U.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.
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)
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?
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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That’s what I said, out loud, as the comments loaded, right at the instant before this popped up.
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 …
“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!
Let’s hope that happens soon! Holding my thumbs!
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.
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 CIA’s “red teams” are tasked with developing analysis and ideas that challenge prevailing assumptions and expose groupthink or blind spots that can take hold within the intelligence apparatus.
Basically, this is “what’s the weirdest shit that is kinda plausible if things don’t go how our consensus expects.” Useful I assume, but by definition unlikely.
Yeah, this is just some red-teaming of possibilities.
Could but very unlikely. Guess cia needs to consider everything. Also we need to stop using civil war to mean civil unrest.
Yes, very forward looking and specualtive…
Like assassinating Castro with exploding cigars. .
Huh they don’t want Israel to collapse because reasons.
That would be the weirdest possible turn of events.
And like, every single supporter of Israel would be stumped, because they would need to think about which Israel to back.
Absolute cinema. Good idea for a fictional alternate timeline.
Yeah if you think Lebanon’s political breakup was messy…
This would make that look like child’s play.
They’d pick the worst one. They already did, after all.
Crossposting to /c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world…
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insert Michael Jackson popcorn meme
For 1200 years under the Ottomans, the Ottomans owned everything, and the local inhabitants were simply allowed to reside on the landNot true again, read about the Ottoman Land Code of 1858 for instance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Land_Code_of_1858
In 1858 the Ottoman Empire introduced The Ottoman Land Code of 1858, requiring land owners to register ownership. The reasons behind the law were twofold. (1) to increase tax revenue, and (2) to exercise greater state control over the area.
Opposition
Small farmers, however, saw no need to register claims, for several reasons:
Land owners were subject to military service in the Ottoman Army General opposition to official regulations from the Ottoman Empire Evasion of taxes and registration fees to the Ottoman EmpireOutcome
The registration process itself was open to manipulation. Land collectively owned by village residents was registered in the name of a single landowner, with merchants and local Ottoman administrators registering large stretches of land in their own name. The result was land that became the legal property of people who may have never lived there, while locals, even those who had lived on the land for generations, became tenants of absentee owners.
These were the large tracts Jews bought. Non-Jewish “owners” sold out their own “people” for profit in Jewish money. Later in the Ottoman era, when buying inhabited land became troublesome due the land containing existing inhabitants, it became more common for such purchase agreements to stipulate removal of occupants before payment. Owners- even Arab owners- willingly complied with this contractual stipulation, for Jewish cash. Laws can read one way, but the way they are put into practice in reality can hobble them or completely reverse their intent.
