Israel

Israel   (Country)
Formation	14 May 1948
Capital city	Jerusalem
Location	Middle East
Type	nation state
Subgroups	•  Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel) •  Mossad
Interest of	Sheldon Adelson, Joel Bainerman, Jane Biran, Blue Star PR, Sasha Bratwa, CENTCOM, Conservative Friends of Israel, Jonathan Cook, Tom Cotton, Gilad Erdan, Stephen Gowans, Jacob de Haan, Hamas, Richard Heideman, HonestReporting, J Street, Gideon Markuszower, David Mencer, Victor Ostrovsky, Emanuele Ottolenghi, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Alison Weir, Wexner Foundation
Member of	OECD, UN
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Renewing the Memorandum of Understanding in September 2016, whereby the American taxpayer agreed to pay Israel $38 billion over a 10-year period

Israel is a singular nation state in the Middle East on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Its small area belies its importance in world history and modern geopolitics. It has considerable expertise in the area of "terrorism" and in 1979 hosted the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism, which prepared the "war on terror".

Origins

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While it was already inhabited for centuries before, deep politics first became part when religion became slowly integrated into human culture when Israel was officially vassalized by Egypt in the Late Bronze Age. In the Iron Age, the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were established with Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, Islam, Druzism, Baha'ism, and a variety of other religious movements. Throughout the course of human history, the Land of Israel has come under the sway or control of various entities. Many groups from Arabs, Persians, Ottoman, Romans and a dozens of other conquered the state, it was one of the first central economical hubs in the middle east and often was a symbolic place after the emergence of religion even before the start of the first millennium.

Current state

Full article: Israeli–Palestinian conflict

World War 2 and the Balfour Declaration caused the formation of the Zionist influence in British Palestine at the will of zionists whom largely settled in the 1800s. Israel has remained and expanded ever since, despite numerous attacks. Oil was discovered in 1955.

Revisionism

Full article: Hasbara

Censorship of Israel's crimes committed has often become censored by corporate and independent media. In particular the forced official narrative that explains all deep politics from a Israeli perspective "Hasbara" is well documented on the site;

• Hasbara (history) meaning of the word and history of Israeli efforts since 1977. Detailed coverage.

• Wikipedia's Hasbara - how hasbara has come to dominate all articles on Israel/Palestine at the Wikipedia. Mis-used sources, heavy-handed administrative interference and a lot of tricks. Detailed coverage.

• Hasbara (2002 Manual) "Defending Israel and Zionism" was produced by the World Union of Jewish Students in 2002. A few details, please add.

• Hasbara (2009 Manual) examination of the 2009 Global Language Dictionary a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP), 2009., a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP). Partial coverage, please add.

"Terrorism"

Full article: “Terrorism”

Israel used the word "terrorism" in the 1960s and 70s to refer to attacks by Palestinians, both against civil and military targets. which may be self-created in some cases;

“Israel first encountered Islamists that would later form Hamas in Gaza in the 1970s. Back then they seemed focused on studying the Quran, not on confrontation with Israel.

Israel realized that it could use the organisation to help splinter Palestinian society in the Gaza strip and hurt the Palestinian Liberation front which dominated Palestinian politics. So Israel helped and even gave funds to Hamas in the 1980s so it could establish itself in Gaza. The Israeli government officially recognized the precursor to Hamas, called "Mujama Al-Islamiya" back then, registered the group as a charity and even supported it with funds to help it spread its influence in Gaza and in the occupied Palestinian territories.

At the time, Israel's main enemy was the late Yasser Arafat's Fatah party, which formed the heart of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Fatah was secular and cast in the mold of other revolutionary, leftist guerrilla movements waging insurgencies elsewhere in the world during the Cold War. Israel's military-led administration in Gaza in the 1980's looked favorably on Hamas, who set up a wide network of schools, clinics, a library and kindergartens. Israel also endorsed the establishment of the Islamic University of Gaza. Crucially, Israel often stood aside when the Islamists and their secular left-wing Palestinian rivals battled, sometimes violently, for influence in both Gaza and the West Bank. Documents from the 1980's show that Israel enabled Hamas to act in the first Intifada in order to enable it to strengthen, thus to cause a splitting of the Palestinian nation – in order to weaken the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) which was responsible for the Intifada.

