"Hungary is to produce combat drones in cooperation with Israel and Germany, the prime minister says"
"Orban said the drones will be produced in cooperation with Israeli
defense technology company UVision, and with a German partner that he
did not specify.
The combat vehicle factory that opened Friday in Zalaegerszeg, in which
the Hungarian government has a 49% stake, is majority-owned by German
military technology company Rheinmetall."
Ungarn er NATO-medlem. Men på sidelinjen mht Ukraina: "The Hungarian government has refused to provide Kyiv with weapons or to
allow their transfer across the two countries’ shared border."
Så spørsmålet er om Viktor Urban ser behov for angrepsdroner for å forsvare seg mot Putin. Eller er det mest å beherske teknologien som er viktig?
I februar angrep israelske droner et produksjonssted for droner i Iran.
I mars svarte Iran med å angripe ... med cruise-missiler ... det angivelige stedet de israelske dronene ble sendt ut fra: Erbil i Irak.
NY Times 16. mars 2022: "Iran’s Attack Was Response to Secret Israeli Attack on Drone Site" "Israel and Iran are pushing the boundaries of a long-running clandestine war that is increasingly spilling out of the shadows."
Israel har lenge hatt et vennskap med kurderne. Og historisk støttet kurdisk opprør med veiledning og våpenhjelp. Men at man nå hadde israelske baser der var ukjent. Dette benektes da også ...
Direkte militære angrep mellom Israel og Iran ... her via anlegg i Irak ... det er en farlig opptrapping. Det siste verden trenger akkurat nå er militære pyromaner som leker med ilden.
Den erfarne kommentator Yossi Melman i Haaretz har en utblåsing.
Etter 38 års erfaring med forsvars- og overvåkingsorganene i Israel bruker han utrykket: "Deep State" om disses grep om domstolene:
"I’ve Been Covering Israeli Intelligence and Security for 38 Years. The Legal System Exhausts Me" (Haaretz 4. januar 2022)
Det dreier seg om sensur og hemmelighold ... såkalt "gag order": Avisene får ikke skrive om saken ... det vedtar dommerne .... etter krav fra forsvars- og sikkerhets-ledelsen.
Ved dette er stor og viktige saksområder lukket for innsikt.
Som Israels våpensalg til ulike regimer.
Som i Azerbadjan der ledelsen for en israelsk droneleverandør skal ha deltatt i angrep mot Armenia for å demonstrere dronenes effektivitet.
HELE artikkelen til Yossi Melman i Haaretz 4. januar 2022:
I’ve Been Covering Israeli Intelligence and Security for 38 Years. The Legal System Exhausts Me
Yossi MelmanJanuary 04, 2022
An Aeronautics Defense Dominator drone, 2018.
About four and a half years ago, I exposed a suspicion of criminal
behavior on the part of Aeronautics Ltd., a drone manufacturer from the
city of Yavne, and some of its executives. According to the information I
had, company employees had ordered that a specific activity be carried
out, although they knew that in doing so they were in violation of the
law that regulates defense exports. They did so at the request of a
foreign country.
The company denied it. As a result of my report, Nir Ben Moshe, who
headed the Defense Ministry’s security department, along with the Israel
Police, were forced to open an investigation. They were blatantly
reluctant to do so.
‘I hope we won’t need it’: Israel’s doomsday option against Iran. LISTEN
Since its establishment about 25 years ago by Avi Leumi, Aeronautics
has changed hands several times, and at present it is owned by Rafael
Advanced Defense Systems. Although its name has been tied to
controversial arms deals in Nigeria and India totaling hundreds of
millions of dollars, whose reverberations reached the courts, it has
always remained the favorite of the defense establishment and its former
officials. Among its former employees were Omri Sharon (son of former
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon) and Itai Ashkenazi (son of former Foreign
Minister Gabi Ashkenazi),Yaacov Peri former head of the Shin Bet
security service Eitan Ben Eliyahu, former head of the air force and
former Navy Commander Yedidya Yaari.
Immediately following my report in Maariv about the suspicions against Aeronautics,
the police and defense officials rushed to ask the Rishon Letzion
Magistrate’s Court to place a gag order on the affair. Judges Amit
Michaels and Guy Avnon willingly acceded to the request. They later
rejected my petition to revoke the order, which was submitted by
attorney Elad Man, the legal adviser at Hatzlacha, an NGO that seeks to
promote good governance.
The gag order was so sweeping that it even forbade the publication of
information I had already published. And that was despite the fact that
to this day, the information – including the name of the country in
which the incident took place – is easily accessible to anyone on
foreign media websites, on Wikipedia and on social media. And yet, the
judges were willing to serve as extras in this theater of the absurd,
which is being staged – not for the first time – by the defense
establishment and the police. It should be noted that all the
proceedings took place behind closed doors, some of them in the presence
of only one side, after Man and I were removed from the courtroom.
