The most powerful people on earth meet in Ireland to plan the next world war and the cage they intend to lock the rest of us in when it’s done. Not one network will breathe a word about it.
Breaking into the most secretive society in American power did not take a hacker’s skills. It took a right-click. Click “View Source,” read the code underneath the page, and there it is, the guest list to a meeting the most powerful people alive swore you would never lay eyes on.
Behind that wall sits a private club called Dialog, founded in 2006 by Peter Thiel. Yes, THAT Thiel. The man who built Palantir, the company that helps government track you, tag you, score you, and follow you, the company that wired into ICE, the Pentagon and into data about your life you never once agreed to hand over. Every year his little club flies the most powerful people on the planet to a sealed room with assigned seats and one iron rule. Whatever gets said in there never leaves. The press has politely filed it under “tech Bilderberg.” I’m going to call it what the leak proves it to be. The people who own your world, locking the door so you can never hear what they’ve decided to do with you.
The Hacker
The person who walked through it goes by “maia arson crimew,” and before anybody writes her off as a basement crank, understand that she is the hacker who tore the lid off the United States government’s secret No Fly List and cracked the surveillance company Verkada. She found Dialog’s membership lying naked in the website’s own code. WIRED confirmed it on June 16. Then a second source slid the magazine, the part that turns your stomach to ice, the full registration list for this year’s gathering, August 12 through 16, outside Dublin. 222 of the most powerful people on earth and the schedule of what they’re flying there to talk about. Continues at https://www.thewisewolf.club/p/peter-thiel-dialog-hacked-elon-musk-ireland-build-a-cult-world-war-3-leaked-guest-list
Because they know everything is energy, frequency, vibration and how it works.
There are no accidents and there are no leaks
Information that reaches the public is ‘meant’ to reach the public for a number of reasons including fear porn, which keeps humans cycling in low vibratory frequency that magnetizes more of the same through people, events and circumstances.
The truth invites minds to open, do some research, cooperate with others and align around a common purpose i.e. preservation of self, loved ones and our species.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Thursday denounced a siege by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank village of Qusra as a “horrific act of terror”. Huckabee, an evangelical Christian pastor who in the past has embraced Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, said the Israeli army intervened on Wednesday after a US request, but the soldiers failed to remove the settlers.
Settlers near Nablus since Sunday have blockaded Palestinian homes, including one owned by a US citizen, with residents saying they have been cut off from food and other supplies.
“Actions by those who carried out this horrific act of terror meant to intimidate and harass this family are disgusting,” Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador in Jerusalem, wrote on X in response to criticism of the US response.
“No excuse for such thuggish behaviour,” he wrote.
Huckabee said Israel had intervened at the request of the United States, its crucial ally.
The remarks are especially striking from Huckabee, an evangelical Christian pastor who in the past has embraced Jewish settlement in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, and rejected the idea of a Palestinian state.
The Israeli military on Wednesday sent in forces who took away a tent, but witnesses said settlers defiantly remained at the site with blankets.
The army announced later Wednesday that it would send a new battalion to try to impose order.
Violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers in the West Bank has increased dramatically since the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas from the Gaza Strip.
More than 500,000 Israelis live in settlements in the West Bank, which are illegal under international law, among some three million Palestinians in the territory.
The CIA Has Accused Israel Of Fabricating Iranian Assassination Threat.
Last month, “intelligence” was relayed by Israel that Iran was supposedly planning on assassinating Trump, which resulted in him “secretly flying out of Turkey in an alternate military aircraft”.
But the claims of an Iranian assassination attempt against Trump relayed by Israel were deemed to be bogus even by U.S. intelligence.
The Washington Post reported that “The assassination threat was relayed by the Israeli government to the CIA, where analysts did not view the intelligence as compelling and conveyed that skepticism to Trump administration officials”.
The article added, “Another official called the reports of threats against Trump’s life ‘Israeli-derived, not U.S.-generated, and viewed as low confidence.’”
The article added, “Some U.S. intelligence officials saw Israel’s sharing of the warning about threats to Trump’s life as designed less to inform than to influence the president’s decision-making and U.S. policy in the region, a current and a former U.S. official said” with the report quoting one official saying it “fit a broader pattern of Israeli intelligence reporting that some officials see as designed as much to shape presidential decision-making as to inform it”.
Indeed, fabricated claims of Iran planning to assassinate Donald Trump seem to have been Israel’s most successful deception deployed to get Trump to carry out its preferred policy on Iran.
Journalists Max Blumenthal and Ken Silva have documented how the FBI recruited Pakistani national Asif Merchant to take part in a sting operation supposedly surrounding an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump, in what Ken Silvia called “at the very least… a highly controlled FBI sting operation that never posed a threat to Trump” if not “a case totally fabricated by the undercover agents”.
Since then, Benjamin Netanyahu has repeated baseless claims of Iran trying to assassinate Trump in an attempt to get him to go to war with Iran.
In June of 2025, Benjamin Netanyahu baselessly claimed that Iran was behind the assassination attempts against Trump by Thomas Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania, and by Ryan Routh at Mar-a-Lago, claiming that Iran “tried to assassinate President Trump twice”.
This deception seems to have influenced Trump’s decision to bomb Iran for Israel in June of last year, with the White House tweeting “I was the hunted- now I’m the hunter” in reference to the bombing.
Fabricated claims of Iran trying to assassinate Trump were also a large part of Israel’s campaign to get Trump to enter a full-scale war on Iran this year.
According to Reuters, before the bombing , “Netanyahu, determined to move forward with an operation he had urged for decades, argued that there might never be a better chance to kill Khamenei and to avenge previous Iranian efforts to assassinate Trump”.
It was also a key talking point of the late Neo-con Zionist senator Lindsay Graham, who joined Benjamin Netanyahu is lobbying Trump for the war.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “Graham likened Iran’s leader to Adolf Hitler and told Trump that Iran was in a historically weak position. They talked about the regime’s efforts to assassinate Trump in 2024. ‘If you think Trump forgets stuff, you’d be mistaken,’ Graham said.”
Yet again, Israel has fabricated claims of Iran trying to assassinate Trump in an attempt to get him to ramp up the Iran war.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated Iran’s 2025 military budget at only $7.5 billion. So how is Iran holding its own against the multi-trillion-dollar US war machine?
