Letter to the editor: Israel hasn't behaved as an ally

I commend the writer of the factual letter “U.S. complicit in crimes against humanity” (Nov. 10, TribLIVE) about 75 years of crimes against the Palestinian people. However, she fails to point out Israel’s history of blatant deception, duplicity and actual treachery against the U.S. itself.

I am constantly amazed how ardent U.S. supporters of Israel have forgotten — to name just a few instances: the 1960s theft of hundreds of pounds of weapons-grade uranium from the Apollo PA NUMEC plant; the 1967 deliberate attempt to sink the USS Liberty reconnaissance ship and kill all the U.S. military onboard; the 1980s solicitation of Navy analyst Jonathon Pollard, the most damaging traitor/spy in U.S. history who is now considered a hero in Israel; the Mossad fake intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s WMDs, which helped push President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney into the Iraq war debacle; and currently, the incessant outcry for the U.S. to enmesh itself in another disastrous Middle East war with Iran, Israel’s latest arch enemy. Are these the actions of a staunch ally?

Gerald Schiller

Penn Hills