“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation.” says retired Israeli official Avner Cohen , a former Israeli official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades in an interview to the Wall Street Journal. Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”).

General Segev himself even admits to funding Hamas himself with Israeli taxpayers money that was later used to kill the same people who were funding them.”
Dispropaganda (2021) 

Apartheid

Full article: Palestine Papers

Since it's violent rise to independence, Israel has been accused of running an apartheid-state slowly demoralising the Palestinian territories into submission. According to NGO Amnestly International Israel's policies and actions in its ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories have drawn accusations that it is committing the crime of apartheid. Leading Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights groups have said that the totality and severity of the human rights violations against the Palestinian population in the occupied territories, and by some in Israel proper, amount to the crime against humanity of apartheid. Israel and some of its Western allies have rejected the accusation, with the former often labeling the charge antisemitic.

Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity - Amnesty International

The Palestine Papers is a collection of confidential documents about the Israeli–Palestinian peace process leaked to Al Jazeera, which published them between 23 and 26 January 2011. Nearly 1,700 documents from the office of the main PLO negotiator, Saeb Erekat, and his team have been published, dating from 1999 to 2010.

During peace negotiations in mid-2008. According to Al Jazeera, Palestinian leader Abbas was not allowed to keep the unofficial map, so he sketched it by hand. During the first of several meetings, the Palestinian Authority proposed a land swap, offering Israel the opportunity to annex all of the Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem in return for land concessions by Israel. Olmert, however, offered no concessions in return but an even more aggressive land swap. In Prime Minister Olmert's own proposal, Israel would annex 6.3% of the West Bank. The land in Olmert's map included the four settlements of Gush Etzion (with Efrat), Ma'ale Adumim, Giv'at Ze'ev, and Ariel, in addition to all settlements in East Jerusalem (Har Homa). In exchange for those concessions by the Palestinian Authority, Olmert offered 5.8% of Israeli land as part of the swap. The land offered consisted of lightly populated farmland, which would be divided between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. When Mahmoud Abbas asked to keep a copy of the map for further consideration, Ehud Olmert refused. Mahmoud Abbas sketched Ehud Olmert's map by hand on a napkin to have a copy for further consideration. This map was then later referred to as the Napkin map.

Deep State

Full article: Israel/Deep state

Full article: “9-11/Israel did it”

Like the US in the 1990s, deep state leaders have seized control of the country, with in particular Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israeli intelligence agencies and deep state operatives has been linked to helping or orchestrating the failure to stop 9-11.

The 2015 Facebook post from Stephen Sizer.

The idea that Israelis might have been involved in perpetrating or covering up the 9-11 event is "anti-semitic" in itself, and as such is not to be publicly expressed without immediate condemnation as such. In 2015 the Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer linked to this page from his Facebook wall, and asked "Is this anti-Semitic? If so, no doubt I’ll be asked to remove it. It raises so many questions." In response the Church of England banned him from social media.

In 2018 the Daily Mail article on Kees van der Pijl.

In 2018, after Emeritus Professor Kees van der Pijl tweeted support for this page, the University of Sussex, where he headed the Department of International Relations for 12 years, announced that it would investigate him. This was picked up by the UK Independent and the Daily Mail, although discussion centred on whether or not he should be subject to disciplinary action rather whether or not his allegations were correct.

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is an Israeli deep politician who became the Prime Minister of Israel again on 31 March 2009. Netanyahu has been part of Israeli politics for so long and with such influence (influencing US foreign policy as well), several CCM have placed questions how that is still possible, openly calling him out for bribes or just a plain "con man" as numerous institutions including the national police force advised prosecuting him for bribery.

