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There are almost no images of the conflict between Israel and Iran. That is why we are starting to generate them with ia

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At the user level, the popularization of artificial intelligence is leading to everyday uses (of cheat until helping us Organize the day) already debates that affect us all (ecological, labor and Ethics). But its use is also in the hands of governments and, when they conflict, artificial intelligence becomes a valuable weapon of soft war and propaganda on a global scale. He Wask between Iran and Israel He is leaving us a few examples. The images about these lines are not real. They are generated by AI. When the Gulf War in 1991 It was said that it would be the first war that we would see live, and now we are prolonging that same idea but taken to the extreme … and seasoned with manipulation of information through artificial intelligences. Images and videos disseminated in social networks and messaging apps, where we can see live bombings, but where not everything is real. These are images of some assumptions F-35 demolished by the Iranian army, data backed by the news of the country. Israel denied it quickly. And you just have to take a look at the second photo to see that it is false: what absurd size does that hunt have? And the buildings in the lower corner are smaller than people. That did not prevent thousands of people from spreading the images in their accounts, giving them by legitimate. And also videos. The arrival of the potent I see 3 Google has helped generate videos in line with these photos. The Tehran Times, means of Iranian communication, disseminates videos where it is presumed to gigantic missiles that do not exist. How do we know? I have left the seeing water mark in the video. Something similar happened with a supposed bombardment in Tel Avivwhose images are easy to identify as generated by AI. The person responsible for all of them is the account 3AMelyonnwhich is defined as “artificial intelligence resistance”, and whose videos are also spread on Telegram. With the permission of the high positions. These actions are not always a matter of disinformation in networks. Iran’s supreme leader, Sayyid Ali Khamenei, tweet images of Iranian missiles to Israel generated by chatgptand the Israeli defense minister generates Genuine visual garbage (which The Anglo -Saxons call ‘Ai Slop’) of propaganda type of which Facebook and other networks crowd. It is not strange that the leaders of both sides join the iconographic war: it is a way not only to spread harmful propaganda for the other side, but to supply the informative limitations suffered by citizens. Please, only AI. In fact, there is another reason for the dissemination of propaganda through AI to be backed by the respective governments of Iran and Israel: when citizens spread images of killings in the cities, it was feared that with these videos they would give strategic clues to the other side. AI is a way to ensure that no one takes advantage of those videos. According to 404 mediaIsrael requested from its citizens in a statement by social networks: “The enemy examines these documents to improve their objectives. Be responsible, do not share locations on the network.” AI thus becomes a tool to share propaganda that is not strategically sensitive. How to identify artificial intelligence. The companies that create the generative tools are responsible for marking the results that their IASs yield. In addition to easily visible and editable water marks, Google AI includes an invisible, Synthidbut it has a problem set: you have to download the video that may appear, for example, on social networks, and then upload it to the Synthid platform. They are minutes, perhaps lost hours, during which perhaps the false video has reached millions of people. A very valuable time in terms of propaganda. Header | 404Media In Xataka | Welcome to the “mcdonaldization” of AI: we have cheap chatbots for mass, and ultra -premium products for the elite

If the question is whether Spain can deny its bases to give air support to Israel, the answer is not so simple