A critical difference between the US war on Iran and previous US and allied bombing campaigns against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now Gaza, is that the US and Israel have failed to destroy Iran’s air defense system and cannot fly warplanes over Iran without risking the loss of planes and pilots to enemy fire. Iran has wisely built its critical defense infrastructure underground, with arms factories, weapons stockpiles and launch sites sheltered safely beneath its impenetrable mountainous terrain.
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claimed on March 10th that the US had “total air dominance” over Iran, but that is still not true. Instead, US forces are mainly attacking Iran with stand-off weapons from outside Iran’s borders, radically depleting US stockpiles of extraordinarily expensive weapons.
Even though US warplanes avoid entering Iranian airspace, the Congressional Research Service has reported that the US has lost at least four F-15 fighters, an F-35, an A-10, seven KC-135 refueling planes, an E-6 AWACS plane, two MC-130J special operations aircraft, a helicopter, a high-altitude Triton drone and 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones.
By contrast, during the full-scale invasion of Iraq in 2003, US forces lost only one A-10 and six helicopters, after systematically destroying much of Iraq’s air defenses through a low-intensity bombing campaign conducted under cover of the so-called no-fly zones, which the US, UK and France unilaterally imposed after the First Gulf War in 1991.
In 2003, the US Armed Forces dropped 13,000 tons of bombs and missiles on Iraq in the first 30 days of the war. But only 800 tons, or 6%, of those munitions, were cruise missiles and other stand-off weapons like the ones the US is now relying on against Iran.
The US has already depleted a third of its stand-off and air defense weapons stocks, including JASSM and Tomahawk cruise missiles and SM-2, -3 and -6 anti-aircraft missiles, as well as half its stocks of Patriot and THAAD interceptors and the new Precision Strike Missiles that are replacing the shorter-range ATACMs. These missiles range in price from $700,000 each for JASSMs up to $12 million each for THAAD interceptors, and many will take years to replace.
So the US is using multi-million dollar missiles that are irreplaceable in the short term to try, and often fail, to intercept Shahed drones that cost Iran between $20,000 and $50,000 each. This is a stark contrast from Iraq in 2003, when the US weapon of choice was its 500 lb. GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb, which costs only $22,000, and the 7,000 bombs used to attack Iraq were easily restocked.
To make up for the Navy’s dwindling missile stocks in the war zone, the US is flying B-1 bombers from a British airbase at Fairford in England to fire Tomahawk missiles at Iran. So many planes are now flying from so far away to attack Iran that the US has also had to send dozens more aerial refueling planes to reinforce the sixty it already had stationed in Israel.
The Russians have demonstrated in Ukraine that the capacity to quickly ramp up production of relatively inexpensive artillery shells and drones can be more critical in a war than spending trillions on big-ticket weapons programs. Meanwhile, the corrupt US military-industrial complex has built a gold-plated revolving door between the US arms industry, the Pentagon top brass and a captive, co-opted civilian government. It has produced ever more expensive weapons, but it has lost nearly every war it has fought.
The only wars the US has won since 1945 were three short wars to recover small neocolonial outposts in Grenada, Panama and Kuwait, as the US took advantage of the weakening of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Otherwise, from Korea in the early 1950s to Iran today, the U.S. armed forces have lost every single war, while inflicting mass destruction on countries and people the US government claimed to be liberating. As the saying goes, “With friends like us, who needs enemies?”
Like many US industries, the post-Cold War US arms industry has become consolidated around a cabal of five firms (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon (now RTX), General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman), whose continued growth depends on ever-greater profits from increasingly expensive warships, warplanes and weapons, while endless wars and “threats” serve to justify siphoning more and more of America’s national wealth into their coffers.
The US government and corporate media have told Americans for decades that these extraordinary military expenditures and endless wars are something to be proud of, and many Americans have swallowed this perverted myth of US military prowess. The Pentagon works hard to bolster its public image, spending $2 billion per year on recruitment and retention, and $1.14 billion on advertising contracts in 2023 alone.
But that narrative is beginning to crack. As with many aspects of the US political and economic system, more and more Americans are questioning what they have been taught about the US military, and veterans themselves are often the most outspoken critics.
Writing in Business Insider about the problems facing US military recruiters, Kelsey Baker reported that many veterans of the “Global War on Terror” now discourage their own children from joining the military. Three of the recruiters Baker spoke to said guns had been drawn on them by the parents of teenagers they were targeting for recruitment, and one recruiter recalled an irate parent calling him a “baby killer” and a government slave.
In Iran, the United States is caught between escalating a catastrophic, unwinnable war it should never have started and the urgent need to rethink the illegal, corrupt, policy of aggressive war it has pursued since 2001.
The September 11 attacks were carried out by 19 al-Qaeda hijackers – not by the countries that the United States went on to invade and occupy. Yet our leaders responded to those horrific crimes with a multi-trillion-dollar investment in new weapons and imperial military expansion – a decision driven by precisely the “unwarranted influence” of the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned against in his farewell speech in 1961.
US occupation forces in Afghanistan and Iraq were defeated by lightly-armed resistance forces defending their own countries. Yet America’s leaders ignored their own failures and defeats, continuing to blindly climb the escalation ladder – first confronting Russia through the war in Ukraine and now taking on Iran in its own territory.
We should note that it was under Democratic administrations that the US backed a coup in Ukraine in 2014 and then rejected a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine in April 2022, while Trump, a Republican, assassinated Iran’s top military leader in 2020 and launched wars on Iran, in cahoots with Israel, in 2025 and 2026. The US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, like the illegal occupation that spawned it, still enjoys bipartisan support in Congress, but not from the American people its members claim to represent.
Many Americans understood the dangers of the United States’ militarized response to the crimes of September 11th, 2001, even before the Pentagon embarked on its spending spree and unleashed mass destruction on country after country.
Chalmers Johnson wrote his prescient and widely-acclaimed book,Blowback, in 1999, explaining how US militarism and imperialism inevitably sow the seeds for cataclysmic events like the 9/11 attacks. He followed it with three more books in his American Empire Project before his death in 2010.
Former Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz told NPR a week after 9/11, “It is never a legitimate response to punish people who are not responsible for the wrong done…We must make a distinction between punishing the guilty and punishing others. If you simply retaliate en masse by bombing Afghanistan, let us say, or the Taliban, you will kill many people who don’t approve of what has happened.”
