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An American anti-war activist says one of the reasons why the United States is always supporting Israel militarily is because Washington uses Palestinians as “field tests.”
“Clearly the United States always wants to help Israel expand its military capability and one of the primary reasons is because the US uses the Palestinian people as field tests to check out new weapons technologies in the urban battlefield environment,” said Bruce Gagnon with the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
“So clearly they’re field tests there,” Gagnon told Press TV in a phone interview on Thursday.
In a recent report, The Wall Street Journal said the administration of US President Barack Obama has tightened control on arms transfer to Israel after US officials learned that the Israeli military had been quietly securing lethal munitions from the Pentagon without their approval.
According to the report, the White House has instructed the Pentagon to put on hold a transfer of Hellfire missiles to Israel.
However, Gagnon says the move is just “a political tack” on the part of the Obama administration following the Tel Aviv regime’s atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip which sparked outrage across the globe.
“Because of the recent slaughter and massacre of people in Gaza by Israel, suddenly there’s a new sensitivity on the part of the Obama administration. This is I believe purely a political tack,” he said.
“It’s like sailing, you know, you’re just changing directions with the wind a little bit but soon you’ll tack back to the complete and utter subordination of US and Israeli policy together, you know, it’s one military machine run for the interest of the corporate oligarchy that runs both this country and Israel,” Gagnon concluded.