Posted on 11/30/2024 2:09:15 AM PST by Angelino97
Israel is examining the launch of a “pilot program” that could see US private security firms replace the army in northern Gaza to “accompany food and medicine convoys” for Palestinians who remain in the devastated region, according to a report by Israeli daily Globes.
Among the top competitors for the multi-million dollar contract are Constellis, the direct successor to infamous mercenary company Blackwater, and Orbis, a little-known South Carolina company run by former generals that has worked with the Pentagon for 20 years.
Officials say the pilot program for north Gaza aims to “prevent Hamas or other gangs from taking over the aid trucks and free the IDF soldiers from the dangerous mission.”
In recent weeks, Gaza's interior ministry established a new police force to deal with groups of bandits and gangs that have been raiding humanitarian aid shipments and blackmailing international organizations in the southern Gaza Strip.
The UN has said these gangs are likely “benefiting from a passive if not active benevolence” or “protection” from the Israeli army.
The former army officer also says Tel Aviv will likely “ask that the US – or an outside party – finance the program.”
GDC is run by Mordechai Kahane, an Israeli businessman who worked with Israeli intelligence during the war on Syria to arm extremist groups seeking to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Although no official figure exists about the size of the contracts being offered by Tel Aviv for these mercenary firms, Globes cites Lt. Col. Yochanan Zoraf, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and former advisor on Arab affairs in the Israeli army, as saying the figure will likely reach “billions of shekels per year.”
“These are not companies that will manage the daily lives of the residents,” Zoraf claims, adding that “peripheral responsibility for the defense of [north Gaza] as well as the civil responsibility itself” falls at Israel's feet.
The former army officer also says Tel Aviv will likely “ask that the US – or an outside party – finance the program.”
On Tuesday, Israel Hayom reported that the pilot program has yet to receive approval from the security cabinet “due to legal difficulties in defining the occupation” based on international law.
“In order to circumvent the legal obstacles, the security services are examining bringing in external funding from humanitarian aid organizations or foreign countries for the [mercenary firms], which costs tens of millions of dollars to operate,” the report adds.
Since the start of the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli government has turned to mercenaries to overcome an enlistment crisis. This includes cooperation with German intelligence to recruit asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria.
“Over the past seven months, the Values Initiative Association and the German–Israeli Association (DIG) have worked to enlist these refugees from war-torn Muslim-majority countries as mercenaries for Israel. Offered monthly salaries ranging between €4,000 to €5,000 and fast-tracked German citizenship, many have joined the fight. Reports suggest that around 4,000 immigrants were naturalized between September and October alone,” writes The Cradle columnist Mohamed Nader al-Omari.
Germany offering German citizenship to Muslims fighters, provided they fight for Israel.
Why is Germany doing this? How does this benefit Germany?
Germany’s old guilt has clouded its judgment. Muslim migration to Europe, for whatever reason, will end very badly.
There’s big profits to be made in war ... This looks staggeringly expensive.
War for profit inc.
How do we stop them from coming here on EU passports?
That’s the problem with being Daddy Warbucks; what happens when all that is left is the illusion of having money. You can bet Biden spent everything down to the change in the couch cushions leaving us in that “at first slowly then all at once”.
They are not going to “control security” anywhere let alone in Gaza. They never do,
From "The Cradle" Privacy Policy, "This website is operated by TheCradle.co whose registered address is in Beirut, Lebanon."
A look through their other article titles suggests their overall editorial policy, which is not unbiased.
One observes that the photo with the faces blacked out, which is atop the article, is from a company, with the website https://silentprofessionals.org/. It is a small-time "security" placement company, as a quick look to the site shows.
Specifically the Israeli article reference in the Lebanese article refers to Israel having concerns about any private security which might be swayed by money to assist Hamas.
Reading the Israeli sourced article puts a different spin on the editorial slant of the Lebanese-based "news desk."
“Germany’s old guilt has clouded its judgment. Muslim migration to Europe, for whatever reason, will end very badly.”
Many, perhaps most, people in Japan know next to nothing about Japan’s atrocities in WW2, while Germans were spoon-fed it since the day they were born.
Which country will still exist as a coherent, Western, society in 50 years. Hint, it won’t be Germany.
Mercenary contracts are how the Cheney’s and Biden’s of the world make big money off of war.
This article should not be taken seriously. Notice this piece of trash the content producer inserted, “Since the start of the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,”
Remember the Nisour Square shootongs and how our US military veterans working for Blackwater were ‘thanked for their service’. Hard to imagine a reliable ROE that would withstand the Palestinian pr machine
TAQIYYA
Not.
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