By the time the United States was preparing to invade Iraq in 2003, international outrage was so widespread that it produced the largest global street protests in history, with up to 36 million people protesting in 60 countries. But US leaders ignored the world’s rejection of their lies, both at the UN and in the streets, and insisted on pretending that Iraq had chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons, and was somehow responsible for the crimes of September 11th.
The brainwashing of US occupation troops in Iraq was so complete that, even three years into the war, in February 2006, 85% of US occupation forces in Iraq told a Zogby poll that their main mission there was to “retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9/11 attacks.”
The lies, brainwashing, torture, civilian massacres and other war crimes that have corrupted the last 25 years of American military history – together with the outrageous cost – have turned the American people squarely against more new wars. But incredibly, they have failed to persuade Members of Congress to exercise their constitutional responsibility to stop feeding the out-of-control US military-industrial complex with record amounts of money, weapons and false pretexts for war.
Trump has requested a record $1.5 trillion in military spending for FY2027. The House-passed NDAA authorizes $1.15 trillion in discretionary military spending, with additional funding outside the NDAA bringing the administration’s overall military-spending plan to $1.5 trillion. The Senate has so far blocked its version of the NDAA.
The draft NDAA also includes unprecedented provisions to further integrate US and Israeli weapons production and intelligence sharing.
Trump’s frustration over the US-Israeli failure to defeat Iran stems from the same delusion of US military supremacy that infected his predecessors, especially since the end of the Cold War.
But in his 2018 book Losing Military Supremacy: the Myopia of American Strategic Planning, Andrei Martyanov warned that huge US investments in aircraft-carriers and other big-ticket warships and warplanes were rapidly being rendered obsolete by a new generation of Russian and Chinese missiles capable of traveling much faster and farther than the most advanced missiles in the US arsenal.
Now Iranian missiles and drones have fundamentally altered the military balance in the Middle East. They have driven the US military out of its bases in the Persian Gulf and are forcing US aircraft carriers to stay 1,000 miles from the coast of Iran. US Central Command has had to relocate its regional headquarters from Qatar to Jordan, but Iran has attacked it there too.
Now the United States is repositioning more of its forces in the Middle East to Israel. This raises the stakes, and increases the risks, of any future escalation in the war on Iran, and it further expands the entangling US military alliance with the genocidal state of Israel, which most Americans now oppose.
On August 8, Iran reiterated six points from the Memorandum of Understanding that Trump already signed on June 17, and insisted that the United States must comply with them before it will reopen the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping.
Western commentators have described these as tough new conditions, but they are neither new nor tougher than before. They simply make explicit what was already implicit – for example, by specifically mentioning Palestine and Yemen, whereas the original memorandum merely called for ending the war “on all fronts, including Lebanon.” The United States and Israel started this war, and the United States has the power to end it by negotiating in good faith, based on the memorandum it already agreed to.
The American people have sacrificed enormously to pay for this obsolete, overpriced, and ineffective war machine. Many have paid with their lives, their limbs or their health. All of us pay the opportunity cost of our leaders’ warmongering and reckless squandering of our national wealth, leaving us without the basic support systems that our neighbors in other developed countries take for granted, from universal free healthcare and quality public education to living wages and paid vacation time.
Iran has thwarted a planned Syrian military intervention in Lebanon that was being prepared at the request of the United States, delivering a direct warning to Damascus that any Syrian military entry into Lebanese territory would be met with a regional response, according to Iranian sources cited by U News.
The Iranian warning included threats to stir up the Syrian–Iraqi border, open a confrontation line in Homs, support Alawite movements in the Syrian coastal region, and encourage the Kurds to return militarily to the outskirts of Aleppo.
The warning was not directed solely at Damascus; it also reached Ankara, Baghdad, Doha, and Riyadh, carrying the message that any Syrian adventure against Hezbollah in Lebanon would not remain confined to the Bekaa Valley but could turn into a broad regional confrontation within Syrian territory.
Iran succeeded in transforming any potential Syrian intervention in Lebanon from a military option that could be marketed to the US into a high-cost regional adventure, sources said. The Iranian warning, which reached Damascus through Turkish channels, included a threat of Iranian ballistic missile strikes that would begin from Damascus and include, in the first wave, more than 100 strategic targets, foremost among them the Syrian presidential palace.
The US-backed scenario: a three-pronged offensive into Lebanon
The scenario promoted by figures linked to the US embassy in Lebanon involves sending Syrian armed units from the Masnaa crossing toward Chtoura in the Lebanese Bekaa and on to the city of Zahle, simultaneously with mobilization from the eastern highlands toward the city of Baalbek.
The proposed scenario also includes declaring the city of Tripoli a Syrian zone of influence, with advancing forces benefiting from local environments, particularly in some Sunni-majority areas.
The presumed goal of the operation is to strike Hezbollah’s rocket infrastructure in the Bekaa and to create military and political pressure that would force the party to withdraw or accept new security arrangements.
Hezbollah prepared, treats potential Syrian operation as US-Israeli pressure
Iran’s warning has prompted regional parties to reassess the cost of the scenario, especially since Syria, emerging from deep military and political transformations, does not appear capable of enduring a new internal war.
Hezbollah is treating the information about a potential Syrian intervention extremely seriously and has taken precautionary measures in the Bekaa in anticipation of any possible Syrian incursion.
Hezbollah does not view the scenario as a separate Syrian operation, but rather as part of US–Israeli–regional pressure aimed at dismantling the structure of resistance in Lebanon from the east, following Israel’s failure to achieve a decisive result in the south.
Iraq’s rejection, UAE’s enthusiasm, and Saudi caution
Iraqi intelligence chief Hamid al-Shatri visited Damascus and informed Syrian officials of Baghdad’s rejection of any Syrian military expansion into Lebanese territory. Al-Shatri warned that Iraqi forces, primarily factions of the Popular Mobilization Forces, might enter Syrian territory if an intervention against Hezbollah occurred.
The Iraqi position added a further layer of deterrence to the Iranian warning, signalling that Damascus could face military pressure not only from within Syria but also from its eastern border.
The UAE is enthusiastic about funding any Syrian military operation in Lebanon, with officials quoted as ready to pay troop salaries as well as finance combat operations. This financial backing suggests that the UAE views the intervention as an opportunity to curtail Hezbollah’s influence in Lebanon, despite the broader regional risks that Iran has highlighted.
