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Fifth Column
The Most Explosive Story You Haven't Heard: Netanyahu, Trump, and the Fight Behind the Front Lines
2025-07-12
While most eyes are fixed on the war in Gaza, few realize that the real battle for Israel’s future is being fought by Netanyahu and Trump in the shadows, and this may be the most explosive story you haven’t heard.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s latest trip to Washington, his third this year and second meeting with former President Donald Trump on this trip itself, sparked intense speculation: Was it about Gaza? Iran? A future regional deal?

Yes, all that—but ultimately, something deeper is unfolding.

These meetings aren’t just about military coordination or diplomatic pressure. It reflects a shared understanding: no external victory is possible without also confronting internal dysfunction.

Because Israel is involved in two struggles — one war against an Islamonaz*i enemy, with the focus in Gaza, and one internal sabotage at home.

Let’s zoom out. From the very start of the war, a coordinated bloc of senior legal officials, top IDF officers, and mainstream media figures — Israel’s unelected elite — has worked systematically to hijack the war narrative, destabilize Netanyahu’s government, and prevent a decisive victory in Gaza.

Instead of rallying around the nation’s survival, these institutions launched an internal campaign of psychological warfare. They weaponized the hostage crisis to drain public morale, stir fear, and pressure the government into premature concessions. Media allies and expert pundits relentlessly pushed defeatist messaging: "Soldiers are dying for nothing," "There’s no military solution," "Bring the hostages home — even at any cost." The objective wasn’t humanitarian — it was political: to force Netanyahu into a ceasefire that would halt the war and collapse his government, not through elections, but by breaking public will.

Netanyahu, understanding this dynamic, pursued a war strategy that included limited, tactical ceasefires — not as surrender but as a way to save lives while undercutting the protest movement that had co-opted the hostage issue. The results are clear: what once paralyzed the country has become a fringe cause, as the public increasingly sees through the exploitation of genuine pain for political gain.

On the surface, we’re battling Hamas. But behind the scenes, an unelected layer of legal, military, and bureaucratic elites is obstructing government policy, paralyzing decision-making, and undermining our war effort. Many Israelis instinctively shy away from language like "deep state." But what else do you call it when a government decision is blocked — not by voters but by officials who were never elected?

Just listen to Brigadier General (res.) Erez Wiener, former head of planning in the IDF Southern Command, who revealed:

"We should have started by evacuating Gaza City. But we didn’t. Because the Military Advocate General said: ’You can’t force civilians to evacuate — and you must keep supplying them with aid.’ Then we’re told: go in and fight, but under those conditions. The result? More fallen soldiers."

"And now even the new Chief of Staff has surrendered to the dictates of the unelected elite: Nitzan Alon says, ’You might endanger hostages.’ Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the MAG, says ’you may not, you may not’ — legal nonsense. Ghassan Alian, head of COGAT, says ’we must keep the aid flowing...’ This is insanity."

This isn’t a political opinion. It’s operational reality from someone who helped run the war effort.

And the same unelected legal elites who have paralyzed our war effort have been waging a crusade against IDF soldiers, including the ones who served at the Sde Teiman prison. The legal establishment accused them of abuse, relying on testimony they told a Hamas terrorist to say, and a video—exposed to have been doctored with no proof whatsoever of any wrongdoing. Yet, the blood libel was launched into the world. This same legal elite have ignored the far more troubling misconduct inside their own ranks. There has been no investigation into the legal insiders allegedly involved in doctoring and leaking that video of prisoner treatment—a manipulated video that was leaked to the media on a silver platter. That clip reached billions of viewers worldwide, fueling a modern-day blood libel, and just days ago, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese cited it as "proof" that Israeli soldiers systematically sexually harasses Hamas terrorists in custody.

The video’s leak didn’t just smear Israel’s name, it endangered our global legitimacy, demoralized our soldiers, and handed Hamas a diplomatic victory. Yet while soldiers face public crucifixion, those within the legal system who enabled this international scandal remain untouched, protected by the very legal institutions now claiming to defend "ethics" and "rule of law." What kind of justice system holds soldiers to impossible standards in combat in a just war but shields those sabotaging the war effort from within?

Israeli attorney Efraim Dimri recently said in an interview that he has proof that ties the Biden administration directly to the legal persecution of the IDF soldiers in Sde Teiman prison.

These are huge issues hidden from the public that uncover a deep, deep problem that needs to be exposed and stopped.

And it’s not just about the military. The U.S. Department of Justice recently issued a second official notice to the far-left Israeli NGO Blue and White demanding documentation about tens of millions of dollars it received from the Biden administration.

Why? Because this U.S.-funded Israeli NGO was a central player in anti-Netanyahu government protests, not to pressure Hamas, but to topple the Netanyahu government. Using the judicial reform protest movement and then the hostage families’ pain as political tools, these campaigns aimed to delegitimize Netanyahu’s government and block its war policies.

If true, this would mean American taxpayer money helped finance internal protest campaigns to topple a government. These protest campaigns also weakened Israel during a time of war. That’s not just controversial—that’s a national security breach.

And now, even the ideological architects of Israel’s activist legal system are admitting the stakes.

Former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak, who reshaped Israel’s judiciary in the 1990s, recently said last week:

"If Netanyahu leaves political life, there would be no justification for continuing the trial... If he retires from politics, I think it’s not a bad idea that the trial should also come to an end."

That’s a stunning statement. If the charges against Netanyahu are real, they should proceed, regardless of politics. And if they’re not, they should be dropped now. Instead, we’re told that if Netanyahu walks away, the system will quietly let the charges go. That’s not the rule of law—it’s political leverage.

This is why the Netanyahu—Trump alignment matters. Not because of personalities or partisan politics—but because both leaders now face the same challenge: unelected deep state institutions that have drifted from their mandates, acting as power centers unto themselves.

This isn’t about Left or Right—it’s about democratic accountability. When unelected legal officials override government decisions on life-and-death military policy, that’s a crisis. When US-funded NGOs run political pressure campaigns to topple our government, especially during wartime, that’s a threat. When top military brass ignore binding cabinet decisions, that’s not "independence"—it’s insubordination.

