Read It To Believe It: Israels Ties in Sri Lanka
JMD Morgan
Posted by Roqayah On May - 11 - 2009
The current offensive by the Sri Lankan government against the Tamil
Tigers or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebel movement has
trapped tens of thousands of refugees in a coastal strip still held by
the rebels - with no place to go and no impending hope in site.
Sri Lanka�s military has been accused by human rights organizations of
using massive firepower against the guerrillas that is resulting in
civilian casualties. The comparison can be made between Israel�s brutal
attack on the Gaza Strip,its killing of over 1,000 civilians and the
wounding of many thousands of others and the Sri Lankan assault on a
3mile coastal strip controlled by the Tamil Tigers have been made by a
number of observers, including Australia�s Green-Left Online in a May 2
article by Sean O Floinn & Emma Clancy:
�A largely defenseless people struggling to survive and hemmed in
on a narrow strip of land, facing indiscriminate air strikes, assault
from gun boats and cluster bombs by a well-equipped army, conjures up
the image of the recent Israeli invasion of Palestine�s Gaza Strip.�
However, there is more to the comparisons between Israel�s attack on the
Gaza Strip and Sri Lanka�s attack on the narrow strip of the Jaffna
peninsula. In May 2000, just one day after India refused to give Sri
Lanka any military assistance in its war against the Tamil Tigers, Sri
Lanka and Israel resumed diplomatic relations. Although the corporate
media are focusing on Sri Lanka�s military assistance from China, little
mention is being made of the nation�s military links with Israel.
After the establishment of diplomatic ties between Jerusalem and
Colombo, Israeli military technicians arrived to maintain Sri Lanka�s
Israeli-made Kfir fighter-bombers and Russian MiG-27 aircraft and
provided Sri Lanka with Dvora fast naval attack craft. Israeli arms and
ammunition also began flooding into Sri Lanka,with still no mention of
the Israeli-Sri Lankan ties in the media.
Soon, Israeli military advisers and �consultants� were regular visitors
to Colombo�s new Access Lanka Building, owned by relatives of Sri
Lanka�s top military officers. Among Israel�s security exports to Sri
Lanka was state of the art electronic and imagery surveillance
equipment. Israeli Air Force pilots reportedly flew Sri Lankan attack
aircraft against Tamil Tiger targets on the Jaffna peninsula. Israeli
military personnel were also reported to have taken part in Sri Lankan
military attacks on Tamil units.
Due to Israel�s military assistance to Sri Lanka, India reportedly began
aiding the Tamils in the 1980s. It is also believed (and not that hard
to believe either) that Israel�s Mossad recruited agents among Sri
Lanka�s large contingent of foreign workers in the Persian Gulf Arab
states. There were also reports that Israelis were also providing
weapons and training to Tamil guerrillas in order to maintain a �market�
for Israeli arms suppliers in the civil war-wracked island nation.
On March 2, 2007:
Cambodia and discovered that the Mossad and Cambodian criminal
syndicate allies continue to obtain bought-back Cambodian weapons from
Cambodian government warehouses and are selling them to guerrilla groups
throughout Asia, including Sri Lanka�s Tamil Tigers, anti-Laotian
Hmongs, the small anti-communist Free Vietnam Movement, and Burmese
tribal guerrilla groups. WMR photographed a number of Zim shipping
containers portside along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh. From this and
other port facilities, including the port of Sihanoukville, bought-back
Cambodian weapons, some originally provided to the Khmer Rouge by
Israeli tycoon Shaul Eisenberg and the Chinese, are making their way to
insurgent groups around Asia, possibly including Iraqi guerrillas
battling U.S. forces in Iraq.�
Tamil guerrillas have claimed to have destroyed an Israeli-made Sri
Lankan fast naval attack craft,�which was deployed off the Lebanese
coast during the 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon, with a C-802
Iranian-made Noor missile.�
Although Sri Lanka suspended diplomatic ties with Israel in 1970 over
the failure of the Israelis to withdraw from illegally occupied
Palestinian territory, however, operating an Interests Section within
the U.S. embassy in Colombo, Israeli-Sri Lankan ties began to grow
closer in the mid to late 1980s. Israel provided Sri Lanka with military
advisers and established a special commando unit for the Sri Lankan police.
In 1990, Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa ordered the Israeli
Interests Section at the U.S. embassy to close and two Israeli diplomats
in Colombo were ordered to leave. In 1990, Premadasa also ordered a
government investigation of charges that Mossad was training both Sri
Lankan and Tamil guerrilla forces.
On September 25, 1991, Reuters reported from Colombo:
�Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa, fighting against a
campaign to have him impeached, yesterday accused the Israeli
intelligence agency Mossad of plotting against him because he closed the
Israeli interests section in the U.S. embassy. He spoke at the opening
session of parliament.�
On May 1, 1993, Premadasa was assassinated in Colombo during May Day
festivities by a suicide bomber said to be a Tamil guerrilla.
Twenty-three other people were killed in the blast. On May 28, 1993,
Abdul Hameed Mohammed Azwer, Sri Lankan minister of state for Muslim
affairs, said in Jeddah, �Israel was enraged by when they were expelled
from Sri Lanka by Premadasa and I suspect the Mossad was behind the
dastardly murder of this respected leader.�
Premadasa�s assassination remains an Asian �cold case.�and On September
23, 1997, Attorney General Sarath Silva released 18 Tamil suspects in
the assassination of the president, citing lack of evidence - leaving
the Attorney General with an �unsolved case�.
During a March 2009 trip to Israel by Sri Lankan Prime Minister
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, talks were held with Israel�s leading arms
suppliers on increased military aid by the Israelis to Sri Lanka.
Israel continues to supply Sri Lanka with arms and excessive military
training even after the United States and Britain stop endowing military
supplies to Sri Lanka over the government�s human rights violations.
Why aren�t we hearing about this in the media?
I guess you had to read it,to believe it.
The Green-Left Online
Tamils Speak Out Against Genocide
Statement Against War on Tamils
B. Cramer
> Read It To Believe It: Israels Ties in Sri Lanka
> Posted by Roqayah On May - 11 - 2009
It is very easy to believe.
The yids have been arming both sides of the conflict in Somalia for years.
They were involved in training insurgents in Iraq.
Everywhere there is trouble in the world, the yids are involved somewhere.