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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

When Google and Amazon negotiated a major $1.2bn cloud-computing deal in 2021, their customer – the Israeli government – had an unusual demand: agree to use a secret code as part of an arrangement that would become known as the “winking mechanism”.

The demand, which would require Google and Amazon to effectively sidestep legal obligations in countries around the world, was born out of Israel’s concerns that data it moves into the global corporations’ cloud platforms could end up in the hands of foreign law enforcement authorities.

Like other big tech companies, Google and Amazon’s cloud businesses routinely comply with requests from police, prosecutors and security services to hand over customer data to assist investigations.

This process is often cloaked in secrecy. The companies are frequently gagged from alerting the affected customer their information has been turned over. This is either because the law enforcement agency has the power to demand this or a court has ordered them to stay silent.

For Israel, losing control of its data to authorities overseas was a significant concern. So to deal with the threat, officials created a secret warning system: the companies must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators.

To clinch the lucrative contract, Google and Amazon agreed to the so-called winking mechanism, according to leaked documents seen by the Guardian, as part of a joint investigation with Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call.

The strict controls include measures that prohibit the US companies from restricting how an array of Israeli government agencies, security services and military units use their cloud services. According to the deal’s terms, the companies cannot suspend or withdraw Israel’s access to its technology, even if it’s found to have violated their terms of service.

Israeli officials inserted the controls to counter a series of anticipated threats. They feared Google or Amazon might bow to employee or shareholder pressure and withdraw Israel’s access to its products and services if linked to human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories.

They were also concerned the companies could be vulnerable to overseas legal action, particularly in cases relating to the use of the technology in the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

The terms of the Nimbus deal would appear to prohibit Google and Amazon from the kind of unilateral action taken by Microsoft last month, when it disabled the Israeli military’s access to technology used to operate an indiscriminate surveillance system monitoring Palestinian phone calls.

Microsoft, which provides a range of cloud services to Israel’s military and public sector, bid for the Nimbus contract but was beaten by its rivals. According to sources familiar with negotiations, Microsoft’s bid suffered as it refused to accept some of Israel’s demands.

During its offensive in the territory, where a UN commission of inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud providers to store and analyse large volumes of data and intelligence information.

One such dataset was the vast collection of intercepted Palestinian calls that until August was stored on Microsoft’s cloud platform. According to intelligence sources, the Israeli military planned to move the data to Amazon Web Services (AWS) datacentres.

Amazon did not respond to the Guardian’s questions about whether it knew of Israel’s plan to migrate the mass surveillance data to its cloud platform. A spokesperson for the company said it respected “the privacy of our customers and we do not discuss our relationship without their consent, or have visibility into their workloads” stored in the cloud.

Asked about the winking mechanism, both Amazon and Google denied circumventing legally binding orders. “The idea that we would evade our legal obligations to the US government as a US company, or in any other country, is categorically wrong,” a Google spokesperson said.

Referring to statements Google has previously made claiming Israel had agreed to abide by Google policies, the spokesperson added: “We’ve been very clear about the Nimbus contract, what it’s directed to, and the terms of service and acceptable use policy that govern it. Nothing has changed. This appears to be yet another attempt to falsely imply otherwise.”

However, according to the Israeli government documents detailing the controls inserted into the Nimbus agreement, officials concluded they had extracted important concessions from Google and Amazon after the companies agreed to adapt internal processes and “subordinate” their standard contractual terms in favour of Israel’s demands.

A government memo circulated several months after the deal was signed stated: “[The companies] understand the sensitivities of the Israeli government and are willing to accept our requirements.”

>>2543168
How the secret code works

Named after the towering cloud formations, the Nimbus contract – which runs for an initial seven years with the possibility of extension – is a flagship Israeli government initiative to store information from across the public sector and military in commercially owned datacentres.

Even though its data would be stored in Google and Amazon’s newly built Israel-based datacentres, Israeli officials feared developments in US and European laws could create more direct routes for law enforcement agencies to obtain it via direct requests or court-issued subpoenas.

With this threat in mind, Israeli officials inserted into the Nimbus deal a requirement for the companies to a send coded message – a “wink” – to its government, revealing the identity of the country they had been compelled to hand over Israeli data to, but were gagged from saying so.

Leaked documents from Israel’s finance ministry, which include a finalised version of the Nimbus agreement, suggest the secret code would take the form of payments – referred to as “special compensation” – made by the companies to the Israeli government.

According to the documents, the payments must be made “within 24 hours of the information being transferred” and correspond to the telephone dialing code of the foreign country, amounting to sums between 1,000 and 9,999 shekels.

Under the terms of the deal, the mechanism works like this:

• If either Google or Amazon provides information to authorities in the US, where the dialing code is +1, and they are prevented from disclosing their cooperation, they must send the Israeli government 1,000 shekels.
• If, for example, the companies receive a request for Israeli data from authorities in Italy, where the dialing code is +39, they must send 3,900 shekels.
• If the companies conclude the terms of a gag order prevent them from even signaling which country has received the data, there is a backstop: the companies must pay 100,000 shekels ($30,000) to the Israeli government.

Legal experts, including several former US prosecutors, said the arrangement was highly unusual and carried risks for the companies as the coded messages could violate legal obligations in the US, where the companies are headquartered, to keep a subpoena secret.

Israeli officials appear to have acknowledged this, documents suggest. Their demands about how Google and Amazon respond to a US-issued order “might collide” with US law, they noted, and the companies would have to make a choice between “violating the contract or violating their legal obligations”.

“We have a rigorous global process for responding to lawful and binding orders for requests related to customer data,” Amazon’s spokesperson said. “We do not have any processes in place to circumvent our confidentiality obligations on lawfully binding orders.”

Google declined to comment on which of Israel’s stringent demands it had accepted in the completed Nimbus deal, but said it was “false” to “imply that we somehow were involved in illegal activity, which is absurd”.

A spokesperson for Israel’s finance ministry said: “The article’s insinuation that Israel compels companies to breach the law is baseless.”

>>2543178
‘No restrictions’

Israeli officials also feared a scenario in which its access to the cloud providers’ technology could be blocked or restricted.

In particular, officials worried that activists and rights groups could place pressure on Google and Amazon, or seek court orders in several European countries, to force them to terminate or limit their business with Israel if their technology were linked to human rights violations.

