U.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.

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    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.

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    One of the deepest fractures in Israeli politics has emerged not over opposition to the country’s war crimes—but over who is expected to fight and who is exempt.

    In case anyone’s confused the contradictions include regrets over what’s been done in Gaza.

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      Yup. Young men pretend to be Haredi for a few years to avoid service so now they only have the ultra theological nuts to draft from.

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    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.

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    Could but very unlikely. Guess cia needs to consider everything. Also we need to stop using civil war to mean civil unrest.

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    That would be the weirdest possible turn of events.

    And like, every single supporter of Israel would be stumped, because they would need to think about which Israel to back.

    Absolute cinema. Good idea for a fictional alternate timeline.

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    A) US Intelligence says a lot of things.

    B) Do you think Trump would allow any kind of major unrest in Israel right now?

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        Do you think the US military can’t come in and help stabilize a government that is experiencing internal fighting? Do you think financial aid to a sitting government doesn’t help it deal with civil infighting?

        Do you think Trump has any qualms whatsoever giving away taxpayer money or sending in the US military if it helps him somehow, like maybe because Netanyahu has dirt on him?

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      As if Trump’s the one running the show. He’s more of a mascot of the US empire than anything. Takes all the punches while the secret government of oligarchs remains invisible

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    That would cause so much suffering to the innocent people that live there…that have been supporting their right wing government in orchestrating genocide.