prediction from 02014 that #Hamas will acquire #precision #weaponry #drones to strike #Israel’s military and mine its ports instead of killing civilians indiscriminately. #politics
on 02026-04-22#news of two unnamed soldiers of #Israel smashing a Jesus statue in a village in Southern #Lebanon, for which they were sentenced to 30 days in military prison. #aniconism #iconoclasm #religion
on 02026-04-21“Irã volta a fechar Estreito de Ormuz e ameaça romper cessar-fogo se Israel continuar atacando o Líbano”, which I translate as “#Iran again closes the Strait of Hormuz and threatens to break the ceasefire if #Israel continues attacking #Lebanon”. Indeed, Israel launched its largest attack to date on Lebanon. #news
on 02026-04-08“Benjamin Netanyahu said the country supported #Trump’s decision to suspend attacks against #Iran for two weeks but said the ceasefire does not include #Lebanon, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.” #Israel #politics #news
on 02026-04-07#news about how #Israel’s air defense systems seem to be defending less effectively against #Iran, apparently not just because stockpiles are running low but because radars are destroyed, mentioning the #USA’s loss of its E-3 AWACS plane.
on 02026-04-03#news: #Israel just blew up two #steel mills in #Iran, a shift to extremely civilian targets
on 02026-04-03#news that #Iran’s attacks with #drones and ballistic missiles are down 95% and 90% respectively from the beginning of the war, but #Israel and maybe #USA are running low on interceptor #weaponry such as THAADs. Also: “The State Department last week announced a sale of 12,000 “BLU-110A/B general purpose, 1,000-pound bomb bodies” to Israel.” #politics
on 02026-03-12#News from October: “Without question, #Trump can claim credit for the ceasefire and hostage exchange deal. #Qatar, #Turkey and #Egypt used their leverage with Hamas to force it to accept.
That made it a joint effort, but Trump’s role was decisive.
Without his push to demand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s agreement to terms that he had previously rejected, the deal would not have been signed.” #politics #Israel #Gaza #USA
on 02025-12-11“Egypt warned Israel days before Hamas struck, US committee chairman says.” #Israel #politics #history #news
on 02025-09-28#Microsoft blocks #Azure’s use by #Israel’s #IDF to spy on Palestinians: “Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project”; Unit 8200 had 8000 terabytes (8 petabytes) of captured phone calls in a Netherlands Azure data center. “Within days of the Guardian publishing the investigation, Unit 8200 appears to have swiftly moved the surveillance data out of the country. (...) Intelligence sources said Unit 8200 planned to transfer the data to the Amazon Web Services cloud platform.” #news #politics
on 02025-09-28#video #interview excerpt with #CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou (the guy who was sentenced to 30 months in prison for revealing that the #USA was torturing people, then supported #Snowden) about the #Mossad, describing how they called every single nuclear scientist in #Iran on the phone on the same day to threaten them with death — and then calling their wives. And then killed them. He says that spying on #Israel was absolutely verboten when he was at the CIA.
on 02025-09-16#Israel #drones destroy two F-14 airplanes in #Iran. #weaponry #politics
on 02025-06-16#Microsoft has locked the International Criminal Court (#ICC), including Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, out of their email because of #Trump #sanctions #politics over #Israel.
on 02025-05-20#video on Turkish Fulbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk being snatched off the street yesterday in Somerville, MA by masked ICE officers for publishing an editorial in the Tufts Daily opposing #Israel’s invasion of Gaza a year ago. #news #politics #USA
on 02025-03-26#Turkish state TV TRT #video about fairly mild #human-rights abuses by the government of #Israel against an Australian tourist, Anastasia. #politics
on 02025-03-25#news #video saying #Israel is the only country to run its #F-35 #weaponry on domestic software, and (presumably because of #Trump’s freeze on aid to Ukraine) European #politics are concerned about this suddenly. Seems to mostly be a question of electronic countermeasures or countercountermeasures. #Deutsche-Welle
on 02025-03-14Maybe the #Israel #Gaza ceasefire won’t happen after all: “‘Hamas has reneged on parts of the agreement reached with the mediators and Israel in an effort to extort last-minute concessions,’ the Prime Minister’s Office said.” #news #politics
on 02025-01-16#Gaza ceasefire with return of some hostages if #Israel’s security cabinet and government approve it today. #news #politics
on 02025-01-16#news #video on #Israel prime minister #Netanyahu releasing a video calling leaders of the Army “traitors” for hiding information about Hamas strategy (?)