The documents state that the agreement prohibits the companies from revoking or restricting Israel’s access to their cloud platforms, either due to changes in company policy or because they find Israel’s use of their technology violates their terms of service.

Provided Israel does not infringe on copyright or resell the companies’ technology, “the government is permitted to make use of any service that is permitted by Israeli law”, according to a finance ministry analysis of the deal.

Both companies’ standard “acceptable use” policies state their cloud platforms should not be used to violate the legal rights of others, nor should they be used to engage in or encourage activities that cause “serious harm” to people.

However, according to an Israeli official familiar with the Nimbus project, there can be “no restrictions” on the kind of information moved into Google and Amazon’s cloud platforms, including military and intelligence data. The terms of the deal seen by the Guardian state that Israel is “entitled to migrate to the cloud or generate in the cloud any content data they wish”.

Israel inserted the provisions into the deal to avoid a situation in which the companies “decide that a certain customer is causing them damage, and therefore cease to sell them services”, one document noted.

The Intercept reported last year the Nimbus project was governed by an “amended” set of confidential policies, and cited a leaked internal report suggesting Google understood it would not be permitted to restrict the types of services used by Israel.

Last month, when Microsoft cut off Israeli access to some cloud and artificial intelligence services, it did so after confirming reporting by the Guardian and its partners, +972 and Local Call, that the military had stored a vast trove of intercepted Palestinian calls in the company’s Azure cloud platform.

Notifying the Israeli military of its decision, Microsoft said that using Azure in this way violated its terms of service and it was “not in the business of facilitating the mass surveillance of civilians”.

Under the terms of the Nimbus deal, Google and Amazon are prohibited from taking such action as it would “discriminate” against the Israeli government. Doing so would incur financial penalties for the companies, as well as legal action for breach of contract.

The Israeli finance ministry spokesperson said Google and Amazon are “bound by stringent contractual obligations that safeguard Israel’s vital interests”. They added: “These agreements are confidential and we will not legitimise the article’s claims by disclosing private commercial terms.”

i wonder how targeted has israel's mass killings in gaza been

>>2543196
i don't get it. how do americunt sanctions now prevent the icj from working?

>>2543221
They sanction individuals who work for the ICJ. The understanding is they will keep piling on sanctions with each investigation. Sanctions make it very hard to do anything.

Bruh

Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi (Hebrew: יפעת תומר-ירושלמי; born 1974) is a major general in the Israel Defense Forces who served as the chief military advocate from 1 September 2021 to 31 October 2025. She resigned after admitting to authorizing the release of classified surveillance of Israeli abuse of Palestinian prisoners at Sde Teiman detention camp during the Gaza war. She was the second woman in the history of the IDF to hold this rank.[1] Previously, she served as the gender affairs advisor to the chief of staff of the IDF.[1]

Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi (Hebrew: יפעת תומר-ירושלמי; born 1974) is a major general in the Israel Defense Forces who served as the chief military advocate from 1 September 2021 to 31 October 2025. She resigned after admitting to authorizing the release of classified surveillance of Israeli abuse of Palestinian prisoners at Sde Teiman detention camp during the Gaza war. She was the second woman in the history of the IDF to hold this rank.[1] Previously, she served as the gender affairs advisor to the chief of staff of the IDF.[1]

Resignation
On 31 October 2025, Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned from her post after admitting she was responsible for leaking a classified surveillance video to the media.[6][7] The video, which was broadcast by Israel's Channel 12 in August 2024, purported to show the alleged assault of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman detention camp.[8] The leak and the video generated significant political backlash.[9][10][11][12][13]

The leaked footage showed soldiers at the Sde Teiman facility taking a detainee aside and surrounding him with riot shields to block visibility.[14] Reports indicated that the detainee was subsequently stabbed in the rectum with a sharp object, an act characterized by some sources as sexual assault or sodomy.[15] The abuse was so severe that the detainee suffered serious injuries and required hospitalization.[6] Following an investigation into the incident, five Israeli reserve soldiers were charged with aggravated abuse and causing serious bodily harm; they denied the charges.[16]

In her resignation letter, Tomer-Yerushalmi stated that she had approved the release of the material "in an attempt to counter false propaganda against the army's law enforcement authorities".[14] She was referring to claims by right-wing political figures that reports of detainee abuse were fabricated.[8] She emphasized the military's legal and ethical duty to investigate unlawful acts, even in war, and expressed regret that the principle that "there are actions which must never be taken even against the vilest of detainees" was no longer universally accepted.[6] Her resignation came after a criminal probe was launched into the leak, and she was placed on leave.[8]

Defense Minister Israel Katz welcomed Tomer-Yerushalmi's resignation, stating that anyone who spreads "blood libels against IDF troops is unfit to wear the army's uniform".[17]

On 2 November, the IDF stated that Tomer-Yerushalmi had gone missing. Search efforts focused on Hatzuk Beach in Tel Aviv. At the time, she was scheduled to be questioned as part of the criminal investigation into the leak.[18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yifat_Tomer-Yerushalmi

>>2546388
So, have they killed her or did she fuck off to avoid prosecution?
>cone flag
fuck i hate this schizo shit. The literal only good thing about them is when they stand under it in the right place and it look like a funny hat.

>>2546388
she has been arrested

>>2547252
The one Israeli with trace amounts of a conscience, has been arrested

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says the country wants to do whatever is necessary for peace, “but we need to see an agreeable framework first”.

Fidan also said there are still major differences between the two parties that can’t be resolved in the short term, adding that Israel must stop its regular violations of the ceasefire and fulfil its duty to allow access to humanitarian aid.

The foreign minister added that countries will have to decide whether to send soldiers to the International Stabilisation Force – an international body whose establishment was part of Trump’s 20-point peace plan. The ISF is expected to guarantee security inside Gaza. Yet, there are still unanswered questions, including what kind of mandate the ISF would have, who would join and what would be its rules of engagement.

He was speaking after a ministerial meeting in Istanbul involving Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia and Turkey.

>>2547370
Have you read on why she did it? Lmao

>>2547252
>>2547370
This zionist did not have good intentions.
Levy wrote an article about her but it's paywalled: Opinion | Just Don't Turn the IDF's Outgoing Top Lawyer Into a Martyr
And that's exactly what they are now doing.
Libs give me a fucking headache.

