U.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.
Israel is at risk of civil war or state collapse, a classified CIA assessment warns, as years of genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon and Iran deepen political, economic, and social fractures within the country.
The August report, titled “Fracture From Within,” was compiled by experts in the CIA’s Red Cell, according to two U.S. sources who described the contents of the report to Drop Site News. The Red Cell, which is the unit responsible for providing “alternative analysis” within the agency, produced the assessment through a combination of open source information and U.S. intelligence. The assessment appears to refer only to Israel’s Jewish citizens and does not consider its Palestinian citizens, who make up approximately 20% of Israel’s population and who live under various forms of discrimination that Amnesty International and other human rights groups have labelled as part of a broader system of apartheid. The CIA did not respond to a request for comment.
CIA experts pointed to a volatile mix of pressures converging ahead of Israel’s elections on October 27: economic crisis and soaring military spending; heavily armed veterans returning from prolonged combat, many carrying serious psychological trauma; growing fury over ultra-Orthodox men who are exempt from military service; escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fighting to hold onto power and igniting a constitutional crisis.
The CIA also spent 13 years hunting Radovan Karadžić, a Serbian who was living a public life in Serbia.
The last place youd expect!
One of the deepest fractures in Israeli politics has emerged not over opposition to the country’s war crimes—but over who is expected to fight and who is exempt.
In case anyone’s confused the contradictions include regrets over what’s been done in Gaza.
Yup. Young men pretend to be Haredi for a few years to avoid service so now they only have the ultra theological nuts to draft from.
It’s:
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I want war crimes done by ME.
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I want war crimes, but just enjoy watching not risking my life on them.
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CIA reports what Isreal wants them to report. So Netanyahu wants you to think the country is close to collapse. So that he can justify emergency powers to keep himself in power indefinitely.
Seems like many prominent politicians are aging, nearing the end of their lives and just want to go out with a bang.
I wanna go out with a bang. Not explosives, just with a pretty lady. (Like my wife)
Blink twice if she’s in the room with you
Well? Did you see? :)
I think they meant your eyes, but that works too.
But I did blink with my eyes! (it’s just hard to see over the internet in text)
Chill with the blinking already, you’re keeping us all awake
How like your wife does she need to be?
Real answer? I can’t imagine a scenario where this would happen, wife or anyone else. I won’t bore you with my health problems, but very few people facing terminal health issues probably end up having much good sex. lol.
Half-real answer? I mean, technically I’m poly, although not really “practicing”. So technically, probably doesn’t have to be very much like my wife.
Although given a choice between her or a stranger… probably go with her. lol.
Half-way serious answers to silly questions amuse me, thus my extraneous reply :)
I would also like to go out with your wife, can be at the same time, no judgement
Well, as long as we can coordinate on the dying bit, too, of course. ;-)
Death by Eiffel Tower?
Well, that’s a different kind of banging altogether!
“Who sought notoriety by destroying…”
That son-of-a-bitch! It worked!
Yeah, the CIA isn’t just going to give out info for the sake of giving out info. I dont know what the thought is, but there’s something behind it.
You mean they don’t just call up Fox News and give out the latest?
The central isreal agency?
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
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Well given the fact it’s currently effectively a dictatorship I can’t see how it can degrade any further.
Israel has around 90 nuclear warheads with the materials to build up to about 200. The only thing I can imagine being worse is if idiots even more unhinged than their current government acquire and use them. Yes, the bar is that low.
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So you’re saying that worst case, nothing changes? Israel is already an extremely powerful terrorist group with nuclear weapons lol
Yes, because disregard all historical background as everyone knows without western enlightenment all brown people revert to their natural state, being terrorists.
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No, you show me examples of
A power vacuum leads to extremely powerful terrorist groups forming who take over the region
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There’s no way the UN wouldn’t intervene given they did it before.
I would be shocked if the UN did anything substantial here. If they do anything, they’d probably re-declare Mandatory Palestine and give it to Donald Trump.
Except for all their neighbours they’re illegally occupying and all the countries of the region
As they have sown, so shall they reap.
Reap the whirlwind.
That’s what I said, out loud, as the comments loaded, right at the instant before this popped up.
insert Michael Jackson popcorn meme
“As we’re moving forward with further integrating our military-industrial capacity with them, there’s deep frustration that we’re doing this for a country that dragged us into a war we’re losing, a country that spies on us.”
Then fucking stop!
Total collapse? Oh, no. Golly, how awful! I mean, gosh and gee whillikers, I sure hope that doesn’t happen. I hope it a lot.
Oh, wait …
Government, meet the consequences of you own actions. Happy to introduce you.
Well, I predict LOTS of civil wars in LOTS of places, especially as the environment collapses and basic needs aren’t met.
Over what? Half the country likes genocide and the other half likes genocide, too? All these terrorist countries like Israel, the USA and Russia can all go to hell.
One side wants to genocide harder while the other prefers a more “civilized” genocide.
I wish they’d genocide each other for once ffs
I think it’s more of a one side wants to genocide and participate in it and the other prefers to just watch and not enlist and risks itself.
This is exactly what I thought. What are they going to fight about exactly? Who gets to genocide the locals first? In Israel you have the far right and the farrer right
If that actually happens, the evangelicals and Millennialists are going to flip out.
Time to stock up on popcorn.
I had to read it twice because the first time I read “millenials” and was like wtf? Then I reread it and saw it was saying millenialists.
After I posted it, I realized that it could easily be misread but I don’t know of another term to use to describe Christians who believe in a post-apocalyptic millenium of peace & happiness (as long as you believe in Jesus, that is).
Definite popcorn time watching those two groups respond…
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