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Are you seriously equating observing an area using satellites with indiscriminately monitoring everyone's calls, messages, and possibly hacking their devices?
by lordofgibbons 1y ago
Are you seriously equating observing an area using satellites with indiscriminately monitoring everyone's calls, messages, and possibly hacking their devices?
- 3form 1y agoGiven lackluster response to the recent attempts of the "democratic" governments to do very much the same to their own citizens, I daresay not many are particularly impressed.
- holmesworcester 1y agoAnd not in a war zone, even. (West Bank is governed by Israel.)
- dragonwriter 1y agoThe West Bank is occupied by Israel and Israel has overall control, but it is broken up into a whole bunch of tiny administrative regions, some of which are administered by the PA and some of which are administered directly by Israel.
- babu657 1y agoGee i wonder what happens if Israel just let the west bank be. Wait…i know what will happen
- tguvot 1y agoRocket factories, like the one that was discovered week ago https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjbqu9qolx https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjbqu9qolx
- ashoeafoot 1y ago[dead]
- pcthrowaway 1y agoAdditionally, there is observation AI face tracking of all movements of Palestinians in the West Bank, who live under occupation. While other governments may also conduct monitoring of their citizens to varying degrees, the distinction is that they are monitoring citizens, not using monitoring to enforce military apartheid.
- davidf18 1y ago[dead]
- Manuel_D 1y agoMilitaries do that too. Signals Intelligence has been thing since radios were used by the military. I bet you that in Ukraine the moment you fire up any RF emitter it's showing up on someone's spectrum analyzer. And if it's unencrypted or a broken encryption they'll probably be decoding and logging the transmission.
- AlecSchueler 1y ago> bet you that in Ukraine the moment you fire up any RF emitter The assertion was that "every army" is doing it, not that it's happening in active warzones.
- raxxorraxor 1y agoI case of Hezbollah it was very much worth it.