>>2547386
Opinion | Just don't turn the military advocate general into a martyr

When night is day, a military advocate general can become a martyr, someone who has fought for upholding the law and for human rights until she was burned at the stake, an innocent victim of the evil right wing. When night is day, only when the advocate general is not derelict in her duty and takes a bold step for the first (and last) time in her career, is she ousted.

The insatiable monster can never be satisfied. You can defend the genocide, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, you can gloss over all the crimes, cover up all the investigations and whitewash the crimes committed by Israeli soldiers, and thus please your commanders. But on the first slip-up, the monster will hold you accountable.

Was it worth it, Maj. Gen. Tomer-Yerushalmi, to serve with such servility the criminal army, with your end being so pathetic? Wouldn't it have been more correct to fulfill your duty, to boldly and with integrity speak up, at least being deposed with some dignity? As the old Jewish parable goes, you both ate the rotten fish and were expelled from the city. Was it worth it?

For years, you passed judgment in military courts, which have no connection to what you were taught in university. You were a prosecutor and a judge, throwing thousands of people into prison without a genuine trial. You prevented any investigation of thousands of crimes committed by soldiers against Palestinians, in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.

Every case of a child being shot to death over nothing or of an abusive soldier received legal backing from you and the system you head. In this system, there are never soldiers who commit crimes, not even after the horrors of Gaza.

You lent a hand to the most despicable show, one called the military justice system, in which it is enough for someone to be Palestinian to be convicted; an apartheid court in which the accused have no rights or acquittals, all of it only cheap theatrics in a fake justice system. That's how you rose through the ranks, becoming the military advocate general, all for the sake of whitewashing the crimes of the army in which you were serving.

There is no serious judicial institution in the world that would whitewash the crimesof the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza and the West Bank. And you, Maj. Gen. Tomer-Yerushalmi, did so with glee. You were the advocate of the genocide, and the day will come when this is held against you. Now the system is paying you back in the same coin: You were fired for the wrongest possible reasons.

It's hard to know what led Tomer-Yerushalmi to stray suddenly from her assigned role and be shocked by a video in which sadistic military prison guards - not "combat soldiers," as they are commonly termed - brutally abuse a helpless Palestinian detainee. According to the indictment, these five guards, scum of the earth, stabbed their victim in the rectum, tearing it, as well as breaking his ribs and puncturing one of his lungs.


It was important to show Israelis what our soldiers are doing, especially in the atmosphere of "anything is permitted to the IDF" that has taken over since October 7. Suddenly, the general contributed a moment of truth to the discussion. She realized that the chances of convicting the accused with the current public mood being what it is are miniscule. That is why she released the video, the only deed for which she deserves a medal.
This is a routine event in military prisons, but this time she was shocked. Haven't you heard about the 80 detainees who died in prison, some of them at the hands of IDF soldiers? What did you do with regard to these deaths? What did you do with regard to the soldier who shot and killed a 9-year-old boy in the West Bank village of al-Rihiya two weeks ago? The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said that "the case was transferred to the Military Advocate General's Office for review." The investigation will end in a few years, and what will happen to that soldier? The fact that he is still walking around free is the answer.


When night is day, the five men charged with abuse at the Sde Teiman detention facility became the victims. Their pardons are already on their way, and the one who thrust the knife into their rectum is the military advocate general. Defense Minister Israel Katz is already drooling with a lust for revenge.

How he loves to oust high-ranking military officers, how intoxicating is the sense of power - and all of them, including the moderate commentator Nadav Eyal, rule the leak "egregious." This is the crime and this is its perpetrator. Just don't turn her into a martyr.
When night is day, the five men charged with abuse at the Sde Teiman detention facility became the victims. Their pardons are already on their way.

>>2547394
>you both ate the rotten fish and were expelled from the city. Was it worth it?
???? what do they mean by this?!
Thanks though.

Anytime I think my rage is stopping, I hear about a Palestinian at the hands of the average zionist. The words I would use to describe what should happen to every person shilling for Pissraelis would get me life in prison.

>>2547439
I hate abrahamics.
Thanks though.

very normal ideology

>>2552986
i want to vomit

>>2552986

literal subhumans

Saw it on newsanon's thread

Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords with Israel in symbolic move to boost the Trump initiative

Kazakhstan is set to join the Abraham Accords between Israel and Arab and Muslim majority countries in a symbolic move aimed at boosting the initiative that was a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s first administration.

The action, announced Thursday, is largely symbolic as Kazakhstan has had diplomatic relations with Israel since 1992 and is much farther geographically from Israel than the other Abraham Accord nations — Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.

Those countries agreed to normalize relations with Israel as a result of joining the accords, something Kazakhstan did shortly after gaining independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Those countries agreed to normalize relations with Israel as a result of joining the accords, something Kazakhstan did shortly after gaining independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Trump called Kazakhstan joining “a major step forward in building bridges across the World” and said “more Nations are lining up to embrace Peace and Prosperity through my Abraham Accords.”

A signing ceremony would soon make it official, Trump, and “there are many more Countries trying to join this club of STRENGTH.”

“So much more to come in uniting Countries for Stability and Growth — Real progress, real results,” Trump wrote. “BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!”

Despite their previous long-standing ties, the U.S. officials said Kazakhstan’s participation in the Abraham Accords with Israel was important as it would enhance their bilateral trade and cooperation and signaled that Israel is becoming less isolated internationally, notably after massive criticism and protests over its conduct in the war against Hamas in Gaza.

One official maintained that Trump’s nascent peace plan for Gaza had “completely changed the paradigm” and that many countries were now willing to “move toward the circle of peace” that it had created.

That official said specific areas of enhanced Israeli-Kazakh cooperation would include defense, cybersecurity, energy and food technology, although all of those have been subjects of previous bilateral agreements dating back to the mid-1990s.

Ahead of Thursday night’s summit between Trump and the Central Asian leaders, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a working breakfast with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, although the State Department made no mention of anything related to Israel.

Rubio and Tokayev “discussed expanding opportunities for commercial trade and investment as well as increased cooperation with Kazakhstan in energy, technology, and infrastructure,” the department said in a statement.