We’ve seen this before. In 1982, during the First Lebanon War, internal pressure campaigns and foreign condemnation — fueled by the Sabra and Shatila massacre by Lebanese Christians — led to Israel’s premature ending of the war. Then too, rising casualties and media pressure were weaponized to halt a war mid-fight. Netanyahu remembers that moment well. He’s determined not to let history repeat itself.

He has already delivered major blows to Iran’s proxy network, damaged Iran’s nuclear and ballistic weapons programs, weakened Hamas’s military infrastructure, and resisted global pressure for a premature ceasefire. But to finish the job, he must also take back control at home.

That means restoring civilian authority over military and legal bodies. It means confronting insubordination directly. And it means telling the public a hard truth: We are not struggling slowly in Gaza because of Hamas’s strength, but because of deep state senior positions who weaken our resolve, handcuff our army, and try to divide our people in wartime.

This is not just a war against terrorists in tunnels. It’s a war against fear, dysfunction, and the deep-state machinery—in both Jerusalem and Washington—that has worked to erode the authority of Israel’s elected governments and sabotage their ability to act.

Now, Netanyahu and Trump are doing more than comparing notes, they are forging a joint strategy to confront and dismantle the unelected power centers that have hijacked policy in both countries. The parallel power structures that allowed U.S. State Department—funded NGOs to operate freely in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, without oversight or accountability, are finally being brought to an end.

This isn’t about defending one leader or another. It’s about defending democracy itself—the right of free nations to be governed by those the people choose, not those the system protects.

No more legal vetoes on war policy. No more foreign-funded interference. No more unelected elites dragging nations into paralysis and defeat.

What began as meetings in Washington DC may well be remembered as the start of a coordinated effort to reclaim democratic control, to stop the sabotage, protect sovereignty, and chart a path forward based on strength—not submission.

The world is watching. And this time, the people, not the unelected deep state bureaucrats, must win.
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Good Morning
2025-07-12



Mayor Karen Bass issued an executive directive requiring federal agencies to provide detailed information on raids conducted in the city
Saturday 07/12/2025

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Haiti: UN reports over 3,000
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Somalia: Intelligence agency NISA says at least 13 al-Shabaab militants, including senior commanders, were killed in coordinated operations
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Danab Commando Force -- U.S.-backed Somali
elite unit leads 80% of all offensive operations in 2025 		Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF has found and destroyed another underground tunnel in Gaza, measuring 500 meters long and 13 meters deep, in Khan Yunis
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Joint IDF-ISA operation ELIMINATED Fadl
Abu al-Ata, the Islamic Jihad's Shejaiya sector commander
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Joint IDF-ISA operation ELIMINATED Fadl Abu al-Ata, the Islamic Jihad's Shejaiya sector commander
2025-07-12
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Iran's Khamenei posts a message and image on X: ''The Islamic Republic has dealt a severe blow to the United States.'' Honest they have
2025-07-12
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Africa North
Scandal in Benghazi: Marshal Haftar expels European ministers from Libya
2025-07-12
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Leonid Tsukanov

[REGNUM] A delegation of EU ministers led by European Commissioner for Migration Magnus Brunner recently arrived at Libya's Benghazi airport to discuss the fight against illegal migration with local officials.

However, upon arrival, the European guests were suddenly declared persona non grata and banned from entering.
How interesting.
Moreover, this was done not by the central government in Tripoli, but by the “alternative cabinet” that controls the east of the country.
The central government in Tripoli controls about the central business district in Tripoli, as I recall — we haven’t been playing close attention to them as not much has been happening there.
The diplomatic row seems to herald a quick end to Brussels' balancing act between the two centers of power in Libya. However, Europe is in no hurry to make the first move, rightly fearing that it will only make things worse.

TWO HEADS
Dual power in Libya is not a new phenomenon. After the overthrow of the country's leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the country plunged into a protracted civil war from which it has not been able to emerge to this day.

By the mid-2010s, two centers of power had emerged in Libya.

One is in the capital Tripoli, which claims to be legitimate and enjoys the support of the UN, Turkey and a number of Western countries. It is led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah.

The other is in Tobruk, in the east of the country, challenging the legitimacy of Tripoli and relying on the support of some of its European neighbors (such as Italy and Spain) and Egypt. Its face is the commander of the local armed forces, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
The governments of Tripoli and Tobruk exist side by side, periodically engaging in armed clashes. At the same time, they appoint their ministers and conclude international agreements on the development of mineral resources and the delimitation of territorial waters (often mutually exclusive or contradictory).

The attempts of the world community to weld the East and West into a single “transitional cabinet” have led to nothing – their views on the future of the country are too different.

However, the European Union, as one of Libya's major neighbours, has to find ways to coexist with the divided country, responding to the threats it poses as best it can.

A SORE POINT
Thousands of residents of Africa and the Middle East flee to the Old World through the “Libyan corridor” every year, hoping to receive refugee status in the EU or at least move to safer places.

Many of them die along the way, especially off the coast of Italy and Greece, where the currents are too strong. In the last six months alone, at least 700 cases of illegal migrants dying on the water have been recorded, about 60% of them in Italian territorial waters.

Rome and Brussels, still suffering from the consequences of the previous migration crisis of 2015, are trying to combat the influx of migrants, cut off illegal routes and centrally send captured illegal immigrants back to their historical homeland.

But they cannot defeat the attack without help from the other side, that is, from Libya. High-ranking European officials have to go there every now and then for consultations. Moreover, they have to interact with both Tripoli and Tobruk at the same time - observing the same politeness.

Eurosceptics, while seeing this behavior as “undermining the legitimacy” of the UN-endorsed government, turn a blind eye to the situation: Haftar’s forces control about 40% of Libya’s coastal area.

Some of the settlements in the east (for example, the village of Kurat Makrun near Benghazi) have repeatedly appeared in the testimonies of surviving illegals. And the timely closure of these channels would help strengthen trust in the alternative government and its leaders.

However, contrary to expectations, Europe's recent attempts to coordinate with Tobruk have ended in a major diplomatic scandal.

GOT CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE
As soon as the European officials led by Brunner arrived in Benghazi, they were immediately accused of "disregarding the sovereignty" of Libya and violating entry rules. On behalf of Haftar, the delegates were protested and informed of the need to immediately leave the country without the right to return.

The scandal is made even more acute by the fact that among the expelled European officials were representatives of countries with which the alternative government had fairly warm relations.

