile forces to deter America. Put China at the center of a Beijing-Moscow-Teheran axis to overturn U.S. hegemony in Asia.
Indispensable to the modernization of China's war arsenal are three collaborators -- Israel, Russia and the U.S.A.
"The Defense Intelligence Agency suspects Israel shared with China restricted U.S. weapons technology obtained during a joint U.S.-Israeli effort to build a battlefield laser gun," writes Gertz on Jan. 27. U.S. employees have twice "spotted Chinese technicians working secretly with one of the Israeli companies involved in the laser weapon program." A Chinese official in Israel exhibited hard knowledge of the super-secret program to build lasers to
shoot down the Katyusha rockets used by Hezbollah on Israeli towns.
Israel has been charged before with betraying vital U.S. secrets. In 1992, The Washington Times reported Israel had given Beijing the secret technology of the U.S. Patriot missile. A U.S. investigation found that, while Beijing had acquired the secrets of the Patriot, it could not say for sure who gave them up.
According to Richard Fisher of the Heritage Foundation, Russia and Israel have teamed up to build China an AWACS system, using Israel's Phalcon radar.
Arms expert Duncan Clarke wrote in the July 22 Christian Science Monitor that Israel has used "U.S. technology to assist China in developing its next fighter aircraft -- the J-10 -- airborne radar systems, tank programs and a variety of missiles. Over vigorous Pentagon objections, Israel has apparently transferred to China the most lethal air-to-air missile in the world: the Python 4. This system employs an advanced helmet-mounted sight, developed
together by American and Israeli firms."
China's J-10 is based on the Lavi, an Israeli plane subsidized with $1.4 billion in U.S. tax dollars. As ominous, writes Clarke, is "Israel's transfer to China of its STAR-1 cruise missile technology (that) ... incorporates U.S. stealth technology and is ... 'a growth version' of Israel's Delilah-2 missile, which contains U.S. parts and technology."
Thus does critical U.S. weapons technology go into machines of war that Beijing prepares for use on Americans. Israel is engaged in the moral equivalent of America selling Stingers to Hezbollah.
Why is Israel doing this? "When the customer is interested," Israeli scholar Yitzhak Shichor is quoted in Clarke's piece, "it (is) difficult for the Ministry of Defense to abort or prevent an Israeli arms transfer to whatever country for whatever reason." Adds Clarke: "Yet neither President Clinton nor Congress will confront Israel and its most powerful American partisans."
For such cowardice, U.S. Marines, airmen and sailors may one day pay with their lives.
Russia's contribution? Moscow has sold China 48 SU-27 fighters with a licensing deal for 200 more and hinted at selling the SU-30. This, says Heritage's Fisher, would give Beijing "the basis of a modern strike capability." Russia is also producing for China 30 Sunburn anti-ship missiles that skim the ocean's surface at twice the speed of sound. Guess whose ships they will be targeted on.
Why is Russia doing this? As one Russian newspaper put it, Moscow "is ready to assist China's transformation into a first-class military power. Especially considering the fact that Beijing is ready to pay for that in freely convertible currencies."
Where does China get the hard currency to pay the Israelis and Russians? From a $60 billion annual trade surplus with the United States.
When one considers that China covets Russia's Far East, sends missile technology to Israel's mortal enemy, Iran, menaces our old ally, Taiwan, and uses profits from its U.S. trade to buy weapons to target U.S. troops, ships and planes, all three of us may one day come to rue our stupidity and our greed.
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Israel sells U.S. Missile technology to China
by Al Venter
THE REMARKABLE proliferation of sophisticated hi-tech weapons systems in Israel is raising questions in Washington. Making the stuff is fine, say the Americans. The problem is who Israel ends up selling the stuff to.
Conscious of a developing scandal concerning the sale of missile technology to China , the USA has taken a close look at the visit of Israeli defence minister Yitzhak Mordechai to Beijing in September. He was scheduled to speak to President Jiang Zemin, head of the Communist Party and leader of more than 1.3 billion people for 30 minutes. He stayed an hour-and-a-half. Also, he was accompanied by the heads of the country's major defence industries.