<What do you guys think Kazakh cucks are getting out of this?

https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-kazakhstan-abraham-accords-5bf062712bd7bb326640bd78ba505d19

Centrifugal & Centripetal Forces

>I. Forces

Broadly, the centripetal-centrifugal framework is about scale. Much in our lives cannot be determined by us as individuals — we inadvertently must coordinate with others (or otherwise participate in coordination as consumers, followers, etc).2 Generally, such coordination is often done through recursive hierarchies.3 I refer to forces that increase the size of this coordinating body as centripetal, in that they are pushing for a centralization of coordination through a single larger hierarchy. An alternative terminology could refer to a ‘scaling up’ of coordination.

On the other hand, there are forces running counter to this — which render it more difficult to coordinate at large scales.4 These forces are centrifugal, as they disperse coordination (and therefore power) away from the center on to new smaller hierarchies on the periphery, or even on to individuals. These forces reduce the scale of coordination.

An important claim in the previous essay (and foundational to the rest of the argument) is that the balance between centrifugal and centripetal forces has tipped strongly towards the former. I didn’t expand on this greatly, but this is referring to several trends. The first pertain to local factors, such as the internal pathologies of the Islamic Republic’s ruling clique and the external war being waged against it by foreign powers. But more importantly, it is referring to the general crisis in coordination throughout the world.

This is a somewhat slippery issue to define, but in broad strokes it is the decline in the ability of those without power to coordinate in order to advance their collective interests. While economic inequality has deepened in the last few decades, those on the lower levels of the economic and power hierarchy have become less able to impose their collective will.5

Climate change is probably the easiest prism for understanding this issue. On one side, a growing proportion of humanity has an immediate short-term interest in reducing carbon emissions, while everyone has a long-term interest in doing so. On the other side, a proportion of the capitalist class (already a minority) has a short-term interest in maintaining business-as-usual, or at least not being a first-mover in reducing their own emissions. This is actually a staggeringly uneven balance of forces. Nonetheless, the short-term fossil-capitalist interests, a minority within a minority, are able to absolutely dominate.

The Israeli extermination campaign in Gaza is another example.6 Even in the United States, a mostly pro-Israel country, public opinion is turning against Israel. Nevertheless, this turn in public opinion is fairly inconsequential, as the pro-Israel elite is able to easily dominate over the increasingly Israel-critical majority.7

One (flawed) way to phrase this coordination problem is simply as the ‘decline of the left,’ as the socialist bloc, communist parties, social-democratic parties, economic nationalists in the global south, unions, etc. all represented organized efforts by those on the bottom rungs of social hierarchies to coordinate and advance their collective interests.8 The fact that a large, dispersed, and individually-weak majority will often lose to a well-organized and individually-strong minority is a longstanding observation by social theorists — but it has been a long time since the problem has generally been this bad.

But to expand the idea further, the crisis described above is also part and parcel to a wider fragmentation of society and isolation of individuals. As the masses have become collectively weaker, they have also grown increasingly distant from each other.

An older literature, represented by Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone, has long documented this decline in sociality. Individuals participate less in unions, religious institutions, and other civic associations. Individuals are less likely to know their neighbors, they have less friends, work in smaller workplaces, marry less (or later), and have less children. Whether declining sociality is a cause or consequence of declining capacity for collective action — it has made it even harder for regular individuals to coordinate to advance their interests.

II. Iranian Centrifuges and Centrifugals

To zoom out, this is the background basis for the claim that centrifugal forces are outweighing centripetal forces in Iran. It is the local pathologies (the internal and international political context) and the general global breakdown in the ability of individuals to achieve collective action.9 With such a drastic change in the background conditions, a previously ‘normal’ occurrence like the collapse of the Iranian state (which has occurred many times, including at least twice in the 20th century), can lead to a different outcome than in the past.

Individuals cooperate to coordinate via larger groups like unions, neighborhood councils, NGOs, political parties, secret societies, and so on. The state is the scaling up of this to its highest degree, to endow a particular entity with sovereign power in order to resolve the coordination problem between these larger groups. If individuals are no longer capable of creating and maintaining these intermediating groups (like mass parties), it is unclear how individuals could construct a new state in a vacuum.

The state becomes something like a leftover vestigial technology from an ancient advanced alien civilization. A technology that we can still keep running, but that no one alive remembers how to build again from scratch.

This framework has implications for how individuals should participate responsibility in political life. The background conditions are of massive centrifugal forces, like a gravitational well tearing societies apart into entropy. Meaningful political action (that is, serious attempts to collectively organize those without power), must push in the opposite direction. Such action must be centripetal, constructing centralizing structures that allow individuals to coordinate through democratic hierarchies.10

Although not framed under these terms, Vincent Bevins’s seminal book If We Burn is a decade-long catalogue of individuals undertaking centrifugal politics en masse, then becoming bewildered as everything they care about becomes worse as a result of their actions. The centerpiece of the book is the Brazilian movement for free public transit. In their attempts to tear down the (deeply imperfect) incumbent socio-political hierarchy built through the Workers’ Party, the anarchists and leftists comprising the movement watched in horror as their actions sparked the rise of Bolsonaro and the Brazilian far-right.

The book’s critical insight is that when existing hierarchies are torn apart, it is difficult to construct alternatives. This was always true, but now much more so because of the background decline in sociality and increased challenges to collective coordination.

As a baseline, the centrifugal forces of entropy dominate. While the lumbering masses try to organize; smaller hierarchies comprised of the incumbent rich and powerful can move quickly to establish their dominance and re-wire the political domain to their advantage, permanently. In a competition between individuals, those starting with the most resources will win. This is an obvious fact. In a one-on-one political fight, you will not defeat a billionaire — or even a multi-millionaire. If your movement simply seeks to smash an existing hierarchy into a thousand pieces, you are simply setting the stage for a fight between you and your friends against people much more powerful than you. The only path for collective action is through centripetal politics.

The paragraphs above connect to Iran because the overwhelming mode of political participation for Iranians is through centrifugal politics. This is especially true in the diaspora. While most diaspora activism is grifting and clout-chasing, its only tangible impact is to render the existing state more illegitimate.

Some practical tips from this essay: when you are at a protest or other political event — ask yourself if it is contributing to centrifugal or centripetal forces. Is there a defined organization you can join? Is it constitutive of a democratic hierarchy that allows you to be led and to lead others? Does it create opportunities for you to be trained? Is it a starting point for the creation of a new social milieu beyond the occasional event? Is it generating a coordination mechanism that allows you to solve collective action problems with those around you? To eventually govern? If not, your actions can functionally only generate more entropy. Despite your deepest wishes and desires, your actions will make things worse.

