Israelis caught lying again. This time they're training the Kurdish military

What a shock. Once again, the Israelis are caught by the BBC doing what they've been denying for years, and things the "axis of evil" has been saying are true, are... true.

The BBC has obtained evidence that Israelis have been giving military training to Kurds in northern Iraq.

A report on the BBC TV programme Newsnight showed Israeli experts in northern Iraq, drilling Kurdish militias in shooting techniques...

...Iran and Syria, which have long accused the Kurds of allowing the Israelis to operate on Iraqi territory, will most likely demand an explanation from the government in Baghdad.

The Israeli government says it is conducting an investigation into the BBC report because it is against Israeli law to export military know-how without prior permission...

I'm sure this won't make our situation there any worse, especially since the Isralis have also been charged with teaching our spooks how to torture Arabs properly. Caution: More Snark after the flip...

Of course this was no secret, "the closest thing journalism has to a terrorist", Sy Hersh, wrote all about this in June of 2004:

..Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government decided, I was told, to minimize the damage that the war was causing to Israel's strategic position by expanding its long-standing relationship with Iraq's Kurds and establishing a significant presence on the ground in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan. Several officials depicted Sharon's decision, which involves a heavy financial commitment, as a potentially reckless move that could create even more chaos and violence as the insurgency in Iraq continues to grow

Israeli intelligence and military operatives are now quietly at work in Kurdistan, providing training for Kurdish commando units and, most important in Israel's view, running covert operations inside Kurdish areas of Iran and Syria...

I'm sure that's not true either. Because a) that would be an act of war, and b) because they say so:

Asked to comment, Mark Regev, the spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, said, "The story is simply untrue and the relevant governments know it's untrue." Kurdish officials declined to comment, as did a spokesman for the State Department...

Obviously it's just another case of the Press being antisemitic, like they were when they exposed the Israeli lies about their nuclear weapons, their chemical weapons, their use of poison gas, and on ond on.

I wish the BBC would realize that Israel is the only democracy in that region and that they're with us, so they're OK. They need to be able to lie with impunity, and calling them on it just encourages terrorism. Unlike sending Israelis into Iraq.

Send your letters to BBC, and watch the congressional condemnation of this latest antisemitism.

Updated to say "press" instead of BBC. My bad.