TEHRAN – They built a room together. America paid for the walls, astroturf carpeting, and giant posters of President Trump’s 20-point plan. America sent in planes with logistics companies who knew how to transport rice in combat zones. The US even invited several Dutch and Emirati officials to maintain the pretext of multilateralism.
The mission statement of the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) was obscene from day one. While pretending to monitor the Palestinians in Gaza and inform the people that Israel was already deliberately starving them, the Palestinians themselves were kept barred from the table and even video calls blocked by Israeli authorities.
Then an Israeli brought a camera.
Not one discreet lens, but a systematic wall-to-wall record of every American general, every British diplomat, every angry digression about how pencils, paper, and water-purifying chemicals are banned on “dual-use” lists while children need to survive.
According to the Guardian, when the US base’s commander, Patrick Frank, finally marched in and demanded that filming stop, the Israeli military shrugged and said everything was “transparent.”
The same shrug he gave when the Stingrays circled the White House, when hundreds of pounds of weapons-grade uranium disappeared into Dimona, when Jonathan Pollard handed over the entire U.S. intelligence archive on Arab countries and was later served tea by Ambassador Mike Huckabee.
Kiryat Ghat cameras are not a scandal. They are signing a genocide contract.
The ledger is unforgiving. NUMEC, Hollywood-style smuggled Krytrons, LAKAM’s decades of technology heist, Pollard, Kaddish, AIPAC shuttling in the war effort against Iran, Pegasus on the State Department phone, Stingray outside the Oval Office.
Same choreography every time: Washington privately tweets, Israel denies, Congress votes for additional funding. The dog barks once, its tail wags wildly, and the bowl and bomb shelf are refilled.
Yes, dogs are spies too. The NSA owns Prime Minister Netanyahu’s cell phone as well as other people’s phones. But the asymmetry is grotesque. When Israel is caught stealing America’s secret keys, America apologizes for misplacing the keys and sends an additional $17.9 billion. If anyone else tries it, there will be sanctions, drone attacks, and a color revolution before the sun even rises.
On some days, a genocidal tail can look downright monstrous even to a dog. An administration that uses Mr. Adelson’s hundreds of millions of dollars, AIPAC’s war chest, and instant anti-Semitic slurs to buy Congress with its lobbying efforts, fires university presidents who tolerate “cease-fire” chants, labels opponents as “anti-Semites,” silences the American people, crowns Pollard a hero with ambassador’s tea, and forever denounces the intentional massacre of the USS Liberty as a “mistake.”
Some days the dog bends over. A single phone call could delay a shipment of Iron Dome, put JDAM on hold, reverse course on Arab normalization, leak information from Mossad, give Barak Rabid a scripted line about the president’s “grievances,” or allow a Security Council resolution to pass.
Both of these contradictory versions play their roles perfectly, keeping the US and Israeli machinery of occupation, domination, and genocide sounding without missing a beat.
The machine operates on the cash of big donors, the pilgrimage of new students to the wall, and the golden rule that whispered “terms of aid” equal instant political death.
Every president since Eisenhower has felt that struggle. Most people learn to call it love. And Gaza is where that chain becomes Ghaloth.
The camera never stops rolling. Washington still pays for movies, bombs, and silence.
And the two million Palestinians who were deliberately starved, bombed and even erased from video calls that will decide their future understand the only truth that this “special relationship” tells its victims. It’s about Tails committing genocide, Dog reloading the bomb, and both swearing it was self-defense.