Germany continues to provide arms and support to the IDF and did so throughout the entire duration of the Gaza Campaign. Just recently, the Volkswagen group announced it is considering retooling one of their factories to manufacture missiles for Iron dome system. The UK also continues to manufacture and sell components for weapon systems used by the Israelis. The UK's RAF bases in Greece, Cyprus, and the UK have also been key logistics hubs for weapons to the Israelis and the Americans. In addition, the UK operated daily surveillance flights over Gaza out of their base in Cyprus through the entire period of the Gaza Genocide. The exact goal and nature of this operation continues to be kept secret but it is inconceivable how they weren't witness to the countless war crimes being committed on the ground. Mainstream outlets like the BBC and the Guardian continue to suppress reporting on this story. I am sure there are more countries providing support in secret and in smaller ways. Germany which suspended all arms exports to Saudi Arabia in 2018 citing the murder of the journalist Khassogi and grave human-rights violations in Yemen lifted these restrictions last year citing its defence of Israel. It is illuminating to note how Germany defines the protection of human rights and journalists in these cases.
The first time i saw this concept of the 'double-tap' - to target first-responders to the scene of an earlier strike - was in the movie,' The Hurt Locker' - where it was employed by some ISIS-tier insurgents using a VBIED disguised as an ambulance. Presumably this was intended to show the level of depravity of the terrorists. First time actually seeing this employed in the real world was last year when Israel did a double tap that killed multiple journalists working for reuters, AP, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye and Quds News Network plus paramedics and medical staff *at a hospital*. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nasser_Hospital_strikes
Now finding out this is essentially SOP for Israel and the United States (eg: the triple-tap strike at the Iranian girl's school where parents rushing to save their kids from the collapsed school were hit in the second and third strike), I wonder if the terrorists learnt this tactic from the US coalition or vice-versa.
Did you see the video that Wikileaks released, now 16 years ago, when the Apache helicopter fired on the first-responder on the the scene, a van which also included children.
At that point, another voice – presumably an officer not on scene – asks if the van is “picking up the wounded” and is told that they are. Two Iraqis from the van carry the wounded man around the side of the van to load him inside.
An American voice with the call sign “Bushmaster 7” says, “Roger, engage.” One of the helicopters blankets the van with machine-gun fire.
“Oh yeah, right through the windshield,” says one of the soldiers, while another voice on board briefly laughs. “There were approximately four to five individuals in that truck, so I’m counting about 12-15″ casualties.”
Later when news that two girls had been badly injured was greeted with: "Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle."
While historians tend to disagree (rightly IMHO) with the severity of the Dresden Bombings, as reported by Kurt Vonnegut (WWII POW @Dresden)... it was definitely a disgraceful targeting-of-civilians, by Allied Forces, for the sake of demonstrating Power, alone.
Complete and utter devastation, no survivor left unravaged.
These where clan militias fighting for a headstanrt in the proxxy civil war to come. There is no iraq. Its a iranian proxxy with a sunni province and a basically split of kurdish region. That "nation" never existed except in western maps and heads. Those "freedom fighters" where the basis for isis and the iranian militias. None where patriots, just in it for the family wearing the state as skinsuit. They thoroughly disproved all neoliberal cultural ideals about universal nneeds and wants.
If we follow your logic, then I'd argue that similarly, there's no countries in the world. In particular, there's no United States, it's land colonized by Europeans who came to that land and slaughtered its indigenous people and claimed it for themselves.
The western culture forms meta families. We ostracize the sexual others like everyone else, but they form a nation wide "meta" family that connects everyone to everyone, allowing for the traditional clan family to flap open and dissappear with only nuclear families remaining. Oh and they form a ruling caste with working institutions. Western societies are one huge artifical clan.
Yes, for the sole reason that it's just a label assigned by an invading enemy government.
The problem is that the label is used in media to assign moral judgement, when it's just a political proscription that is typically assigned for entirely geopolitical reasons. Almost every country occupying a foreign territory, or is engaged in war with a group, or even another country, calls military action of the other side terrorism.
It doesn't mean anything. If it is to carry a moral judgement, it needs to be based on universally applied principles. It takes 5 seconds of thinking to see that it's absolutely not based on universally applied principles.
Terrorists specifically target civilian or government targets to make a statement or a demand. Those Iraqis were targeting American soldiers. The term doesn't apply here, no matter how badly the occupier wants to impose it on those defending their country.
Reading this was.. interesting. Since 2008, the CPJ has published the Global Impunity Index, which tracks countries in which journalists are murdered and the killers are not prosecuted. Until 2025 that is, the year when Israel would finally top the index. In fact, the way the index is tabulated, with numbers rolling over the next year, Israel's actions would have likely secured their place in the podium for the next decade. Allegedly according to whistleblowers, the CPJ's board and donors were unhappy about this. The CEO, Jodie Ginsberg had a rather elegant solution - scrap the index entirely.
I doubt whatever facial recognition trained over 6 million odd Palestinians (plus 2 million Israeli Palestinians) would trump similar offerings from competitors like Hikvision trained on data of 1.4 billion Chinese.
edit : i think their tech is overhyped. Remember the signal-chats debacle last year where the National Security Advisor was photographed using a modified client of Signal by Israeli company TeleMessage. And immediately after, TeleMessage was hacked, and it was revealed that all the chats were transmitted and stored in plain-text. They still managed to get their backup-spyware installed at the highest levels of the US government and military. It looks like they have great sales teams.
A facial recognition model trained on one genotype will behave poorly on another genotype. For detecting e.g. white and middle eastern faces, this Israeli model should perform better than the one trained on Chinese people
Paragon co-founded by former Unit-8200 commander Ehud Schneorson and former Israeli Prime-minister and defence-chief, Ehud Barak who tapped his long-time friend Jeffrey Epstein (a wealthy American financier and eccentric) to find him clients for his ventures in the US and across the world. That certainly is some tight-integration!
https://www.ft.com/content/1e41e6db-792f-4f60-b567-adb6458fb...
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