Bribes Cover Up

On 18 March 2020, David Halbfinger and Isabel Kershner wrote for the New York Times that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “was supposed to be facing trial this week on bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges." Instead, he was shutting down the courts and ordering Israel’s internal security service to identify people who should be quarantined using data harvested from their phones. Both of those extraordinary moves, announced in the dead of night on Sunday and Tuesday, were made in the name of combating the coronavirus. The court shutdown also had the effect of delaying Mr. Netanyahu’s corruption trial by two months.

US military aid

On 14 September 2016, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Tom Shannon and acting Israeli National Security Adviser Jacob Nagel signed a new 10-year memorandum of understanding for $38 billion in US military aid to Israel.

A signing ceremony — described as “low-key” by the Washington Post — was held in the US State Department’s Treaty Room. Ceremonial protocol revealed not only why such a memorandum of understanding (MOU) cannot be subjected to much public scrutiny, but also the identities of the main constituencies pushing for such aid in the face of growing opposition.

The attendees were either State Department special guests invited to fill the arced row of chairs in the Treaty Room, or members of the news media responding to a last-minute notification posted on the State Department’s website. The rules for news media were strictly enforced. There were to be no questions asked of officials — such as Nagel or US National Security Adviser Susan Rice — before or after their speeches. Reporters were also kept from asking questions of the many special guests who filed in from an elegant annex. They were marched from a private passageway, relieved of cell phones, and kept behind a rope line at the back of the room. Numerous State Department minders were on hand to keep the press in line.

It quickly became clear that pro-Israel activists made up the large contingent of the special guests. “I want you to meet…he’s from the Conference of Presidents! [of Major American Jewish Organizations]!” went one introduction. Jonathan Greenblatt, the new head of the Anti-Defamation League, entered the room with quiet intensity, less effusive than his predecessor, Abraham Foxman, who headed the organization for 28 years before stepping down in 2015. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), ejected in June amid controversy as chair of the Democratic National Committee, only to immediately be named Hillary Clinton’s honorary campaign chair, flitted among her numerous admirers across the Treaty Room. Only a handful of low-ranking uniformed military personnel were on hand, ignored by most of the special guests and mainly serving at the very end as props for an official photo opportunity.

After a perfunctory speech by Rice claiming an “unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security” and assertion that “our security is linked” without explaining how, and additional comments by Nagel, the MOU signatures were inked at a long table. The leather portfolios passed between signatories seemed too thin to contain the actual MOU. Shannon and Nagel cast what seemed to be almost furtive glances at the audience as press and State Department video cameras rolled and shutters snapped.

The new MOU succeeds the George W. Bush administration’s 10-year (2009-2018) $30 billion MOU. Under that agreement, Israel used 26.3 percent of its U.S. aid to build up its own domestic export-oriented military industrial complex. It also used MOU aid to purchase U.S. commodities such as military rations, diesel and aviation fuel. Israel and its U.S. affinity organizations then lobbied and extracted hundreds of millions more from Congress each year in additional “short fuse” emergency funds for missile defense. The U.S. taxpayer shelled out $1.3 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome system, with additional ad hoc allocations for Israel’s Arrow-3 and David’s Sling systems.

The complete contents of the George W. Bush MOU — like its Obama administration successor — remains a mystery. Neither has been publicly released. The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum — responding to a FOIA request — confirmed that the expiring MOU was “approximately 675 pages”, but shows no eagerness or haste to release it. The State Department has not responded to a FOIA request for the current MOU, which is likely even lengthier and more complex, or for a complete list of MOU ceremony invitees. According to the MOU 'Fact Sheet' released by the White House, Israel will now be prevented from lobbying Congress for additional missile defense aid, may no longer spend MOU dollars on commodities such as fuel, and the huge subsidization of Israeli military contractors will gradually sunset.

However, the MOU must still be funded by Congress. As an executive order mandating Foreign Military Financing, a Foreign Operations Appropriations Act must be passed each year by Congress and signed into law by the president before spending on new military hardware can commence. The appropriation is likely to be included in an omnibus spending bill in December.