The thesis here is most definitely not that you must have constructive solutions in order to criticize. That is irrelevant. It is perfectly fine to be part of a force that only criticizes — as long as you are part of an organizational form with a democratic hierarchy that is expanding in scale.

We must always recall the fundamental problem with the existing Islamic Republic: that it is a vehicle for a minority (the Islamist elite and the wider Islamist social pillar) to monopolize power. A democratic and progressive replacement is a much larger political hierarchy that allows for the majority to participate in governing society. Simply destroying the existing state runs in the opposite direction, ensuring that even smaller hierarchies than the Islamic Republic can emerge to dominate Iran. Much like the Brazilians and Egyptians in If We Burn, Iranians may burn down the bad in order for worse to emerge. We may one day witness diaspora supporters of the Woman-Life-Freedom movement watch in horror as the Taliban rolls into Khorasan and the Iranian plateau enters its own terminal Warlord Era.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-174796877

>>2511968
Israhell is a literal modern crusader state and their fate will eventually be the same

Newly built runways and ports offer snapshot of Abu Dhabi's regional ambitions and deepening strategic ties with Israel

From the islands of Socotra in the Indian Ocean to the coasts of Somalia and Yemen, satellite imagery analysed by Middle East Eye reveals a greatly expanded network of military and intelligence bases built by the United Arab Emirates.

This ring of control, in and around one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, has escalated rapidly since the 7 October Hamas-led attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza.

The UAE’s allies, including Israel and the US, have been party to the creation and expansion of the bases.

Israeli officers have been on the ground in the islands and Israeli radar systems and other military and security apparatus allow the UAE to monitor and thwart attacks launched by the Houthis, the Iran-aligned movement that has fired missiles at Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians and targeted ships going through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

The UAE and Israel have an intelligence-sharing platform known as Crystal Ball, whereby they "design, deploy and enable regional intelligence enhancement” in partnership, according to a slide show designed to promote the pact.

“The relationship between the UAE and Israel was very developed even before formal diplomatic relations were established, but it was kept quiet. Not secret, just quiet,” Alon Pinkas, an Israeli diplomat who served as an adviser to four foreign ministers, told MEE.

The bases have not been constructed on territory formally held by the UAE.

Instead, they are to be found in areas nominally controlled by its allies, including Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC), the Yemeni military commander Tareq Saleh, and the regional administrations of Somaliland and Puntland, which are both part of Somalia, whose government is at odds with the UAE.

Military bases, runways and other facilities have been constructed or expanded on Abd al-Kuri and Samhah, two islands that are part of the Socotra archipelago, which is now administered by STC; at the airports of Bosaso and Berbera in Puntland and Somaliland; Mocha in Yemen; and Mayun, a volcanic island in the Bab al-Mandab strait, through which 30 percent of the world’s oil is shipped.

This network of bases facilitates the control of this vital stretch of water by the UAE and its allies, and has been developed in close coordination with Israel, according to Israeli sources.

As the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a pro-Israel US think tank, puts it: “Multilateral air-defence coalitions have become key to the post-October 7 Middle East defence landscape, with countries sharing radar, intelligence and early warning systems."

While this string of bases is vital when it comes to monitoring global shipping traffic and any Houthi or Iranian activity in the area, Bosaso and Berbera have, according to multiple diplomatic and local sources, become increasingly important for the UAE’s support of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan’s war.

The creation of a network of bases surrounding the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden mimics the way in which the UAE has used its unparalleled financial power to establish outposts in many of the countries that surround Sudan, including the southeastern part of Libya controlled by General Khalifa Haftar, Chad, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya.

The UAE also has two bases inside Sudan, which has been at war since April 2023: Nyala in South Darfur and al-Malha, 200km from el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, which has been under a brutal RSF siege for over 500 days.

Though it has always denied it, the United Nations has deemed multiple, in-depth reports – including from Middle East Eye – on the UAE’s patronage of the RSF, which the US has said is committing genocide in Sudan, to be credible.

>Wealth and power

For much of this century, the UAE, led from the emirate of Abu Dhabi by Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), has sought to project its power out from the Gulf across the Horn of Africa.

A member of the al-Nahyan family, which has ruled Abu Dhabi since the 18th century, MBZ is an implacable enemy of political Islam and a key ally of the US, which leans heavily on the UAE for its regional policy.

While the UAE has a population of 10 million, just one million of those are Emirati, the rest are expats and foreign labourers.

Jalel Harchaoui, an analyst who focuses on North Africa and political economy, told Middle East Eye that “because countries like Ethiopia, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Sudan are increasingly fractured and misgoverned, the UAE can exert a level of sway that would be impossible if these nations resembled, say, Algeria’s government, with full territorial control.

“Sudan and Libya exemplify this crisis: spaces where an aggressively revisionist foreign state armed with extraordinary wealth, lobbying power, and transactional diplomacy can wield disproportionate influence,” Harchaoui said, referencing the UAE’s intervention in Libya in 2011 and in Sudan on the side of the RSF.

Added to this, the US, despite maintaining “isolated interventionist projects like Israel and Greenland”, has “abandoned any notion of liberal hegemony and democratic idealism globally”.

“Mohammed bin Zayed understood these dynamics around 2009-2011,” Harchaoui told MEE. “Despite its microscopic size and lack of a noticeable army, the UAE recognised both its strengths and - crucially - its vulnerabilities if it remained passive.

“In this context, a ferocious, violent UAE launched a hegemonic project spanning both sides of the Red Sea,” he said.

Over the last decade, the UAE has become the biggest investor in ports across Africa: it receives 400 tonnes in smuggled gold from the continent every year, intervenes in wars there and has built up a soft power empire that includes the ownership of Manchester City Football Club.

“If you want to understand what the UAE is doing in Africa, read William Dalrymple’s book The Anarchy,” one western diplomat told MEE, referencing the Scottish historian’s 576-page account of how Britain’s East India Company took over India. “It’s exactly the same playbook.”