For example, Matteo Piantedosi, head of the Italian Interior Ministry, was sanctioned. During the period of the most intense rivalry between Tripoli and Tobruk, he (then still the head of the Interior Minister's administration) participated in the development of a number of peacekeeping initiatives. For example, in the involvement of Libyan tribal militias to stabilize the domestic political situation, prevent smuggling and illegal migration.

The "border initiative" of Piantedosi and his colleagues played into the hands of not only Tripoli, but also Tobruk, since the work of the border detachments, recruited from the Tubu and Tuaregs, was financed from the European pocket and excluded rebellion in the rear.

Greece was also a tactical ally of the Eastern forces for some time, trying to annoy Turkey with the help of Tobruk. Its Minister of the Interior was also labeled non grata, which enraged Athens. The country's authorities declared that they would not tolerate diplomatic manipulation and would demand explanations from the East.

THE ROOT OF THE SCANDAL
Probably the reason for such a cold reception of yesterday's friends lies in the decision of European officials to upset the established balance and hold consultations first in Tripoli, and only then with Tobruk.

Until now, EU delegates had always started negotiations with “non-state actors” in order to take their position into account in subsequent contacts with opponents and find a compromise.

Moreover, this time Tripoli clearly violated the status quo: Prime Minister Dbeibah announced the development of new mechanisms for regulating migration in Libya, which, among other things, would expand the powers of the Libyan coast guard and allow it to operate even in those waters that were formally controlled by the east.

Until recently, this approach seemed advantageous to the EU, as it would allow interaction with the Libyan coastguard on a one-stop-shop basis, via Tripoli, and would also take the burden off Tobruk.

Moreover, officials in the east regularly complained to Brussels about the lack of personnel and resources for continuous monitoring of the coast.

However, from Tobruk’s point of view, Dbeibah’s initiative created a threat of constant provocations from Tripoli for the alternative Libyan government, including attempts to accuse Haftar’s supporters of organizing “migrant routes” to the Old World.

Both Brussels and Tripoli are now somewhat confused by what happened in Benghazi. However, this is more likely the calm before the storm.

European sceptics are calling on EU leaders to cut ties with the alternative leadership and focus on interaction with Tripoli, including in the hope that Haftar, deprived of external support, will quickly back down.

On the other hand, such tactics are fraught with a new round of armed struggle between the east and west of Libya - and an attempt by Tobruk to gain legitimacy by force. Especially since one of the conditions for ending the previous clashes was precisely the obligation of external forces to communicate not only with Tripoli.

Moreover, the east of the country is well aware of the effectiveness of the “migration bogeyman” and in response to increased pressure they may open their coastline to “caravans to Europe.” Or at least create such a conviction in their opponents.

Greece was the first to come under attack, being the one most outraged by the diplomatic scandal: the very next day after the incident in Benghazi, local media began writing about blackmail by the Haftar government. Allegedly, Tobruk demanded several billion dollars from Athens, threatening to “flood” the country with illegals in case of refusal.

And although the claims of blackmail may turn out to be rumors sponsored by Haftar's opponents, Europe took this as a signal and is in no hurry to sever ties with eastern Libya.
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A band of innovators reimagines the spy game for a world with no cover By David Ignatius July 10, 2025
2025-07-11
[WAPO] Aaron Brown was working as a CIA case officer in 2018 when he wrote a post for an agency blog warning about what he called "gait recognition." He cautioned his fellow officers that computer algorithms would soon be able to identify people not just by their faces, or fingerprints, or DNA — but by the unique ways they walked.

Many of his colleagues, trained in the traditional arts of disguise and concealment, were skeptical. One called it "threat porn." But Brown’s forecast was chillingly accurate. A study published in May reported that a model called FarSight, using gait, body and face recognition, was 83 percent accurate in verifying an individual at up to 1,000 meters, and was 65 percent accurate even when the face was obscured. "It’s hard to overstate how powerful that is," Brown said.

Brown’s story illustrates a profound transformation that is taking place in the world of intelligence. For spies, there is literally no place to hide. Millions of cameras around the world record every movement and catalogue it forever. Every action leaves digital tracks that can be studied and linked with others. Your cellphone and social media accounts tell the world precisely who and where you are.

Further, attempts at concealment can backfire in the digital age. An intelligence source told me that the CIA gave burner phones to a network of spies in a Middle Eastern country more than a decade ago and instructed them to turn the phones on only when sending operational messages. But the local security service had devised an algorithm that could identify "anomalous" phones that were used infrequently. The network was exposed by its attempt at secrecy.

"The more you try to hide, the more you stand out," Brown explained. He wouldn’t discuss the Middle East case or any other operational details. But the lesson is obvious: If you don’t have a cellphone or a social media profile these days, that could signal you’re a spy or criminal who’s trying to stay off the grid.

Brown, a wiry former Army Ranger and CIA counterterrorism officer, is one of a small group of ex-spies who are trying to reinvent American intelligence to survive in this age of "ubiquitous technical surveillance," or UTS. He launched a new company this year called Lumbra. Its goal is to build AI "agents" that can find and assess — and act upon — data that reveals an adversary’s intentions.

Lumbra is one of nearly a dozen start-ups that I’ve examined over the past several months to explore where intelligence is headed in 2025. It’s a dazzling world of new technology. One company uses data to identify researchers who may have connections to Chinese intelligence. Another interrogates big data systems the way an advertising company might, to identify patterns through what its founder calls "ADINT." A third uses a technology it calls "Obscura" to bounce cellphone signals among different accounts so they can’t be identified or intercepted.

Most of these intelligence entrepreneurs are former CIA or military officers. They share a fear that the intelligence community isn’t adapting fast enough to the new world of espionage. "Technologically, the agency can feel like a sarcophagus when you see everything that’s happening outside," worries Edward Bogan, a former CIA officer. He now works with a nonprofit called 2430 Group — the number was an early CIA cover address in Washington — that tries to help technology companies protect their work from adversaries.

The Trump administration recognizes this intelligence revolution, at least in principle. CIA Director John Ratcliffe said during confirmation hearings he wants to ramp up covert operations, with officers "going places no one else can go and doing things no one else can do." That’s a commendable goal, but if the agency doesn’t reinvent its tradecraft, Ratcliffe’s bold talk may well fail. Traditional operations will only expose the CIA and its sources to greater risk.

