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טריוויה מעניינת:
מתוך 120 חברי הכנסת החדשה, רק 11 הם בעלי תואר דוקטור בתחומים שונים.
9 מתוך ה־11 שייכים למפלגות הערביות, ואחד מהם, יוסף ג׳בארין, נושא גם בתואר פרופסור.
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Dockworkers at more than 100 ports to strike against arms shipments on Friday reuters.com/business/world-a…
There is a country that still imports weapons, bombs, and munitions while it has been committing genocide for the past three years. Just a reminder.
#Israel
Iran created a secret network of military agencies to import at least $2 billion in hardware, explosives and heavy-duty trucks since January 2025, evading both the US naval blockade and Western sanctions, a Reuters investigation found reut.rs/3UNGyfk
"The more things change, the more they stay the same"
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"
#Israel #IsraelElections
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Leaked comments reveal Mossad provoked mass Iranian arrests to protect covert agents
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Former Mossad director David Barnea claims that Israeli intelligence deliberately publicized video footage of covert operations inside Iran to trigger mass arrests, using Iranian citizens to shield its actual operational network.
According to leaked comments published by The Jerusalem Post and video footage verified by Yedioth Ahronoth, Barnea admitted during a closed-door address at the Priority Summit that the Israeli spy agency intentionally released real-time footage during the June 2025 military confrontation to overwhelm Iranian security forces.
Barnea explained that Mossad sought to provoke sweeping detentions so that Iranian counterintelligence "wouldn't be able to distinguish the wheat from the chaff.".
The former intelligence chief claims that a vast majority of those swept up by Iranian authorities under espionage charges had no operational connection to Mossad.
This claims mean that Israel intentionally manufactured conditions designed to spark systemic panic within Iran, and that Israeli intelligence calculatedly exposed ordinary Iranian citizens to potential detention to preserve its own intelligence assets working covertly within Iran.
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What former Mossad chief David Barnea has revealed is a shocking admission of an intelligence operation that knowingly put 1000s of innocent Iranians at risk of imprisonment, torture, and execution, all to protect Israeli agents operating inside Iran. According to @Jerusalem_Post, Barnea acknowledged that Mossad deliberately publicized footage of its covert operations inside Iran during the June 2025 war, intending to provoke mass arrests and overwhelm Iranian security forces.
“We wanted to make sure they arrested so many people in Iran that they wouldn’t be able to distinguish the wheat from the chaff,” he said.
Barnea claimed that Iranian authorities arrested 21,000 people on the 2nd day of the war. He also acknowledged that many of those arrested or executed as alleged Mossad agents had nothing to do with the agency, while nearly all actual Mossad operatives escaped capture.
Think about the extraordinary cruelty of that calculation.
Israeli intelligence officials understood the nature of the govt they were dealing with: a repressive state with a documented record of arbitrary detention, torture, forced confessions, and executions. Yet, according to Barnea’s own account, they deliberately sought to exploit those very practices, making ordinary Iranians the expendable human cost of protecting their operatives.
I think about the 1000s of families who may have been caught between an Israeli intelligence operation and an Iranian security apparatus gripped by fear of infiltration. The fathers and mothers of whose children disappeared into detention centers. The young people whose only political involvement may have been protesting for a better life. The students, workers, and ordinary citizens who could suddenly find themselves accused of collaborating with a foreign intelligence service.
For them, an arrest is not a temporary inconvenience in an intelligence game. It can mean months or years in prison, torture, a coerced confession, a destroyed future, or a death sentence.
Human rights organizations have documented how Iranian authorities used the war to intensify repression, including mass arrests and executions on allegations of espionage and collaboration with Israel.
The Iranian government bears direct responsibility for every arbitrary arrest, every act of torture, and every unlawful execution. Nothing Israel did absolves Tehran of those crimes.
But Israel cannot escape scrutiny and accountability for deliberately engineering conditions in which it knew innocent people could become targets of that repression.
What Barnea describes is not simply clever intelligence work. It raises profound questions about the deliberate exploitation of foreseeable harm to civilians in pursuit of military and intelligence objectives.
And perhaps the most disturbing part is the apparent indifference to what happened to those people afterward.
For Mossad, the measure of success was whether its agents survived and escaped detection. For Iranian families, the consequences could last a lifetime.
The lives of ordinary Iranians are not disposable assets in an intelligence operation. Their imprisonment, suffering, and deaths cannot be dismissed as the acceptable price of protecting foreign agents..