Key members of Congress heavily supported by pro-Israel donors and PACs, have already proclaimed the MOU caps on addition funds “unconstitutional”. Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), Kelly Ayotte (NH), John McCain (AZ) and Ted Cruz (TX) have already rejected the principle of limitations by filing measures to provide Israel with $1.5 billion in military aid in addition to MOU commitments.

Arms Production

Israel was the #10 nation worldwide as regards arms exports from 2012-2016.

COVID

Israel vaccinated their entire population quicker than any other country. A study says natural immunity is better than vaccination.

Arab attacks

75 years of fighting for its existence: A timeline of Israel’s wars - I24 News

Since it's founding, Israel has suffered at least 5000+ in non-war related revenge murders by in particular people supporting the cause of Gaza. On average Israel suffers rocket attacks - defending itself with the Iron Dome rocket system - and a war every 5 years, with 10000s killed since 1948.

 

Events carried out

Event	Location	Description
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/Israeli invasion of Gaza	Gaza	After October 7, Israel invaded Gaza with widespread international support. The IDF went on a widely reported revenge killing spree. Even by Israel's own account, they killed 19,500 Palestinian civilians after half a year of bombing hospitals, schools and civilian towers, utilising numerous condemned tactics.
July 2021 Gulf of Oman incident		Incident in July 2021
Project Pegasus revelations		Mass leak of info about Israel spyware
USS Liberty Incident		A 1967 false flag attack by Israel that tried and failed to sink the USS Liberty, a United States Navy signals intercept ship. The investigation was told to "conclude that the attack was a case of 'mistaken identity' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary." Israel paid compensation but always contested that it was accidental.

 

An example

Page name	Description
Two-state solution	Private Eye's two-state solution in October 2023: A state of war... and a state of more war