A CIA spokesperson said this week in response to a query: "Today’s digital environment poses as many opportunities as it does challenges. We’re an adaptable agency, and it is well within the ingenuity and creativity of our officers to develop ways to navigate effectively in complex environments. In fact, we are exploiting many of the same technologies to recruit spies and steal information."

Brown takes hope from the work that younger CIA officers are doing to reimagine the spy business: "Some of the agency’s smartest people are working on these tradecraft problems from sunup to sundown, and they are coming up with unique solutions."

The CIA’s technology challenge is a little-noted example of a transformation that’s happening in every area of defense and security. Today, smart machines can outwit humans. I’ve written about the algorithm war that has revolutionized the battlefield in Ukraine, where no soldier is safe from drones and precision-guided missiles. We’ve just seen a similar demonstration of precision targeting in Israel’s war against Iran. For soldiers and spies everywhere, following the old rules can get you killed.

(Illustration by Raven Jiang/For The Washington Post)
The art of espionage is thousands of years old. The Bible speaks of it, as do ancient Greek, Persian and Chinese texts. Through the ages, it has been based on two pillars: Spies operate in secret, masking who they are and what they’re doing (call it "cover"), and they use techniques to hide their movements and communications (call it "tradecraft"). Modern technology has shattered both pillars.

To recall the mystique of the CIA’s old-school tradecraft, consider Antonio J. Mendez, the agency’s chief of disguise in the 1980s. He described in a memoir how he created ingenious facial masks and other deceptions that could make someone appear to be a different race, gender, height and profile. Some of the disguises you see on "The Americans" or "Mission Impossible" use techniques developed by Mendez and his colleagues.

The CIA’s disguises and forgeries back then were like works of fine art. But the agency in its first few decades was also a technology pioneer — innovating on spy planes, satellite surveillance, battery technology and covert communications. Its tech breakthroughs were mostly secret systems, designed and built in-house.

The Silicon Valley tech revolution shattered the agency’s innovation model. Private companies began driving change and government labs were lagging.

Seeing the disconnect, CIA Director George Tenet in 1999 launched the agency’s own venture capital firm called "In-Q-Tel" to connect with tech start-ups that had fresh ideas that could help the agency. In-Q-Tel’s first CEO was Gilman Louie, who had previously been a video game designer. In-Q-Tel made some smart early investments, including in the software company Palantir and the weapons innovator Anduril.

But the CIA’s early attempts to create new tradecraft sometimes backfired. To cite one particularly disastrous example: The agency developed what seemed an ingenious method to communicate with its agents overseas using internet addresses that appeared to be news or hobby sites. Examples included an Iranian soccer site, a Rasta music page and a site for Star Wars fans, and dozens more, according to investigations by Yahoo News and Reuters.

The danger was that if one agent was caught, the technology trick could be exposed — endangering scores of other agents. It was like mailing secret letters that could be traced to the same postbox — a mistake the CIA had made with Iran years before.

Iran identified the internet ruse and began taking apart CIA networks around 2010. China soon did the same thing. The agency’s networks in both countries were largely destroyed from 2010 to 2012.

In a 2012 speech during his stint as CIA director, Gen. David H. Petraeus warned that the fundamentals of spying had changed: "We have to rethink our notions of identity and secrecy. ... Every byte left behind reveals information about location, habits, and, by extrapolation, intent and probable behavior."

But machines moved faster than humans in the spy world. That’s what I learned in my weeks of on-the-record discussions with former CIA officers working to develop the espionage tools of the future. They describe a cascade of commercial innovations — instant search, mobile phones, cheap cameras, limitless accessible data — that came so quickly the CIA simply couldn’t adapt at the speed of change.

Duyane Norman was one of the CIA officers who tried to move the system. In 2014, he returned from overseas to take a senior operations job. The agency was struggling then to recover from the collapse of its networks in Iran and China, and the fallout from Edward Snowden’s revelation of CIA and NSA secrets. Norman remembers thinking that "the foundations of our tradecraft were being disrupted," and the agency needed to respond.

Norman convinced his superiors that in his next overseas assignment, he should try to create what came to be called "the station of the future," which would test new digital technology and ideas that could improve offensive and defensive operations. This experiment had some successes, he told me, in combating surveillance and dropping outmoded practices. But the idea of a "station," usually based in an embassy, was still a confining box.

"You’re the CEO of Kodak," Norman says he warned Director Gina Haspel when he retired in 2019, recalling the camera and film company that dominated the industry before the advent of digital photography. Kodak missed the chance to change, and the world passed it by.

When I asked Norman to explain the CIA’s resistance to change, he offered another analogy. "If Henry Ford had gone to transportation customers and asked what they wanted, they would have said ’faster horses.’

"That’s what the CIA has been trying to build. Faster horses."

The intelligence community’s problem was partly that it didn’t trust technology that hadn’t been created by the government’s own secret agencies.

Mike Yeagley, a data scientist who runs a company called cohort.ID, discovered that in 2016 when he was working with commercial mobile phone location data. His business involved selling advertisers the data generated by phone apps. As a cellphone user moves from work to home — visiting friends, stores, doctors and every other destination — his device reveals his interests and likely buying habits.

Yeagley happened to be studying refugee problems back then, and he wondered if he could find data that might be useful to NGOs that wanted to help Syrians fleeing the civil war into Turkey. He bought Syrian cellphone data — cheap, because it had few commercial applications. Then, on a whim, he began looking for devices that dwelled near Fort Bragg, North Carolina — where America’s most secret Special Operations forces are based — and later appeared in Syria.

And guess what? He found a cluster of Fort Bragg phones pinging around an abandoned Lafarge cement plant in the northeast Syrian desert.

Bingo! The cement factory was the headquarters of the Joint Special Operations Command task force that was running America’s war against the Islamic State. It was supposed to be one of the most secret locations on the planet. When I visited several times over the past decade as an embedded journalist, I wasn’t allowed to walk more than 50 yards without an escort. And there it was, lighting up a grid on a commercial advertising data app.

Yeagley shared that information with the military back in 2016 — and they quickly tightened phone security. Commanders assumed that Yeagley must have hacked or intercepted this sensitive data.