His entourage included the chief executive officers of Israel Aircraft Industries, Tadiran, Rafael, TAAS- Israel Industries, Rada, El-Op, Elbit Elissra and others. A Washington source told Pointer that the talks centered on Israeli defence technology . It followed a report in The Jerusalem Post (13 September, 1998) that noted that the USA 'is apprehensive about the cozy ties which are being forged on this side of the world, which, they fear, may
involve the illegal transfer of US technologies in Israel 's hands.' The real concern, according to a strategist at the Jafee Center of Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv, is that with China supplying many of the military needs of Iran and Pakistan, some of this hardware could end up in hostile hands.
It is significant, too, that the Israeli defence ministry pleaded with journalists accompanying Mordechai not to report on deals that might result. The rationale offered was that the Chinese were ultra-sensitive to publicity surrounding defence matters. Press reports could scuttle deals, they warned. One transaction, according to the Israeli newspaper is the sale of a Phalcon airborne early-warning and control system to Beijing for US$250 million.
This is not the first time that such deals have taken place. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) disclosed some time ago that Israel 's Rafael Industries had granted China a license to produce the Python-3 air-combat missile which had been renamed the PL-8 and PL-9. There was also the matter of the joint-development of the F-10 multi-role aircraft which looks suspiciously like the cancelled Lavi which originally came from the
Israel Aircraft Industries ltd (IAI) stable. That aircraft - which contains state-of-the-art US electronics - is due to fly in 2001. Orders for the Chinese Air Force are expected to be 'in the hundreds'. For years, China was a useful market for the Israelis, though these days Beijing exports more than it imports from the Holy Land. A study by the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency estimated that between 1984 and 1994, China annually, was worth
about half a billion dollars to Israel in weapons sales alone. These days it is down to a fraction of that figure which is one of the reasons why they are trying to revive a flagging market. There is also disquiet in the USA that Jerusalem might achieve some sort of economic advantage in the Far East market at the expense of rival US firms, especially since the US taxpayer continues to dole out $3 billion a year in grants (of which $1.8b is strictly
military) to the Israeli people. It has being doing so for decades. Critics point out that here was a time when such largesse was essential, simply to keep the Israeli economy afloat. But times have changed. There are many Americans who now believe that large dollops of aid are no longer necessary, especially at a time when the US military is itself feeling the pinch. The Shekel, they argue, is one of the strongest currencies in the region. Israel 's
foreign exchange holdings last month topped $129 billion which is better than most other countries east of Suez.
A look at the Israeli defense budget says a lot. The 1999 defence budget was set at $8.7bn. It included an extra $26m over the previous year, the first time in 12 years that it was upped. While the increase is marginal, it comes at the expense of education and health and was prompted, in part, by unsettling intelligence of Iranian missile advances which have since been confirmed. Iran stated late September that it would develop a new strategic
missile that would outdistance it predecessor, the Shahab-3 which, with a range of 1,300km, is already capable of hitting Israel . Tehran has confirmed that the Shahab-3 can carry a one-ton warhead at a cruising altitude of 150kms above sea-level. Much of the expertise has come from China and, to a lesser extent, North Korea. In July, US Assistant Secretary of State Martin Indyk said that Tehran was working apace on the Shahab-4.
Like the US, three main defence items top the Israeli expenditure list. Tops and most urgent, is the immediate upgrading first-line equipment. Training comes second and last, pensions. Part of the problem is that Israel , in a relatively short span of years, has become an expensive country in which to live. Because of inflation and increased domestic costs, it is now cheaper to buy some equipment (aircraft, ships etc) abroad than build them at home.
For instance, according to a source at Tel Aviv's Moshe Dayan Institute, it costs less to buy 17 brand new Soviet T-72 tanks than build a single Merkava. Similarly, apart from some late-model US fighter aircraft and some of the more advanced missiles, almost everything else is manufactured locally. But even that is a slow process. IAF generals complain that their 1960s vintage A-4 Skyhawks and Phantoms are falling out of the sky due to fatigue. They
also complain that priority is being given to export projects instead of concentrating on immediate needs at home. They point to the $70m contract to upgrade 48 Turkish F-5-A/B warplanes which IAI has just won. This tends to put some 'non-vital' domestic upgrades on the back burner, they complain.
