11.04.24: Netanyahu’s son postpones wedding amid security threats

After a drone fired from Lebanon hit the family’s private residence, efforts were made to locate a safe venue for the nuptials of Avner and his bride; now they announce they are postponing the happy event until summer

14 June 2025: Monday’s wedding of PM’s son postponed amid conflict with Iran

The prime minister’s son’s wedding had already caused controversy, drawing ire from some anti-government protesters who denounced the Netanyahu family for holding a celebration while Israeli hostages are still held in Gaza under the premier’s watch.

Several anti-government protest organizations had made known in recent weeks that they were organizing demonstrations in the area of the wedding.

Amid ongoing security concerns, iron roadblocks and barbed wire fences had been erected within a 100-meter (109-yard) radius of the venue — the upscale Ronit’s Farm event hall in Kibbutz Yakum, north of Tel Aviv. Police had also announced earlier this week that airspace within a 1.5 kilometer (0.9 miles) radius of the venue would be closed except for police helicopters.

Get out of my thoughts!!!

a man without a woman is like a mouse without a bicycle

It’s like he’s a standup comedian doing a routine pretending to be the president.

fuck man who the hell is doing all these car-based sabotages?

how long do you need with a car, and how deep do you need to get in its guts, to do this kind of thing?

how do they keep getting away with it?

how difficult is it to guard cars?

yesterday I was in this thread watching the videos people were posting of fires and bombs and thinking “what the fuck is wrong with me”. I’m not a weapon/gun/explosion/war/strategy kind of person; I don’t even like movies about that stuff. it made me wonder if I’m being brainwashed or something to find any enjoyment in civilians being bombed.

but the israeli project is just so pervasively evil and so acceptable to its citizens and supporters. the response to various attempts to reform or reign it in has been to fortify itself in brutality. with such little internal resistance. the only issues these people have is that the state isn’t going far enough or fast enough.

i feel a little bad that the people who are the real backbone of israel, most of whom are evangelical christians, and most of whom reside safely in the USA or its allies, will not get any of it. but israelis have signed up to be the foot soldiers for imperialism and served so enthusiastically, even taking the initiative. they offer their entire population to be implicated in various crimes against humanity via mandatory military service, which has a practically 100% compliance rate (excepting a few culty groups). they use residential settlements as tools of military aggression. so now residential, and ostensibly civilian targets, are completely legitimate. I think this is a big reason for the world rejoicing at violence. in israel the boundaries between civilian, soldier and criminal are so porous. their literal homes are criminal structures.

israel’s enemies continue to model discipline and mercy. i only hope that when the offer of mercy is definitively rejected, and withdrawn, they can still maintain discipline.

emotionally i’d rather be a pacifist but it’s politically unjustifiable. so i am with the rest of the humans. being happy that someone has the gonads to do it. I hope.

are we sure it didn’t crash

occums razor

what would destroying russia even mean?

Was curious about the video posted by @Awoo of Miri Regev saying that israelis are not permitted to leave the country. I thought that was very odd… it is normal for people to flee such a situation, no? Tehran’s roads have been packed with people trying to escape. But these people are under the rule of fascism and now functionally prisoners.

I think a reasonable argument could be made to limit air travel for safety concerns. This outbound travel ban appears to be by any route and applies only to israelis. But there’s a twist.

The main plan is to “rescue” (!!!) Israelis living internationallyStranded Abroad. There are apparently 150,000 such victims. (The other articles I found all said 200,00.) They will be sending empty planes to Athens, Larnaca, New York, and Bangkok. Fill the planes with “essential personnel critical to Israel’s security”

Defense Ministry: Rescue flights for Israelis abroad to begin within 72 hours (I am not framiliar with this source but it’s what the others were citing. I couldn’t find a source I am framiliar with posting about this and I hope it’s not all FAKE. Please tell me if its fake.)

This is so wacky I doubt it veracity. If true, I have COMMENT. What you think? Real?

So the various videos of bombs falling. I have a question about the ones that are being captured on cellphones. Especially when it seems like a group of people are hanging out on a balcony or near a window. Often the sounds they are making are like “whoa!!” and sounding excited, not particularly afraid.

How normal is this behavior? Are a lot of people spectating/recording? Prior to the motivation of getting a good video via camera phone to post on social media, did people always do this? Or are most people hiding under a table or in the bathtub or basement?