Yemen has been key to Emirati foreign policy. In 2015, the UAE led, alongside Saudi Arabia, a coalition of states that joined the war in Yemen to prop up the government against the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

As part of this, Sudanese fighters from the RSF went to Yemen to join the UAE-Saudi coalition.

In November 2015, Cyclone Chapala tore across Yemen and the surrounding region, including Socotra, whose main island – also called Socotra and located about 400 km south of the Yemeni mainland – is home to about 50,000 people. Declaring that they were there to help the victims of the cyclone, the UAE deployed its troops to the archipelago.

But the Emirati presence became entrenched and in June 2020 the STC, an ally of the UAE, seized control of the archipelago from Yemen’s Saudi-backed government. Since then, satellite imagery shows that the UAE has built up its military and intelligence activity on the islands, with the work escalating since Israel’s genocide in Gaza began.

Located to the west of Socotra, Abd al-Kuri is one of the archipelago’s islands. A stretch of rocky land rising out of the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, it has a population of around 500 people.

Lying on the shipping lane from the Indian Ocean to the Bab al-Mandab strait, Abd al-Kuri is an early observation point for ships coming from the southeast and has been transformed, in the last few years, into a strategic military facility.

At the end of August 2020, just before Israel and the UAE normalised relations as part of the US-sponsored Abraham Accords, intelligence officers from both countries arrived on the island.

In February 2021, dozens of Israeli officers and soldiers arrived in Socotra on Emirati planes, according to local sources and two regional diplomats.

In November that year, US Naval Forces Central Command conducted a maritime exercise in the Red Sea alongside Bahrain, the UAE and Israel – the first publicly acknowledged military exercise between signatories of the Abraham Accords.

In a briefing at the time, an Israeli naval officer said that the drill "will increase the cooperation and the safety of the Red Sea, but not just the Red Sea, because we are dealing with Iranian terror" in the wider region.

According to satellite imagery, construction of an airbase on Abd al-Kuri’s northern coast began in late 2022.

As this construction was beginning, collaboration between the UAE and Israel was flourishing.

The UAE subsidiary of Israeli arms company Elbit Systems announced that it would supply defence systems to the Emirati air force. Israel deployed early warning radar systems to the UAE and then, in February 2023, the two countries unveiled a jointly created unmanned naval vessel capable of surveillance, reconnaissance and mine detection.

From October 2023, a new airstrip approximately 2.41km long and a three-km dirt extension was constructed on Abd al-Kuri. In March 2024, satellite images published by AP showed “I LOVE UAE” spelt out in piles of sand next to the runway.

By March 2025, MEE’s satellite images show that the runway, which at its northern end was built to accommodate large transport and reconnaissance aircraft, was complete.

The runway is now capable of receiving medium to heavy military cargo aircraft, including the American C-130 Hercules, Russian Il-76 heavy transport planes and drones like the Israeli Hermes 900 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

At present, the UAE’s state-owned military contractor Edge Group is in talks with Elbit Systems regarding the procurement of the Israeli drones.

>>2553592
>Runways and rocks

While work was being carried out on Abd al-Kuri, it was also proceeding apace at Samhah, the smallest of Socotra’s three inhabited islands, located deep in the Arabian Sea.

Satellite imagery shows that the UAE began constructing an airstrip on the island in 2024, with the runway completed in April 2025, alongside the paving of roads and establishment of essential support facilities.

Samhah’s rocky, mountainous terrain does not allow for the easy construction of longer runways, so it is most likely used for rapid, periodic surveillance operations rather than heavy transport. It can receive and operate the Hermes 900 and is able to support electronic reconnaissance and maritime surveillance operations.

The island’s location is ideal for monitoring the maritime passage between the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea, through which about 12 percent of worldwide trade passes.

Between 25 March and 4 April 2025, satellite imagery revealed the appearance of a temporary sandbar on the western side of Samhah, which was not visible in previous images seen by MEE. This small sandbar appears to have been formed for temporary marine drainage, a common pattern in isolated military construction projects.

While this was taking place, the Young Star, a Comoros-flagged landing craft with IMO number 1095973, which was most likely being used to unload equipment used to prepare the runway, could be seen anchored off the island’s west coast.

Ship tracking data shows that the vessel continues to move periodically between Samhah, Abd al-Kuri and Socotra, and that it docks at nearby Yemeni ports before returning to Abu Dhabi.

Other ships, including the Takreem and al-Mabroukah 2, have been tracked by MEE moving between the main island of Socotra, the coast of Yemen, Abd al-Kuri and Bosaso, connecting the UAE’s ring of control.

While Abd al-Kuri, Samhah and Socotra are integral to this network of bases, it is Mayun (also known as Perim), a volcanic island in the Bab al-Mandab strait, that occupies the most strategically vital position.

Known as the “gate of tears” because of its large protruding rocks and wild seas, the Bab al-Mandab is situated between the Horn of Africa and the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, with Yemen on one side and Eritrea and Djibouti, which hosts a significant US military base and troops from western countries including the UK, on the other.

It is one of the world’s crucial maritime chokepoints for energy shipments and commercial cargo and was seriously impacted after the Houthis began attacks there in November 2023.

While the US and the Houthis signed a deal in May this year that stopped the attacks – as well as US-led bombing campaigns in Yemen – marine traffic in the Bab al-Mandab is still short of the average of 72-75 ships a day seen before November 2023.

As early as 2021, reports emerged of a “mysterious airbase” being built on Mayun, with no country taking claim of the construction.

The reports noted that the runway “allows whoever controls it to project power into the strait and easily launch air strikes into mainland Yemen… It also provides a base for any operations into the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and nearby east Africa.”

Satellite imagery from 2023 to the present day shows that the airstrip at Mayun Air Base now extends to approximately 1.85km in length, sloping from northwest to southeast along the island’s west coast. The runway is made up of a dark-coloured paved surface suitable for medium-sized aircraft or large drones and manned reconnaissance aircraft.

While in 2023 and 2024 no changes were observed on the runway, in 2025 images showed a clear change, indicating that surface levelling and resurfacing work had been carried out.

There are a series of hangars around the base large enough – the longest and widest is 660 metres x 100 metres – to house drones and possibly reconnaissance aircraft. Satellite imagery also shows residential facilities on the base, allowing for the deployment of dozens of military and technical personnel.