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And suddenly, Spain. Actually, and as we will see, the country’s geographical situation makes it a kind of “technical stop” for the different military conflicts in which the United States has been. The war that is taking place In the East It is another chapter, but with the exception that, quite possibly, Spain will not enter. What raises a logical question: could it refuse to use its air bases? Reinforcements from Spain. First the news. Within the framework of the growing military escalation between Israel and Iran, the United States has discreetly intensified its deployment in the Middle East with the help of key infrastructure in Europe, including Bases in Spanish territory. It is official, since the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, confirmed that Washington has begun to use the Rota bases (Cádiz) and Morón de la Frontera (Seville) To park cistern airplanes, a measure framed in the bilateral agreements in force between the two countries. Robles said that the presence of these aerial means is carried out within the limits established by the joint defense treaties. Specifically, the agreement allows the deployment of up to 15 replenishment aircraft in Morón, although international media Like BBC They have reported the arrival of “something else”: at least 30 KC-135 aircraft In recent days, distributed between Spain, England and Scotland. Logistic support for fighters. We have come counting these days. The role of these cistern aircraft It is strategic: They allow to expand the operational scope of combat aircraft such as the F-16, F-22 and F-35 that the Pentagon has mobilized towards the Persian Gulf region. According to Reutersthis aerial reinforcement would also include the deployment of a USE USERindicating a projective combat capacity in several dimensions. Although the Secretary of State for Defense, Pete Hegseth, has insisted that it is a deployment for purposes andStrictly defensiveUS military sources have confirmed that these platforms have already been used to Interception operationsdemolishing drones and missiles launched by Iran in response to the Israeli attacks initiated the previous Friday. Reactions in Spain. No doubt, the use of Spanish military facilities by the United States It has generated restlessness within the Spanish parliamentary arch itself. Podemos has presented a Question battery In Congress to demand explanations to the Executive on the arrival, last Friday, of the cistern aircraft to the base of Morón. In their brief, they express suspicions that these facilities are being used as a logistics scale in support of military operations in favor of Israel. The party led by Ione Belarra has also questioned the government about itself I was aware Of these movements and if it supervises its purpose, putting on the table the debate on operational sovereignty and indirect involvement of Spain in an international conflict of high intensity. A Eurofighter Typhoon from Ala 11 in Morón in 2015 Legal and preceding basis. The current use of the military bases of Rota and Morón by the United States is part of a strategic relationship Started in 1953when Spain, even under the Franco dictatorship, signed the calls Madrid agreements. In exchange for financial and military aid, the installation of US bases in Spanish territory was authorized, in what was a shy international opening step. This initial network It included the bases from Zaragoza, Torrejón de Ardoz, Morón de la Frontera and broken, and constituted one of the First gestures from Spain to aspire to NATO entersomething that would not be completed until 1982 with the firm, and until 1999 with full accession to the integrated military structure of the alliance. The agreed of 88. The current legal basis that regulates the shared use of Rota and Morón It was established With the Defense Cooperation Agreement Signed on December 1, 1988 Among the governments of Felipe González and Ronald Reagan, he was finally the final of the Cold War. This text has been amended Three occasions (In 2002, 2012 and 2015) to adapt to geostrategic and operational changes. According to the Ministry of Defense, the second amendment protocol set a period of validity eight years old since its entry into force (May 21, 2013), which made it expired on May 22, 2021. However, article 69 of the agreement provides for a Annual automatic extension If none of the parties expresses its opposite will six months in advance, which has been happening until today, with Some exceptions. Rattan Operational limitations. Although US jurisdiction governs certain aspects within the perimeter of the bases, Spain retains sovereignty and political control over its strategic use. In fact, the United States cannot use the facilities unilaterally, but requires express permission from the Spanish government, as stipulated The agreement. This principle has been maintained, although in practice it has not meant obstacles during, For examplethe wars of Iraq and Afghanistan, when the governments of José María Aznar and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero authorized their use No restrictions. Similarly, in 2021 Spain allowed both bases to temporarily welcome Afghan collaborators of the United States during his escape from Kabul. Military presence. According to the agreementUnited States can keep up to 2,200 military, 36 aircraft and 500 civilians in Morón, although the current contingent is around 600 troops. In rota, the allowed limit amounts to 4,250 military and 1,000 US civilians. These figures reflect a gradual reduction compared to previous decades, and in 2023 The transfer of the rapid response force for Africa was confirmed from Morón to A base in Italyevidencing an operational replication that directly affects the employment and economy of the nearby areas, which receive about two million euros per year in direct income of the State. Real veto capacity. Therefore, to the big question, could Spain deny the use of its air bases to the United States with respect to the Israel-Iran conflict? The short answer is that yes, in fact, There are examplesas with the return of Torrejón in 1991 and Zaragoza in 1992. Plus: In 1986, the government of Felipe González advertisement that would not automatically renew the pact, also demanding The withdrawal … Read more

Israel is obsessed with Iran’s nuclear bomb project. What hides is your own unofficial atomic arsenal