"I bought it," Yeagley told them. Even the military’s security experts didn’t seem to realize that mobile phones had created a gold mine of information that was being plundered by advertisers but largely ignored by the government.

Thanks to advice from Yeagley and many other experts, data analytics is now a growing source of intelligence. Yeagley calls it "ADINT," because it uses techniques developed by the advertising industry. Who would have imagined that ad salespeople could move faster than secret warriors?

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Glenn Chafetz had been station chief in three countries when he returned to Langley in 2018 to take an assignment as the first "Chief of Tradecraft" in the operations directorate. It was the agency’s latest attempt to adapt to the new world, succeeding the Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance Working Group, which in turn had replaced the CCTV Working Group.

"People realized that the problem wasn’t just cameras, but payment systems, mobile apps, WiFi hubs — any technology that produced data that lived permanently," Chafetz recalls. But there was still a lack of understanding and resistance from many officers who had joined the CIA when there were no cellphones, digital cameras or Google.

For the older generation, tradecraft meant executing "surveillance detection routes" to expose and evade trackers. Case officers had all gone through field training to practice how to detect surveillance and abort agent meetings that might be compromised. They met their assets only if they were sure they were "black," meaning unobserved. But when cameras were everywhere, recording everything, such certainty was impossible.

Chafetz lead a team that tried to modernize tradecraft until he retired in 2019. But he remembers that an instructor in the agency’s training program admonished him, "New officers still need to learn the basics." The instructor didn’t seem to understand that the "basics" could compromise operations.

The tradecraft problem wasn’t just pervasive surveillance, but the fact that data existed forever. In the old days, explains Chafetz, "If you didn’t get caught red-handed, you didn’t get caught." But now, hidden cameras could monitor a case officer’s meandering route to a dead drop site and his location, long before and after. His asset might collect the drop a week later, but his movements would be recorded, before and after, too. Patterns of travel and behavior could be tracked and analyzed for telltale anomalies. Even when spies weren’t caught red-handed, they might be caught.

The CIA’s default answer to tradecraft problems, for decades, was greater reliance on "nonofficial cover" officers, known as NOCs. They could pose as bankers or business consultants, say, rather than as staffers in U.S. embassies. But NOCs became easier to spot, too, in the age of social media and forever-data. They couldn’t just drop into a cover job. They needed an authentic digital history including things like a "LinkedIn" profile that had no gaps and would never change.

For some younger CIA officers, there was a fear that human espionage might be nearly impossible. The "station of the future" hadn’t transformed operations. "Cover" was threadbare. Secret communications links had been cracked. The skeptics worried that the CIA model was irreparably broken.

After all my conversations with veteran CIA officers, I’ve concluded that the agency needs an entirely new tool kit. Younger officers inside recognize that change is necessary. Pushing this transformation from the outside are scores of tech-savvy officers who have recently left the CIA or the military. It’s impossible at this stage to know how many of these ventures will prove successful or important; some won’t pan out. The point is the urgent need to innovate.

Let’s start with cellular communications. That’s a special worry after Chinese intelligence penetrated deep inside the major U.S. telecommunications companies using a state-sponsored hacking group known as "Salt Typhoon." A solution is offered by a company called Cape, which sells customers, in and out of government, a mobile network that can disappear from the normal cellular grid and protect against other vulnerabilities.

Cape was founded in 2022 by John Doyle, who served as a U.S. Army Special Forces sergeant from 2003 to 2008 and then worked for Palantir. His "Obscura" technology bounces mobile phone identifiers among thousands of customers so it’s impossible to trace any of them. He calls his tactic "opportunistic obfuscation."

One of the most intriguing private intelligence companies is Strider Technologies, founded in 2019 by twin brothers Greg and Eric Levesque and chief data officer Mike Brown. They hired two prominent former CIA officers: Cooper Wimmer, who served in Athens, Vienna, Baghdad and Peshawar, and other locations; and Mark Pascale, a former station chief in both Moscow and Beijing. The company also recruited David Vigneault, former head of Canadian intelligence.

Strider describes itself as a "modern-day economic security agency." To help customers secure their innovation and talent, it plucks the secrets of adversaries like China and Russia that steal U.S. commercial information. China is vulnerable because it has big open-source databases of its own, which are hard to protect.

Using this data, Strider can analyze Chinese organizations and their employees; it can study Chinese research data, and how it was obtained and shared; it can analyze the "Thousand Talents" programs China uses to lure foreigners; it can track the contacts made by those researchers, at home and abroad; and it can identify connections with known Chinese intelligence organizations or front companies.

Eric Levesque explained to me how Strider’s system works. Imagine that a software engineer is applying to work for an international IT company. The engineer received a PhD from a leading American university. What research did he conduct there? Was it shared with Chinese organizations? What research papers has he published? Who in China has read or cited them? What Chinese companies (or front companies) has he worked for? Has this prospective employee touched any branch of the Chinese civil-military conglomerate?

Strider can operate inside what China calls the "Great Firewall" that supposedly protects its data. I didn’t believe this was possible until Levesque gave me a demonstration. On his computer screen, I could see the links, from a researcher in the West, to a "Thousand Talents" program, to a Ministry of State Security front company. It turns out that China hasn’t encrypted much of its data — because the authorities want to spy on their own citizens. China is now restricting more data, but Levesque says Strider hasn’t lost its access.

We’ve entered a new era where AI models are smarter than human beings. Can they also be better spies? That’s the conundrum that creative AI companies are exploring.

Scale AI sells a product called "Donovan," named after the godfather of the CIA, William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan. The product can "dig into all available data to rapidly identify trends, insights, and anomalies," says the company’s website. Alexandr Wang, the company’s founding CEO (who was just poached by Meta), explains AI’s potential impact by quoting J. Robert Oppenheimer’s statement that nuclear weapons produced "a change in the nature of the world."

Vannevar Labs, another recent start-up, is creating tools to "influence adversary behavior and achieve strategic outcomes." Its website explains: "We develop sophisticated collection, obfuscation, and ML (machine learning) techniques to provide assured access to mission relevant data."

The company’s name evokes Vannevar Bush, an MIT engineer who headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, which oversaw all major U.S. research projects during World War II, including the launch of the Manhattan Project.

