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13 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Israeli tech on display: With the first delivery of the first Iron Dome battery to the US Army underway, and as it prepares to complete the deliveries of the last TROPHY Active Protection Systems for the US Abrams, Rafael
Advanced Defense Systems participating in AUSA 2020
"At the heart of Rafael's systems, are advanced artificial intelligence and deep learning capabilities that optimize performance...at the heart of two of Rafael's leading next generation technologies, that have been integrated into its Suite for Future Armored Vehicles,"
Rafael: "Rafael is a leading supplier and integrator of a full armament upgrade package, including both 4 th and 5 th generation stand-off Precision Guided electro-optical (EO) Spike missiles...and the Firefly, a mini, portable, BLOS close-combat Loitering Munitions (LM) system."
Some details: nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/isra…
Also looks like Israel tech featured here also:
An details on the Firefly weapon; c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2020/…

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A key component of the industry of Israel hatred is to portray Israelis as not from the Middle East; it is the same building blocks of the hatred of Kurds by genocidal regimes in the region who tried to redefine them as non-Kurdish or erase their language, names and rights.
One has to understand the Middle East rooted antisemitism today as part of this industry, separate from European antisemitism which portrayed Jews as foreign...in the Middle East the new antisemitism does the same thing, denying Jewish history in the region.
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It seems Jews aren’t allowed to play Cleopatra despite Mid-East roots m.jpost.com/opinion/it-see…
Here you can see how Al-Jazeera tries to claim that Jewish actresses are "white" and clam that "Arab or Black" actresses should play Cleopatra...even though Jews lived in Egypt for thousands of years...this is part of the agenda to try to disconnect Jews from their history
You notice that Al-Jazeera here won't acknowledge that Jews are also black...including 170,000 Ethiopian Jews in Israel...and that Jews are from all these Middle Eastern countries...just like Kurds, Jews are from the Middle East and an entirely normal choice for regional roles.
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She trusted the US and its role would help stabilize eastern Syria, instead she was betrayed. None of those US diplomats she had worked with before ever apologized. A lot of vulnerable people in Middle East suffered because of Ankara’s ability to always bully NATO, EU, US, UN
Anyone who digs too deeply into this story will find US diplomats who worked with Ankara and quietly supported their destruction of Afrin and targeting of innocent people like Hevrin, maybe even drone and surveillance footage of the area shared with Ankara as she was hunted down
Notice the same UN organizations that are supposed to investigate “extrajudicial assassinations” don’t dare touch this...days after Ankara invasion the UN even seemed to support Ankara’s concept of ethnic cleansing and changing demographics
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It's interesting to me when I see individuals tagging the head of a social media company complaining about some arbitrary decision...it's like if people had just written the CEOs of fast food restaurants to ask for health info on menus..."please Bob..."...government regulation...
When you have a big gorilla of social media giants doing things and you want answers...you need another big gorilla of government to step in the ring...not just complain to the CEO about whether basic transparency, like nutrition/ingredient facts on food, should exist.
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Interesting that in Turkey and in Israel there were fires over last few days and the knee-jerk reaction for some was to blame "arson" and "terrorism" in both countries...without much or any evidence...I guess these days it is just easy to blame everything on "terrorism"
In the past we have seen waves of fires in Israel, with stories of the "fire intifada" spread in media, and most of it did not turn out to be accurate. From time to time there are of course incidents of arson.
I live in Israel so I can judge when I think things are exaggerated or lack evidence...as far as Ankara media is concerned I don't believe basically anything from the pro-government media or social media armies. I think it's all warmongering propaganda. Worse than Iran media.
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Thread: Have you noticed that some of those who claim to oppose the Iranian regime, claim to support minorities in Iran, such as Kurds. But I'd bet that when the regime falls some of those voices would quickly shift to supporting a "strong, nationalist" Tehran
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The track record in other places shows this. Minority groups are often used when it is convenient, but long-term there is little interest in having federalism or rights for them. And often they are accused, if they want "too many" rights, of "destabilizing" a country.
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