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CNN says Mossad headquarters in 'densely populated' area, raising eyebrows on social media (www.middleeasteye.net)
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CNN has reported that Israel’s Mossad headquarters are located in a “densely populated area” in Tel Aviv, posing risks to civilians during Iran’s attack.

“The concern is if your firing, even though Iran might consider that a military target, it is in a densely populated city with civilians around it," CNN reported.

The remarks raised questions on social media on why West did not accuse the intelligence agency of using Israeli civilians as "human shields", as they claim Hamas and Hezbollah do.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The remarks raised questions on social media on why West did not accuse the intelligence agency of using Israeli civilians as “human shields”, as they claim Hamas and Hezbollah do.

Because that would be devastating to their case.

The US supports Israel for reasons unrelated to them being truthful or good actors (possibly just mysticism). They try not to openly say that.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean it's more because the pentagon, cia, NSA, and most of our secure weapons design facilities are based well within cities because employees in places like area 51 (groom lake) are fairly easy to track given the relatively remote location.

We do it, they do it, everyone does it both out of immorality and necessity often at the same time.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

It's not even just security. People live in cities, so things tend to be built near cities.

The argument Hamas being anywhere in Gaza counts as using human shields was fully bullshit. In their case, they operate(d) mostly as guerillas, so they didn't have conventional military bases to build in any place in particular, anyway.