[Peace-discuss] Are U.S. Police training with the Israeli Military?

[David Johnson]

DAILY KOS

Mon Dec 12, 2011 at 09:32 AM PST

 
<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/12/1044508/-Are-U-S-Police-training-w
ith-the-Israeli-Military> Are U.S. Police training with the Israeli
Military?

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Apparently so and for some time now. According to
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal> Max Blumenthal with the Nation
Institute, police in the U.S. have
<http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/12> gone to Israel to train with
the Israeli military in the "handling" of civilians.
<http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/12> According to Blumenthal,
"Crimaterrorists" is a phrase coined by an Israeli military official that
essentially puts forth the notion that civilians engaging in civil
disobedience should be seen and treated as a kind of domestic terrorist with
criminal intentions.
<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/04/report-israeli-model-underlies-milita
rization-of-u-s-police/> Raw Story weighed in on Blumenthal's allegations on
December 4th. Here's Blumenthal in his own words:

 

Having been schooled in Israeli tactics perfected during a 63 year
experience of controlling, dispossessing, and occupying an indigenous
population, local police forces have adapted them to monitor Muslim and
immigrant neighborhoods in US cities. Meanwhile, former Israeli military
officers have been hired to spearhead security operations at American
airports and suburban shopping malls, leading to a wave of disturbing
incidents of racial profiling, intimidation, and FBI interrogations of
innocent, unsuspecting people. The New York Police Department's disclosure
that it deployed "counter-terror" measures against Occupy protesters
encamped in downtown Manhattan's Zuccotti Park is just the latest example of
the so-called War on Terror creeping into every day life. Revelations like
these have raised serious questions about the extent to which
Israeli-inspired tactics are being used to suppress the Occupy movement.

Here's a video in which Blumenthal outlines his assertions to a Russian TV
News reporter:

Blumenthal asserts that the ties between New York Police Commissioner Ray
Kelly and Israeli are particularly strong, and getting stronger, as Raw
Story points out in their article on Blumenthal:

The Israeli influence has been particularly strong in New York City where,
Blumenthal writes, "under the leadership of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly,
ties between the NYPD and Israel have deepened by the day. Kelly embarked on
his first trip to Israel in early 2009 to demonstrate his support for
Israel's ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip. . Kelly returned to Israel the
following year to speak at the Herziliya Conference, an annual gathering of
neoconservative security and government officials who obsess over supposed
'demographic threats.' . Back in New York, the NYPD set up a secret
'Demographics Unit' designed to spy on and monitor Muslim communities around
the city."

With recent stories that
<http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/12-2> sound canons and even
<http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_ar
ch&article_id=2307&issue_id=22011> lasers that temporarily blind people
being considered for more common usage in dealing with American "criminals",
we should all be alarmed at our rapidly growing, and hardening in attitude,
police security state, and the criminalization of peaceful protest that is
occurring in response to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

 

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