Qatar rejects Syrian intervention in Lebanon, while Saudi Arabia does not object to an intervention as long as it is within arrangements that weaken Hezbollah without igniting the region. The divergent positions among Gulf states underscore the complex calculations at play, with Riyadh appearing to balance its opposition to Hezbollah against the dangers of a wider conflict that Iran has explicitly threatened to unleash on Syrian soil.
The recent closure of the Israeli consulate in Chengdu is described in the mainstream media as simply a consequence of China’s positions on the Palestinian issue—particularly the ongoing genocide in Gaza—as well as on the Israeli-American aggression against Iran.
The Israeli consul issued an enthusiastic statement about friendship with China, as if the closure were merely temporary for renovations.
What the article is careful not to mention is the recent espionage case involving an Israeli company in Chengdu, which was thwarted at the last minute by Chinese authorities just as it was about to succeed.
Reported in Chinese media and on social media, this case was, of course, completely ignored by Western media.
In broad terms, in 2023, the Israeli embassy in China acted as an intermediary between a Tel Aviv-based data company and a technology firm in Chengdu, under the pretext of jointly building a “data processing center” intended to optimize urban traffic flow.
However, during the discussions, it became apparent that the company’s request for dedicated bandwidth far exceeded commercial needs, and that its encryption protocols closely resembled “SIGINT,” a proprietary system of the Mossad.
The MSS (Ministry of State Security) intervened, and a more thorough investigation revealed that the company’s capital was linked to a fund of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and that its “engineers” exhibited characteristics consistent with the training of Mossad agents.
This so-called “European R&D data synchronization project” was in reality a plan to intercept critical communications traffic in southwestern China.
When the Chengdu National Security Bureau and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly conducted a thorough investigation, they discovered that this surveillance center, concealed within a commercial building, had already set up, in its isolated underground level, a room shielded against electromagnetic waves, as well as equipment providing access to a global “honeycomb” surveillance network.
The full account of this case in English (and a few other equally serious cases of Israeli espionage on Chinese soil) can be found here.
Western media do not limit themselves to lies when shaping what they sell as news: exaggeration, omissions, and truncated information are often more effective at deceiving their audience.
The recent closure of the Israeli consulate in Chengdu is described in the mainstream media as simply a consequence of China’s positions on the Palestinian issue—particularly the ongoing genocide in Gaza—as well as on the Israeli-American aggression against Iran.
Israel’s Mossad Chengdu Spy Case Should be Taken Seriously. The “Middle East Butcher Knife” is Reaching Out to Us.
When Iran’s nuclear facilities were reduced to ruins amid the roar of drones, when Hezbollah’s top brass died collectively due to an exploding pager, and when the Italian Prime Minister’s mobile phone became a “real-time eavesdropper” of Mossad – this intelligence agency known as the “Middle East butcher knife” is quietly extending its claws to China. The thrilling spy offensive and defensive battle in Chengdu in 2023 revealed the tip of the iceberg of modern intelligence warfare.
I. Chengdu Spy: Eavesdropping Conspiracy in Commercial Cloak
At the beginning of 2023, a group of “technology experts” in suits walked into a technology company in Chengdu, claiming that they wanted to jointly build a “data processing center” to optimize urban traffic.
This project, which was initiated by the Israeli Embassy in China and led by a Tel Aviv data security company, was actually a surveillance plan carefully planned by Mossad.
The independent international bandwidth they applied for far exceeded commercial needs, and the encryption protocol was exactly the same as Mossad’s special tool “SIGNIT”. What was even more fatal was that after the equity penetration, it directly pointed to the Israeli Ministry of Defense Fund.
The AI counter-espionage system of China’s national security agency was the first to see through the disguise: the “engineers” who were frequently transferred across borders met the training characteristics of Mossad agents, and the so-called “European R&D data synchronization” was actually an excuse to hijack the backbone communication traffic in the southwest region.
When the Chengdu National Security Bureau and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly launched a penetrating review, it was discovered that this monitoring center, disguised as a commercial building, had already prepared an electromagnetic shielding room and “honeycomb” global monitoring network access equipment in its underground isolation layer.
II. Technical Strangulation: Mossad’s Three Deadly Tactics
Mossad’s global hunting chain is escalating:
Assassination scalpel: From exploding pagers of Hezbollah top brass to an “accidental car accident” of an Iranian nuclear scientist, implanted bombs and drone beheadings have become the norm.
In 2025, the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Salami, was precisely eliminated on the streets of Tehran. Behind this was an intelligence network built by 700 insiders.
Intelligence Trojan Horse: In the Chengdu incident, the Tel Aviv company used “data compliance” as bait to try to implant monitoring equipment into China’s western communications hub.
Even more covert is dark web recruitment – in 2025, a technical backbone of an AI company in Shenzhen was deceived by foreign forces with “academic cooperation” and almost leaked key algorithms.
III. China’s countermeasures: from technical defense to national defense
Facing Mossad’s technical disguise, China has built a “triple firewall”:
Technological countermeasures: The “Skynet-Anti-surveillance” system deployed in Chengdu and Xi’an can identify abnormal cross-border data flows in real time. Starting in 2024, foreign-funded technology projects must pass “data sovereignty review”, and core algorithms and bandwidth are prohibited from being controlled overseas.
Legal Sword: Article 24 of the newly revised “Anti-Espionage Law” directly rejected the Chengdu project. The company involved was included in the “Unreliable Entity List”, and the asset freezing measures shocked the international business community.
The counterintelligence cooperation launched with the European Union in 2024 will share intelligence on Mossad’s operational patterns and form a transnational joint defense.
People’s War: 30% of espionage cases will be solved by public reports in 2024. Harbin students discovered modified drones operating around military bases, and nuclear power workers prevented foreign engineers from illegally photographing pressure vessel welds. These daily vigilances have woven the tightest line of defense.
IV. Bloody Warning: Iran’s Lessons and China’s Mirror
What is even more shocking is that the head of Iran’s anti-Mossad special forces was actually an Israeli agent, and the Revolutionary Guard generals still used ordinary mobile phones to make calls, which ultimately led to their beheading.
In contrast, in China, a certain overseas personnel who failed the civil service examination actually surrendered to the enemy and tried to “whitewash himself” and stay undercover for a long time.
This kind of “treason by venting anger” reveals a new risk: psychologically unbalanced people may become the most dangerous breakthrough point. However, the legalization of China’s counter-espionage system combined with the mass line makes it difficult for such conspiracies to succeed.
