Slow response and ignored warnings - acknowledged. Same as the U.S. on 9/11.
One catastrophic failure doesn’t cancel decades of unique access on Iran and Hezbollah that America has benefited from. If it does, then the U.S. should abandon its own intelligence agencies too.
The selective standard is the real tell 🫵🏻🤡
Ah yes, the classic “Israel’s intel is bad because they had a failure” argument.
Every serious intelligence service has had catastrophic failures - the U.S. on 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Iraq WMD assessment that drove the actual decision to invade. Israel’s failure on October 7 was real and severe.
That doesn’t erase decades of unique penetration into Hezbollah and Iran’s nuclear and military programs that American agencies have repeatedly relied on and benefited from.
The claim that Israel sold the U.S. the idea that Iran would be “easy to topple” or was the main source of the Saddam WMD narrative is just not accurate. The Iraq WMD fiasco was an American and British intelligence and political failure. Israeli assessments were secondary at best. Pretending otherwise is convenient revisionism.
If the standard is “zero failures or the entire partnership is worthless,” then the U.S. should also stop sharing intelligence with itself. The actual question is whether the overall volume, access, and results have been valuable. They have. Dismissing that because of one (or even a few) failures is the opposite of a serious argument.
Gazans are systematically lying about the Gaza’s population numbers.
Official claims put the Strip at 2.1–2.2 million. Multiple independent checks point far lower — around 800,000 or less. Here’s how the numbers are cooked:
1. Overseas residents counted as present — Hundreds of thousands who left years ago (and their descendants) remain on the rolls, contrary to standard demographic rules.
2. Net emigration ignored — Since 2005, large numbers have left through Egypt and other routes. Official statistics barely register this outflow.
3. Under-reported deaths — Natural deaths are systematically
undercounted for political and financial reasons.
4. Inflated births — Projected birth rates far exceed what school enrollment, vaccination records, and other real-world data support. High “fertility” figures are maintained to keep the population growing on paper.
5. Double-counting — People registered in more than one place are counted multiple times.
6. Life expectancy manipulation — Pre-war life expectancy figures were kept artificially high, masking higher real mortality and further inflating the base population.
Each of these adjustments, applied separately or together, brings the real resident population of Gaza down to roughly 800,000 or lower. The higher the official number, the more UNRWA funding and international aid flow in.
The 2.2 million figure is a political and financial tool, not a demographic fact.
“If the United States had to gather on its own the intelligence that Israel gives us, we would have to establish five CIAs.”
- Maj. Gen. George J. Keegan Jr., former Chief of U.S. Air Force Intelligence
According to estimates, this is on the order of $100 billion per year.
Israel is your interest as an American.
They say we have no history in the Galilee.
The stones of Tiberias disagree.
Sanhedrin. Jerusalem Talmud. Graves of Rabbi Meir and the Rambam.
We never left 🇮🇱
@gregory_wi81602@TheModerateCase "We have no business in the Middle East." Of course! Except for the oil, the price of which could spike and shake up the U.S.
No way you're so stupid
@gregory_wi81602@TheModerateCase This money is going toward American objectives in the region, such as the conflict with Iran and the Houthis.
In addition , it was Israel that asked the U.S. to halt the aid, and the U.S. that objected.
Who’s the moron 🫵🏻🤡