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War	“There had already been a significant increase in violence by Israeli settlers this year, even before the Hamas attack, according to UN data, with more than 100 incidents reported each month and about 400 people driven from their land between January and August. Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem told the BBC that since the attack, it had documented "a concerted and organised effort by settlers to use the fact that the entire international and local attention is focused on Gaza and the north of Israel to try to seize land in the West Bank". Partial data compiled by B'Tselem, covering the first six days after the Hamas attack, recorded at least 46 separate incidents in which it said settlers threatened, physically attacked or damaged the property of Palestinians in the West Bank. "A lot of shepherding families and communities have fled because they were threatened in the past week by settlers," said Roy Yellin, a spokesman for B'Tselem. "Settlers have been giving residents a deadline to leave and telling them if they don't they will be harmed. And some villages have been totally emptied out."”	BBC Joel Gunter	2023
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/Israeli invasion of Gaza	“When I was first asked to work there [at Shifa], I was told there was a part of the hospital I was not to go near, and if I did, I’d be in danger of being shot. No, but implicit was that it was being used for non-medical purposes. I stayed away, but I saw a few dodgy-looking non-medical characters going in and out all the time. It was a ward leading to a basement. As I said, I didn’t go there; so I behaved myself. I was welcome everywhere else, and as I say the doctors and nurses there were very welcoming and very kind and the hushed tones under which this was said was very consistent with all the other hushed tones with which Hamas was discussed. You know people were genuinely fearful. I cannot emphasise too much, the air of collective paranoia that existed there. If hospital staff were 10 per cent frightened of possible Israeli airstrikes, they were 90 per cent frightened of being persecuted by Hamas.’”	Daily Mail Nick Pisa	2023
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/October 7	“Last year, after Israel obtained the Jericho Wall document, the military’s Gaza division drafted its own intelligence assessment of this latest invasion plan. Hamas had "decided to plan a new raid, unprecedented in its scope," analysts wrote in the assessment reviewed by The Times. It said that Hamas intended to carry out a deception operation followed by a “large-scale maneuver” with the aim of overwhelming the division. But the Gaza division referred to the plan as a “compass.” In other words, the division determined that Hamas knew where it wanted to go but had not arrived there yet. On July 6, 2023, the veteran Unit 8200 analyst wrote to a group of other intelligence experts that dozens of Hamas commandos had recently conducted training exercises, with senior Hamas commanders observing. The training included a dry run of shooting down Israeli aircraft and taking over a kibbutz and a military training base, killing all the cadets. During the exercise, Hamas fighters used the same phrase from the Quran that appeared at the top of the Jericho Wall attack plan, she wrote in the email exchanges viewed by The Times. The analyst warned that the drill closely followed the Jericho Wall plan, and that Hamas was building the capacity to carry it out. The colonel in the Gaza division applauded the analysis but said the exercise was part of a “totally imaginative” scenario, not an indication of Hamas’s ability to pull it off. “In short, let’s wait patiently,” the colonel wrote.”	Ronen Bergman Adam Goldman	2023
Sheldon Adelson	“What is there to negotiate about? What I would say is: listen, you see that desert out there? (...) So you pick up your cellphone and call someone is Nebraska and say OK, let one go and it doesn't hurt a soul, maybe a couple of rattlesnakes and scorpions or whatever and say: See? The next one is in the middle of Tehran”	Sheldon Adelson	2013
Sucharit Bhakdi	“I admired the Israelis more than any people in the world. ... The greatest spirits were Jews, I adored them ... And now they are doing this. The people who have fled from this country [Germany], where the evil one [Hitler] was, have turned their own country into something even worse. It's unbelievable. There is no people who study better than them, but they have learned and implemented evil. And that's why Israel is now living hell.”	Sucharit Bhakdi
George Carlin	“Sanctity of life. You believe in it? Personally, I think it’s a bunch of shit. Well, I mean, life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death. Has been for thousands of years. Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians all taking turns killing each other ‘cause God told them it was a good idea. The sword of God, the blood of the land, vengeance is mine. Millions of dead motherfuckers. Millions of dead motherfuckers all because they gave the wrong answer to the God question. “You believe in God?” “No.” Boom. Dead. “You believe in God?” “Yes.” “You believe in my God? “No.” Boom. Dead. “My God has a bigger dick than your God!” Thousands of years. Thousands of years, and all the best wars, too. The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred.”	George Carlin
Document:The Israel lobby	“My No. 1 priority in foreign policy is to protect Israel.”	Dick Armey	September 2002
Hamas	“To a certain degree, the Islamist Organisation whose militant wing has rained rockets on Israel [Hamas] has the Jewish state to thank for its existence.”	Ishaan Tharoor	30 July 2014
Khaled Al Jalahma	“I am honored to announce that I will be arriving in Tel Aviv today to begin my post as #Bahrain’s first Ambassador to #Israel.”	Khaled Al Jalahma	31 August 2021
