Middle East Monitor: CIA director compares rising violence in Palestine to Second Intifada
CIA director William Burns, who was a senior diplomat during the Second Intifada, has said that the conditions in the occupied West Bank have an 'unhappy resemblance' to the 2000-2005 Palestinian uprising. His remarks come days after his trip to the region where he met with senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
The rising violence in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem has been compared to the Second Intifada by CIA Director William Burns following his recent visit to the region.
"I was a senior US diplomat 20 years ago during the Second Intifada, and I'm concerned — as are my colleagues in the intelligence community — that a lot of what we're seeing today has a very unhappy resemblance to some of those realities that we saw then too," Burns said last week in an interview at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Washington.
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Update #1: CIA director: Current Israeli-Palestinian tensions resemble Second Intifada (Times of Israel)
Update #2: Israel-Palestine: CIA chief warns current tensions resemble Second Intifada (Middle East Monitor)
WNU Editor: Israel and the Palestinians are not there yet (i.e. a Second Intifada). But tensions between Israel and the Palestinians are definitely increasing, and have been for quite a while.
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Meanwhile Joe Biden is a moron
About that ballon.
Signals are far easier to intercept and interfere with at 20 km (which is the altitude of the China spy balloon) than with satellites, which operate at 160 - 2000 km. SIGINT, COMINT and ELINT all benefit from proximity — as does ground penetrating radar.
Also, don’t buy the bunk that satellites can capture far better imagery than a low-altitude spy balloon. As an optical engineer, I can tell you for a fact that more depth and layers of atmosphere and weather definitely interfere with the clarity of telescopic imagery.
That Chinese spy balloon needs to come down so USG can inspect and study the on-board hardware and technology, including chip sets.
Given the chineese investment over the past 20 years on terrahertz scanning technologies- and our again second seat (same for hypersonic pursuit efforts) and interest / investment. Thus tech that could theoretically by design see above ground all details on the ground and include ability to see under ground (facilities) As well as same for water surface and under water (subs etc)
it should be taken down. Especially if we “found out” vs disclose of “runaway balloon” prior
Chinas government would not allow even pure scientific similar off track, if tables were switched it would have been destroyed before it got to their shores.
Given more have been found - leaving it up was/is misguided.
Former Sec Def Esper said we should have captured it.
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