I wanted to point out a possible relationship that might exist that could explain all or part of the most recent return of U.S.-Israel tensions this time over China.
The United States and the United Kingdom are most probably clandestinely backing the Hizbut Tahir.
The HT is supposedly aligned with the Uighurs of Northwest China and have pushed on to China's border. #msg-6369349
The HT maintains a powerful anti-Jewish/anti-Israel crusade.
This is not the first time that Israel has been blamed for selling technology to China. In early 1992, Israel was accused of the unauthorized transfer of American technology to China; #msg-6435670
However, at present with the U.S. backing the Jewish hating HT with the ultimate goal to push into the Xinjiang province of China and the discord that has sprung up between the U.S. and Israel who is once again using the time-tested military means to regain the trust and confidence of China – I don’t know - there are just some interesting relationships that might be contributing to the entire affair. #msg-6369349 #msg-6369039
-Am
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Why wouldn't Straw comment on the "opposition" - the Hizbut Tahrir (HT) - in the Andijan incidents? Tashkent has alleged that HT activists in the city communicated with "mentors" in Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan. Moreover, it is well-known that the HT's "headquarters" are in the United Kingdom. HT spokesmen appear routinely in the coffee shops of plush London hotels to give media interviews. #msg-6369039
The HT keeps up a virulent campaign not only against the Uzbek government and the US, but also against the Jewish community and Israel. It often refers to Karimov as a Jewish stooge. During World War II, more than 200,000 Jews escaped extermination in West Europe by fleeing to Central Asia. Anti-Semitism was not prevalent in the Central Asian republics of the erstwhile USSR to the same extent as it was in the Slav republics of the USSR. #msg-6355164
U.S./Israel: Limit weapons exports to problematic countries By Amir Oren
Jun 7 2005, 07:01 PM The U.S. administration has asked the government to reduce the authority of the Defense Ministry to authorize Israel security exports to countries Washington deems "problematic."
In discussions with representatives from the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, Israel was asked to increase the involvement of other ministries, especially the Foreign Ministry and the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry in the supervision of permits for the sale of sensitive security equipment and technology to a number of countries, especially China.
American officials met yesterday in Washington with an Israeli team headed by Dr. Zvi Stauber, former Israeli ambassador to Britain and currently head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.
The American request regarding permits for security exports is one of four elements of the crisis which has characterized relations between the security establishments of the two counties ever since the Pentagon expressed anger at Israel's export of Harpies - sophisticated air-to-ground munitions - to China.
A second issue is the ostracization of Defense Ministry director general Amos Yaron and his colleagues by U.S. defense officials in Tel Aviv and New York, whom senior Pentagon officials say led them astray about the issue.
The third issue is the clarification of the history of security exports to China, which the Defense Ministry says almost completely stopped during the past few years, and the fourth issue involves the delay of sensitive American technology transfers to Israel.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who was asked by friends in Israel to intervene personally to resolve the crisis, has preferred to ignore the requests. Despite the tension between the Pentagon and the Ministry of Defense, which has also cast a chill over relations between other parts of the Bush administration and Israel, joint maneuvers between the U.S. army and the IDF are proceeding as usual.
Officials from the Defense Ministry and elsewhere in the government say the fact that Minister Shaul Mofaz refraining from replacing Yaron has caused Israel political and security damage. They say it was a missed opportunity for Israel to encourage positive responses from the U.S. to Israeli requests, ahead of the evacuation of the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria.
Sources at Tel Aviv University were surprised at Dr. Stauber's willingness to undertake a mission on behalf of the Defense Ministry, since the Jaffee Center makes an effort to downplay its ties to the security establishment.
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