They point to the fact that their Airborne Warning and Control System (AWAC), 16-years-old next birthday, need to be replaced; as do many second-line aircraft and naval patrol craft. Similarly, there are more than a thousand tanks and armoured personnel carriers that haven't weathered well in long-term storage. It is an in-joke within the army that should there be a war tomorrow, many of the trucks in the IDF's ageing fleet wouldn't make the border.
In contrast, the government's answer is often that the delays and shortages are warranted since the defence establishments of almost all its real or imagined adversaries are in much worse shape. The training budget, too, has skyrocketed in the past three years. It now costs about $1,200 for an hour's instruction on one of Israel 's main battle tanks; and because of priorities, that goes on around the clock on massive scale at bases scattered
throughout the country. And it's no cheaper in the air. An hour's training in an F-15 aircraft costs about $16,000; more if it takes place in Turkish airspace.
Last comes pensions. The Jerusalem Post says in a report that in a bid to cut costs, the army has reduced the number of permanent officers, warrant officers and civilian employees and cut by half the 10 million reserve days a year. Still crippling is wages and pensions which consume almost half the defence budget. The quandary that the IDF faces is seen in the money it pays to those who have retired. A decade ago pensions came to about $265,000m a
year. Now it is double that. According to treasury figures, the state will be paying these people more than $1 billion a year by 2010.
Serious problems within the joint IDF/South Lebanese occupation force continue to worry Israeli defence planners. Shots are being exchanged almost daily and the freedom that the guerrillas enjoy was reflected in the recent visit by defence minister Mordechai in September. In one day, according to a Beirut source, Amal guerrillas attacked five Israeli positions; Qantara, Hardoun, Salah, Haddatha and the strategic Biyada radar station which is supposed
to be extremely well defended. An Israeli patrol in Wadi Salouqi was also hit. Concurrently Hezbollah teams staged attacks on the Bir Kallab post and the Hardoun position.
This is the same slow escalation that took place prior to Operation Grapes of Wrath and other 'pacifying' strikes before that. There are some Israelis and Lebanese who fear that if it continues like this, then Netanyahu might react like before, with massive force. The intensity of this anti-Israeli activity reflects Jerusalem's inability to limit the scope of the war. Curiously, this was one of the platforms on which Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
launched his election campaign. If anything, the conflict has got worse in the past 18 months. Israel 's strength lies in its reservist army.
The IDF has a core of about 20,000 long-serving professional soldiers, almost all of whom came up through the ranks. They command 100,000 draftees and reservists, although crisis mobilisation can expand this tally to almost three quarters of a million within 72 hours; some say much less. Unlike its Arab neighbours, the IDF uses women in crucial roles in communications, logistics, medicine, training and dozens of other jobs in the military.
Photograph: Two Python 3 air-to-air missiles on the underwing pylons of a Kfir aircraft. In China , the missile has been renamed the PL-8 and PL-9. Jane's
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| Source: The Washington Times, Published in Washington, D.C., 5am, January 27, 1999
Israel Suspected of Transferring U.S. Laser Weapon
Data to China
By Bill Gertz
The Defense Intelligence Agency suspects Israel shared with China restricted U.S. weapons technology obtained during a joint U.S. - Israeli effort to build a battlefield laser gun, The Washington Times has learned.
Israeli government agents also have tried for the past two years to obtain embargoed weapons know-how from U.S. defense contractors involved in the Tactical High-Energy Laser (THEL) program, said officials familiar with a Pentagon intelligence report on the issue.
The report said officials of the Israeli government armament agency Rafael obtained some restricted technology from a U.S. defense contractor involved in the program in 1996. The unauthorized transfers prompted TRW Space and Electronics Group, the main contractor for the program, to halt further data transfers to the Israelis.