>Surveillance and supply lines

The island bases are connected by maritime routes, infrastructure patterns and intelligence facilities to the UAE’s military presence in Bosaso and Berbera, two ports in Somalia’s Puntland and Somaliland regions.

The use of these two regions, which both have separatist movements seeking a break from Somalia, has placed the UAE in opposition to Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s government in Mogadishu.

In September, Africa Confidential reported on the “chronic enmity” between MBZ and the Somali president, which it said was partly the result of the UAE’s “hegemonic ambitions” in the Horn of Africa.

Satellite imagery shows that at Bosaso Air Base, located next to Bosaso International Airport, Emirati management has established a radar facility, fortified ammunition depots, a dedicated cargo area for IL-76 heavy transport aircraft, a field hospital, a vehicle storage yard that houses dozens of pickup trucks, aircraft hangars and the original hangar of the Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF).

The PMPF was initially run by a UAE-based company, in violation of a UN arms embargo, and reported directly to the Puntland president, bypassing the sovereignty of the Somali federal government.

Imagery from Google Earth indicates rapid and intense building work carried out on the eastern edge of Bosaso Air Base between January 2024 and January 2025. In that time, three helipads; a group of large, enclosed hangars able to accommodate drones; and a fully paved operating area connected to those hangers were constructed.

Satellite imagery from the northern end of the base at Bosaso shows what appears to be an Emirati-operated French-made GM-403 radar, though there have been reports that an Israeli-made EL/M-2084 system - the same used by Israel's Iron Dome - is in use.

Both the French and Israeli radar systems are capable of tracking more than a thousand drones, aircraft, missiles or artillery at a range of more than 400km. In Bosaso, this means covering the Gulf of Aden and the entrance to the Red Sea.

According to multiple Sudanese, diplomatic and local sources, the UAE is also using Bosaso to transfer weapons and ammunitions to the RSF in Sudan.

The IL-76 transport aircraft has been seen in satellite imagery parked on a civilian airport landing strip to the southeast of the Bosaso airfield. Also seen in satellite imagery was a Hercules C-130, a military transport aircraft for heavy equipment.

In early 2024, two or three of these transport flights were arriving every day. By mid-2025 these were operating at about 15 per month.

On Monday, according to flight tracking data, a Boeing 737-436 arrived at Bosaso 8.50am UTC and then departed on its return flight to Abu Dhabi.

>Complicated alliance

The UAE’s engagement with Somaliland, perhaps the autonomous region with the strongest independence movement within Somalia, goes back to 2017.

To strengthen its claim to autonomy, the Somaliland government accepted an Emirati bid to establish a military base in Berbera, which has become part of the network connecting the Yemeni islands and Bosaso.

Satellite imagery shows that in Berbera, the naval base had been quietly transformed from a stalled project to a nearly completed facility, with advanced infrastructure including a modern military port, a deep-water dock, an airstrip with hangars and support facilities, all constructed.

The runway at Berbera is 4km long, meaning it can receive heavy transport aircraft and fighter jets. The creation of all these facilities has turned Berbera into a regionally important strategic hub.

In June, Abu Dhabi finalised an agreement to build a railway linking the Somaliland port to Ethiopia, another sign of its pre-eminence in the Horn of Africa.

“The present reality combines several elements,” Harchaoui told MEE. “The UAE’s extraordinary propaganda and lobbying machinery, its willingness to intervene militarily across multiple theatres, its financial resources, and its complete disregard for international norms and UN Security Council arms embargoes.”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-yemen-somalia-circle-bases-control-gulf-of-aden

Is this worth BDSing?

is douglas murray a israeli asset?
YES

>The truth that Douglas Murray doesn’t want you to know is that he is directly an Israeli asset.

>This isn’t journalism; we’re talking about people who claim to be independent critical thinkers offering their services as assets of a foreign power. So much so that he received an award from the Israeli president for services in propaganda to Israel during the genocide in Gaza. Douglas Murray was gushing with pride when he said it brings him great joy to align with Israel.

>While Murray has recently become more vociferous in his support for the genocidal Israel, his relationship is far from new. Over a decade ago, in 2014, at the time of a genocidal onslaught against Gaza, Douglas Murray rallied around to provide his services to Israel.

>In a leak of emails from Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations at the time, Ron Prozner, it has been revealed that Douglas Murray was drafting speeches for this Israeli government figure. In the email, Douglas Murray wrote to Ron Prozner, “Dear Ron, very good to speak earlier. I am pasting in here my first draft ideas. It’s probably slightly long and I’ve put in some more diplomatic things than needed, but I think I’ve got all the points discussed. The title of the email was draft and it included a speech for Ron Prosner to deliver at the United…”
Nations are defending Israel and its activities in Gaza. In his speech, Douglas Murray even used the following phrasing: “We Israelis have learned to live with the realities around us.
We know who we are. Does Douglas Murray, the alleged British patriot, know who he is? He’s an asset of a foreign power.”

>There are more sickening emails sent from Douglas Murray to Israel’s ambassador at the UN. In these emails, he praises Prosna’s work and goes to great lengths to prove his loyalty to Israel. He boasts about his involvement in a fundraising campaign for Israeli military occupation forces with an organisation previously exposed here at Doubledown News, the Association for the Well-being of Israel Soldiers. This charity actively aids Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza by supporting Israeli soldiers.

>In the email, Douglas Murray explains his role in aiding this campaign and mentions hosting an event that raised over a million dollars for the Israeli military. He also comments on how wonderful the soldiers were.

>Alongside the Douglas Murray emails, you also had David Fum, the well-known George Bush speechwriter, who came up with the phrase “the axis of evil.” He offered his services as a speechwriter to Ron Prosner and sent him drafts for speeches to be made at the United Nations. At the same time, he was a journalist at The Atlantic, supposedly writing a profile on Ron Prosner.

>Additionally, you have Pamela Gross, a CNN employee, stating her intention to raise funds for Israel’s Iron Dome. These are people who claim to be independent voices offering their services as assets of a foreign power. Douglas Murray is no different. He wants to tell you to go and fight your neighbour while he works for a genocidal campaign.

>Douglas Murray says you can’t talk about Gaza unless you’ve been there. Have you been to the crossing points? You’ve never been? You don’t need to visit genocide to know what it is. You don’t need to touch the hand of a dead child to know they’re dead.
Not long into the genocide, Douglas Murray attempted to raise money for the Israeli military forces in London. This was such an unpopular idea that the employees of the theatre tasked with staffing the event refused to work even for triple the pay.

