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Thanks to last summer's release of
28 pages detailing a
variety of links between 9/11 hijackers and Saudi government officials—and the October leak of a 2014
email from former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declaring the Saudi government was directly supporting ISIS—it's increasingly clear that the U.S. government's depiction of Saudi Arabia as a vital ally in the "war on terror" is
dishonest.Unfortunately, Saudi Arabia isn't the only supposed "ally" whose official depiction as a steadfast foe of terrorism is out of sync with reality:
The branding of Israel is also deeply misleading.Israeli Aid to Al Qaeda in SyriaThought it received very little coverage in U.S. media, last year it was
revealed that the Israeli government was providing medical support to the al Nusra Front, a Syrian arm of al Qaeda.
That would seem inconsistent with routine declarations from U.S. politicians that there should be "no daylight" between the United States and Israel, language that suggests two peoples whose interests are in perfect alignment.
Where Israel's support of an al Qaeda affiliate is concerned, however, a former chief of the Mossad—Israel's national intelligence agency—pulls no punches in differentiating between U.S. and Israeli interests.
Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan
asked Efraim Halevy why Israel would give medical aid to wounded members of al Qaeda—and
return them to jihad in Syria—but not to the wounded of
Hezbollah, the Iran-allied Shi'a militant group in Lebanon that has often clashed with Israel and has been linked, sometimes
dubiously, to terror attacks.
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