Lumbra.ai, the company launched in March by Brown, seeks to create what he describes as a "central nervous system" that will connect the superintelligence of future AI models with software "agents." After leaving the CIA in 2021, Brown met with Sam Altman, the founder of Open AI, to refine his thinking. To describe what agentic AI can do, he offers this hypothetical: "We can find every AI researcher, read all the papers they’ve ever written, and analyze any threats their research may pose for the United States." Human spies could never be so adept.

LUMBRA

"No one said we have to collect intelligence only from humans," Brown tells me. "When a leader makes a decision, someone in the system has to take a step that’s observable in the data we can collect." Brown’s AI agents will create a plan and then build and use tools that can gather the observable information.

Brown imagines what he calls a "Case Officer in a Box." Conceptually, it would be a miniaturized version of an agentic system running a large language model, like Anthropic’s Claude. As an offline device, it could be carried in a backpack by anyone and left anywhere. It would speak every language and know every fact ever published. It could converse with an agent, asking questions that elicit essential information.

"Did you work in the Iranian weaponization program?" our Case Officer in a Box might ask a hypothetical Iranian recruit. "Where was your lab? In the Shariati complex? Okay, then, was it in the Shahid Karimi building or the Imam Khomeini building? Did you work on neutron triggers for a bomb? How close to completion was your research? Where did you last see the prototype neutron triggers? Show me on a map, please."

The digital case officer will make a great movie, but it’s probably unrealistic. "No one is going to put their life in the hands of a bot," cautioned Wimmer, a fabled CIA recruiter. The agent would suspect that the AI system was really a trick by his own country’s spies. Brown agrees that recruiting a human spy will probably always require another human being who can build the necessary bond of trust. But once that bond is achieved, he believes technology will enhance a spy’s impact in astonishing ways.

Here’s the final, essential point. Human spies in the field will become rare. Occasionally, a piece of information will be so precious that the CIA will risk the life of one of its officers, and the life of an agent, to collect the intelligence in person. But that kind of face-to-face spying will be the exception. The future of espionage is written in zeros and ones. The CIA will survive as a powerful spy agency only if it makes a paradigm shift.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel, EU agree to boost Gaza aid: ‘More trucks, more crossings, and more routes’
2025-07-11
[IsraelTimes] Israel to open several aid corridors, including through Egypt and Jordan, allow bakeries and kitchens to reopen, ensure security for aid workers, repair vital infrastructure

Israel and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 have agreed upon "significant steps" to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 Strip "in the coming days," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced Thursday.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar confirmed the agreement, saying the security cabinet decided last Sunday on measures "to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza," including "more trucks, more crossings, and more routes for the humanitarian efforts."

Speaking alongside Austrian Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephu, Sa’ar thanked his counterparts "for the fruitful dialogue that we are conducting — with you and the EU — on the humanitarian issue."

The discussions are "based on an understanding of human needs and of the threat that Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
 and the Gaza Strip have posed to Israel over the past 20 years," added Sa’ar, saying, "this dialogue is important and it will continue."

The announcements by Sa’ar and Kallas confirmed an earlier report by Bloomberg, which said that a deal had been reached enabling the reopening of several aid corridors, including humanitarian routes through Egypt and Jordan, and several other crossing points in northern and southern Gaza.

"These measures are or will be implemented in the coming days, with the common understanding that aid at scale must be delivered directly to the population and that measures will continue to be taken to ensure that there is no aid diversion to Hamas," Kallas said.

According to the top European diplomat, the agreement will see a "substantial increase" in the daily entry of trucks supplying food and non-food items; the opening of several crossing points in northern and southern Gaza; the reopening of humanitarian routes through Egypt and Jordan; resumed operations of bakeries and public kitchens in Gaza; resumed fuel deliveries to humanitarian facilities "up to an operational level"; security for aid workers; and reparations on works for "vital infrastructure like the resumption of the power supply to the water desalination facility."

"The EU stands ready to coordinate with all relevant humanitarian stakeholders, United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
 agencies and NGOs on the ground, to ensure swift implementation of those urgent steps," added Kallas, adding that the EU "calls again for an immediate ceasefire" and release of all hostages.

Since late May, Israel has handed authority over aid distribution in Gaza to the Israel- and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in a stated effort to prevent aid supplies from reaching Hamas. The GHF’s operations have been strongly criticized by the international community for failing to address the humanitarian needs in Gaza.

It is unclear under which bodies the expanded aid measures will be operated.

The EU has been increasingly critical of the humanitarian situation in Gaza amid Israel’s war against Hamas, which began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led bully boyz murdered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel and took 251 hostages.

Israel has said that it respects international law and that operations in Gaza are necessary to destroy Hamas.

The EU is Israel’s biggest commercial partner, with 42.6 billion euros ($48.2 billion) traded in goods in 2024. Trade in services reached 25.6 billion euros in 2023.

More than 100 aid groups and other organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, last month urged Brussels to suspend the EU-Israel association agreement "at least in part."

Spain has also called for the agreement to be suspended, while Germany has come out against such a move.

Suspending the EU-Israel accord outright would require unanimity among member states — something diplomats have said from the outset was virtually impossible.

Halting diplomatic dialogue with Israel — a measure that was already rejected last year — also requires backing from all EU countries.

Trade measures could instead be adopted with a qualified majority, diplomats have said, cautioning, however, that agreeing on those might also prove tricky.
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Fifth Column
Trump team used Canary Mission site to target anti-Israel activists for deportation
2025-07-11
Open source information added to the usual government intelligence, checked using the usual government resources before acting on it to achieve legal objectives laid out clearly by the president — I don’t see how there could be any valid objection.
[IsraelTimes] US Department of Homeland Security official testifies agency used controversial website that catalogs academics’ anti-Israel statements, amid free speech lawsuit by professors

Newly unsealed court records and trial testimony show that top Trump administration officials relied heavily on Canary Mission, a controversial website that targets pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel activists, as part of a secretive effort to deport foreign students and academics from American universities.
Not all that secretive, given how many cases are trumpeted in the press at the time.
The revelations emerged during an ongoing federal lawsuit in Boston brought by the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association, challenging what they call "ideological deportations" that they say violate the US Constitution’s First Amendment.

The case is one of the most closely watched challenges to US President Donald Trump
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
’s deportation efforts.