>Douglas Murray characteristically responded with nothing but disdain for those members of the working class. If you’re an usher in a theatre, well, you know, do your darn job. It’s what you’re employed for.

>Douglas Murray served as director of the Henry Jackson Society for many years. In that role, he was alongside the executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, Alan Mendoza. Mendoza is simultaneously a president of the JNF, the largest settlement-building body in occupied Palestine. On its board of patrons, it includes Benjamin Netanyahu and Isaac Herzog.
The Henry Jackson Society, which employed Douglas Murray for many years, actually shares funders with illegal Israeli settlements and the friends of the IDF charity. Former Israeli ambassador at the United Nations, Dory Gold, and Israel lobbyist Natan Sharanski are both on the board of the Henry Jackson Society. At least two former employees of the Henry Jackson Society have taken jobs at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. So, this relationship between Douglas Murray and Israel is far from new. Douglas Murray is a neoconservative at heart.

>In fact, he wrote the book on neoconservatism and argued why we need it. The neoconservatives represented by Richard Pearl, Paul Wolfowitz, and others in the Bush administration were responsible for the most destructive wars of our lifetime. They killed over a million people in Iraq and displaced tens of millions in Afghanistan, leaving a legacy of suffering that we live through today.

>What Douglas Murray is struggling to internalise is that these ideas, which he is such a deep believer in and protector of, are deeply unpopular even with his target populations. The Trump base, the MAGA base, is no friend of the neocons, as made apparent by Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia. The gleaming marvels of Riad and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation builders, neocons, or liberal non-profits. In fact, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built.

>Pity Douglas Murray as he clings to the oxygen of his existence. He constantly engages in a racist war against the inferior other. Douglas Murray will advocate fiercely for wars all over the world.

>Douglas Murray has spent years theatrically claiming to stand on the side of freedom of speech, but now the mask is off. He wants to cancel everyone who isn’t an expert, especially those who advocate for the Palestinian cause. Don’t ever forget, today he might go for pro-Palestinians, but tomorrow he’ll go for you.

>>2555727
The moment islamists took after the soviet socdems in "defending" Palestine I knew it was doomed.

>>2555727
you have to be pretty tone deaf or dont give a shit at all to do something like that

>>2556130
I know, BDS are so retarded lmao

>>2556243
Then buy your pissraeli hummus and Coke to own them no one gives a fuck

>>2556243
go back to xitter and rot there

in other news:

Iran dismisses US accusation of plot to kill Israeli ambassador in Mexico

Iran has branded accusations from the United States and Israel that it was hatching a plot to assassinate the latter’s ambassador to Mexico as “ridiculous”.

Unnamed US and Israeli senior officials told news outlets late last week that the Quds Force, the external operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), plotted to assassinate Israeli envoy Einat Kranz Neiger beginning in late 2024 and remaining active into mid-2025.

The plot was contained and does not pose a current threat, the officials said, without offering any evidence.

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs then released a statement thanking the Mexican security and law enforcement services for “thwarting a terrorist network directed by Iran that sought to attack Israel’s ambassador to Mexico”.

“The Israeli security and intelligence community will continue to work tirelessly, in full cooperation with security and intelligence agencies around the world, to thwart terrorist threats from Iran and its proxies against Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide,” a ministry spokesman said.

However, Mexico’s foreign relations and security ministries have since denied knowledge of such an incident.

In a joint statement, they said they have “no report with respect to a supposed attempt against the ambassador of Israel in Mexico”.

The statement emphasised that Mexico has not initiated disruption to diplomatic ties with any country.

Iran’s embassy in Mexico on Monday called the accusation “a media intervention and a great lie” and said it considers “betraying Mexico’s interests to be betraying our own”.

Baghaei said: “Our embassy stated that we found this allegation so absurd and ridiculous that we did not even think it required an official response from the spokesperson.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/10/iran-dismisses-us-accusation-of-plot-to-kill-israeli-ambassador-in-mexico

unrelated to the war as its pre2023 but who the fuck starts an official tweet with age is just a number lmao

>>2557379
not doing well to dispel stereotypes there …

bump
https://x.com/AjAqrabawi/status/1988589873188474882

>>2557937
you can just tell this person lives in the west

>>2558039
People who are diametrically opposed to his opinion with him also live in the west.

November 13th, 2025

ALBAWABA - Security sources in Tel Aviv revealed Israel's intention to launch a preemptive strike against Iran, targeting water and energy facilities to prevent the further development of its military capabilities and to increase pressure on its home front.

The Times of Israel said in its report that "as Tel Aviv and Washington closely monitor developments in Iran, the scenario of targeting water resources, electricity grids, fuel supplies, and other vital institutions deep inside Iran is becoming increasingly likely."

The report said that the move to attack Iran comes amid assessments that Iran is preparing for a "retaliatory" operation against Israel.

For that, The Times of Israel said that Israel should carry out a preemptive and devastating strike, and perhaps Washington should do the same as well, especially given credible reports confirming Iran's production of ballistic missiles in massive quantities to attack Israel.

Sources explained that "Israel has no option left but to revive its long-dormant plan and launch a comprehensive preemptive strike against Iranian infrastructure facilities, exploiting the country's drought to exacerbate it by targeting pumping stations and water reservoirs."

https://www.albawaba.com/news/israel-ready-target-irans-water-and-1616699

>>2557937
I am John Leftist and I oppressed him by being anti zionist unlike the "right-wingers" who wish for unlimited genocide on anything arab sounding

You can see this whole interview here translated to English. These pro Palestine people interviewed her in this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahed_Tamimi

In Episode 47 of The Enlightenment Podcast, Shamim and Hanan are joined by Ahed Tamimi, the iconic Palestinian girl, national hero, freedom fighter, and symbol of resistance whose unwavering defiance in the face of Israeli military occupation has inspired people around the world.

As a teenager, Ahed became internationally known when videos of her confronting heavily armed Israeli soldiers in her village of Nabi Saleh went viral. Her courage and dignity in those moments made her a global symbol of Palestinian resistance—described by many as “the face of Palestinian defiance.”

>>2559956
Israel is such an annoying faggot of a state.

>>2559956
has israel ever gone for an actual military target?