Israel’s Russian
terror links and balancing policy towards USA
-DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL
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Roaring military ties and expansive trade in terror goods among terrocracies
across the globe have made the humanity insecure, staying fully terrorized.
All terrocracies manufacture terror goods and also import as well as
exports them globally, thereby complicating the regional tensions more
gravely than ever before.
USA and Russia are the top bosses of trade in terror goods but Israel is no
less evil in the process of terrorization of humanity. Israel takes all
advantages form emerging regional conflicts and tensions by connecting to
both former super powers and supplying terror goods to regional powers,
particularly the multiple destroyer systems and drones.
Israel considers a perfect balancing policy towards USA while trading terror
technology with Russia as a particularly sensitive subject.
Israel has struggled to remain neutral on the continuously evolving crisis in
Ukraine so it won’t upset Russia, Ukraine, the US or its NATO allies. In a rare
departure from its tradition of voting with Washington in the UN, Israel
abstained from a late March vote on a nonbinding, but highly symbolic
US-led General Assembly draft resolution declaring Moscow’s annexation of
Crimea “invalid.” Israel claims good and trusting relations with the Americans
and the Russians … “so I don’t understand the idea that Israel has to get mired
in this,” Lieberman told Israel’s Channel 9 television. And in April, during a
visit to Israel by then-candidate and now Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko,
Lieberman flagged his desire to help Kiev and Moscow repair their intensifying
rift.
Zvi Kaplan, former director of the Israel Space Agency who signed the 2011
agreement
with Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, said the
Russian framework agreement is intact. “There were some here who thought
we should push ahead on some projects,” Kaplan said. “We wanted to expand
cooperation and trade ties, and as much as they wanted access to technologies
and projects pertaining to our small, high-performance satellites, we couldn’t
risk upsetting our American friends.” Israel also denied a Russian destroyer,
the Vitse Admiral Kulakov, docking
privileges at its Haifa port in April.
Israel knows it owes its illegal existence along with criminal operations to
the USA and its NATO allies and even when it criticizes USA or Europe, it
makes sure its global Mossad network of fascist agents keep them all in
good humors. USA and Europe generally take the occasional Zionist
criticisms and even threats as a pure gimmick as part of its goals in
Arab world.
As its Arab policy, Tel Aviv very tactfully employs the anti-Iran rhetoric to
appease the Sunni Arab world. Even now ehn it ran into trouble with its
traditional ally Turkey over the aidship attack issue, Israel continues to use
the Sunni Arab world against Iran.
Although Israel threatens Iran with an airstrike at its nuke facility, it knows
too well about Iranian defense postures, and if it attacks Iran
that might not only ebe self-defeating but also would end its
enjoying its position in Arab world as well as West and Russia.
With Russia also Israel has maintained military links. Foreign Minister
Avigdor Lieberman, a native Russian speaker, and illegal settler leader
personally manages Israel’s relations with the Russian Federation and former
Soviet states.
As for military trade with Moscow, Israel insists its full discretion over
export licenses to Russia. Unlike potential exports and technology transfers to
China, which require prior consultation with Washington, Israel is under no
bilateral obligation to the US to coordinate its defense dealings with Moscow.
Israel has forfeited some US $1 billion in defense trade and dual-use development
projects with Russia due to a delicately balanced foreign and export licensing
policy aimed at preserving security ties with
Moscow without harming vital interests of the US and its NATO allies.
Tel Aviv underscored Israel’s sovereign right and need to advance its
diplomatic and security agenda through strengthened ties with Moscow, an
increasingly pivotal player in the region and the world. But given ongoing
US-Russian geopolitical posturing and recent tensions over Ukraine, Israel is
eager to remain sensitive to the interests of its key ally in Washington.
Israel would disappear form world map if and when it really antagonizes USA.
The result is a delicate and continuously calibrated “policy of balance” that
has already cost Israel more than $1 billion in lost sales and opportunities
for strategic cooperation with Russia. In a typical year, Israel signs about $7
billion in export deals worldwide. But even more than lost sales, Moscow’s
unique capacity to influence Israel’s strategic standing in the region through
its ties to enemy states such as Iran and Syria. “We obviously gained
greatly from Russia’s decision to cancel a huge S300PMU contract with Iran,” an
official said of the $800 million contract signed in 2007, but terminated in
2011 after years of active Israeli-Russian engagement and the September 2010 UN
Security Council arms embargo on Tehran. But, the official added, in order to
exist and attack the Arabs freely , “We need to be concerned about US
concerns.”
However, Israel has not suspended defense trade with Russia, nor has it forced
local firms to terminate previously signed deals. Rather, it is restricting
exports to less advanced technologies and systems, primarily for purposes of
counterterrorism and homeland security. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)
is in the final stages of implementing a $400 million contract with state-owned
Oboronprom for Russian-based production of unmanned aerial vehicles based on
the firm’s Searcher system.
The October 2010 deal, was expected to segue into a follow-on multiyear
co-production package worth
more than $1 billion based on the front-line IAI-built Heron-1 UAV. In
parallel, Russia expected to procure previously denied synthetic aperture radar
and other sophisticated multimission payloads for domestically built UAVs.
Candidate projects included dual-use technology development based on Israel’s
small, very high-resolution imaging satellites and an Israeli-based ground
station for improving the accuracy of Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System.
But unless tensions subside over Russia’s annexation of Crimea, continued
intervention in western Ukraine and other hot button issues, Israel, under
pressure from Pentagon, will continue to shy away from high-profile sales and
strategic cooperation with Moscow. Indefinite delays were common in
implementation of a March 2011 Russian-Israeli framework agreement for space
cooperation.
With its wide ranging military links across the globe, it is extremely dreadful
even to think the plight of Palestine masses, besieged by both Israel and Egypt
under US led NATO supervision for years now. It also gives an idea about why
Israel is so roguish, so arrogant and so criminal minded in
attacking and killing the Palestinians, among other Arabs, killing them ,
including women and children, at will!
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