In keeping with paperwork revealed by the investigative journal The Intercept, an American base referred to as “Web site 512” screens the skies for missile assaults towards Israel.
In keeping with The Intercept, the Pentagon has awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to construct amenities for American troops at a secret base within the Negev desert, some thirty kilometers from Gaza. Code-named “Web site 512”, this American base screens the skies for missile assaults towards Israel.
Targeted on Iran, not Hamas
This base with its hyper-sophisticated amenities did not detect the Hamas assault on October 7, as a result of it was centered on Iran 700 miles away, in response to The Intercept journal.
Though President Joe Biden and the White Home insist that there aren’t any plans to ship US troops to Israel as a part of the conflict towards Hamas, there may be already a US navy presence in Israel.
The $35.8 million set up for U.S. troops, neither publicly introduced nor beforehand reported, was talked about not directly in a contract announcement made by the Pentagon on August 2, 2023. “Typically one thing is handled as an official secret not within the hope that an adversary won’t ever uncover it, however relatively [because] the U.S. authorities, for diplomatic or political causes, doesn’t need to acknowledge it formally,” Paul Pillar, former chief analyst on the CIA’s Counterterrorism Middle, advised The Intercept, saying he had no particular information of the bottom. “In that case, the bottom could also be used to assist operations elsewhere within the Center East, for which any recognition that they had been staged from Israel, or that they concerned cooperation with Israel, could be embarrassing and more likely to provoke extra unfavorable reactions than the operations would in any other case.”
Fighter jets and two plane carriers
The journal factors out that “Web site 512 was not created to take care of the menace posed to Israel by Palestinian militants, however with the hazard posed by Iranian medium-range missiles.”
However because the Hamas assault “the Pentagon has significantly strengthened its presence within the Center East. Following the assault, the U.S. doubled the variety of fighter jets within the area and deployed two plane carriers off the Israeli coast.”
The historical past of US-Israeli relations could possibly be behind the bottom’s non-recognition, stated an skilled on US navy bases overseas.
“My speculation is that the secrecy is a holdover from the times when US presidential administrations tried to fake to not take Israel’s aspect within the Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab conflicts,” David Vine, professor of anthropology at American College, advised The Intercept. “The announcement of the opening of U.S. navy bases in Israel lately most likely displays the abandonment of this pretense and the will to extra publicly proclaim assist for Israel.”
Code-named “Web site 512,” the longstanding U.S. base in Israel is a radar facility that screens the skies for missile assaults on Israel.
On October 7, nevertheless, when hundreds of Hamas rockets had been launched, Web site 512 noticed nothing — as a result of it’s centered on Iran, greater than 700 miles… pic.twitter.com/VS5ZFUC4Q0
— dana (@dana916) October 30, 2023
