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24 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
How come when the US developed armed drones it was considered controversial... literally had all these articles about how bad they were...Turkey and China develop armed drones and suddenly it’s totally fine when they sell them. Zero controversy 🤔
People still ask about whether Israel has armed drones like this would be controversial. It doesn’t make sense. It’s only controversial “drone strikes” if some countries do it 🤔
Ankara openly brags about exporting ARMED drones. And those virtue signalers who used to care about this issue and want rules against armed drones in places like Europe are like “oh that’s fine”...
I think we all understand it. It’s always fine when authoritarian states do it. Like chemical weapons or nuclear weapons. The anti-nuclear weapon crowd in the West never cared about Soviet nukes.

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Seth Frantzman Profile picture
24 May
🧵 Lots of people like math and read that Israel’s Iron Dome had a 90% success rate at interceptions. Then they compare the nunber to the overall rockets fired in the recent war, some 4,300, and do math. But that’s not the number they should use.
Example May 16, 2021 “IDF: As of 19:00, approximately 3,100 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli territory, of which approximately 450 failed launches fell in the Gaza Strip.
The Iron Dome Air Defense System has intercepted approximately 1210 rockets.”
If you do the math you’ll think that there is something missing. Indeed, the 1,210 nunber is 90% of the rockets that the system attempted to intercept” DO NOT use the overall number of rockets. Most fall in open space or even fail to launch.
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23 May
Interesting how when an Air France flight was hijacked in 1976 the Captain Michel Bacos and crew remained with the hostages, in the recent state hijacking of a flight, the flight left without one passenger and won't even say so in a statement, the EU also didn't mention it.
What's missing:
What's missing here:
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23 May
There are basically three types of anti-Israel protesters.
1. The left wing types who are into various causes.
2. The people who come for the fun of it.
3. Far-right types who are basically genocidal extremists but who found a cause that lets them channel hate as "human rights"
Among the far-right types are all those who are responsible for violence, gangs of young men, many of them who look similar to extremist sectarian militias in places like Iraq more than a "peace protest"...who seek out minorities in the West to attack.
Their sectarian mentality is basically genocidal. We're not supposed to admit what guides these folk or watch closely their behavior, but the attacks in UK, NY, California and elsewhere are all the same and guided by men whose mentality is right wing sectarian nationalist hate.
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21 May
Thread: About ten days too late Israel's IDF has been briefing international media on all aspects of the conflict with Gaza, including logic behind striking large buildings...but honestly they should have done this on day 1 to set the narrative about the goals and strategy
They didn't need to give anything away but could have briefed media on Hamas and its use of civilian areas...something that is known but deserved to be said again and again with evidence. Problem is Israel didn't brief much foreign media or diplomats on May 10-14.
It's not that Israel would have convinced the extremists, but it would have been less behind the curve. Instead it struck the Al-Jala tower leaving a lot of questions and controversy. Even opening days of war led to questions about strikes on large buildings. And "proportion."
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20 May
The drone threat is growing, and it's worth reading @Mikeknightsiraq about how Kataib Hezbollah became the key leader in Iraq for pro-Iran drone operations; and it is interesting that Israel has said an Iranian drone flew from "Iraq or Syria"

washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
Recently a drone was shot down on May 18 in Israel, see @inbarspace
Not the first time Iran did this, similar area in February 2018; from T-4 in Syria; #dronewars
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20 May
THREAD #Israel Up until May 10 Israel was focused on the Iranian threat, mostly trying to "manage" Gaza through mediation or Qatar or other things, without letting it drag Israel into war; but then Israel retaliated for the rocket fire on Jerusalem
Meanwhile Israel ignored escalation in the north, include a drone that was apparently sent by Iran; there was a time Israel would have struck in Syria over that, but the Gaza distraction meant Israel lost deterrence against Iran in exchange little in Gaza, jpost.com/middle-east/ir…
Israel had much to lose by being dragged into the battle with Hamas, and it was diminishing returns since 2009; and Hamas had MUCH to gain due to the postponed elections and letting Iran test Israel's defenses.
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