Meet Lavender - Weaponized A.I.

Meet Lavender, weaponized A.I. used by the government of Israel, developed in part in U.S. prior to A.I. being loosed on the public online as a parlor game several years ago.  If you are already acquainted with Lavender, maybe take the opportunity to refresh the connection based on what you may not have known.  It's elder sibling "the Gospel" and younger sibling "Where's Daddy", are briefly mentioned, in a +972 Magazine article, from 2024. 

Many people remain unaware that between 2005 and 2023, the R&D, plus field testing of the A.I. prototypes (at least in part), all were during and cause for the numerous attacks on the people and infrastructure of Gaza, within that same time frame.  That was in addition to the field testing of a variety of other weaponized technologies, including Israel's Iron Dome technology funded by U.S., and illegal use weapons there had been agreement to ban after WWII. 

The Lavender-type A.I. technology used as a weapon has long been in use on top of Israel's wall, in particular the wall that years ago contributed to turning Gaza into an open air prison, more frequently than not, as the repeated attacks on Gaza increased while R&D field testing of weapons used Gazans and the infrastructure of Gaza as targets.  Gaza since 2023 has been a televised genocide - flaunted, actually, by a lawless rogue nation, and its supporters (largely that means U.S.A. and its relentless Security Counsel vetoing). 

Lavender type A.I. technology was used to do extensive and repeated field testing damage to Palestinian lives in Gaza to prove its effectiveness, prior to 2023 by which time its use was already firmly entrenched.  During the R&D and field testing, again and again there were repeated attacks on  Gaza, as recovery work was progressing to remediate the previous damages (except for remediation of the loss of life).  The initial iterations of all three technologies were likely the prototypes tested in wars and numerous attacks on Gaza after 2005, onward,  from which "the Gospel", Lavender, and "Where's Daddy" all arose to become A.I. technology used as weapons.

From AlJazeera, "Five Israeli wars have been launched on Gaza since it disengaged from the enclave in 2005, aside from smaller incursions and bombing raids.

Before October 7, Israel said its policy was to 'mow the lawn' – attempts to degrade Hamas’s military capabilities by indiscriminately bombing Gaza every few years."

Defense is one thing.  Offense as the best defense is an entirely different circumstance, especially when propaganda presented as "intel from a  friendly nation" (so the story goes that U.S. buys into) has been believed, which pertains to the U.S. place in the Lavender story. 

The lack of veracity of information repeatedly provided to U.S. by Israel, well known to be an untrustworthy source of supposed "intel" that has been verified propaganda, oftener than not,  has been repeatedly proven through the decades.  Yet it is still denied by people who should make it a point to know better, like U.S. Congress who habitually approves military funding to Israel, knowing full well it is up to no good in the ways the funds are used. 

Who can forget the yellow cake hasbara fiasco associated with attacking Iraq, known from the start to be a bogus claim according to U.N. inspectors.  Lavender is a more recent clear example about the use A.I. was planned to be put to by the Israeli government to indiscriminately kill Palestinians.  Either that, or U.S. knowingly participated in collusion with Israel to intentionally create an A.I. weapon to be used in the genocide on Palestinians in Gaza.  

It is beyond belief that anyone  would be willing to accept that children, including toddlers and infants, are "low-ranking [. . .] potential bombing targets" (the +972 Magazine article, again), based on data about people living in Gaza that is fed into Lavender which has been programmed to determine innocents are enemies that should be killed!  Believing that is acceptable remains a fools errand for those still willing to be mislead about how A.I. was planned to be used as a genocidal weapon by Israel.

Perhaps being unaware of Lavender as an A.I. weapon is a matter of people simply not being able to comprehend the extent of evil that has been responsible for the damage that it is Lavender's fault for doing, right?  And that means people in the U.S.A., not only people in Israel, because our nation was instrumental in the R&D, field testing, and funding of the Lavender-like A.I. prototype projects, initially, that were installed on Israel's Wall.   Additionally, what shouts "taxation without representation" to the American people louder than that,  regarding the repeated funding Israel's demands that are without a moral compass?

