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.
Government, meet the consequences of you own actions. Happy to introduce you.
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)
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. ;-)
“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.
The central isreal agency?
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!
Crossposting to /c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world…
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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.
Why is there a risk of civil war and total collapse ???
Perhaps the article could shed some light on the subject.
That would be dreamy.
Let’s hope that happens soon! Holding my thumbs!
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.
They could use critical thinking and Sagan’s baloney kit to escape supernatural dogmatic systems and see what healthier ways there are to live. Yes, do that and stop the violence and suffering, caused by the wealth/power inequality that benefits men, designed by them into the unhealthy supernatural systems, that punch down on others in the hierarchy.