Sigrid Kaag	“Happily there were pro-Israeli demonstrators in Tel-Aviv that said the road of Benjamin Netanyahu, that soundbite, with an almost racist demagogue.... about the Palestinian peace-partner that has been isolated. But look at their environments, day in, day out, 1 million people are prisoners.”	Sigrid Kaag	10 June 1996
Logic Industries	“Covert UAE-Israel Security relationship In 2008 Abu Dhabi authorities agreed to pay an Israeli owned company $816mn to install security systems protecting oil and gas installations in the emirate. Through working with two partner companies former Intelligence agent Mati Kochavi has also won contracts to implement the entire emirate-wide Falcon Eye surveillance project that monitors the movements of all those living in Abu Dhabi.”
Craig Murray	“The International Court of Justice has stated definitively that the Israeli occupation is illegal and it is the duty of states not to support it. Yet in UK law it is perfectly legal to state that you support the IDF and hope that they kill all the Palestinians in Gaza But it is illegal in the UK - and carries 14 years in jail - to express support for named Palestinian organisations engaged, legally in international law, in armed resistance to illegal occupation.”	Craig Murray	20 August 2024
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	“An unspoken secret in Congress is that much of the reflexive, blind, unconditional vote support for nearly any Israeli gov action isn’t from actual agreement. It’s from fear. Reps are terrified of this. Of AIPAC. So they don’t vote their conscience. They vote their fear”	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	2024
Miko Peled	“[...] and Israel governs this one state very skillfully with three different sets of laws. You have the laws of governed people like myself, Israeli Jews who can come and go and say what they please, pretty much a democratic state for all purposes. You've got the laws that govern the Palestinians who are citizens of Israel and there are over 30 laws, in the law books, that discriminate them against them specifically and you've got an entire culture of discrimination, against them - that is deep-seated and deep-rooted in Israeli society and then you've got the laws that govern the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and this is really at the pleasure of the Israeli army. If they want to destroy, they destroy, if they want to arrest and beat, they arrest and beat, if they want to torture, they torture, if they want to kill, they kill and Palestinians have no recourse. This is the reality. There's an education system, the zionist education system, like Judith alluded, my sister, just wrote a book about it, she's an educator, that teaches racism in a very subtle way. There's a bureaucracy, an entire bureaucracy, that is dedicated to making life impossible for Palestinians through all kinds of restrictions and permits and requirements that are absolutely uncalled for and unnecessary, but are all given and provided under the guise of security [...]”	Miko Peled	2012
Daniel Pipes	“There can be either an Israel or a Palestine, but not both. To think that two states can stably and peacefully coexist in the small territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is to be either naive or duplicitous. If the last seventy years teach anything, it is that there can be only one state west of the Jordan River. Therefore, to those who ask why the Palestinians must be deprived of a state, the answer is simple: grant them one and you set in motion a chain of events that will lead either to its extinction or the extinction of Israel.”	Daniel Pipes	April 1990
Ronald Plasterk	“All the more exasperating that in the reactions to Hamas's horrific pogrom, in which more Jews were murdered in one day than at any time since the Holocaust, first, it is pretended that it is indeed symmetrical, and the major media such as the NOS news even ostentatiously takes sides with Hamas and against Israel (see, for example, holding Israel directly responsible for that bomb on the hospital, without any check, and then no neat response). You can have all sorts of objections to the Netanyahu government, and because Israel is a democracy (the only one in the Middle East) there are many people even within Israel who voice those objections. You can insist on observing borders when counterattacking. If you recognise Israel's full right to defend itself, there are always limits anyway; remember, for example, that Israel is a nuclear power. But even if you keep the balance right, it is important to have in mind why the situation between Israel and Hamas is anything but symmetrical. There are civilian casualties on both sides. A first fundamental difference is that Hamas, as a terror organisation, is out to inflict as many civilian casualties as possible, while the Israeli army is trying to hit Hamas while inflicting as few civilian casualties as possible. You might perhaps think that they should take even more of a margin on that point, but in any case the intention is a completely different one from Hamas’. A further difference is that Israeli soldiers may be willing to die in war, but still prefer to come home to their families in one piece. Hamas has a death culture, with the highest good being to blow yourself up, for which you are rewarded with sex with 72 young virgins (not wondering if those 72 young women feel like it). Then taking civilians hostage as human shields, including very young children. That is a serious war crime, and one would expect that all responses would constantly insist that Hamas must first release those hostages. On top of that, Hamas is also preventing its own civilians from leaving locations where Hamas posts are located, precisely with the intention of those civilians being killed in attacks from Israel. Another criminal tactic that Israel does not use.”	Ronald Plasterk	2023
Social media	“Social media manipulation was pioneered by Israel in 2009, during its Gaza offensive, not by Russia and China. The UK and the US both have had online "psychological operations" for years. Calling out some actors but giving others a free pass does little to address the problem.”	Clare Daly	10 December 2021

