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25. Connections between Israeli police and our own U.S. Police

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There's also long been a reported connection between Isreali police and our U.S. police. NYPD and other police departments have reportedly been cross trained by Israeli cops and their tactics and procedures.

U.S.-Israel Strategic Cooperation: Joint Police & Law Enforcement Training

Are U.S. Police training with the Israeli Military?

Apparently so and for some time now. According to Max Blumenthal with the Nation Institute, police in the U.S. have gone to Israel to train with the Israeli military in the "handling" of civilians. According to Blumenthal, "Crimaterrorists" is a phrase coined by an Israeli military official that essentially puts forth the notion that civilians engaging in civil disobedience should be seen and treated as a kind of domestic terrorist with criminal intentions. Raw Story weighed in on Blumenthal's allegations on December 4th. Here's Blumenthal in his own words:

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Bloomberg is on the record as supporting Israel. We know he was mayor of NY, and head of the NYPD, and said something along the lines that he had his own "army" or something similar. Unfortunately, today, when you financially support Israel, you also support the severe oppression of the Palestinians, but even more importantly, you support the training of our own cops in Israeli tactics, which are brutal and are everything our own forefathers warned us against.

The connection between our own cops, their treatment of, particularly black people in the U.S. (but not limited to black people), and the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians, seems to be a similar pattern of lack of respect of life, extreme authoritarianism, and outright murder.

The problem seems to be institutional. Sodastream isn't getting one penny from me.