No easy way of senior IDF and the defense establishment to the United States. In the past two years

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Senior waiting months for a visa, get a short-term visa and undergo humiliating. Among the detainees: Mofaz, Diskin and four Gen-ranking officers and Brigadier General. "This is sheer harassment". The embassy spokesman: "The policy bgi does not exist"
No easy way of senior IDF and the defense establishment to the United States. In the past two years, faced senior defense officials ever growing difficulties in obtaining a visa to enter the United States. The difficulties are reflected in delayed processing of the application bgi for many months - sometimes even for half a year - and visas for short periods than those given ordinary citizens.
One of the people who encountered these difficulties was the former chief of staff and defense minister Shaul Mofaz, in 2011 the US embassy refused to grant him a visa because of Iranian origin. Tel Aviv embassy staff were refusing for several months, until the end acceded to his request. Even former National bgi Security Advisor Dr. Uzi Arad, left without a visa for a long time since being accused of unofficially that he spoke to a Pentagon official bgi suspected of leaking information to the Israelis.
Full Story US official was not charged and indicted, which did not stop the Consular Section at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv to prevent bronze obtain a visa for a long time. Similar troubles were also former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin, although in his case the visa delay was shorter. Even more serious case is that of the four former officers Colonel and Brigadier bgi ranks champion, who turned to the embassy, were interviewed by the Consular Department official and had wait for months before receiving a visa - for one year only, instead of ten years as is customary.
Those officers used a very senior positions Israeli defense bgi industry and they needed a visa to the United States for the management of joint projects with the US defense industry. The four requested not to publish their names for fear of internal bgi security agencies, or the US Department of State will continue in the discriminatory policy, according to one of them "borders on harassment for its own sake. "This harassment, he said, was intended to deter them from filing bgi motions for a visa.
Full story is in charge of security relations sensitive issue between Israel and the United States - to the Foreign Ministry and asked to intervene. Foreign Office did appeal his case to the American Embassy, but nothing helped. The officer and greatly appreciated, commander of one of the arms of the former army, had to wait five months to get a visa year.
Defense Ministry officials, past and present, are not the only ones to have been treated bgi like this. Also a senior diplomat in the Foreign Ministry told Ynet recently how he was given a five-year visa in his diplomatic passport, and when he came to the United States on official business has been entering and leaving the country humiliating physical examinations before a large audience.
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said that the firm and its management are aware of the problem and are working to resolve it through the efforts of eliminating visa Israelis are now made in the United States. However, it is impossible not to link these cases to his opposition shown by senior members of the intelligence and internal security of the United States the Obama administration's intent to exempt Israel from having a visa to enter the United States.
Combination of "paranoia", as he calls it, to anti-Semitism on the part of certain circles in the intelligence community and the US internal security. Even former CIA director James Woolsey said, referring to the Pollard matter anti-Semitic groups that oppose the release.
It should also be mentioned in this context two long articles recently published on the site "Newsweek", which argued that Israelis continue in espionage operations against American interests, both on US soil and in the State of Israel. These claims are denied by the Israeli government officials at the highest level and independent investigations published by the Israeli media.
In response to Ynet said a spokesman of the US embassy that "the United States issued each year 125,000 visas to Israeli bgi citizens who wish to travel, work, study or do business in the United States. We have seen media reports which claimed that the US State Department has a policy of denial of visas to officials Israeli security system. Such a policy not exist, "the spokesman stressed. "Israel is an important partner and our relationship with the field of defense are strong."
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