Settlers have been banned from sharing or publishing images or videos related to the Iranian retaliation to avoid further embarrassment for the regime’s embattled military.

If the ICJ ever gets around to pretending to do their jobs, I wonder if Israel’s success or failure at this kind of prohibition in this context would be considered as evidence. Thinking of all the social media of genocide promotion, like by soldiers, and various prominent figures saying all kinds of whack shit. Israel would of course argue that it’s very difficult to control millions of people. But now, when they are motivated by their own interests. suddenly they do seem to have control.

(PS I might make a thorough post about it but I just checked in on the SA vs Israel ICJ case. It looks like nothing will happen til at least January 2026, but probably later.)

Imagine that guy’s pillow talk.

Is this plausible? It sounds like magic to me.

If so, would it be a situation where people would be finding pieces of the bomb and learn it was “friendly fire”?

Not knowing fuckall about bombs or anything I guess you wouldn’t have to completely destroy it, just damage it enough to trigger the existing contents to become unstable.

Hopefully Iranian scientists have some sort of protocol in case they come under attack to quickly do something to make the situation more safe and prevent an even bigger disaster. If such a thing could be done, which maybe they shouldn’t.

The wikipedia link about the crater mentions “The explosive device was lowered into a shaft drilled into the desert alluvium 194 m (636 ft) deep”. So would dropping it on the top, side or in the vicinity do the same job? (Can these things be aimed precisely?) And is the composition of the terrain a consideration? Surely a sandy desert is different than a rocky mountain?

If I was israel I’d probably be trying to get a bomb smuggled into one of these mountains. It seems like getting bombs nearby their enemies is something they are good at doing although their aim is shitty. Then I would also aerial bomb it to confuse what happened and try to make people think my aerial bomb was more powerful.

How is “rich guy” coming up? Are the kids play acting as being rich or something instead of playing house or power rangers?

I managed to hop through the rest of the substack. The author further speculates that Elon Musk can control UPSes from satellite using “lasers”. (Mention of which is a “breadcrumb” that those elites can’t help but leave for us.)

DTC doesn’t require routers, towers, or a traditional SIM. It connects directly from satellite to any compatible device—including embedded modems in “air-gapped” voting systems, smart UPS units, or unsecured auxiliary hardware.

From that moment on:

• Commands could be sent from orbit
• Patch delivery became invisible to domestic monitors
• Compromised devices could be triggered remotely

To support these ostentatious claims, they just have the graphs about how badly Kamala Harris lost. And of course the lack of evidence is actually evidence itself because of a perfect, error-proof “ballot scrubbing” technology; another hidden in plain sight clue. So forensic evidence is impossible. Hence the charts.

Hope they demo this whole chain of events during their talk (or in court), that would be cool. It would be a lot more convincing than all these loser charts.

What a weird, seemingly obvious, and non-actionable thing to say.

I speculate that paramedics are being harassed when they are unable to save the life of a bombed person. Probably Israelis are starting protests against the ambulance service for their failures at magically reassembling a human. So now Ambulance has to explain to people that they live in physical bodies and are vulnerable just like everyone else.

That revelation is a shock to the public. But for those who’ve been digging into the bizarre election data since November, this isn’t the headline—it’s the final piece to the puzzle.

Couldn’t get thru the whole thing, I might try again later for fun. The language of the author makes me distrust their judgment.

sweeping last-minute updates to ES&S voting machines in the months leading up to the 2024 election

Tbh sounds like they should be advocating for some sort of top to bottom Free Software solution to this. Which might be too technocratic a solution but I’m terms of preventing any such theoretical attacks in the future would be a protection. Especially if there was an international collaboration on the project. It would require funding and commitment.

I couldn’t read the whole thing cause it was so crazy but the substack in the other comment does have a hypothesis about the logistics. There is more details in the link but basically they think it was done via power bar?

ES&S systems, including central tabulators and Electionware servers, rely on Tripp Lite UPS devices. ES&S’s Electionware suite runs on Windows OS, which automatically trusts connected UPS hardware.

If Eaton pushed an update to those UPS units, it could have gained root-level access to the host tabulation environment—without ever modifying certified election software.

I hope there is a talk about this clever attack at defcon or something.

but i mean… it was a forgone conclusion