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With the conflict of the Middle East there is a paradox. Israel has been saying that Iran is about to Have nuclear weaponssomething that nobody is certain that it is so, at least not in its entirety. In fact, it is one of the most repeated issues these days how far the Iranian “nuclear theme” reaches. And yet, no one asks the question in reverse. What happens to Israel’s nuclear program? Iran’s “bombs”. It We count yesterday. Despite the alarms on by Netanyahu for more than a decade (like that famous bomb cart that showed in the UN in 2012), there are no conclusive tests that Iran has made the decision to manufacture a nuclear weapon. While the country has enriched uranium to nearby levels to the military And it has accumulated reservations that, technically, could serve to produce several bombs with greater purification, both US intelligence services and the International Atomic Energy Agency agree that It has not been detected An active weapon program. Iran has become A “threshold state”with the ability to arm himself if he decided, but without evidence of crossed that threshold. Single side. And while Israel displays All your military force To dismantle what he considers an existential threat (Iran’s nuclear program), he does so carrying his own atomic arsenal, no officially recognized But increasingly evident. The war that Israel has undertaken against Tehran seeks to destroy Key facilities That, according to international experts, they could provide Iran that atomic bomb in a matter of months. However, in a gesture of paradoxical silence, Israel has never confirmed or denied the existence of its own nuclear program. At the diplomatic level, it maintains an ambiguous formula: ensures that it will not be the first country to “introduce” nuclear weapons in the Middle East. That phrase, deliberately inaccurate, allows you to preserve a discourse of prudence while preserving what most analysts consider a consolidated and growing atomic capacity. Hidden but feared. In fact, the play is doubly winner. Had the New York Times that the most conservative calculations attribute to Israel a minimum of 90 Nuclear Ojivas lists to be deployed, with sufficient fistening material reserves to manufacture hundreds more. Although its arsenal is the second smallest of the nine countries recognized informally as nuclear powers, Just ahead North Korea, its delivery capacity It is advanced: Balistic missiles, modified and submarine combat aircraft endowed with missiles with nuclear capacity constitute a complete deterrence triad. Israel’s absence in the Nuclear Non -Proliferation Treaty (which is also not part of Indian, Pakistan or North Korea) reinforces the legal exceptionality of your situation. The treaty, in force since 1970only recognizes the five nations that detonated atomic weapons before 1967: United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom. Any other country that signed should, in theorygive up this armament. Israel has avoided that commitment, thus maintaining a strategic freedom that allows it to operate outside international inspections or explicit limitations. Dimona’s secret. And here comes one of the keys to the heart. The heart of the Israeli nuclear program beats in the Néguev desert, at the facilities of Dimona. Founded in 1958 With French help, this installation was Inspection object Americans during the 1960s, but since then it has remained Out of reach of any international monitoring. Broarship intelligence documents They revealed Already in 1960 that the complex included a plant of Plutonium reprocessingwhich implied a military objective. By 1967, Israel had managed to develop nuclear explosives And in 1973, during the Yom Kipur WarThe United States already assumed with certainty that the country He had atomic bombs. Throughout the decades, various satellite images have documented significant extensions In Dimonaand some Recent reports They indicate that Israel could even be building a new reactor to increase its plutonium production capacity, the material indispensable for both nuclear weapons and certain peaceful uses. Silent deterrence. Unlike dozens of countries that are accepted to the nuclear umbrella From the United States for its defense, Israel has opted for its own atomic shield. This strategic independence suggests that Israel not only has nuclear weapons, but is willing to use them As a last resort If its existence is compromised. Although you have never used these weapons in combat, There are reports which point to their preparation during the wars of 1967 and 1973. It is also suspected that Israel participated in Secret nuclear trialsas the famous incident of the American satellite Watches in 1979which detected a double light explosion near the Indian Ocean. Although the nation denied its involvement, newspapers of President Jimmy Carter recorded the Strong suspicion that Israel and South Africa collaborated in that clandestine test. Be that as it may, those events still are not confirmed, although the most relevant documents continue to classified, which feeds suspicions. The strategic logic. In short, and despite Your official opacitythe existence of Israeli nuclear arsenal seems tacitly recognized for its exclusion of otherwise protection mechanisms. The fact that it is not part of the American deterrence is interpreted by experts such as the clearest nonverbal confirmation of its independent atomic capacity. In the eyes of the Israeli government, this decision responds to A philosophy deeply rooted: no one but Israel can and should guarantee their survival. I remembered the Times that this logic, heiress of foundational trauma From the Holocaust, it was explicitly expressed By Ernst David Bergmann, president of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, stating that the atomic bomb was the only guarantee that “we will never be taken as lambs to the slaughterhouse.” No doubt, that principle continues to guide Israeli nuclear doctrine: maintain a sufficiently ambiguous capacity not to cause international reactions, but powerful enough to deter any real aggression. Image | Planet Lab, The Official CTBO In Xataka | Israel’s great goal in his war against Iran is to destroy Fordow. And you can only get it with a bomb that has USA In Xataka | Ukraine was the anticipation of what Israel has done: war is no longer … Read more