In 2025, Zhang Jiange, a senior engineer at a military institute, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for selling electromagnetic gun technology, and Huang from a provincial agency was forced to leak secrets due to an extramarital affair and was finally caught by the law.
V. Future Gaming: From Physical Bases to Digital Battlefields
Mossad has adjusted its strategy: The 2025 Shenzhen AI technology theft case shows that it is turning to “dark web recruitment + remote infiltration”, using virtual currency payments and encrypted communications to evade detection.
More covertly, they have turned their attention to the “technology supply chain” and attempted to infiltrate key areas through legal channels such as joint ventures and academic exchanges.
Facing this war without gunpowder, every citizen is a line of defense. Just as the fisherman Lao Chen reported the underwater stealing device immediately after fishing it out, and just as the citizens of Chengdu decisively called 12339 when they saw suspicious people photographing sensitive facilities – when the whole nation is on high alert against espionage, the shadow hunters of Mossad will eventually “have no room to maneuver in China, and will be captured and killed if they move”!
Conclusion
From the roar of drones on the streets of Tehran to the commercial buildings in Chengdu Hi-Tech Zone, the threat from Mossad has never been so close.
Before Donald Trump and Israel attacked Iran, Jeffrey Epstein was the biggest story in the world. It’s not hard to see why.
Epstein captured the public’s imagination not just because his case exposed the extent of elite depravity and lack of accountability, but also because the world’s most notorious pedophile was almost certainly an Israeli intelligence asset. That fact adds a whole new geopolitical dimension to the already twisted and complicated Epstein saga.
But Epstein is not an aberration. For decades, Israel has served as a sanctuary for sexual predators while the US government looked the other way. Israel’s allies on the American Christian Right have always remained conspicuously silent on the issue.
Fugitives, Fixers, and Years of Delay
The Law That Made Israel a Safe Haven for Criminals
In 1978, Israel banned the extradition of its own citizens. The law, pushed through under Prime Minister Menachem Begin, was intended to protect Jews from hostile courts, but it later created a loophole that allowed Israeli citizens accused of crimes abroad to avoid extradition.
In September 1997, Samuel Sheinbein killed 19-year-old Alfredo Enrique Tello Jr. in Maryland and fled to Israel, where he claimed Israeli citizenship through his Israeli-born father and became protected from extradition to the US. His father, Sol, an attorney with dual citizenship, brought him a passport and a ticket to Tel Aviv, and that case became a major precedent in Israel’s extradition law.
Israel’s Supreme Court blocked Sheinbein’s extradition in a 3–2 decision, despite demands from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and congressional threats to suspend aid. Chief Justice Aharon Barak, who wrote the dissenting opinion, argued that Sheinbein should be extradited and warned that the ruling could turn Israel into a haven for criminals. Sheinbein received 24 years in an Israeli prison, far short of the sentence he could have faced in the US.
Israel amended the law after the scandal, allowing the extradition of Israeli citizens under specified conditions. The Sheinbein case exposed a conflict between Israel’s domestic extradition law and its extradition obligations to the US, and prompted a broader overhaul of the country’s extradition framework. During the debate over the reform, Hanan Porat, head of the Knesset’s Law Committee, warned against allowing Israel to become a “safe house for criminals abroad.”
By 2020, Jewish Community Watch had identified more than 60 accused child-sex offenders who had moved from the US to Israel since 2014, and believed the true number was higher. Activists blamed both Israel for failing to address the problem and the US for not pursuing extradition aggressively, according to CBS News.
Mordechai Yomtov
In December 2001, Mordechai Yomtov, a teacher at the Cheder Menachem Jewish school in Los Angeles, was arrested on 10 counts of committing lewd acts against three students aged 8 to 10. According to case files, he kept boys in the classroom during recess and committed lewd acts against them.
In February 2002, Yomtov pleaded guilty to two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a minor and one count of lewd acts. He was sentenced to one year in prison and five years of probation. He was ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment and required to register as a sex offender for life.
After his release, he violated his probation, fled through Mexico with a forged passport, and lived in Jerusalem for nearly 23 years, hiding in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Tel Arza. Jewish Community Watch tracked him down and filmed him with a hidden camera. In the recording, he admitted to violating his probation and fleeing the US, but denied the specific charges.
One of the victims, Mendy Hauck, only came forward in 2016 and began a campaign for Yomtov’s extradition. However, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office never filed an extradition request, according to CBS News.
The fugitive was finally arrested in November 2025, 23 years after his escape, after Israeli authorities located and detained him as a person wanted for extradition to the US. He was detained during a Jerusalem police operation at his hideout in the Tel Arza neighborhood. If extradited to the US, he will face further proceedings there.
Malka Leifer
Malka Leifer, the former principal of the Adass Israel ultra-Orthodox school in Melbourne, fled to Israel in March 2008 after the community leadership learned of allegations of sexual abuse against students. Evidence presented in court showed that the wife of a school board member booked tickets for Leifer and four children that night, and the Supreme Court of Victoria found that those who organized her departure were determined to get her out of the country within hours.
Australia filed a formal extradition request in 2014. More than 70 court hearings followed, along with nearly 13 years of legal battles. Leifer and her lawyers repeatedly argued that she was mentally unfit to stand trial, contributing to the long delay in the extradition process.
Israel’s Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman used his official position to obstruct Leifer’s extradition. Prosecutors alleged that he pressured ministry staff and offered career benefits to psychiatrists in connection with opinions declaring Leifer mentally unfit to stand trial. In 2022, Litzman pleaded guilty to breach of trust and received an eight-month suspended sentence and a fine of 3,000 shekels.
In Australia, Leifer was found guilty on 18 counts of sexual assault, including the rape of a 17-year-old student, and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Taking into account time already served, Leifer will become eligible for parole in June 2029.
Epstein: The Intelligence Question That Won’t Go Away
Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and convicted sex offender, pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor and was sentenced to 18 months in prison but served less than 13 months. After his death in 2019, thousands of documents revealed details of his extensive network of powerful contacts, including ties to Israeli political figures and allegations of links to Israeli intelligence.
These connections began surfacing long before his death, with a key episode unfolding in 2008. The secret non-prosecution agreement (NPA) was signed on September 24, 2007. In the months that followed, Epstein’s legal team tried to renegotiate or overturn the deal.
