LEAKED CIA Assessment: Israel On Brink Of CIVIL WAR

Turning now to Israel, where obviously it's the 3-year anniversary of October 7th. So, we wanted to look kind of at the state of Israeli society, of what's happened to Gaza in the wake of really an earth-shaking geopolitical event. We're in the middle of the Iran war. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say

it really did change the entire region forever. We're still just really in the midst of what that change is going to mean. Let's start first of all with Israel. Let's put this up here on the screen. This was a new report from Capital and Empire by Ada Chavez. I know that she previously worked with Ryan

Grim, and this was also co-published with Drop Site. So, she says that a classified CIA current assessment warned that Israel is at the risk of a civil war of a state collapse after years of what she says genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon, Iran deepen political, economic, and social fractures within the country. The August report, which is

titled Fracture from Within, was compiled with by experts within the CIA Red Cell, and they say it is the unit responsible for providing, quote, alternative analysis within the agency, produced the assessment for a combination of open-source and US intelligence. The assessment appears to refer only to Israel's Jewish citizens, and point to a volatile mix of pressures

converging ahead of Israel's elections on October 27th, economic crisis, soaring military spending, heavily armed veterans returning from prolonged combat, many many carrying serious psychological trauma, and growing fury over ultra-Orthodox men who are exempt from military service, escalating settler violence in the West Bank, and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continuing to fight