Israel has responded as Ukraine

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Of the data that are known in the conflict between Israel and Iran there are a question I know He is sliding These days: the sophisticated anti -mile air defense of Israel, amplified by the publicized Iron domeAre you showing fissures? The truth is that there is a background explanation about the use (or not) of this Israeli defense system. Also a weakness that is exploiting Iran. Helicopters against swarms. In the middle of the rise of Iranian air attacks with Shahed dronesthe Israeli armed forces have begun to display a solution as striking as effective: the systematic use of combat helicopters AH-64 Apache to intercept unmanned aerial vehicles that manage to cross the sophisticated antimile framework of the country. Equipped with 30 mm cannons and aiming systems integrated into the gunner’s helmet, these helicopters, known in Israel as “Saraf”They were not conceived for anti -aircraft, but they have turned out to be a decisive tool to destroy drones at a short distanceonce they exceed medium and long -range defense systems. The captured videos They show the apaches by down drones propelled in full flight, an image that encapsulates the evolution of modern air combat and the urgent need for tactical solutions dynamics in a prolonged war context. The economic dilemma. We already said it at the beginning. Israel has one of the most advanced defensive architectures in the world, structured in layers: Arrow For long -range ballistic missiles, David’s sling (David’s Honda) for intermediate threats, Thaad for high altitude threats and famous dome For short -range projectiles. This network, sustained by highly coordinated sensors and radars, managed to intercept about 99% of the more than 300 missiles and drones launched by Iran on the offensive of 2024. However, and here is the quid of everything, maintaining that efficiency involves An immense cost: a single tamir interceptor of the dome costs near $ 40,000while the Arrow missiles easily exceed one million. Before drones that barely cost a few thousands, each anti -aircraft shot becomes a strategic profitability problem. Save missiles. In a wear war, as has demonstrated in Ukraineexhausting interceptors reserves in low value targets can end weakening the defense Faced with much more lethal threats. Therefore, like kyiv, Israel has begun to Reserve your missiles For priority objectives, and has delegated cheaper and more flexible systems, such as helicopters, the mission of containing drones waves. Shahed 131 Saraf vs Shahed. He Apache Ah-64Din his Saraf Israeli variantit can fly to more than 300 km/hyg carrying missiles and automatic cannons with a cadence of 10 shots per second. Your aim system, based on the gunner’s lookallows you to acquire targets with great precision. In front of drones like the Shahed, which fly in a straight line without evasive maneuvers, the Apache should have an advantage. Nevertheless, Some videos They suggest that clashes are not always immediate or effective. There is Drones reports evading for several minutes the persecution of four helicopters. If true, it would suggest the real difficulties of demolishing these objectives, especially when they are equipped with self -evil systems, Like the Russian Ukhylyontwhich performs automatic maneuvers when detecting other aircraft. A fatal error. In addition, the danger of friendly fire is real: helicopters flying to the level of drones can be confused by terrestrial defense systems, and an error could lead to the loss of a platform. It is not trivial, we speak of 50 million of dollars compared to a goal of just 30,000. Wear guerrillas. The threat is also not limited to current drones. Iran has already demonstrated a Shahed model with a reaction engine, The Shahed-238Able to exceed 480 km/h, an impossible speed to intercept for conventional helicopters. If these models begin to deploy in mass, the Apache would cease to be useful as an interceptor. In the short term, however, the Saraf remain an immediate and effective resource to protect civil areas, key facilities and military columns. In case of A prolonged campaign as lived by Ukraine, where Russia has come to launch More than 470 drones In one night, the tactical response capacity becomes more important than technological perfection. They remembered in Forbes That Israel, unlike Ukraine, has the ability to directly attack the manufacturing and storage facilities of drones in Iranian territory, which could mitigate part of the problem since its origin. Even so, while that does not happen, the tactical defense in the Israeli sky itself is in the hands of hybrid solutions: helicopters, light weapons, and possibly, in the near future, interceptor drones. Adaptation and evolution. He use of helicopters of attack against drones is a clear sample of how armies are adapting their doctrines against unconventional threats. As We have counted with Ukraine al develop an ecosystem of Anti -Didrone Weapons (from mounted machine guns In trucks up double cannon shotguns or portable missiles), Israel is exploring multiple fronts to mitigate a threat that, although cheap and rudimentary, can erode even the most advanced defenses if it occurs in sufficient number. If the conflict does not cease in the short term, it would not be surprising that in the coming months we will see a boom in the development of technologies dedicated to it, from low -cost smart ammunition to autonomous anti -urmon systems. Meanwhile, Israel’s defense against Iranian drones It will rest In the eyes and cannons of its crews of Apache helicopters. Image | Nehemia Gershuni-AylhoAlexpl In Xataka | What Israel looks in Iran is not in sight: it is called Fordow and hides under a practically impenetrable mountain In Xataka | An image has triggered the alarms in the Middle East. A giant armed has set for the Atlantic … from the US

The massive bombings of Iran threaten something essential to Intel: its facilities in Israel

