Name: Noam Chomsky: Wikileaks Reveals US Ties to Israel's Military Industry
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Can you comment on the importance of WikiLeaks cables?

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Some of them are really interesting, including ones that aren't discussed much.

For example, one of the WikiLeaks, one interesting question that should be in everybody's mind is what is the basis for the extraordinary relationship between the United States and Israel?

But one interesting aspect was revealed by a WikiLeaks cable, which I think wasn't reported.

One of the cables listed, of the leaks, listed a document, an internal U.S. document, Pentagon document, which listed the top strategic priorities of the United States, regions in the world that were so important that we had to protect them at all costs.

There were maybe, I forget how many, a dozen or so.

One of them was right outside Haifa, Rafael Military Industries, major military industry.

That's one of the main places where drone technology has been developed.

The links between U.S. and Israeli high-tech military industry are extremely close.

In fact, in this case, Rafael, the biggest industry, the ties are so close that Rafael actually moved its management headquarters to Washington, where the money is.

Well, what that tells you, that gives an interesting insight into the nature of the relationship.

Israel is now, does play a major role, small country, but good high-tech industry.

And it plays a major role in repression and aggression.

It's developed, the Israeli arms fairs, where they sell their arms, they advertise correctly that they have developed advanced means of repression and control, and that the arms that they're displaying are battlefield tested, namely against the Palestinians.

So they've refined the techniques of control.

And they contribute to that all over the place, Central America, even in the United States.

They're providing advice on how to bar Honduran immigrants, say, from coming to the United States.

Well, that's only one case, but there have been many other cases of the WikiLeaks materials.

It's really worth reading through them, not just the ones that, you know, do get reported, but many other ones.

 There's actually a volume that just came out on WikiLeaks, which is important reading.