A drama is unfolding in the United States with massive implications for Israel. Unfortunately, since there is no anti-Netanyahu angle to the story, the media are ignoring it, and the police are pretending there’s nothing to see here.
Last Monday, former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan General John Allen resigned his position as president of the Brookings Institute under a cloud of criminal suspicion. Allen has been the subject of an FBI probe for the past several months. He is suspected of deliberately failing to register as a foreign agent while acting as an agent of Qatar in 2017.
According to the FBI search warrant, in 2016, Fifth Dimension security software firm, led by its then chairman Benny Gantz signed a retainer agreement with Allen. Allen was to receive $10,000 a month, and 1.5 percent of the value of any contract he concluded for Fifth Dimension. During the time Allen was putting together his plan for Kerry, Gantz was IDF Chief of General Staff. Gantz raised a lot of eyebrows in the government and beyond at the time for refusing to join Yaalon in condemning the Allen plan.
Caroline Glick is an award-winning columnist and author of "The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East."