A Department of Homeland Security "tiger team" formed in 2019 built dossiers on thousands of noncitizen academics and students by pulling names from a public list of 5,000 individuals compiled by Canary Mission, according to Politico’s reporting on the trial.

The site — which publishes profiles of pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel activists, identifying protests they’ve participated in and often archiving inflammatory posts they’ve made on social media — became a primary resource for the team, according to sworn testimony from DHS official Peter Hatch.

Hatch, the assistant director for intelligence at Homeland Security Investigations, testified that more than 75% of the deportation referrals prepared by his unit were based on names first identified through Canary Mission, adding that the information was independently verified before being compiled into official reports, according to Politico.

"Many of the names or even most of the names came from that website, but we were getting names and leads from many different websites," Hatch said.

"We received information on the same protesters from multiple sources, but Canary Mission was the most inclusive. The lists came in from all different directions."

"Canary Mission is not a part of the US government," he said. "It is not information that we would take as an authoritative source. We don’t work with the individuals who create the website. I don’t know who creates the website."

Trump officials cited another pro-Israel outside group as a key source of intelligence: Betar USA.

The right-wing Zionist group that has taken a confrontational stance toward Moslem and pro-Paleostinian student organizations claimed earlier this year that it provided the government with a list of targets for deportation.

In February, the Anti-Defamation League added Betar USA to its list of holy warrior groups, citing its open Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
 and alleged harassment of pro-Paleostinian activists.

Canary Mission did not respond to a request for comment from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, but in a statement to Politico, it denied collaborating with any government agencies, insisting that its goal is solely to document antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment.

"We document individuals and groups that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews. We investigate hatred across the political spectrum, including the far-right, far-left and anti-Israel activists," the group said.

Critics say the group’s anonymous structure and doxxing tactics have created a climate of fear on college campuses.

This week’s trial testimony also shed light on the role of top Trump advisor Stephen Miller in the deportation campaign. Officials testified that Miller, who is Jewish, was regularly involved in interagency meetings focused on deporting pro-Paleostinian or anti-Israel students.

John Armstrong, acting chief of the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, testified he had "at least a dozen" conversations with White House officials about the deportation initiative, according to Politico.

Armstrong confirmed that Miller participated in interagency conference calls "at one point at least weekly," with calls lasting between 15 minutes and an hour, often including officials from the State and Homeland Security departments.

In the months since Trump took office, immigration authorities made several arrests of high-profile pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel student activists who are not citizens, and sought to deport them from the US.

None was accused of a crime, but the administration has invoked its executive authority under immigration law to turn away non-citizens whom it deems a national security threat, even if they have not committed a crime.

All of those arrested have since been freed from detention, and judges have said the arrests may have been unconstitutional.
Related:
Canary Mission: 2025-03-30 An inside look at Jewish Onliner, the anonymous website that got a Yale scholar suspended
Canary Mission: 2025-03-28 As Turkish student held, Rubio says US revoked visas of over 300 anti-Israel ‘lunatics’
Canary Mission: 2023-11-02 Video and story: Ibrahim Bharmal, EDITOR of the Harvard Law Review assults an Israeli student
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Five killed in bombing at Gaza school
2025-07-11
[GEO.TV] The Israeli army has bombed the Halimah al-Saadiyah School in Jabalia an-Nazla, in which displaced Palestinians were sheltering, killing at least five people, Al Jazeera reported, citing sources at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Gaza officials say 8 children among 13 killed in strike IDF says targeted Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist

[IsraelTimes] IDF says it’s probing reports of civilian casualties in incident that appears to hit medical clinic; footage shows bodies of women and children lying in pools of blood amid dust and screaming

An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah on Thursday targeted a Hamas terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught, the military said. Palestinian media reported that at least 13 people were killed in the strike, including eight small children and two women who were receiving medical treatment.

The IDF said it was “aware of the claim about casualties in the area,” adding that the incident was being investigated.

According to the Al-Rad channel, some of the casualties had been receiving treatment and supplementary nutrition at a nearby medical center when the strike hit.

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said Thursday afternoon that at least 52 people were killed in Israeli strikes since morning. These numbers cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Civil defense official Mohammad al-Mughair told AFP that eight children and two women were among the dead following the strike in Deir al-Balah, adding Israeli aircraft targeted “a gathering of citizens in front of a medical point.”

Four people were killed and several injured in a predawn airstrike on a family home in Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza, Mughair added.

In its daily update on the fighting, the military said over 180 targets were struck by the Israeli Air Force in the Gaza Strip over the previous day, including operatives, booby-trapped buildings, weapon depots, anti-tank launch posts, tunnels, and other infrastructure.

The strikes come as five IDF divisions, made up of tens of thousands of troops, continue to operate across Gaza.

In northern Gaza, the IDF says troops of the 401st Armored Brigade located several weapons and tunnel shafts used by Hamas. The troops also located a cell of Hamas operatives in a building and directed a drone strike against them, according to the IDF.

Similarly, the military said troops of the elite Multi-Domain Unit spotted a cell of Islamic Jihad operatives in a building and called in a drone strike.

On Wednesday, an IDF soldier was killed during a Hamas attempt to abduct him in southern Gaza, and a soldier with the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion was seriously wounded during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF said.

The soldier was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Giving a broader tally, the military said dozens of enemy operatives were killed and over 130 “terror infrastructures,” both above and below ground, were demolished by troops of the Golani Brigade during operations in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis in the past week. Among the sites was a 500-meter-long, 13-meter-deep Hamas tunnel, the military says. The elite Yahalom combat engineering unit destroyed it. Other sites included caches of weapons, booby-trapped buildings, observation posts, and mortar launching positions, the military said.
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India-Pakistan
Army's top brass reiterates resolve to take action at all levels against India-backed proxies
2025-07-11
[GEO.TV] The Pakistan Army's top brass has reiterated its vow to take decisive and holistic actions at all levels against the Indian backed and sponsored proxies, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Thursday.

The 271st Corps Commanders' Conference (CCC), held in Rawalpindi under the chairmanship of Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, Chief of Army Staff, observed that India is intensifying its actions against Pakistan following its recent defeat in the war.

Pakistan and India went to war in May after New Delhi launched attacks on Islamabad, claiming that it was involved in the attack on tourists in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam — an allegation that the Pakistani government has denied.