International humanitarian law does not give intelligence agencies a free pass to deliberately expose civilians to foreseeable harm. If Mossad intentionally provoked mass arrests in Iran, knowing that innocent people could face torture, imprisonment, or execution, this raises serious questions of international legal responsibility, including potential complicity in war crimes. As I said, Iranian government bears direct responsibility for its repression, but that does not absolve Israeli officials of responsibility for deliberately exploiting it. The lives of innocent civilians cannot be treated as expendable assets in an intelligence operation.
This revelation deserves serious scrutiny, independent investigation. jpost.com/middle-east/iran-n…
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The West has a remarkable talent for manufacturing its own enemies. Mohammad Mossadegh was Iran’s democratically elected prime minister. His crime was not abolishing elections or erecting concentration camps. His crime was insisting that Iranian oil should primarily benefit Iranians rather than foreign corporations. So Britain and the United States helped overthrow him, replacing democracy with the Shah’s dictatorship. Every lecture about freedom delivered since then has had to compete with the memory of 1953.
The pattern never really changed. Democracy is applauded when it delivers governments aligned with Western interests. When voters choose the wrong people, democracy suddenly becomes optional. Coups, sanctions, dictators, invasions, then bewilderment when the puppet eventually falls and something far more hostile takes its place. Western hegemony has spent decades killing democracy abroad, only to discover that the regimes it installs are eventually overthrown as well. Few geopolitical strategies have been so spectacularly self-defeating.
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Reporting from Paris, Israeli "journalist" Neria Kraus, of i24 News (Channel 15), interviewed "Ali", suposedly a local resident whose parents are from Baghdad.
Well, it turns out that "Ali" is actually Hezi Gangina, an Israeli tourist who lives in the South Tel Aviv neighborhood of Kfar Shalem, built on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Salama.
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When the military entered Milan, the destruction moved to Bologna.
The European Autumn™️ is progressing. The young have had enough of “no jobs for you” and “we need to ruin our economy for Ukraine and the climate.”
They never thought of the young.
FAFO
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Saudi Arabia has been executing dissidents, jailing journalists, and conducting a war in Yemen that has produced one of the worst humanitarian crises on earth.
Britain, France, and America have sold it weapons throughout.
Not reluctantly. Not with conditions. Enthusiastically, with trade delegations and arms fairs and billions in contracts.
The same governments that speak about Muslim extremism as an "existential threat" to "Western values" are the primary suppliers of the regime that funds the specific theological tradition, Wahhabism, most associated with the extremism they claim to be fighting.
This is not a paradox.
It is a policy.
The extremism is useful. The weapons sales are profitable. The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is not a television story in most Western countries.
If you want to understand Islamophobia, not as a cultural accident but as a political function, start here.
Start with who benefits from a population that fears Islam in the abstract and cannot see the arms deal in the specific.
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Share this and tell folks to study it. This is a common tactic employed by the reactionary forces of the state to try and discredit protest movements everywhere.
🔴 À Metz, deux policiers dissimulés, vêtus de noir et encagoulés, ont jeté des grenades dans une rue passante avant d’être escortés et exfiltrés par d’autres policiers.
Cette scène s’est déroulée à Metz, dans la ruelle située à l’arrière du café Blondel.
Partout en France, des foules immenses et pacifiques ont défilé ce samedi 17 octobre contre la vie chère et dans la continuité de la révolte de la jeunesse, en mouvement depuis trois semaines pour abroger Parcoursup, changer les rythmes et obtenir des conditions d'éducation dignes.
Pour tenter d'étouffer le mouvement, Sébastien Lecornu et Laurent Nuñez ont organisé le chaos et multiplié les violences contre les manifestants lycéens, étudiants, salariés, fonctionnaires et autres secteurs de la société mobilisés dans ce mouvement d'une ampleur jamais vu depuis mai 1968.
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La France est en train de sombrer, sous nos yeux, dans une violence qui ne cherche plus d’autre fin qu’elle-même. La crise a cédé la place au chaos et, désormais, c’est tout le cours de notre vie politique qui semble être sorti de son axe.
Les Français ont le sentiment, compréhensible, de ne plus être gouvernés. Le sentiment plus grave encore d’assister en même temps à l’effondrement de l’Etat et à la dissolution de la société.
Lorsqu’on voit ces images insupportables d’affrontements dans nos rues, à Toulouse, Lyon, Marseille et Paris, comme dans tant d’autres villes ; lorsqu’on voit brûler ou saccager des lieux publics qui incarnent notre République ; lorsqu’on mesure le désir de vengeance sans fin que nourrit le spectacle du chaos, une seule pensée s’impose : la France est en train de céder à la fascination de la violence.