Having been aware of U.S. involvement in the initial development of the A.I. weapons or not, it remains the responsibility of the American people to collectively put an end to U.S.A. cooperating with creating and funding Lavender-type A.I. technologies as weapons of war on Earth.  That is  especially vital when it is known from the start, in this case, they were intended to be used to destroy the lives, homes, and infrastructure of innocent people in Gaza, by testing A.I. weapons on them, then eventually using them as weapons of genocide on people in Gaza.  

Imagining that the excuse of preparing for war with Iran by creating those weapons could have been used by Israel to justify to the U.S. the killing of Palestinian people who the government of Israel has proven it considers are throw-aways, at its discretion, simply because they are Palestinian.  That is the height of what has become many crimes against humanity.  It is almost beyond imagination the U.S. would buy into cooperating with that excuse.   However, given the bizzarre and illegal rogue actions of the U.S. the past year and a half in particular that are without a moral compass or legal standing, and with the government of Israel having been trying to drum up support for its long dreamed of war with Iran so stated, repeatedly, throughout the decades, unfortunately it is not beyond imagination.  All the Israeli government needed to do was find a stooge that would buy into starting a war with  Iran, for Israel - which of course was always intended to be one of the U.S.A. administrations. 

The responsibility of we, the people, because of our own government not representing our own peoples' and nation's needs, first, continues to require a concentrated effort and push (or swift kick as the case may be) from the American people.  In this case  it is a require that our government put in place needed regulations with strict oversight, plus the will to enforce the problem of A.I. technology being  created to be used as a weapon, a for-profit weapon that has been  used for unjust illegal attacks on innocent people.  An underestimate in February 2026 of Israels damage, is the deaths of 75,000 between October 2023 up to the end of 2025, as reported by AlJazeera.  The count has held relatively steady since that time, of course with no end in sight yet, for a more realistic  update.

It is unforgivable that the use of Lavender AI technology escalated into a genocide, in which many crimes have been  acknowledged as crimes against humanity.  Those include the bombing of the hospitals, schools, and place of worship; the intentional killing of medical personnel, journalists, aid workers or arresting of those folks without charges for the purpose of torturing them in prison. Holding and torturing of prisoners remains  an ongoing crime, as are the continuing death by IDF of Palestinian people, still being reported on a daily basis - all aided by the rogue use of weaponized A.I.

U.S.A. needs to stop cooperating with what the government of Israel wants to dictate it must do for Israel.   Lavender is only one of many proofs, in one of the worst ways.  As usual, it is a "follow the money trail" issue to get to the root of corruption in U.S.A. and defang it because for-profit corruption and on-going criminality is at the foundation of what has additionally expanded into a damaging unregulated A.I. problem. 

Struggle Resistance and Sumud

A word called to me a few days ago as if we were good friends.  It was not unfamiliar.  I felt comfortable and at home with it, although I could not actually describe it's meaning. 

As far as a one word  translation - steadfastness or perseverance - both good words I already know and like.  However I instinctively knew there had to be much more depth to the idea and concept of sumud, that I needed to get to know and become friends with "sumud".  

Sumud is an Arabic word that embodies the concept of everyday resistance. One of non-violent collective and personal resilience, maintaining of dignity, identity, and connection regardless of circumstances - even in oppression.

It was easy for me understand sumud as a struggle in the form of a verb exemplified by Palestinians in their resistance against the Israeli occupation - something as basic as living where one belongs.  Sumud as a noun is the solid structure and framework of their resistance.

"Sumud, for Palestinians, is a core cultural and national concept.  One that means more than steadfastness, perseverance - also staying strong in all possible ways."

"The profound term has deep and well-established roots for Palestinians and their land, reflecting their strength and perseverance as a nation and culture."  And that is why I have become fast friends with sumud.  It is a concept I already knew because it describes a people I have long known who personify it.

My initial acquaintance with sumud tells me it is a steadfast way of resistance.  A way that  embodies and projects a deep sense of peace and quiet strength it is a joy to behold and embody.  I know it well as a concept at the foundation of Palestine and the beauty of Palestinian culture.

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*My thoughts inspired by "Sumud and Palestine" at Islamic Relief of Australia website.  A very fitting introduction to sumud.  I am grateful for the introduction through their words and my use of many of them as I to take my new friend to heart.

I.C.E. at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy!?