Although the war stopped within 90 hours after Pakistan's decisive response, the government has said that Indian carried out numerous terrorist activities in Pakistan via its proxies since the clash.

During the high-level meeting, the CCC offered Fateha for the martyrs of recent terrorist attacks carried out by Indian-sponsored proxies, vowing that their sacrifices would not go in vain.
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Arabia
Israel urging US to resume strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, form broad coalition — report
2025-07-11
[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem said to tell Washington that attacks on ships in Red Sea ‘can no longer remain solely an Israeli problem’; Houthis launch a second missile Thursday, which falls short of Israel

Amid intensified attacks by Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s on maritime traffic, Israel has asked the United States to renew military operations against the rebels, Israeli television reported Thursday.
The Iran-backed Houthis — who control large swathes of Yemen, but are not the country’s internationally recognized government — reached a ceasefire agreement with the US in May, and then stopped their attacks on fat merchantmen for some two months. This week, however, they attacked and sank two vessels, killing at least four people.

Israel has told the US that ongoing Houthi assaults on shipping "can no longer remain solely an Israeli problem," the Kan public broadcaster reported.

Jerusalem called for "more intense combined attacks against Houthi regime targets — not just [Israeli] air force fighter jet strikes, but also a renewal of American attacks and the formation of a coalition including additional countries," a source familiar with the matter told the outlet.

An unnamed security official told Kan that Israel’s request for US involvement came in response to expanding Houthi aggression, saying: "A broad coalition is needed to convey to the Houthi regime that it is in danger."

The report came on the final day of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington. It did not say at what level the message was communicated.

The Houthis on Thursday also continued their ballistic missile attacks on Israel, which they did not pause as part of their ceasefire with the US, shooting two missiles at the Jewish state.

The first missile, fired in the morning, was intercepted outside Israel’s borders. The second, shortly before 10 p.m., fell short before reaching Israel; accordingly, it triggered no sirens, though its launch was identified by the military.

HOUTHI CHIEF VOWS TO KEEP UP ATTACKS ON ISRAEL-LINKED SHIPS
The Iran-backed group’s leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, declared Thursday that his militia will continue to attack any ship transporting goods linked to Israel if it attempts to pass through the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, or Arabian Sea.

He said the attacks would continue "as long as the aggression and siege of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 persist."

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Thursday he expects Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to exert its influence over the Houthis to make them stop attacking ships in the Red Sea.

"We condemn this in the strongest possible terms and expect Iran to exert its influence on the Houthis to put an end to it," said Wadephul at a presser in Vienna, alongside his Israeli and Austrian counterparts.

"This shows that we need an understanding with Iran as a whole, not only regarding the development, the possible development of nuclear weapons, but also regarding Iran’s regional behavior," he said.
What arrogant idiocy. Why on earth would Iran do such a thing? What leverage does a kaffir nation like Germany have, one that cannot project power to the Gulf of Iran and is clustered with the nations that buy less than 2% of Iran’s oil and whose sales, if I understand correctly, to Iran fell last year?

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Houthi videos show attacks that sank two ships in Red Sea this week
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[IsraelTimes] Missiles, drones, attack boats used; 4 killed on Eternity C, 10 rescued, 11 missing; rebels chant ‘death to America, death to Israel, curse the Jews’ as ship sinks; Magic Seas crew escaped

Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s rebels in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
 released footage on Wednesday showing their deadly attack on the Eternity C fat merchantman in the Red Sea, and its subsequent sinking.

Earlier, a similar video showed an attack on the Magic Seas, which was also sunk.

Maritime officials said Houthis killed four of the 25 people aboard the Eternity C before the rest abandoned the cargo ship. Eternity C went down Wednesday morning after attacks on two previous days, sources at security companies involved in a rescue operation said.

A European naval force in the Mideast said 10 of the 25 people who were on board have been rescued, four of them pulled from the sea on Thursday.

The Houthis claim to have "rescued" a number of the others in what the US has denounced as kidnappings.

Houthi military front man Yahya Saree said the attack was carried out with an unmanned vessel and six cruise and ballistic missiles.

The Houthis later released footage of the group launching missiles at the Eternity C.

The bridge appeared heavily damaged by the attack and oil leaked from the vessel.

The video included a radio conversation between that captain and Houthis as they warned him the ship would be attacked if he did not stop, which he refused to do, insisting the vessel was in a permitted waterway.

The ship took on water from holes along its waterline before sinking beneath the waves, the rebels chanting: "God is the greatest; death to America; death to Israel; curse the Jews; victory to Islam."

"The naval force of the Yemeni Armed Forces targeted the ship Eternity C," Saree said, claiming that the vessel was headed for the Israeli port of Eilat and was attacked in support of Paleostinians in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Operation Aspides — the EU naval task force in the Red Sea — told AFP one of the maimed crew had lost his leg.

On Monday, the Houthis said they hit the Magic Seas because its owner had done business with Israel and used its ports.

The Eternity C and the Magic Seas both flew Liberian flags and were operated by Greek firms. Some of the sister vessels in each of their wider fleets had made calls to Israeli ports in the past year, shipping data analysis showed.

The rebels released a video showing masked button men storming the Magic Seas and simultaneous explosions that scuttled the bulk carrier.

All the crew from the Magic Seas were rescued before it sank.

The Houthis, who say they are attacking ships to support Gaza amid the war there between Israel and the Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
 terror group, have also directly targeted Israel with ballistic missiles, most recently early Thursday morning.

The Houthis said they attacked Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv with a ballistic missile.

Israel’s air defense systems intercepted the missile before it reached the country, though the attack set off sirens in many areas.

From November 2023 until the following December, the Houthis targeted more than 100 ships with missiles and drones in a campaign the rebels describe as supporting Paleostinians in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas war. The Iranian-backed rebels stopped their attacks during a brief ceasefire in the war. They later became the target of an intense weekslong campaign of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s ordered by US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
, which ended with a ceasefire between the terror group and the US.

This week, the US appeared to indicate that it will not tolerate further attacks that disrupt shipping.

"These attacks demonstrate the ongoing threat that Iran-backed Houthi rebels pose to freedom of navigation and to regional economic and maritime security," US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said Tuesday. "The United States has been clear: We will continue to take necessary action to protect freedom of navigation and commercial shipping from Houthi terrorist attacks."
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