 

Events

Event	Description
1948 Palestine war
2006 Lebanon War
2018 Gaza Massacre	A massacre of at least 135 unarmed protestors including many women and children, and the wounding of many thousands more by Israeli IDF sniper teams, during the Palestinian 'Great March of Return' and the weeks following its end on 15 May 2018
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War	Hamas attack on dozens of illegal Israeli settlements in Southern Israel provoking mass retaliatory killings by Israel. Corporate media call it the Israeli "9-11", while critics of Israel refer to "10-7" as a staged, military operation in order to manufacture consent for a disproportionate response.
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/October 7	Hamas attacks Israeli settlements in Southern Israel, mass raping and abducting, which get called an Israeli "9-11" by CCM. The NYT and Al Jazeera claimed the Israeli government knew of the impending attack, ignored warnings, shot some of their own civilians, made up several stories and used the resulting increased death toll to go on a revenge killing spree in the 2023 Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Gulf War	A war used by the US to effectively cow the Saudis into submission and bolster US military domination of the Gulf region.
Herzliya Conference/2006	A 2006 conference on Israeli security needs.
Herzliya Conference/2007	"The conference examined the array of dangers, threats and difficulties Israel has faced since early 2006, identified a broad web of problems in all of the fundamental strata upon which national security is based, and proposed strategies for action."
Herzliya Conference/2009
Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism	The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente".
Six Day War

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	Description
Bar-Ilan University	1955	Important Uni in Israel, deep state connections
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies		Israeli pro-military think tank, supporter of ISIS.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	1969	Institutes include the National Institute for Biotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Technology,Desert Research, Study of Israel and Zionism.
El Al		An airliner flying from Central Israel, with several prolific incidents and covert operations ordered by the Deep State.
Israel/Deep state		The Israeli Deep state is important and highly influential, but not well documented.
Israel/Supreme Court	1948
Likud
Logic Industries	2006	Secretive company founded by the Israeli-born billionaire spook/businessman Mati Kochavi, reported to produce security software.
Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy	2005
Mossad	13 December 1949	"Mossad" (Hebrew for Institute) is an abbreviation for ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks). It is the Israeli State Agency with overall responsible for external intelligence and covert operations.
Rubin Academy of Music	1933	Israeli music academy
Taglit Birthright
Teva	1901	Israeli drug company
Unit 8200	2004	An Israeli NSA
University of Haifa	1963	Many Arab-Israeli students, very few among faculty.

 

