I read ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza by Yuval Abraham

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Lavender learns to identify characteristics of known Hamas and PIJ operatives, whose information was fed to the machine as training data, and then to locate these same characteristics — also called “features” — among the general population, the sources explained. An individual found to have several different incriminating features will reach a high rating, and thus automatically becomes a potential target for assassination.

The AI assigns targets based on social media connections, phone contacts, photos and what appears to be most data socially shared.

I read How Israel helped create Hamas by Mehdi Hasan and Dina Sayedahmed.

• https://archive.is/https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
• https://archive.is/iBdqJ (archive snapshot of October 11, 2023).
• https://yewtu.be/watch?v=o7grSsuFSS0 (supplementary video)
• http://web.archive.org/web/20090926212507/http:/online.wsj.com/article/SB123275572295011847.html (cited)

The article describes the Israeli occupation of Gaza and a divide-and-conquer operation by the Israeli government and military to support the Palestinian Islamist faction (Sheikh Yassin) against Palestinian secular nationalists (PLO, Fatah Party, Yasser Arafat). The former grew into Hamas.

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Le 30 avril, l'etudiants à l'UCLA ont protesté le guerre sur Gaza. Mais les manifestants en favorable à Israel ont attaqué les tentes installées.

Violence erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday night, after pro-Israel demonstrators attempted to forcibly dismantle an encampment of dozens of tents set up by pro-Palestinian protesters who have been camping on the school's Dickson Plaza, a central green space on campus.

Un manifestant favorable à Israel est identifié comme un soldat en service actif de l'Israel. Un internaute signale le département de police de Los Angeles a refusé d'arrêter le soldat étranger qui a failli tuer trois protestataires.

BREAKING: LAPD refuse to arrest FOREIGN SOLDIER who nearly killed 3 protesters during the UCLA encampment last week. Eliran Bismut[h] (sic) pictured below is an IDF soldier who attacked pro Palestine protestors with metal rods and 2x4's on the UCLA campus.

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The National Review reports that the New York Times can't confirm the sexual assault of women by Hamas following the October 7th attack in Gaza, as accused by Israel.

Members of the New York Times staff are divided over the legitimacy of a bombshell investigation into Hamas’s use of sexual violence on October 7, the Intercept reports. The investigation, published by the Times in December

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Nova festival: Israel ‘withheld warnings’ about Hamas massacre by George Grylls

Israeli spies and military commanders held late-night meetings just hours before the October 7 attacks to discuss an imminent Hamas assault and knew of the threat to the Nova music festival, according to an investigation.

The first meeting took place close to midnight and the second one at 3am but attendees concluded that Hamas was holding a training exercise on the Gaza border rather than preparing for a terror attack, according to Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper.

In a sign of the seriousness with which the warnings were taken, Israeli troops were ordered to increase drone surveillance flights, a unit known as “Team Tequila”, which was specifically trained to prevent abductions, was deployed to Nahal Oz, a kibbutz near the border with Gaza, and two commando teams were alerted to the possibility of an incursion.

But no warnings were passed on to the organisers of the Nova festival, which was taking place near Kibbutz Re’im, just three miles from Gaza, where 360 people died and a further 40 were taken hostage.

Organisers said that if they had received a warning even an hour before the attack, they would have been able to evacuate the site.

big if true

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I had found an interesting phrase.

https://archive.is/https://nypost.com/2023/12/08/opinion/israel-is-not-morally-required-to-sacrifice-its-people-to-save-gazan-civilians/

I am not interested in the contents of the article. The phrase in the headline is significantly more interesting:

"not morally required"

There are many things I am not morally required to do such as supporting either side of the war, but not supporting Israel is more likely to be categorized as "antisemitism". Obversely, the word "islamophobia" has disappeared from the propagandists' dictionary. The trend has completely died since 2020 and is unlikely to be revived to shame the people who don't support Palestine.

(I know Arabs are a "Semitic" people, but the media pretends Semite is another word for Jewish.)

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@israel on Twitter shared a link to a "hamas.com" (do not click). The following archive links are for the same statuses.

https://archive.is/https://twitter.com/israel/status/1726937954080170289

https://archive.is/https://nitter.poast.org/israel/status/1726937954080170289

The first contains the community note which warns that hamas.com is a website set up by the Israeli government. The second link shows the context and reply chain leading to the community note.

Users queried the term "hamas.com" on web service Virus Total. The results returned "malicious", "malware", "phishing", and "suspicious" according to the security vendors it sources from.

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A number of online sellers on Amazon are offering garments bearing the controversial phrase "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," which several Jewish groups see as an antisemitic chant.

The slogan

"From river to sea, Palestine will be free"

has appeared on t-shirt, hats, and other merchandise sold on web stores. In the United States, a trademark has been filed for the phrase on November 17, 2023 (serial number: 98275013).

https://archive.li/https://tsdr.uspto.gov/%23caseNumber=98275013&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch

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I decided to keep track of events since war erupted in the Middle East again (Israel or Palestine).

In 2002, The Guardian had published the full-text of Osama bin Laden's Letter to the American People. This month, the letter had been taken down as the document had circulated on TikTok, a vlogging platform used primarily by Gen Z.

The letter as published by The Guardian can still be accessed through web archives.

https://archive.is/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver

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