Awful… Obama Administration Leaks Information on Israel’s Secret Military Alliance

It sort of explains why Israel wouldn't notify the US before a planned strike doesn't it.

They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. That's how Israel ended up with a muslim alliance in the middle east and NO alliance with the US.
 
Fox News is seriously mis-reporting the situation. Not surprising.

Israel's alliance with Azerbaijan is not a secret. It is well known. And Iran is certainly aware of it since they recently targeted several Israeli sites in Azerbaijan for terror attacks.

The Fox News story is based on this article in Foreign Policy magazine: Israel's Secret Staging Ground - By Mark Perry | Foreign Policy

If it was such a big secret, a whole lot of people know about it! Including the people writing the story.

Read the whole article. The only involvement of US officials is their expressing concerns that Israel could use Azerbaijan as a staging ground.

It isn't as if the Iran read this article and smacked their heads because that had not already occured to them.

Use your heads. Fox News has nothing but air in theirs.
 
From the Foreign Policy article:
It's clear why the Israelis prize their ties to Azerbaijan -- and why the Iranians are infuriated by them. The Azeri military has four abandoned, Soviet-era airfields that would potentially be available to the Israelis, as well as four airbases for their own aircraft, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Military Balance 2011.

So the US official Fox News is pretending to be all heated up about who talked about Israeli air bases in Azerbaijan? That information has been public knowledge for some time.
 
More from the Foreign Policy article:

The prospect of Israel using Azerbaijan's airfields for an Iranian attack first became public in December 2006, when retired Israeli Brig. Gen. Oded Tira angrily denounced the George W. Bush administration's lack of action on the Iranian nuclear program. "For our part," he wrote in a widely cited commentary, "we should also coordinate with Azerbaijan the use of airbases in its territory and also enlist the support of the Azeri minority in Iran." The "coordination" that Tira spoke of is now a reality, the U.S. sources told me.
 
The Obama Administration leaked this information putting the alliance in jeopardy and endangering the Israeli nation.

The "alliance" would not be in jeopardy by the leak as the Iranians would know the Israelis used the basses after the attack - something the Azerbaijan's would rather be prepared to defend before rather than after the fact.
 

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