In April 2008, as federal charges once again loomed, Epstein flew to Israel — officially to meet with scientists and tour military sites. Rumors swirled that he was transferring himself and his assets there to avoid prosecution. Epstein later confirmed the trip but insisted he had returned to New York. He formally pleaded guilty to state charges on June 30, 2008.
A 2020 FBI memo recorded a confidential source claiming that Epstein had been “trained as a spy” under Ehud Barak’s direction and was a “co-opted Mossad agent.” The document records the source’s allegation; it does not establish that the claim was verified. That source was later identified as Charles Johnson.
Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, a longtime Epstein associate, stayed at Epstein’s Manhattan apartment and later called their relationship a “mistake,” though he denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. Released documents indicate that Israeli government-linked personnel installed and maintained security systems at the apartment and that Barak requested security assistance.
Barak and his wife stayed there dozens of times, and his aide Yoni Koren, a former Israeli military intelligence officer, lived in Epstein’s apartment for weeks, with Epstein covering his cancer treatment. Epstein referred to it as “Ehud’s apartment” in correspondence with his staff, according to the released files.
Epstein also invested in the Israeli startup Carbyne, linked to Barak, which was later acquired by US company Axon in a deal valuing Carbyne at $625 million. Through his foundation, he donated $25,000 to Friends of the IDF and $15,000 to the Jewish National Fund, which supports settlement activity in the West Bank.
Arrested in America, Home in Israel
US law enforcement arrested a high-ranking Israeli official in Las Vegas for attempting to solicit a minor, but he was released after posting $10,000 bail without travel restrictions, the Israeli government publicly misrepresented the arrest as a questioning, and within 48 hours the official was back home.
This story, which unfolded in August 2025 and involved Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a senior official in Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, is just one of many episodes illustrating how Israel has become a safe haven for sex offenders while the US looks the other way.
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, the head of the Technological Defense Division at Israel’s National Cyber Directorate — an agency directly subordinate to the Prime Minister’s Office, was arrested in Las Vegas.
The accused had traveled to Las Vegas for the Black Hat USA 2025 cybersecurity conference, but instead became one of the targets of a two-week joint operation by the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, and Nevada’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
According to police documents, he had been exchanging messages on apps, including Pure, with an undercover agent posing as a 15-year-old girl. The plan they discussed included “sexual contact with a condom” and a visit to the Cirque du Soleil. Alexandrovich was arrested when he arrived at the meeting in a rideshare vehicle.
The day after his arrest, Alexandrovich posted $10,000 bail. His passport was not confiscated, no travel restrictions were imposed, and he had returned to Israel within 48 hours. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson called the procedure routine, Netanyahu’s office initially claimed the official had only been “questioned,” and the US State Department denied any interference.
In October 2025, a Clark County grand jury indicted Alexandrovich on a felony charge of luring a child with technology for sexual conduct. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Despite returning to Israel, the judge has allowed him to participate in court proceedings remotely via Zoom.
The American Pipeline
The pattern extends beyond individual cases. Jewish Community Watch has documented how some American religious communities respond to allegations with collective denial and active support for the accused. Suspects are moved to other communities, where new victims emerge, and institutions may have a financial incentive to prevent court proceedings due to civil liability concerns.
The problem, according to JCW founder Meyer Seewald, mirrors the Catholic Church’s cover-ups. “The same thing that is going on in the Catholic Church right now around the world, the exact same thing is happening in our community. The cover-ups are the same, the stigma, the shame,” he told CBS News.
JCW’s chief operating officer Shana Aaronson placed responsibility on both sides. She blamed Jewish communities in America and the US government for not aggressively seeking extraditions, while also criticizing Israeli law enforcement for failing to prioritize the hunt for suspects.
What Happens Inside the Sanctuary
Entering Israel protects the accused not just with an extradition barrier, but with the very structure of the system itself — a place where crimes go massively unrecorded, cases are quickly closed, and authorities refuse transparency. According to Matzof, an organization monitoring pedophilia in Israel, tens of thousands of child-sex offenders operate in the country each year, committing crimes against approximately 100,000 victims.
Matzof’s director Eliram Malki stated that offenders “are not deterred by police” and certainly not by “contemptuous court rulings,” citing a case where a court released a defendant despite thousands of child pornography files on his computer, arguing that imprisonment would “harm his career.”
The Data the State Would Not Release
The most damning evidence against this system comes from data the state tried to conceal. In 2024, the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) documented 51,118 cases handled by its centers, with more than 16,600 of these being new cases and more than half involving minors. Only about 10% of victims filed police complaints, and 81% of sexual-offense cases handled by the prosecution in 2024 were closed without an indictment.
The police, prosecution, prison service, military, and several ministries refused to provide data they had shared for previous annual reports — data the organization considers mandatory by law. ARCCI director Orit Sulitzeanu called this “an expression of contempt and an abdication of responsibility,” according to Israeli media.
Iraq has reiterated that foreign forces present in the country as part of a so-called international coalition must definitely leave in less than two months, with Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi saying the end-of-September deadline for ending the mission is “final and irreversible.”
Zaidi said in a Wednesday meeting with US Central Command Commander General Brad Cooper that foreign forces present in Iraq must complete the process to withdraw from the country on September 30.
Iraq “would be free of any foreign military presence… Oct. 1 would mark a new day in Iraq’s statehood,” he said, according to a post on the X account of the Iraqi prime minister’s office.
The post said Zaidi and Cooper had agreed that Iraq-US relations must change after the withdrawal, to cover only economic and security cooperation, and should be based on mutual respect for sovereignty and shared interests.
“Both sides affirmed their complete and final agreement to end the international coalition’s military mission, as agreed upon during the Prime Minister’s visit to Washington in mid-July,” it said.
The statement comes amid repeated calls from Iraqi people and political factions for the US and allies to immediately leave the Arab country after more than two decades of occupation.
The calls have increased in recent months after the US tried to further expand its foothold in the region through an unsuccessful war of aggression that it launched on Iran with the help of the Israeli regime.
The aggression angered many in Iraq, a country where the US has stationed military assets and personnel since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled former dictator Saddam Hussein.
In July, the United States launched joint airstrikes on positions held by Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units, known as Hashd al-Sha’abi in Arabic, further fueling public anger toward foreign forces present in the country.
The world’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, whose capabilities appear to exist beyond physical constraints, ultimately depend on a narrow maritime passage in the Persian Gulf – the Strait of Hormuz – through which much of the helium used to cool the lithography machines that etch the chips powering AI models is transported.