DIA suspicions about the technology leakage are based on reports from U.S. contractor employees in Israel who spotted Chinese technicians working secretly with one of the Israeli companies involved in the laser weapon program, and also from a Chinese official who knew details about it, said the officials who declined to be named.
"If the Chinese are seeking this technology in Israel, it's another episode in their worldwide effort to purloin Western technology," said Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.
The $131 million joint laser weapon program was launched in 1996 in an effort to rapidly build a weapon to knock out Katyusha rockets fired by Hezbollah guerrillas based in southern Lebanon.
The system consists of a pointer-tracker, a laser, and a battle management system. It is being developed by TRW, two other U.S. contractors -- Ball Aerospace & Technology and Contraves Brashear Systems -- along with four Israeli firms. Israel expects to field the first anti-rocket laser unit later this year in northern Israel.
As part of a memorandum signed by officials from both countries in July 1996, the lasers are supposed to have built-in software limiting their range. The system is designed for knocking out 122mm Katyusha rockets, which have ranges of several miles, and mortar and artillery. The agreement also restricts transferring the technology to other countries. The Israelis have been trying to obtain the source codes for the laser's target selection computer software to increase its range so the weapons can be used to knock out other targets such as short-range missiles or aircraft.
The DIA said if Israel obtains the embargoed software coding used to target the laser gun, it could "fire at targets other than those permitted by the Memorandum of Agreement with Washington," and it would allow "a controlled technology to proliferate." "Acquiring and modifying the source codes would help Tel Aviv overcome the mission-limiting U.S. engineering built into the THEL system," the report said.
Some DIA officials were alarmed by several reports that Chinese weapons technicians are working secretly at an Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) plant involved in the laser gun program. IAI is working on the THEL system's radar, fire control assemblies and sensors for its pointer-tracker.
According to DIA, Chinese officials were seen at the IAI Systems and Space Technology Division facility outside Tel Aviv twice between July and October 1997. The U.S. employees were told the "Chinese presence" was supposed to be kept secret from the United States. On a third occasion, the U.S. workers at the plant were "rushed" out of the IAI plant after seeing Chinese workers there, the report said.
The report stated that Israeli Aircraft Industries in the past offered transfers of restricted weapons technology to foreign customers in an effort to conclude weapons deals. "IAI has transferred technology to China, possibly including U.S.-supplied technology," the report said.
The DIA said it could not confirm that Chinese officials at the Israeli factory were working on lasers. But the agency said its suspicions were bolstered by a Chinese scientist who had revealed details about the THEL system and asked for more information about the weapon, once called Nautilus, during an international symposium on lasers. "Beijing is working on high-energy deuterium fluoride lasers most likely for weapons applications and has acquired technology in this area from Russia," the report said.
Spokesman for TRW, Ball Aerospace and Contraves Brashear referred calls to the U.S. Army Missile and Space Command in Alabama, which had no immediate comment. A spokeswoman for the Israeli Embassy also had no comment.
Officials said the reference to earlier leaks of U.S. technology from Israel to China involved Beijing's acquisition of U.S. Patriot anti-missile interceptor technology in 1992. The Bush administration investigated whether Israel illegally transferred Patriot know-how, a probe first disclosed by The Times. The investigation failed to confirm intelligence reports indicating one of Washington's closest allies had shared sensitive weapons data with China. CIA Director Robert Gates said in 1993 that China had acquired the Patriot technology, but government officials were divided over whether Israel had secretly supplied it.
Regarding recent efforts to acquire restricted THEL software, the DIA said that after Rafael was denied access to the source codes, the Israeli representatives demanded further software transfers from the U.S. subcontractor, and also tried to "pressure" TRW into having the State Department grant an export license, the report said. The Israeli program manager and an electronics engineer also tried to illegally obtain software codes and details on the THEL computer controller, according to the DIA.
In a third case, an Israeli Defense Ministry consultant tried to acquire "tracking algorithms" used in the radar focal plane array used by the laser gun's pointer-tracker. Initial requests for the source code were made on May 1, 1997, and after the request was flatly denied, the consultant set up a meeting with TRW official and again demanded the codes for the weapon's software.
