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How the #US and #Israel exchange tactics in violence and control

Two decades of Israeli-US #police cooperation includes training in #RacialProfiling and #ViolentSuppression of #protests.

By Mersiha Gadzo
Published On 12 Jun 2020

"Following the killing of #GeorgeFloyd, as US riot police fired rubber-coated bullets, #TearGas canisters, #PepperSpray and #StunGrenades at #protesters, #Palestinians shared tips on social media on how to best deal with the assaults.

Many in the Palestinian territories are well experienced with such tactics by security forces while living under a decades-long occupation by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip.

According to the organisations #JewishVoiceForPeace (#JVP) and Researching the American-Israeli Alliance (#RAIA), one common theme shared between United States and Israel is the exchange of tactics and expertise in state violence, which has been ongoing for 18 years.

Months after the September 11 attacks, US law enforcement delegates attended their first official training expedition to Israel to exchange “best practices” in “counter-terrorism”.

Since then, thousands more from across the US – including agents from the FBI, CIA, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – have been schooled at these meetings in both Israel and the US, sponsored by far-right Israeli lobby organisations.

But instead of promoting effective security for communities, the programme facilitates an exchange of tactics used in police violence and control including mass surveillance, racial profiling and the suppression of protests and dissent, according to the JVP and RAIA’s 2018 report (PDF) titled Deadly Exchange, which details the extent of the cooperation.

Among the thousands of US law enforcement officers who have reportedly participated in the exchange over the years was Anoka County (North Minneapolis) Sherrif James Stuart, who travelled to Israel in December. "

#IDF #ACAB #StopCopCity #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #DemilitarizeThePolice

How the US and Israel exchange tactics in violence and control

Two decades of Israeli-US police cooperation includes training in racial profiling and violent suppression of protests.

Al Jazeera

DoomsdaysCW Oct 11

Dangerous exchange: Israeli forces international training

January 31, 2024

"The Israeli regime has developed military and police international training and exchange programmes, exporting its killing skills worldwide and using its military occupation and repressive apartheid system as a selling point.

What countries are engaging in such programmes?

The Israeli military is selling its militarized and repressive model worldwide, promoting the illegal occupation as a standard.

Many countries have engaged in joint military and police forces training and exchanges.

The US military funding to Israel amounts to USD$3,8 billion per year.

In addition there are constant exchanges of practices in military technology and police tactics through training programmes that bring together US police, ICE, border patrol, and FBI with Israeli soldiers, police and border agents.

These programmes promote racial profiling, massive spying and surveillance, deportation and detention, and attacks on human rights defenders.

In 2023, for the first time, Israeli soldiers took part in the “African Lion”, the biggest military exercise event of the continent which took place in Morocco.

The two regimes normalized relations after the signing of the Abraham Accords in 2020. Morocco also bought different types of surveillance and attack drones from Israel, suspected to be used against occupied Western Sahara.

The Abraham Accords’ main outcome was to increase military and police cooperation between the Israeli regime and Gulf countries.

Since the signing, diplomatic, military and intelligence contacts and contracts have expanded fast between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain, bound together by “concern” over Iran’s activities.

In 2021, UAE and Bahrain navies held their first joint military exercise with Israeli warships, co-ordinated by the US Navy.

Indian police services officers have been trained in “counter-terror warfare” by the Israeli Police as part of a work agreement signed between the Israel Ministry of Public Security and the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs in 2014.

Indian police is infamous for its human rights violations especially in Kashmir, which include documented torture, rape, custodial killings and the detention extended periods without legal proceedings."

#IDF #ACAB #StopCopCity #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #DemilitarizeThePolice

Dangerous exchange: Israeli forces international training - PIPD

PIPD - The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy

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Paragone Dec 9, 2023

@GeraldKutney Part of the problem with it was naming.

#ClimatePunctuation is true, #GlobalWarming is only *globally* true, but *every* time a local area got a colder season, to the ones who weren't in the GlobalWarmingCulture, it *proved* that it was all lies/gaslighting, enough that it "cured" their belief.

You get the same wrong-metaphor/wrong-name consequences when the *idiocy* of calling #DeMilitarizeThePolice "deFUND the police".

The *mortal enemy* of civil-function, itself, even a "demon", couldn't have picked a better, more-misleading "flag" to rally people behind.

ClimatePunctuation *is chaotic*.

"Global Warming" STATES that it is warming, implying *progressive* warming.

Every time one of the Jet Streams jams, instead of flowing, the way it used-to, and freezes some area,
the people of that area now have *visceral* knowing that Earth *isn't* warming.

Wrong-framing is the single most strategically-incompetent act any portion of our kind can do, it seems.

In the eXtreme Programming culture, wrong-metaphor is *known* to be dangerous: it MIS-calibrates one's intuition/instinct.

The best example I ever read of it was a programmer who thought his remote was communicating with the TV through the metal-ring at the lower end, so he turned it so the metal-ring was closest to the TV...

That was for a tether, it wasn't linked to any electronics.

The *actual* communication was through the infrared LED in the top-end of the thing.

He was pointing it backwards, due to wrong-metaphor.

We've now done that with EVERYTHING, just as the saboteurs wanted.

And we went with that.

And now we can't change the "river's direction".

Carelessness *costs*.

Anyways, it's ideological, not rational, so .. it's going to get bad, on this planet, until only 1 major faction remains, it seems...

Should be finished the "war of attrition" part of this mess before 2100, and it won't get going until .. 2033? -ish.

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Ever seen a toddler work themselves up into a tantrum?

When *it didn't matter what anybody did*: they were *committed to having their tantrum*?

Humankind's doing that.

The Great Filter.

Nothing can stop a toddler from having the tantrum they are committed to enforcing, once they've committed entirely.

Nothing can stop humankind's ideology-tantrum, political-tantrum, religious-tantrum, population-saturation-tantrum, etc, etc, etc, from enforcing itself on all it can.

That would have required .. different human-nature, to be honest.

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So, since it cannot be prevented, then it can be .. survived.

That is all that is left, in my eyes.

Be among the survivors.

_ /\ _

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#ACAB #DemilitarizeThePolice #DefundThePolice #End1033Program #EndNoKnockWarrants #EndStopAndFrisk #EndQualifiedImmunity #EndAssetForfeiture #VoteProgressive #ConsentDecreeNow

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#StopCopCity #ACAB #DemilitarizeThePolice #DefundThePolice #End1033Program #EndNoKnockWarrants #EndStopAndFrisk #EndQualifiedImmunity #EndAssetForfeiture #VoteProgressive

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https://theintercept.com/2023/05/02/cop-city-activists-arrest-flyers/

#StopCopCity #ACAB #DemilitarizeThePolice #DefundThePolice #End1033Program #EndNoKnockWarrants #EndStopAndFrisk #EndQualifiedImmunity #EndAssetForfeiture #VoteProgressive

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