The continued closure of the strategic waterway in the wake of American maritime banditry has exposed how easily the digital revolution can be severed from its physical foundations and the largely invisible vulnerability at the heart of the global artificial intelligence industry.
While the world’s attention has focused on oil markets and energy prices, the disruption of shipping through the narrow waterway has exposed an intricate web of dependencies linking the seemingly ethereal world of algorithms and machine learning to the physical movement of critical industrial materials.
At the center of this vulnerability is helium, an irreplaceable element in semiconductor manufacturing that is produced predominantly as a byproduct of natural gas processing at Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility.
When the US-Israeli war machine carried out an unprovoked and illegal aggression against the Islamic Republic and the Strait of Hormuz became impassable, approximately one-third of global helium production was disrupted, while hundreds of specialized cryogenic containers became stranded, their valuable cargo gradually warming and evaporating.
The convergence of a major production disruption and a maritime blockade has threatened to constrain semiconductor fabrication in Taiwan and South Korea, where some of the world’s most advanced chips are manufactured.
The resulting supply shock could slow the expansion of AI infrastructure and expose the extent to which the digital revolution remains dependent on fragile physical supply chains.
Unlikely link between a narrow strait and advanced algorithms
The Strait of Hormuz, a maritime passage approximately thirty-three kilometers wide at its narrowest point, has long been recognized as one of the world’s most consequential energy chokepoints.
Before the US-Israeli aggression against Iran, roughly 20 million barrels of crude oil and refined products passed through it daily, representing approximately one-quarter of all seaborne oil trade.
Yet the strategic significance of this waterway extends far beyond energy markets, reaching into the sophisticated supply chains that underpin the global technology industry.
The disruption of shipping through the strait has exposed a dependency that few had anticipated: the reliance of advanced semiconductor manufacturing on helium. This gas cannot be manufactured when needed and cannot be stockpiled indefinitely.
Helium is extracted as a byproduct of liquefied natural gas production through cryogenic distillation, and Qatar sits atop the world’s largest single natural gas field, accounting for approximately one-third of global helium supply.
The Ras Laffan Industrial City in an Arab country, home to the world’s largest LNG plant, has been the cornerstone of global helium production for years.
When the US aggression and the Iranian retaliation forced the shutdown of this facility in early March 2026, and QatarEnergy subsequently declared force majeure on affected contracts, approximately 5.2 million cubic meters of annual helium production capacity was removed from global markets.
The damage to the facility was so extensive that Qatari officials estimated it would take three to five years for full repairs to be completed.
The simultaneous closure of the Strait of Hormuz meant that even helium that had already been produced and loaded into specialized containers could not reach its customers, creating a production-and-logistics disruption unprecedented in the history of the helium industry.
Qatar’s Ras Laffan helium
Helium crisis: Precarious supply chain
The vulnerability of the helium supply chain was immediately apparent to industry experts when the crisis unfolded. Helium industry consultants described the situation in stark terms.
Approximately two hundred specialized cryogenic containers used to transport liquid helium were stranded in West Asia, each worth roughly one million dollars.
These containers are not ordinary freight vessels but sophisticated pieces of equipment designed to maintain helium at temperatures near absolute zero.
Liquid helium has an extremely low boiling point, approximately 4.2 Kelvin at atmospheric pressure, and its storage containers inevitably experience boil-off. The longer a shipment remains in transit, the more difficult it becomes to preserve the original cargo volume.
The containers can store helium for approximately 35-40 days before warming becomes a critical problem, after which the helium transforms into gas and escapes through pressure release valves.
The timing of the disruption could hardly have been worse for the semiconductor industry, which was already operating at maximum capacity to meet surging demand for AI chips.
Semiconductor manufacturing and microchip fabrication are the largest consumers of helium globally, and the gas is irreplaceable for these uses.
Helium’s combination of properties, including its extreme thermal conductivity, chemical inertness, and low boiling point, makes it uniquely suitable for wafer temperature management, cooling during extreme ultraviolet lithography, and mass spectrometry leak detection.
No viable alternative exists for these applications. When helium runs short, semiconductor companies tend to outbid every other industry for available supply because the cost of idling a fabrication facility dwarfs any premium on the gas itself.
This has led to price increases that have rippled through the entire technology supply chain.
South Korea and Taiwan: Vulnerability of concentration
The strategic exposure to the helium crisis is particularly acute in East Asia, where the semiconductor industry is predominantly concentrated.
South Korea, home to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which together control nearly 80 percent of the high-bandwidth memory market essential for modern AI clusters, imported roughly 64 percent of its helium from Qatar in 2025.
The country’s dependence on Qatari helium made it one of the most vulnerable economies to the disruption, with government officials and industry analysts warning that prolonged shortages could constrain the country’s most important growth engine.
The Asia Group, a US-based advisory firm, highlighted this vulnerability in a report that noted continued disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz would affect South Korean chipmakers, which are the world’s largest helium consumers.
Taiwan, which accounts for over 60 percent of global foundry revenue and more than 90 percent of leading-edge chip manufacturing, also faced significant exposure to the helium crisis.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s most advanced semiconductor manufacturer, consumes approximately 10 percent of Taiwan’s electricity demand and depends heavily on imported helium for its fabrication processes.
While Taiwanese companies have invested heavily in helium recycling systems that can recapture ninety to 95 percent of the helium used in certain processes, leak-detection helium is essentially unrecoverable, and even a 5 percent loss at high consumption volumes adds up rapidly.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reportedly held inventory of four to six months and had locked in multiyear helium supply contracts as part of its Arizona fab planning, but the prolonged nature of the disruption raised concerns about the sustainability of these buffers.
Crumbling foundation of the AI Infrastructure
The helium crisis is only one element of a broader vulnerability that runs through nearly every layer of the AI infrastructure buildout.
The International Energy Agency has documented that data centers consumed approximately 415 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024, with projections suggesting this figure could roughly double by 2030.
The accelerated servers that drive AI workloads are set to grow far faster in electricity use than conventional servers, creating a massive industrial load that depends on stable electricity supplies.
The Strait of Hormuz matters to AI because AI is becoming a massive industrial electricity customer, and the Strait of Hormuz still shapes fuel availability and pricing for several of the Asian economies that power and manufacture the AI stack.
