Al_Sham [she/her]

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  • But all this stuff is phrased in the most intimidating way possible for regular people, like: “Using our bleeding-edge cyberintelligence capabilities and intelligence gathering using top artificial intelligence algorithms…” so they’re just like, well fuck, Palestinian opposition is hopeless I guess, when it’s demonstrably not

    I think about this every day. I am quite sure that almost nowhere on earth is subjected to a more comprehensive aerial and sigint surveillance campaign than the tiny area that is South Lebanon at this moment. NATO is running AWACS 24/7 off the coast. And yet, the fighters are able to operate and carry out successful operations. Hiding in the mountains and foothills and delivering death to the child-killing occupation army.

    All the tech in the world and the gluttonous imperialists still get dunked on daily.


  • The Cradle article about “Israel’s weird abduction of a Lebanese sea captain” where German peacekeepers assisted in the crime.

    It brings up some important history of previous incidences:

    Tel Aviv’s use of such covert raids is nothing new. In April this year, an Israeli death squad infiltrated Lebanon to target a currency exchanger, Hussein Srour, who they accused of transferring funds from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) into Gaza. The squad lured Srour to a villa in Beit Mery, Mount Lebanon, where they kidnapped, tortured, interrogated, and ultimately executed him – all while recording the gruesome act for their superiors in Israel.

    In 2006, during Israel’s month-long July war on Lebanon, occupation forces raided Baalbek and thought they had captured the late Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, only to discover it was a case of mistaken identity. Instead, the Israelis discovered they had apprehended a plasterer sharing the same name in a failed operation that quickly became the subject of ridicule. They released him soon after.

    The Israeli Mossad has also carried out kidnappings beyond Lebanon’s borders. In October 2021, they abducted a retired IRGC officer in Damascus, seizing him while he was strolling near the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital. He was transported to Tel Aviv for interrogation and later released in South Africa.

    At the time, Mossad was actively seeking information on missing Israeli pilot Ron Arad, whose plane was shot down over Lebanon in 1986. Then-Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett later admitted that the Syrian abduction operation had yielded no new information, though the Iranian general was suspected of holding crucial knowledge.

    In yet another shadowy episode, Israeli intelligence operatives kidnapped a Lebanese agricultural engineer in Cambodia, suspecting him of having ties to Hezbollah. Again, after intense and clearly fruitless interrogations, he was eventually released in Thailand.