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A good part of Innovations that Intel has introduced In its microprocessors during the last twenty -two years it comes from IDC (Israel Development Center), The development center that the company has in Haifa (Israel). This subsidiary was responsible for tuning in 2003 the microarchitecture P6 (banias), One of the most successful Intel has launched in the last three decades. The high performance/watt ratio of the Pentium M processors used on the centrine platform was largely due to this microarchitecture, which represented a very overwhelming break with the netburst microarchitecture used in Pentium 4 processors. The weight that the Israel Development Center currently has in Intel infrastructure is huge, and it all started thanks to the success of Pentium M processors and the centrine platform. Israeli engineers had the ability to “cut the healthy” with the Netburst microarchitecture of the Pentium 4 and take as a starting point the P6 implementation of the Pentium III. And they were right. Intel realized that this was the path he had to follow, so he certified the end of the Pentium saga as we knew it at that time, ending a reign that began in early 1993. Intel has a lot to lose in the war between Israel and Iran The war conflict currently supporting Israel and will threaten the lives of many people in these two countries because both are using a huge amount of missiles with a great capacity for destruction. One of the Israeli cities that are being bombarded with greater intensity by Iran is precisely haifa. According to Israel’s defense forces (FDI) During the night of June 13 to 14 they fell on this city and other regions of the north of this country about 150 Iranian ballistic missiles, and some of them reached several urban areas of Haifa. The size of missile attacks that are carrying out both countries is such that no civil installation is safe Israel has adopted a very opaque position that prevents knowing precisely from outside this country What damage are the attacks of Iran. For this last country the Intel facilities in Haifa They have no strategic valueso right now it seems unlikely to attack them expressly. Even so, the size of missile attacks that are carrying out both countries is such that no civil installation is safe, especially if it is close to a government building or a military installation. In any case, the Haifa Development Center is not the only thing Intel can lose in Israel. In the center of the country, about 50 km south of Tel Aviv, resides its manufacturing plant of Kiryat Gat avant -garde. I have had the opportunity to visit so much HAIFA facilities as those of Kiryat Gat On two occasions (2019 and 2022), and the latter are equipped with a multitude of photolithography equipment made by ASML, Tokyo Electron and other companies. Intel manufactures a good part of the processors that we can buy PC users, so it is evident that it has a crucial role in its production infrastructure. At the moment Iran has concentrated its missile attacks in the northern half of Israel, so the most affected cities are Haifa, Tel Aviv, Bat Yam and Ramat Gan. It seems that the region in which Kiryat Gat is not bombarded, but right now it is very difficult to foresee How will this conflict evolve and to what extent the integrated circuit manufacturing plant of Intel is or not at risk. Of course, it has something important in its favor to remain safe: it is housed in a relatively isolated industrial zone and far from any military or government installation. To damage it a priori Iran would have to consider it a priority objective and express it expressly. Image | Intel In Xataka | Intel has a bullet in the bedroom. A bullet capable of helping you compete from you with TSMC In Xataka | Intel and TSMC lead the revolution of photonic chips. His problem is that China has just done fully in this war

The Spanish festivals are in crisis for Israel. Meanwhile, Spring Sound has included bombings in Gaza in its poster

