Always stab allies in the back.
Israel did not take responsibility for the pager attack that crippled Hezbollah’s comms and took out a chunk of their officer corps. It certainly did not go ahead and describe how it was done for the media. That’s tradecraft. And you don’t reveal it.
But the New York Times had a report detailing how it happened that same evening. I won’t link to it as it carries the byline of fake news fabulist Sheera Frenkel who had previously carried water for Hamas and lied that the Islamic terror group had not kidnapped and killed three Israeli teens.
The report is described as being based on briefings received by American officials.
The material leaked to the Times comes from “American and other officials briefed on the operation” and the “American and other officials spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitive nature of the operation.”
Is this classified information? Sounds like it. If we were involved it certainly would be.
The official American position was that we were not aware of the attack beforehand.
A U.S. official said that several minutes before the pagers started exploding across Lebanon, Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant called U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and told him Israel was going to conduct an operation in Lebanon soon, but refused to give any specific details.
The U.S. official said the Israelis didn’t tell the U.S. about the specifics of the operation, but added that Gallant’s call was an attempt to avoid keeping the U.S. totally in the dark.
Nevertheless, U.S. officials said they didn’t see Gallant’s call as a serious prior notice. “We were not aware of this operation and were not involved,” U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Tuesday.
Assuming that’s true (and considering the pro-terrorist and foreign regime figures in this administration, including in the Pentagon and NSC, it wouldn’t surprise me if the Israelis held back their plans) then the Israelis held a briefing afterward.
And then the officials turned around and leaked it all to the New York Times.
Did they do that on their own? Maybe. D.C. is notoriously leaky. But still leaking details of an op a few hours after a briefing is a bit much even by D.C. standards. Unless it was administration policy to leak it.
Under Obama, leaks of Israeli operations were standard procedure. But if this was Biden-Harris admin policy, it doesn’t just hurt Israel, it hurts America. The leak undermines claims that we didn’t know about it beforehand. And encourages Hezbollah to target our people as the weaker link in the Oct 7 war.
Some officials in this administration clearly don’t care, but they could also find themselves in the line of fire.
The Biden-Harris admin follows the Obama policy of stabbing allies in the back. But the back it stabs could end up being its own.
JS says
Damn it, Daniel Greenfield! This US administration is completely compromised by Islamists! I don’t know how many ways to say and have NO way to contact you, but perhaps you should contact me.
I have been researching our government agencies for hours each day since 2021, as well as other things. It is a laborious and time consuming process. If you are interested, please contact me.
gravenimage says
JS, you can use the “contact us” box to send your contact information.
somehistory says
Loose lips sinks ships….and some evil people use it to enable others to do evil things.
Israel may have to learn that they cannot tell the U.S. government anything. Not as long as there are mozlums inside, mozlum enablers in every cabinet, every lettered agency….because they will blab; it’s a given.
And someday, infidels in the U.S. will learn that mozlums don’t like them; and will be willing to do some slicing and dicing when their usefulness is done.
James Hoagland says
Israel is stuck with the US and cannot free itself from dependence on ‘Big Brother’. Just my sense. On a deeper level- Israel must grasped on to its religious core in order to survive. In practical terms this is ‘Religious Zionism’ and do away with the marxist based material zionism of the left. Israel is in the midst of a war aimed at its annihilation and must react accordingly. The whole society must be mobilized to fight this war of independence!
Mike says
Rashida Tlaib, aka M.O.D.O.K., is likely in mourning right now, following the successful operation against Whizz-bowl-ahh.
If something similar happens to HamArse, she will probably have the ultimate coniption fit.
OLD GUY says
She might want to check her phone.
Jerome from Layton says
Where DOES she get her phone? She may want to check that…
Eva says
Israel needs to remove gallant as minister of defense (he should have been gone before now anyway), and then needs to cut america out of its intelligence loop entirely.
No more sharing information on its operations with them, no more sharing its intelligence with them.
Israel is being stabbed in the back constantly by her supposed ‘allies’, so what they don’t know they can’t interfere in.
James Hoagland says
not America but the Democrat Party which is democrat socialist party! It may be painful but necessary to survive!
Jerome from Layton says
Remember in November. Credit Bill Richardson of GOA.
The Past says
Never trust the American communists!
Francis Fitzmaurice says
I wouldn`t trust these dumbercrats at all.
It was smart to not tell these fools.
James Hoagland says
any communist!
terry says
I do not trust the Western Globalist Elites;
I do not trust the Marxist big brother bullies;
No I do not trust the Islam criminal masses of zombies!
It seems that the powers in forces are untrustworthies!
That is what those who rule, are as rulers it to me most surely seems!
gravenimage says
Biden-Harris Regime Immediately Leaks Details of Israeli Pager Op
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Stabbing one of our greatest allies in the back–just sickening.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Israel should, until January 21st 2025, treat the US as a hostile state and simply stop sharing any intelligence w/ us. Once Trump returns, they can resume. If Kamala gets elected, make it permanent
Eva says
I’m with you. They should do the same to every country who does not stand with Israel.
Let them see how they manage without Jewish intelligence, ingenuity, and inventions.
F**k ’em all.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Totally! All those 124 countries who voted against them in the UN yesterday should all be targeted
James Hoagland says
IF he survives till then! This is not just an internal struggle in the US and Israel; this is at the core of western civilization! I think Israel could stop collaborating on a number of activities especially connected to Intelligence and improving US weaponry. Cooperation has been deep and mutually beneficial but the social democrats favor the jihad so change of attitude is called for- this as relates to social democrats!
JustJim says
Israel should seek a new weapons/financing source, that doesn’t demand intelligence info. as part of it’s relationship….but whom?
RAM says
Israel knows what will be leaked. Sometimes the info will be a diversion.
INFIDELUSA says
THANKS jihad watch for ALL You Do