I'm catching up a week or two late to this: Israel recently hosted the first international homeland security conference, bristling with high tech weaponry.
Israel will share its experience and knowledge in counterterrorist activities and homeland security with 700 delegates from around the world. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomes the initiative to hold the first international conference on Homeland Security in Israel. The conference was organized by the Export Institute, in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry.
What did it look like inside? Well it was all in English. This blogger-attendee calls himself "Proud Jew," but his handle is Double tapper, he's into guns; check out all his pictures from the convention floor, and captions:
WeCU Technologies Ltd develops an automated system for the detection of a person's intent...
Reps from North Carolina, Ohio and Fairfax County Virgina were here to try and entice Israeli HLS Companies to open shop in their regions. The Israeli Export Agency was on hand to assist in the export process.
Jeff Halper likes to point out that Israel is now selling more arms than all but four countries in the world. Big business. (60 percent of the Israeli economy, according to commenter at that link, citing Halper.) Here's the frightening speakers' list from the conference. Many high-tech weaponsmakers in Israel, and the police chief of Memphis, and two other public officials:
Timothy W. Manning, Deputy Administrator for Protection and National Preparedness at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), USA.
Jan E. Mul - International Marketing Director at the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA). Jan joined the FCEDA in March of 2004 and his primary role is to assist foreign firms with their market entry into the U.S. and Fairfax County.
V: We’re weak victims surrounded by a sea of hostile Arabs.
A: We’re incredibly strong, behold our mighty IDF and numerous crushing victories.
V: Israel is the one safe place for Jews to save themselves from extinction.
A: Israel is surrounded by dangerous enemies hell bent on Israel’s extinction
V: We’re passive victims and the “MIC” is really in charge.
A: We’ve managed to reshape the GOP ideologically, staff the pentagon with and take leadership positions in manufacturing and position Israel as a leading expert/manufacturer in assymetrical warfare problems. We’ve also managed to weave a number of issues–support for national missile defense, opposition to arms control treaties, championing of wasteful weapons systems, arms aid to Turkey and American unilateralism in general–into a hard line, with support for the Israeli right at its core.
Chhiiing!
Who would think about using real diplomacy as a negotiating tool rather than weapons? Not Israel. Not the U.S.
Been some efforts to investigate just who is profiting from the new get naked airport scanners. Micheal Chertoff involved with lobbying efforts. Investigate the TSA, the companies who made these sales to the government.
Fly Naked Fly United
ot but not. This interview with Flynt Leverett definitely has to do with Homeland Security.
A Voice of Reason
link to raceforiran.com
Here’s an article from 2002 detailing the rise of Pax Americana/Likud Israel, beginning with Reagan’s kick-off (ball held by JINSA): link to webcache.googleusercontent.com
It has only gotten worse; the US military industrial complex is totally enmeshed with Israel, the co-joined twins of nightmare.
I’m just finishing reading Yves Engler’s Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. Turns out Canada sells a lot of weapons to Israel.
no doubt this is a major reason for Harper’s ‘principled stand’ for Israel and his zero tolerance policy wrt anti-semitism/criticism of Israel
Don’t forget that Israel-based contractor, the Institute for Terrorism Research and Response, that spied on activists in Pennsylvania for homeland security.
Pa. activist unsure why surveilled by state:
Israel has a history of reverse engineering stuff we give it and selling it to whomever it wants, e.g., China:
link to commondreams.org
What this highlights for me is that Israel, even more than the US (and that is saying a lot), is a militarized society with a military dependent economy. It is doubly hard to deal with a situation in which peace becomes a threat to the economy, private profit, and the livelihood of a huge part of the population. Very discouraging.
Since Pennsylvania’s Homeland Security has been outsourced to Israel, I wonder if the state saved money by not having to send anyone? The deal Pennsylvania made with Israel was discovered when reports given to businesses based on spying on anti-frackers and other Pennsylvania dissidents became public.