on 02024-11-26#News #video from #Al-Jazeera about #Facebook #censorship on #Israel, quoting Human Rights Watch, and also interviewing two ex-Facebook workers fired for their Palestinian advocacy (Saima Akhter and one other), as well as Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who says 40% of his #Instagram posts since October 02023 had been censored. Mostly #interview and stock footage. #human-rights
on 02024-10-20#video #news on a #Hizbullah attack on #Israel today: 50 rockets. Note that this was a month after Israel’s pager attack on Hizbullah.
on 02024-10-16The #assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, part of the #history of #Israel
on 02024-09-18#video on #Israel #politics news (anti-Israel propaganda) #toread
on 02024-08-28#video by the Times of India with anti #Israel propaganda by the al Qassam brigades; lots of footage of RPGs
on 02024-08-27#video on today’s #Hizbullah attack on #Israel from Lebanon and Syria. The script is full of very strange euphemisms, like Viagra spam. Pro-Israel propaganda. #politics
on 02024-08-27#video on #Hizbullah drones spying on #Israel. (Note from later: this was before Israel’s attack with exploding pagers on September 17 and 18.)
on 02024-06-24#video #toread on #Israel Hamas war heating up in #Lebanon
on 02024-06-23#video on #war: #Israel attacks #Hizbullah in #Lebanon, #Hizbullah threatens #Cyprus
on 02024-06-20Binyamin Netanyahu’s son Yair Netanyahu: “I’m a Jew, I’m an Israeli, the neo nazis scums [sic] in Virginia hate me and my country. But they belong to the past. Their breed is dying out. However the thugs of Antifa and [Black Lives Matter] who hate my country (and America too in my view) just as much are getting stronger and stronger and becoming super dominant in American universities and public life.” #USA #Israel #politics
on 02017-11-25#Israel Communications Minister Ayoub Kara says “Trump is the best [#USA] leader Israel has ever had,” says it’s comparatively less important to condemn #neo-Nazis. He’s not Jewish. #politics
on 02017-08-22#Israel’s Trophy Active Protection System (APS) #weaponry shoot down anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) automatically; #USA wants to buy them. The original such system was the Soviet Drozd in the 1980s.
on 02016-10-07#USA #Israel over settlements doesn’t stem foreign aid. #politics
on 02016-10-07I commented on the #Israel #desalination article.
on 02016-08-01original #Israel #desalination story. Edo Bar-Zeev and colleagues solved #biofouling problems by prefiltering with “porous lava stone”, which turns out to be tuff, not lava at all. #Water shortage seeded the #Syria conflict. #politics
on 02016-08-01the Ashkelon #desalination plant in (since?) 2005 produced 127M m³ (127Gℓ); Hadera, 2009, 140M m³ (140Gℓ); Sorek, now, 150M m³ (150 Gℓ); #Israel total 600M m³ (600 Gℓ) per year (19 kℓ/second), of a total required 1.9G m³ (1.9 Tℓ) per year (60 kℓ/second), of which Israel previously (pre-2008?) got 1.5G m³/year (1.5 Tℓ/year, 48kℓ/s). All #reverse-osmosis; Sorek uses 70 atmospheres (7.1 MPa). Israel now gets 55% of domestic water from desal (which I guess means there’s another 14 kℓ/s unaccounted for in the above figures) and recycles 86% of (residential?) wastewater for #irrigation. Sorek produces drinking water at US$0.58/kℓ (US$580/Mℓ), which is about three times the cost of the mechanical energy.
on 02016-08-01Write a poem in #Israel urging Palestinians to struggle, go to jail. #human-rights
on 02016-06-22