Elle s’abandonne à elle. Elle fantasme la guerre civile au point de risquer de la faire advenir. Il n’y a, dans cette affaire, aucun camp qui puisse se targuer d’être sans tache. La violence engendre la violence. C’est une spirale dont les nations ne sortent qu’au prix de profondes blessures.
C’est pour cela que chacun de nous doit résister à la tentation. À la peur. À la colère. Chacun de nous doit chercher avec sang-froid les réponses collectives et constructives à cette situation qui n’est ni nouvelle - souvenons-nous du 1er décembre 2018 - ni terminée, car nous sentons bien que ces violences s’inscrivent dans un duel fratricide entre les extrêmes qui écrase la France pacifique et qui menace de dominer notre vie politique pendant plusieurs années. C’est un crime contre la paix sociale, civile et territoriale. Alors, résistons à l’esprit de la violence.
C’est le message que le président de la République doit adresser aux Français dès ce soir. Ce souci de préserver la paix tant qu’il est temps, c’est l’expérience et le combat de toute ma vie, sur les questions internationales autant que nationales.
J’entends les nombreux appels des dirigeants politiques à la fermeté. Elle est nécessaire. Mais lorsqu’elle ne désigne qu’une réponse plus brutale à la brutalité, elle devient un mot d’ordre facile et irréfléchi. Que signifie-t-elle alors, sinon une surenchère de violence et une escalade dont nous ne sortirons pas de sitôt ?
J’entends aussi les appels moins nombreux de ceux qui disent : « C’est la faute des autorités ; elles ont provoqué, mal anticipé, brutalisé. » Cette réponse est tout aussi irréfléchie, et même cynique. L’heure n’est pas à affaiblir davantage un État déjà si impuissant.
Refusons le piège. Mettons de côté nos différences et rassemblons-nous autour de l’essentiel : sauver notre démocratie, restaurer notre État, défendre l’État de droit et protéger notre maison commune, menacée par le dérèglement climatique.
La réponse, comme souvent dans l’exercice du gouvernement, tient en un mot : le sang-froid. Lui seul nous permettra de sortir de cette spirale de violence. Deux exigences simultanées s’imposent à nous aujourd’hui : halte au feu ; force doit rester à la loi : rassembler autour de l’essentiel..
Halte au feu, car il s’agit d’abord d’éteindre l’incendie, d’empêcher de nouveaux drames de se produire.
Force doit rester à la loi, car la justice devra faire la lumière sur les faits, établir les responsabilités et sanctionner sévèrement les actes graves commis.
Le président de la République et les dirigeants issus de l’ancienne majorité ont évidemment une responsabilité majeure dans la dégradation de notre État. Mais aujourd’hui n’est pas l’heure du procès.
Aujourd’hui, l’heure est de faire front ensemble pour empêcher que demain ne soit plus violent encore. Aujourd’hui nous devons nous rassembler et réunir des Etats Généraux de la République, rassemblant les forces politiques, sociales, associatives et culturelles pour un sursaut républicain.
Dominique de Villepin
©️ Photo : Ivan Valerio
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The French Revolution was violent.
Extraordinarily, horrifyingly violent.
And from it came the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the legal abolition of feudalism, the first significant codification of liberty, equality, and fraternity as political principles rather than philosophical abstractions.
Ideas that spread across Europe and eventually the world.
Ideas that are now the foundational vocabulary of the very people who condemn revolutionary violence.
The discomfort is not with the violence.
The discomfort is with the reminder that the values they consider self-evident were not given.
They were seized.
From people who were not planning to hand them over.
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Only far right idiots brand the protests in France and other parts of Europe as Immigrants and Islamists movement. There is a genuine anger and helplessness among Europe’s youths as the political leaders have failed to deliver and spending money on war!
#Ukraine winning the war after 3 years 👇🏼
"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." #GeorgeOrwell
The same leaders who cheered on youth uprisings during the Arab Spring and Iran protests due to Western’s sanctions—are now suppressing their own students to spend their money on #Nato ‘s war in #Ukraine
🇮🇹🇺🇦 Europe Put Ukraine First. Now Italy Pays the Price.
For years, European leaders prioritized Ukraine and neglected their own children and youth.
Billions into Zelensky's pockets. Europeans left paying.
Now people see no future and are taking to the barricades.
Italy is next.
The bill has come home.
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Most French people know their enemy is not Iran, not Russia, not China.
Their enemy is its corrupt globalist elites.
Today > They are saying ENOUGH !!