The relationship between the Strait of Hormuz and AI is not direct but operates through multiple layers of dependency. Taiwan and South Korea, the two economies most critical to AI hardware production, are heavily dependent on imported energy that transits through the Strait.
Taiwan, which imports over 95 percent of its energy needs, had relied on Qatar for approximately one-third of its LNG before the war. South Korea relies on the strait for 61 percent of its crude oil imports and 54 percent of its naphtha imports.
When energy supplies are threatened, the entire semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem faces disruption, including the production of the advanced logic chips and high-bandwidth memory that power AI systems.
The New York Federal Reserve has warned that mounting global supply chain strains tied to the recent American wars of aggression in West Asia could hamstring the AI investment boom.
Container bottleneck and the limits of diversification
Efforts to diversify helium supply have been complicated by the physical limitations of the industry. New helium projects under development in Canada, Tanzania, and Minnesota are years away from meaningful production.
The specialized cryogenic containers used to transport helium are in limited supply, and the stranded containers in West Asia represent a significant portion of the global fleet.
Even if production were to resume immediately, repositioning these containers would require a minimum of three months, creating a supply gap that outlasts the war itself.
This logistical bottleneck has been described by industry experts as potentially the worst part of the shortage, as the disruption affects not only the production of helium but also the ability to transport it to customers.
The crisis has accelerated efforts to develop alternatives and improve efficiency. ASML and Applied Materials are designing next-generation tools to use less helium in certain processes, substituting nitrogen for non-critical cooling.
These are incremental improvements measured in percentage points, not a structural fix. Helium recycling systems have become more widespread, with most advanced fabrication companies now operating on-site helium recovery systems capable of recapturing a high percentage of the helium used in certain processes.
However, the fundamental dependence on helium in EUV lithography and other critical processes means that no quick solution is available.
AI industry’s new geography
The disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has forced a reconsideration of the physical geography of the AI industry.
Tech companies accounted for around 40 percent of corporate renewable power purchase agreements signed in 2025, and the AI momentum is helping push interest in nuclear, geothermal, batteries, and more flexible data-center designs.
The move toward domestic energy sources reduces dependence on imported fossil fuels and lowers vulnerability to maritime chokepoints.
However, the concentration of advanced semiconductor manufacturing in Taiwan and South Korea means that even US companies remain exposed to the helium supply chain through their dependence on fabrication facilities in these regions.
The economic implications of the disruption extend beyond the immediate cost of helium. Memory chip prices have already risen sharply amid booming AI demand, and any further supply constraint on helium could force chip makers to prioritize high-margin AI silicon over consumer products.
When helium runs short, semiconductor companies tend to outbid every other industry for available supply because the cost of idling a fab dwarfs any premium on the gas itself.
This leaves other helium-dependent sectors, including medical imaging and pharmaceuticals, short of supply, creating a cascade of economic effects that reach far beyond the technology industry.
The disruption has demonstrated that the world’s AI revolution ultimately depends not only on GPUs, advanced lithography, and enormous data centers, but also on obscure physical commodities whose supply chains can be disrupted thousands of kilometers away from Silicon Valley.
Long-term implications for global technology
The ongoing crisis triggered by US maritime banditry and military aggression against Iran has served as a stress test for the global technology ecosystem, revealing vulnerabilities that will shape investment and policy decisions for years to come.
The dependence on a single waterway for a third of global helium supply has been identified as a strategic weakness that requires immediate attention.
South Korea’s government has launched a review of more than a dozen semiconductor materials and equipment types with high dependence on West Asian sources.
The longer-term response to the crisis will likely involve a combination of diversification, recycling, and redesign, according to experts. New helium production facilities outside Qatar are under development, though they will take years to reach meaningful production.
Helium recycling systems are becoming more sophisticated and widespread, reducing the amount of fresh helium required for semiconductor manufacturing.
(Photo credit: Itai Ron / Middle East Images / AFP)
The Cradle
AUG 12, 2026
Troops are deployed between settlers and Palestinians during escalating occupier aggression, preventing Palestinians from defending themselves
Over 300 Israeli reserve soldiers have signed a petition to army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir demanding a crackdown on “Jewish terrorism” by settlers in the occupied West Bank, arguing that unchecked settler violence is endangering Israeli troops deployed to contain it, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on 12 August.
Signatories of the petition say commanders have sent them into the field to stand between Israelis and Palestinians during what the military calls “friction incidents” while withholding both the powers and the means to stop an attack before it happens.
“We are reserve soldiers who have served hundreds of days since 7 October, 2023, including in the West Bank, where we risked our lives for Israel’s security, but we feel that the army leadership is abandoning us in the field and does not support us,” the petition stated.
“We are repeatedly asked to put out the fires, but no one ensures that the leaders of national terrorism are stopped and uprooted,” it added.
The soldiers link that vacuum – along with the political cover extended to some of the occupiers responsible – to troops being wounded and killed in the surrounding unrest.
They asked Zamir for what they called “decisive action to stop and eradicate Jewish terrorism,” and for orders spelling out what they are permitted to do when it unfolds in front of them.
One signatory told Yedioth Ahronoth that what is unfolding in Qusra, where illegal settlers seized Palestinian land, established an outpost, and besieged Palestinian homes, is “not an isolated case, but part of a broader pattern in the West Bank.”
He said Armed settlers “operate with little intervention, while the army often finds itself involved in protecting the actions of an extremist minority instead of enforcing the law.”
“Criminal violence against Palestinians does not enhance security. It puts soldiers at risk, fuels tensions in the region, and harms everyone’s security,” he said.
Israeli authorities logged 660 occupier attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank over the first six months of 2026, up 63 percent from the 405 recorded in the same stretch of 2025, Israel’s Public Broadcaster (KAN) reported on 10 August.
Israeli security bodies file these assaults under “nationalistic crime” and “terrorism.”
According to the KAN report, illegal settlers killed six Palestinians and wounded 140 in the first half of 2026, up from 82 wounded and no deaths during the same period in 2025.
A UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found in June that Israeli authorities “had enabled settler attacks through financial and military support, in a climate of impunity fostered by judicial and law-enforcement bodies,” British outlet Reuters wrote.
The inquiry described masked occupiers carrying out attacks alongside Israeli soldiers who acted as a shield for the violence.
(Photo credit: Itai Ron / Middle East Images / AFP)
The Most Revolutionary Act 