Citizens of Israel on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
'Feliks'			Very busy Wikipedia (German edition) editor that was exposed as an German and Israeli reserve officer.
Jonathan Adiri	12 February 1982		Spooky Israeli digital healthcare businessman who previously worked in national security think tank
Nahum Admoni	21 November 1929		Director of the Mossad 1982 - 1989
Avraham Ahituv	10 December 1930	15 July 2009	Led the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, from 1974 to 1980
Kobi Alexander	4 May 1952		A spooky businessman with connections to 9-11 and 7-7.
Moshe Arens	27 December 1925	7 January 2019	suspected deep state operative
Gilad Atzmon	9 June 1963		Jazz saxophonist, novelist, political activist and writer - mainly on the subjects of Israel and Judaic power
Juval Aviv	24 February 1947		A terrorism expert and Mossad operative who once remarked on live TV: "It's easy to put a truck bomb, as we did, er, as happened in London."
Yossi Avni-Levy	25 May 1962		Israeli diplomat.
Ehud Barak	12 February 1942		Israeli spook who was Prime Minister of Israel from May 1999 to March 2001. Pal of Jeffrey Epstein.
Élie Barnavi	1946		Israeli historian who attended the 2004 Bilderberg
David Ben-Gurion	16 October 1886	1 December 1973
Asher Ben-Natan	15 February 1921	17 June 2014	"A central figure in Israel’s defense and diplomacy establishment" who spoke at the 1979 JCIT
Ronen Bergman	16 June 1972		Israeli journalist who published Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel’s targeted killings - in reality a very flattering limited hangout.
Michael Chertoff	28 November 1953		A long-standing US Republican Party apparatchik and dual US/Israeli citizen who has held senior US legal and national security positions.
Avner Cohen	1951
Yehoshua Cohen	22 June 1922	8 August 1986	Member of a 3 man Stern Gang team dispatched by Yitzhak Shamir in September 1948 to kill Count Folke Bernadotte. He was the man who fired the fatal shots that killed both Folke Bernadotte and French Colonel Andre Serot who was travelling with him in the ambushed car
Martin van Creveld	5 March 1946		An Israeli military historian and theorist.
Jordana Cutler			Went from senior Israeli propagandist to leading Facebook's censorship of Israel-critics.
Danny Danon	8 May 1971		Israel's Permanent Representative to the UN since 2024
Ron Dermer	16 April 1971		Benjamin Netanyahu's closest adviser and strategic consultant
Yuval Diskin	11 June 1956		Senior Israeli spook
Alex Dizengof			Programmer who co-founded Carbyne, with close ties to the Israeli state.
Izi Dorot	1916	1980
Tomer Eiges	1995	16 May 2021	Attempted whistleblower at the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate who died in military prison
Shaul Eisenberg	22 September 1921	27 March 1997	Israeli arms dealer and billionaire tycoon
Gilad Erdan	30 September 1970		Israeli Spook and Ambassador at the UN
Levi Eshkol	25 October 1895	26 February 1969
Stanley Fischer	15 October 1943		Israeli/US central banker and quad Bilderberger
Jacob Frenkel	8 February 1943		Serial WEF AGM, Bank of Israel/Governor 1991-2000, CFR
Orit Gadiesh	31 January 1951		One of the world's "100 most powerful women". Attended the 1997 and 1998 Bilderbergs.
Shlomo Gazit	1926	8 October 2020	Director of Israeli military intelligence Aman 1974-1978
Haim Geron	1952	14 September 2021	Witness in the Benjamin Netanyahu corruption trial who died in explosive plane crash.
Dan Gertler	1973		Israeli billionaire businessman in natural resources
Eival Gilady	1957		Connected triple Bilderberger Israeli soldier turned businessman
Ivan Glasenberg	1957		CEO of Glencore, a mining company with close ties to Mossad.
Dan Halpern			Israeli diplomat who passed confidential US documents to AIPAC, to lobby for a trade agreement massively favorable to Israel.
Yuval Harari	1976		World Economic Forum court futurist
Yitzhak Hofi	25 January 1927	15 September 2014	Leader of Mossad 1974-82
Meir Kahane	1 August 1932	5 November 1990	A cofounder of the Jewish Defense League and founder of the Israeli political party Kach, he was assassinated in New York in 1990.
Moshe Katsav	5 December 1945
Ephraim Katzir	16 May 1916	30 May 2009	Chief scientist of the Israel Defense Department and President of Israel
David Kimche	14 February 1928	8 March 2010	Mossad spymaster
Yair Klein			Israeli arms dealer known for his activities in the 80s
Mati Kochavi	July 1962		Mati Kochavi is a billionaire Israeli spook, since 9-11 a 'high-tech mogul'. CEO of many high tech companies specialising in cutting edge "cyber-security" and "public safety" technologies.
Aviv Kokhavi	23 April 1964
Igor Kolomoisky	13 February 1963		Russian billionaire oligarch banned from entering the US due to "significant corruption"
Israel Krupp	9 March 1908	25 October 1991
Eduard Kuznetsov	29 January 1939
Mark Leibler	1943		Tax lawyer who is one of the leaders of the Australian Zionist lobby through the billionaire-funded Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. While "not not well known to most Australians", his influence "far exceeds his public profile", and he has developed and sustained close relationships with senior Australian politicians.
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Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War	7 October 2023		Gaza Israel Iraq Egypt Syria Palestine Lebanon Indian Ocean Golan Heights	Hamas attack on dozens of illegal Israeli settlements in Southern Israel provoking mass retaliatory killings by Israel. Corporate media call it the Israeli "9-11", while critics of Israel refer to "10-7" as a staged, military operation in order to manufacture consent for a disproportionate response.
July 2021 Gulf of Oman incident	29 July 2021	29 July 2021		Incident in July 2021

 

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