An official report from the US intelligence agency, the CIA, shows the Israeli regime faces a grave risk of "civil war" or "state collapse" because of years of genocide and war.
The August report by the CIA, portions of which were revealed on Monday by independent outlet Drop Site News, showed that major pressure factors have emerged within the Jewish settlers living in the Israeli-occupied territories that could trigger a civil war.
Those factors include an economic crisis caused by soaring military spending; troops returning from combat zones with heavy arms and traumatic experiences; public anger about the exemption of ultra-Orthodox men from military service; settler violence in the occupied West Bank; and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clinging to power ahead of the late-October elections.
CIA experts have said that exempting ultra-Orthodox men from military service has created a deep fracture among Israelis, while the huge costs of the extensive aggression on Gaza have caused inflation to reach record highs, further increasing resentment against the regime.
They said heavily armed, traumatized service members returning from combat zones in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran have "weapons and bloodthirst" that could ignite an all-out civil war in the occupied territories.
Israel's growing isolation abroad, including from the United States, has also turned into a major threat against the regime, the CIA report said, adding that such isolation could accelerate its collapse.
The report said an interaction of such major pressure factors at the time of a deep internal crisis could spark a civil war, which in turn may create other acute scenarios, including the withdrawal of technology and artificial-intelligence companies from the occupied territories or Arab governments reconsidering their normalization pacts with the Israeli regime.
The report has concluded that Israel is accumulating economic, political, and social contradictions beneath its projection of military dominance and intelligence superiority, while warning that military might and continued US support may fail to contain the disaster that awaits the regime.
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