Category: Israel

3 articles in this category

• "Every Israeli I ever knew". John Kiriakou's account of the attitudes he encountered among Israelis he knew professionally and socially, that almost every one of them wanted the Palestinians killed or exiled, together with his description of a sensibility he says is palpable walking around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and his immediate self-correction when he overstated the claim.
• Israel and the fear of being held back. John Kiriakou's explanation of why an ally that receives almost everything it asks for still spies on the United States, that the Israelis are always afraid something is being withheld, and having nowhere to be pushed except the Mediterranean, will do anything to be certain about their own security.
• The other five percent. John Kiriakou's account of Israeli intelligence operations inside the United States: that for decades Israeli officers have been spread across the country trying to penetrate American defence contractors and steal defence secrets, because, in his formulation, Washington gives Israel ninety-five per cent of what it has, and Israel wants the remaining five.