"I have no comment on intelligence matters," Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said. A spokesman for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command in Huntsville, Ala., said he was unaware of the Israeli efforts to obtain embargoed THEL technology or the improper release of data. | | | | Guest | | Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2002 10:47 am Post subject: Charges Israel with Violating Rules on Missile |
| Charges Israel with Violating Rules on Missile
Technology Sales
Global Intelligence Update Red Alert
July 2, 1998
According to Israeli television, the Israeli Space Agency has received a notice from the United States government notifying them that Israel is in violation of the Missile Technology Control Regime. Israel is being accused of transferring U.S. missile technology to third countries. Under the MTCR, any country given access to U.S. missile technology is prohibited from transferring that technology without the expressed permission of the United States. Israel now joins Iran, North Korea, Iraq and China as sanctioned under the MTCR protocol.
The immediate results of the sanctions are not drastic. Israeli scientists and engineers will have their access to U.S. facilities limited to some degree. There are several joint projects that could potentially be affected under this agreement, but it is not clear how far the Clinton Administration will go in placing sanctions on Israel. The news stories do point to the fact that an Israeli is currently training with NASA in anticipation of a shuttle mission. This could be a pressure point. NASA's director, not coincidentally, is currently in Israel on a visit.
Israel has expressed astonishment at the charges. While the decision to list Israel under the MTCR at this moment is surprising, the fact that Israel is eligible for sanctions is not. Israel's aerospace industry has close and long-term relations with its American counterparts. Israel also has an extremely aggressive military sales program, which it uses to underwrite its own weapons development programs. Given collaboration with the United States, it is inevitable that Israel will be re-exporting U.S. technology in the course of its overseas sales. Since the Israelis are both aggressive and not necessarily fussy about whom they do business with, Israel could have been sanctioned at any point in recent years. Thus, Israeli astonishment, which is probably genuine, is not about being in violation of the MTCR as much as it is surprise that the United States would decide to cite them now.
There are two reasons for the sanctions, we suspect. The first is the rift that has developed between the United States and Israel over the peace process. Washington is furious with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has been looking for pressure points that might increase Israeli pain and U.S. leverage. The low-profile the U.S. has placed on the listing might indicate that Washington wants to let the Israelis know just how bad things could become for Israel and how serious the United States is on the subject, without triggering a public outburst. However, given the fact that Netanyahu is counting on his ability to stir up a public outburst in the United States as a counter to any meaningful measures by Washington, the fact that Washington is minimizing publicity on this may simply convince him that Washington does not have the resolve to go through with it.
There is a second dimension to this. The United States is becoming genuinely concerned about the diffusion of sensitive technology into less- than-friendly hands. Israel is not alone in the re-export game by any means, but it has been aggressive and not particularly scrupulous in selecting its customers. There is little doubt that Israel has worked with China. There are long-standing rumors of Israeli-Iranian cooperation, motivated by their joint fear of Iraq. However, the trigger to all of this may have been the recent Indian nuclear tests, which focused attention on India's missile delivery systems. There have been strong indications that Israel has cooperated with India in developing this technology. Pakistan has vociferously raised this charge. Given the recent reevaluation of U.S. policy following the failure of U.S. intelligence to anticipate the Indian tests, we wonder whether the decision to sanction Israel was not the result of the intelligence review started after the tests. The review may have turned up proof of Israeli collusion, triggering the response. This latter is, of course, speculation.
This much is not speculation. Israel announced today that it was ordering three West German submarines capable of missile launching. The apparent purpose: to create a missile launch capability more secure than land based systems. The decision to create a strategic missile submarine force is not going to please the United States. Indeed, it will concern the U.S. far more than Netanyahu's Palestinian policy. The U.S. badly wants to get control of nuclear proliferation and is clearly going to view Israel's defense policy and its sales policy as a primary culprit. U.S.-Israeli relations are clearly in deep trouble. Undoubtedly, this is being noted with interest in Arab capitals. | | | | Guest | | | | Guest | | | | Guest | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
