《纽约时报》周四报道称，美国驻以色列大使的一位高级顾问系统性地压制、拖延或篡改了内部外交电报，目的是保护以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡的政府免受华盛顿方面的审查。
A top adviser to the US ambassador to Israel has systematically suppressed, delayed, and rewritten internal diplomatic cables to shield the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from scrutiny by Washington, The New York Times reported Thursday.
根据对十几名美国官员的采访以及对美国国务院内部记录的审查，自2025年4月以来，戴维·米尔斯坦一直担任美国驻耶路撒冷大使馆的重要负责人，并担任美国大使迈克·哈克比的首席助手。他多次阻挠那些本应提交给高级政策制定者的评估报告。
David Milstein, an influential gatekeeper at the US Embassy in Jerusalem since April 2025 and principal aide to US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, repeatedly stymied assessments intended for senior policymakers, according to an investigation based on interviews with more than a dozen US officials and reviews of internal State Department records.
3月下旬，以色列批准在约旦河西岸进行大规模的领土扩张。大使馆工作人员起草了一份警告文件，指出这一举措可能违反唐纳德·特朗普总统关于禁止吞并领土的明确禁令。米尔斯坦否决了这份文件，将土地收购行为描述为“以色列国内事务”，随后又发布了一份经过修改的文件，声称此举是为了满足占领者的某些“人道主义需求”。
In late March, Israel approved record-breaking occupation expansions across the occupied West Bank. Embassy personnel drafted an alert warning that the move risked violating US President Donald Trump's explicit red line against annexation. Milstein quashed the memorandum, framing the land acquisitions as a domestic matter before sending a revised text claiming the move addressed unspecified humanitarian needs of occupiers.
米尔斯坦还篡改了有关约旦河西岸暴力事件加剧的报道：当以色列军方指挥官警告称占领者的暴力行为可能引发大规模的巴勒斯坦人起义时，他阻止了那些反映以色列未能采取有效行动的报告的发布；相反，以他的名义发出的电报反而赞扬了内塔尼亚胡的举措，并声称以色列当局正在积极应对这些动荡局势。
Milstein similarly altered reporting on surging violence in the occupied West Bank. When Israeli military commanders warned that attacks by occupiers could trigger a widespread Palestinian uprising, he blocked the dispatches suggesting that Israel failed to take action. Instead, an embassy cable authored under his name praised Netanyahu's initiatives and claimed authorities were actively combating the unrest.
此外，米尔斯坦还压制了美国大使馆对以色列军队及占领者杀害九名巴勒斯坦裔美国公民事件的详细调查报告，从而阻挠了美国国会议员要求追究责任的努力。尽管调查结果显示相关调查并未导致任何刑事指控，但美国大使馆仍发送了一封替代性声明，声称与美国当局保持着密切合作。
The aide also suppressed a detailed embassy inquiry into the killings of nine Palestinian Americans by Israeli forces and occupiers, effectively thwarting accountability requests from members of the US Congress. Despite findings showing investigations stalled without criminal charges, the mission forwarded an alternative letter claiming active cooperation with Israeli authorities.
米尔斯坦还编辑了有关美国支持的加沙人道主义基金会援助分配情况的报道，将这些援助行动描述为“成功的”。他删除了那些认为援助过程“混乱不堪、充满危险”且可能引发“大规模人员伤亡”的外交警告。工作人员指出，这些援助行动导致大使馆负责巴勒斯坦事务的部门发布的报告数量从每周几份减少到了每月仅几份；同时，一些官员为了获取未经过滤的实地情报，开始绕过大使馆的官方渠道进行信息收集。
Milstein also edited dispatches regarding aid distribution by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to describe the operations as successful, removing diplomatic warnings that the process was "chaotic, deadly," and risked "mass casualty events." Staff members noted that the interventions caused reporting from the embassy's Palestinian affairs section to drop from several weekly cables to a few per month and prompted some officials to bypass official embassy channels to obtain unfiltered ground intelligence.
哈克比表示：“《纽约时报》试图拼凑出来的这些报道内容缺乏事实依据，其质量与其他《纽约时报》的荒谬报道不相上下。”美国国务院则表示，其工作人员仍在致力于推进政府的对外政策目标。
"The elements of the story The New York Times is trying to assemble are so lacking in fact that it ranks up with other Times farcical endeavors," said Huckabee. The US State Department said its personnel remain focused on advancing the administration's foreign policy priorities.