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We had not had such a moved season of festivals for years. With the vast majority of the great musical events of summer marked by controversy Related to the KKR Investment Fund, the Spring Soundwhich is celebrated this week in Barcelona, ​​has decided to position itself with an installation halfway between political exhibitionism and the commercial hook. That is pure spring Sound, too. The tunnel. Spring Sound has installed in the PARC of the Fòrum A 15 -meter tunnel that replicates the sounds of the bombings in Gaza. The name of the installation is ‘Unsilence Gaza’, it is the work of the Palestinian sound engineer Oussama Rima and has been done in collaboration with the NGOs Casa Nostra, Casa Vostra and Novact. These have stated that “in spring sounds the sound is emotion, connection, pleasure. But sound can also be the opposite: it can become a weapon.” To this have added a chilling fact: bombings can reach 170 decibels, “much more than the human body can bear.” But … how much of genuine commitment and how much for winking for the gallery in this installation? The problem with KKR. KKR is an American investment fund, one of the world’s largest private capital companies, and whose most criticized activities There are real estate investments in Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, such as Jerusalem Este, Gaza and the West Bank. In 2024, the Fund acquired Supersruct Entertainment, a company that organizes some eighty festivals worldwide and that in Spain is behind events such as Sónar, Arenal Sound, Viña Rock, FIB or Monegros. The reaction of the groups. The response was not long in coming from numerous groups, which They canceled their participation In many of the festivals, and in some cases they launched communications clarifying their exact relationship with KKR. Seventy bandsfor example, they demanded that Sónar a more compromised positioning. Voices have emerged that They ask for the boycott from the festivalsand some like Sónar himself have lost poster heads as ark. At the same time, others Artists like Kase.O either Angelus Apatrida They have decided to keep their commitments to the festivals, which has generated controversy and discomfort with some sectors of their fans. More than festivals. Spring Sound does not have those ties with the KKR, which allows him to adopt a more combative position with respect to Gaza. But he does it in the PS style: for a few years, the festival is giving up the Transformation of Spanish festivals into more than encounters to listen to music. In many of them, the poster becomes something completely secondarybelow socialization: it started years ago with the transformation of the Benicàssim festival at the unavoidable point of meeting of the indie girl Before British invasionand Spring Sound partly collects his witness. And with Noria. Perhaps the spring element that shows the most this option is the Noria that was installed in 2013. Since then they have worked in that direction by approaching the festival more to an leisure center than something else: Food Trucks and gastronomy positions, workshops and activities (many of them oriented to children), Conferencesmultidisciplinary exhibitions, handicraft, fashion and merchandising. An authentic brand and advertising exhibitor, which is the clear current orientation of spring, which in a sense questions its political meaning. It is not Kkr, but. Spring Sound has dodged the summer controversy that has affected practically all its competitors, but it cannot be said that she does not have her own economic commitments. In fact, after its financing There is the American Investment Fund The Yucaipa Companiesled by businessman Ronald Burkle. In that sense the spring Sound is matched with the rest of the festivals: It is a more turned event into a financial asset for foreign billionaires with the excuse of culture. And that it is a business they have never hidden it, as their progressive name changes demonstrate to Estrella Damm Spring Sound or San Miguel Primavera Sound as they were dancing their main sponsors. Ethics of income. Spring Sound financing has always generated innumerable ethical conflicts, as detailed This article by El Salto: Advertising of companies such as SEAT either Spotify while the claim of labor rights is raised; accusations of Purplewashing and Pinkwashing; Propaganda of brands of dubious ethics, for example linked to NFTS … and, in general, marketing of culture, which is always problematic. It spoke in depth by cross in A series of three controversial articles about the birth and evolution of the festival, and that made clear its abundant contradictions. It does not leave Barcelona. The reason that spring sounds so consciously the flag of Catalanity (and with it, of a certain political activism) is precisely that He has not managed to leave Catalonia. The international spring expansion Sound has been a failure: it closed All its Latin American editions In 2024 after the fiasco that supposed The 2024 edition in Madrid. Actually, the latter was the result of a tense Pulse with the Barcelona City Council where interests much more substantial than music were at stake. A series of sticks for the Financial of the Festival, which retains only the first of its first international expansions, Porto, Out of Barcelona. Intermediate point. Spring Sound is a first -order tourist attraction for Barcelona (left 272 million euros in the city in 2024according to a study by the MKTG Spain consultant). Thus, he plays (despite those nonsense with Madrid that They did not set For reasons that have nothing to do with their catalanity) not to lose their purely Catalan identity, with actions of the foundation linked to local training (many of their courses have joined the autonomy study programs). And within that identity is the claim in favor of Gaza, which maintain constant and explicit in aspects such as the programming of Radio Primavera Sound, where they do not have fear of positioning yourself. Business is Business. Spring Sound is a business, and that is why you have to take any type of positioning with tweezers: remember the … Read more