What also contributed to the judges’ fear and awe was the fact that
the Mossad intelligence agency intervened and handed down an opinion,
warning that any report on the affair would harm Israel’s security
interests. And if that weren’t enough, the defense minister of that
country, which is considered a highly important strategic asset for
Israel, visited Israel at the time and warned that security and
intelligence-military cooperation with it would be undermined if the
reports continued. The media in that country, which is headed by a
corrupt dictator, cursed me and described me as an agent of another
country that is engaged in a military conflict with it.
A few days ago, the State Prosecutor’s Office filed an indictment against Aeronautics
and three of its executives, thereby confirming the accuracy of my
original report from August 2017. But despite my satisfaction from
helping to expose corruption, and thereby also contributing to democracy
in Israel, my frustration and disappointment with the conduct of the
defense and legal establishments only increased while I was covering the
story.
I have been a journalist for 47 years, during 38 of which I
specialized in covering intelligence and security affairs. For a
substantial part of that time, as part of my writing assignments I
petitioned the courts to lift gag orders on past and present corrupt and
embarrassing security stories. With the perspective of age, I am aware
that the situation is only continuing to deteriorate. The judges’ immune
system and its ability to deal with the defense establishment is only
becoming weaker.
I have accumulated experience in petitions that I submitted to all
the courts in Israel: the Magistrate’s Court, District Court, Supreme
Court and High Court of Justice. I appeared before justices considered
“liberal,” including Aharon Barak, Ayala Procaccia, Menachem Mazuz,
Yoram Danziger, Edna Arbel, Uri Shoham and current President Esther
Hayut, and judges labeled “conservative”: David Mintz, Noam Sohlberg and
Alex Stein.
When it came to security issues, there were no differences between
them. Both groups stand at attention when they hear the word
“security.”Both are lackeys of the defense establishment. They are
willing to whitewash almost any injustice committed by the defense
establishment, and to quickly brush aside, without a thorough discussion
and while demonstrating a contemptuous and arrogant judgmental nature,
any petition or request by media outlets, lawyers, human rights
activists and any supporter of justice.
In recent years, the judges have received and justified decisions by
the Defense Ministry and the Mossad to arm cruel dictators and leaders
who violate human rights and in countries such as, to name a few, Azerbaijan, the Philippines, Myanmar, South Sudan
and Saudi Arabia – and to prevent the publication of documents from the
state archives about acts of slaughter, rape and expulsion during the
1948 War of Independence, about the murder of prisoners during wars or
about intelligence operations in which drug dealers are involved. Of
course, that’s all done in the name of “national security,” but the fact
is that this term is sometimes used in vain in order to cover up
failures and embarrassment, or to conceal illegal acts of which the
defense establishment is ashamed of.
The “deep state” – meaning a state that is hidden beneath the surface
– is a term from the field of political science. It describes a
situation in which a secret group composed of hidden power networks
operates independently, outside the country’s elected political
leadership, and tries to advance its own agenda and goals.
The concept acquired prominence and legitimacy during the presidency
of Donald Trump in the United States. Far-right circles there and in
Israel began to use it to disseminate groundless conspiracy theories in
order to attack left-wing and liberal circles, to weaken the legal
system and the media and to undermine democracy.
But in Israel, this dubious term is metaphorically appropriate for
describing the defense establishment, which operates like a state within
a state and does almost anything it pleases, without effective
parliamentary supervision, and with close cooperation and backing from
the legal system. This combined pincer movement is exhausting the
minority that is still ready to fight for justice, human rights and
morality, and against injustices. I also feel that I’m exhausted and
that I’m tilting at windmills, like Don Quixote. I will keep writing,
but I’m losing the desire to petition the courts once again. Maybe I’ll
try one more time.
I Libya tas alle midler i bruk ...nå også storstilt opptrykk av pengesedler.
En forsending libyiske sedler verdt milliarder er beslaglagt på Malta.
Trykket i Russland ... og på vei til opprørsleder Haftar ... som Russland støtter.
- Russland hevder at Libya har to regjeringer og to sentralbanker.
Om denne siste forsendelsen ble stoppet ... så har det blitt sendt store mengder sedler fra Russland tidligere:
" The data obtained by Reuters showed nearly 4.5 billion Libyan dinars
(more than $3 billion) was dispatched in four shipments between February
and June 2019." (Reuters 30. mai 2020).
- Og det var da Haftar satte igang sin offensiv mot Tripoli.
Utviklingen i Libya skremmer mer og mer.
Tyrkia og Russland øker innsatsen der ... på hver sin side.
Og leveransene av militært materiell eskalerer.
Tyrkia har levert militære droner ... Russland svarer med leveranser av militære jagerfly.
Libya har stor oljerikdom.
Den ser ut til å bli landets svøpe nå når utenlandske makter involverer seg på tungt som de gjør.
Norge bidro sterkt til å bombe Libya sønder ... som et fredsoppdrag.
Det ble motsatt ... slusene åpent seg for borgerkrig ... som har forverret seg til den grufulle situasjon som er nå.
Norge har derfor et særskilt ansvar for å markere hva som skal gjelde for Libya.
