U.S. military plugs Israel into real-time war monitoring

Haaretz ^ | Tuesday, March 04 | Nathan Guttman

[Pro-Bush]

According to the Journal, Israel will be the only country other than the U.S. hooked directly into the U.S. Central Command's communications system. The joint command post in Tel Aviv will enable Israel Defense Forces officers to view what is termed the "common air picture" - essentially an upgraded version of a flight command and control system that enables the viewer to follow the activities of all American and Iraqi aircraft in real time. Israeli officers will thus be viewing exactly the same pictures as the U.S. officers running the war from the CENTCOM base in Qatar.

[VaBthang4]

Oh the Loserdopians will decry the American taxpayer money used to do this! Mind you, if it were any other Nation but Israel, it wouldnt be a big deal...but here we are again helping the evil J-E-W-S.

[The Red Zone]

Rep. Ron Paul

[George W. Bush]

This is to help keep Israel at home. It helps them defend their own country, possibly detect missile launches toward Israel, monitor any flights toward Israel.

We did the same in '91. They get some of our sat inel on a regular basis anyway. This is just their private window on our battle.