What Israel does in a “Europe” competition

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On paper is the song festival. In practice, Eurovision has been much more years ago. There is music, dance, lights and the profusion of brightness and expected eccentricity in any spectacle worth its salt; But also political. Increasingly. The 2025 edition has left a clear example on the account of Israel (already It happened in 2024 either Three years agowith Russia) and reverges a question that usually arises every year: if Israel is a country of Western Asia (geographically speaking), why do you participate in Eurovision? Moreover, why is it part of UEFA or is he a member of European associations in sports such as swimming? And above all … does it make sense that it is so? Music, politics and flags. Although on Saturday he stroked the victory thanks to TelevotoIsrael’s passage through Eurovision has been marked by controversy, just as the 2024the first after the Gaza conflict initiated in October 2023. His representative, Yuval Raphael, a victim of Hamas attacks, has monopolized headlines. And most did not focus precisely on their music. The organization of the festival has expelled spectators for showing Palestinian flags and has been engaged in a Sour controversy With RTVE for his comments on Gaza’s conflict during retransmissions, nothing compared to what Belgian TV did, which directly chose not to broadcast Raphael’s performance. Looking back. Israel may have monopolized the spotlights EUROVISIVES This edition, but is not a newcomer to the festival. On the contrary. Although Eurovision is organized by the European Radiodifusion Union And that name can lead us to think about the EU or at most in the European continent, Israel, a country in Western Asia, has been part of its history for more than half a century. The country debuted in 1973. And it hasn’t been bad. Saturday remained In second placebut he has won four times. The last one relatively recently, in 2018, with Netta, which explains that a year later the festival It was celebrated in Tel Aviv. And yes, on that occasion too Voices sounded They encouraged boycott. But is not a European festival? Yes. And no. The festival is effectively called Eurovision and organizes it, but the latter is an alliance that goes far beyond strictly geographical Europe: it groups 113 organizations of more than 50 countries and 31 associates of Asia, Africa, Australasia and Las Américas. Membership, like Remember the Uer itselfis aimed at entities whose countries are members of the European Council or are within the European broadcasting areaa wide umbrella under which some countries from outside Europe are located. The result is that among the 113 members that make up the Uuer are French, German, Dutch, Czech or RTVE organizations, but also Cyprus entities (which although it is part of the EU belongs to the Southwest Asian), Algeria, Jordan, Libya, Egypt or Morocco. Also Israel, which allowed him to debut at the Eurovision song festival in the 1970s. Eurovision and much more. The Uuer is not the only European forum in which Israel has made a hole. Something similar occurs with UEFA, the Union of European Soccer Associations. Among their National Federations We find the Spanish, English, Lithuanian, German, Belgian … and the Israeli. Also Kazakhstan, Türkiye or Russia, although in February three years ago UEFA and FIFA They decided to expel her. Why is Israel included in that list? On its website, UEFA explains that Israel became an active member of the Asian Soccer Confederation in 1956, but in 1974 he decided to “abandon her by political reasons“. The reality, Remember DWIt is that in the Arab and Muslim world there were countries that refused to compete with their representatives, such as Türkiye, Indonesia or Sudan. That tension resulted in A vote In 1974 that ended with Israel outside the Asian Federation. In European competitions. In the early 90s, he played regularly in Europe and, after what UEFA calls a “Prolonged process”its federation ended up becoming a member of the organization shortly after, in 1994. MacCabi Haifa Or Hapoel Tel-Aviv, for example, have competed in European tournaments. It is not a rarity of football. In handball, athletics either swimming Israel is also a member of associations based in the old continent. As a backdrop (and as it happens in Eurovision) there is much more than sport: behind the peculiar role of Israel is its complex history, its controversial political role and tensions with other Muslim neighboring nations that can go back to the foundation of the state of Israel, In 1948. These tensions have marked their recent history at the geopolitical level, but has often spread to other areas such as sports, which has led him to look at the West. A potato (increasingly) hot. The funny thing is that this potato has not stopped heating, especially after the beginning of the conflict in Gaza in October 2023 and the death of tens of thousands of Palestinians. The Eurovision Festival leaves the most recent example, but not the only one. Your participation in the contest already generated controversy last year and in 2019 the boycott movement, divestment and sanctions (BDS) even cheer up To artists and chains to ignore the final held in Tel Aviv. In the sports field, Israel’s participation also It was marked in part by The controversy In the Olympic Games and several associations of the Middle East They have claimed Already FIFA to go to the country in international football. The question. The scenario is further complicated by the case of Russia, than after starting the invasion of Ukraine, in February 2022, it did receive a severe response from international organizations. The Uer He separated her of Eurovision, despite its warm initial reaction claiming that the festival is a “cultural event of a non -political nature”, and UEFA and FIFA adopted A similar measureclosing the doors of the World Cup and The Euroleague to the country of Putin. Your athletes too They stayed out of the Olympic Games held in 2024 in Paris. The different response to Israel … Read more

Egypt and Jordan reject Trump’s idea of ​​moving Palestinians from Gaza to their territory

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt rejected the US president’s proposalDonald Trump, of displacing the population of the Gaza Strip to his territory or other Arab countries and defended the creation of a Palestinian State as the legitimate right of his people. In a statement, the Ministry reaffirmed “Egypt’s adherence to the political solution to the Palestinian question”, which involves “ending the occupation and returning the usurped territory to the Palestinian people”, to guarantee their legitimate right to their land. and homeland. He also stressed its rejection “of any violation of these inalienable rights, whether through settlements or land annexationsor evacuating those lands from their owners through displacement or encouraging the removal or uprooting of Palestinians from their lands, either temporarily or permanently.” In this way, he responded to the statements that Donald Trump made yesterday, Saturday, to the journalists who were traveling with him aboard Air Force One, and to whom he said that he had spoken with the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, about the idea of ​​building housing. and transfer the million Gazans from the Gaza Strip to countries like Egypt or Jordan, according to CNN. According to the Egyptian department, displacing the Palestinian population of their land “threatens to further spread the conflict in the region” and hinders the possibilities of peace and coexistence between its peoples. In this sense, he explained that the Palestinian territory includes the unity of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy and the lines of June 4, 1967. Jordan supports the creation of the Palestinian State On this same day, the Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman al Safadi, He expressed himself in similar terms and also rejected Trump’s approach while demanding the creation of the State of Palestine to fulfill the right of the Palestinian people and achieve the long-awaited peace in the Middle East. “Everyone knows that the solution to the Palestinian cause lies within Palestine. Jordan is for the Jordanians, Palestine is for the Palestinians,” he stated before highlighting that the path to regional security and stability is for “the Palestinian State of sovereignty to live in peace alongside Israel in accordance with the solution of the two states.” Keep reading:• Trump calls Gaza “a demolition site” and wants Jordan and Egypt to welcome its inhabitants “temporarily or long term”• Ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel ends• Israel releases 200 Palestinian prisoners after 4 hostages released by Hamas are reunited with their families

Ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel ends

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At least three displaced Lebanese were killed and 17 others were wounded this Sunday by gunfire from Israeli forces, after expire the ceasefire agreement that established the withdrawal of the Israeli Army. According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, “attacks by the Israeli enemy against citizens trying to return to their villages left one dead and nine injured in Houla, and another eight injured in Kfar Kila,” two towns in Lebanon bordering Israel. Shortly afterward they raised the death toll to three. Groups of displaced people gathered at the entrance to their villages in southern Lebanon from early this Sunday with the intention of returning or assessing the damage to their homes, since at dawn the 60-day period established by the pact expired for them to Israel completed its withdrawal from Lebanese territory, although Israeli forces remained there after the deadline. Delay in Israeli withdrawal Despite this, The Israeli Government already announced last Friday that it would not remove its forces still present in the neighboring country in time. since the invasion that began on October 1, alleging that the other party has incurred delays in implementing the tasks assigned to it. The pact also establishes the departure of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah from the border strip and its replacement by a greater deployment of the Lebanese Army. According to the National News Agency (ANN), the Kfar Kila attack occurred after the victims “crossed the barrier and checkpoint set up by the ‘occupation Army’, one of many points where congregations of displaced people were registered in the western and central sectors of the border strip. Israel has withdrawn from most of the eastern sector, but remains present in various parts of the western part. Violations of the agreement also in Gaza Israel today accused Hamas of two violations of the truce agreementthus justifying its refusal to allow those displaced in the south of the Gaza Strip to return to their villages in the north. “During yesterday’s execution of the second phase of the exchange, Hamas committed two violations. Arbel Yehud, a civilian hostage scheduled for release on Saturday, has not been released, and a detailed list of the status of all hostages has not been provided,” said a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. Hamas released four Israeli military women on Saturday in exchange for 200 Palestinian detainees in the second exchange provided for by the truce agreement in the war in Gaza, although a last-minute disagreement prevented hundreds of thousands of displaced people from returning to the north of the Palestinian territory. This second exchange took place almost a week after the entry into force of a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, devastated after more than 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas.

Israel Reyes defended Messi after a mocking celebration for Mexican fans

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The celebration of Messi to Mexican fans, boasting about Argentina’s three World Cups, has divided opinions. The last one to come out to speak was the defender of Club AmericaIsrael Reyeswho justified and defended ‘La Pulga’. In an interview for ESPN, Kings was questioned about last weekend’s episode in the Allegiant Stadium of vegas. The Mexican fully analyzed the situation and ended up offering arguments why he believes Messi did nothing wrong. “I’m going to tell you something, I didn’t realize it, because I was obviously angry about the goal, I didn’t realize it, in the end everything happened, some teammates took such a photo of me, and I saw them later. Wow, for me, I think it’s something that falls within the field, because of how passionate football is, because of how passionate it can make you warm up, anyone can do this, for me it’s like that,” he said. In addition, Kings He expressed that within soccer it can become common for soccer players to have friction with rival fans. For this reason, he considers that the episode of Messi It falls within the parameters of “normality” and does not consider it an offense to the Mexican fans. “At the end of the day I think we’ve all done it with a fan, you’ve warmed up and it also comes out in the game, that’s how I see football. As I see the things of the people towards the player and the player towards the people, I think that people are going to enjoy, de-stress, they get everything out and the player is obviously going to do his job and that’s it, I feel like he’s going that way or is it my answer towards what you say,” he expressed. Messi’s burlesque celebration In it Allegiant Stadium of vegas, Inter Miami won 3-2 on penalties Club America in a friendly match. The Mexicans started winning and Messi He was the object of annoyance by the azulcremas fans. The eight times Ballon d’Or tied the actions thanks to an assist from Luis Suárez for a collective play that started Jordi Alba. It was at the celebration where all the controversy broke out. As soon as he scored, the Argentine went to the stands, raised his arms, began to point out his name on his jersey and gesticulated and made reference to the three World Cups that the albiceleste won. Basically, the gesture of Messi It could be translated into “I have three, and you?” Keep reading:· Messi rubs Mexican fans in the face with controversial celebration of the World Cup won by Argentina· Javier Mascherano targeted Mexicans in the Messi controversy: “They are hostile to us”· ‘Bofo’ Bautista and David Faitelson insult each other for Messi’s mockery of Mexican fans

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