 What is the purpose of ICE at the Olympics?  It is a threatening high profile criminal  "special force" that is the current U.S.A. administration's apparently lawless  "special force".   The criminal organization, ICE, has arbitrarily killed American citizens for no reason, when their supposed job is immigrants - who they also have criminally killed and jailed.

An online discussion about what Italy thinks about the problem of ICE showing up at the Olympics, included a person named "Errol" speaking on behalf of U.S.A..  When asked to comment about the name change of the U.S. Olympic house from "ICE House" to "Winter House" he stated some nonsense about it being unnecessary unless people had a negative attitude.  Then he said ICE was there to work against terrorism with international organizations, after it was already stated they were there to protect the VP's family.  Really?  Both sound like bogus prevarications, no one could believe.  Who was  he trying to fool?  The Italians did not buy it.

Why would the Italians who are hosting the Olympics not have a "negative. along with everyone else, about about U.S.A.'s I.C.E. agents showing up at the Olympics to supposedly protect the VP?  People worldwide know about the ICE criminal actions in U.S.A. so would anyone not consider it a very thinly veiled threat on the part of the current U.S. Administration, for ICE to be at the Olympics?  The Italians have a right to respond with fury, so does everyone else, given the criminality of ICE.

Why would ICE be protecting the VP's family at the Olympics instead of secret service agents assigned to them who are ordinarily not high profile.  Again what is the purpose of a threatening high profile criminal "special force" that is criminally used by the current U.S.A. administration?  

ICE, has become a criminal organization in U.S.A. that has arbitrarily killed American citizens for no reason, when their supposed job is immigration - which has also resulted in ICE killing people they have rounded up, or jailing them whether they were immigrants, citizens, tourists, or children - very young children in some cases?  How do we know those disappeared children about which there is supposedly no accountability, have not ended up as fodder for Epstein type crimes, which there is little doubt continue with other folks at the helm?  There needs to be accountability, especially for the children.

We have intelligence agencies that coordinate internationally on foreign soil.  The criminal organization ICE is not known to be one of them.  While it should be coordinating with other nations about undocumented immigrants in U.S.A., the agents have no business showing up on foreign soil, because of course it is perceived as threatening, given the ICE crimes openly perpetrated in U.S.A.  And then the excuses offered are about protecting the VP, and working with international terrorist organizations too?  The prevaricating makes ICE presence more threatening.

The Administration is apparently trying to gaslight the world about ICE presence.  An online exchange among people, noted that it is not the ICE ground troops being deployed to beat protesters, like in Minnesota (as if beating is .permissible, with no mention of murder which is worse).  It continued saying that ICE at the Olympics is a division of DHS known as "Homeland Security Investigations" that technically falls under ICE."  That sounds like totally bogus nonsense, with layer upon layer of individual departments all under DHS, then under other layers within DHS too. 

The quote is cited in an article at NBC News along with the claim of ICE being there to protect the VP and his family that states "Homeland Security Investigations is an investigative arm of DHS, and though it technically falls under ICE, it focuses on investigating transnational crime and issues with global trade or financial systems.”  We already had and still have a variety of three letter investigative agencies whose job that is.  We did not need new ones in addition, that do the same work, except they are blatantly criminal without oversight.  However, the media will report anything it is told to, unfortunately, to satisfy U.S. hybrid diversified, international, corporate conglomerate/government demands, as if it is not something that should rightfully become an investigative journalism series. 

It is the collective responsibility of we, the people, to police our own government, especially in times like these when the entire world is being threatened in some way, at least verbally, by what is difficult to describe in any other way than by a "rogue U.S. administration".  We are clearly not taking enough responsibility, collectively, as citizens.

What exactly is the new supposed international division of ICE that "technically" is a division of DHS, under ICE control?  Does Congress know anything about it, or was Congress bypassed, again, to prevent it from doing it's job?  Americans, and now people everywhere, are tired of DHS being used as a catch all for any and all crimes perpetrated by the current U.S. administration.  The numerous crimes are obviously being  perpetrated under the umbrella of "The Patriot Act". 

The Patriot Act was supposed to have been temporary when it was a bill created in Congress more than 20 years ago.  It did not have adequate oversight at the time to prevent it from being used criminally against anyone, including American citizens or people in other nations.  It was created in reaction to  9/11, and specifically stated in news reports that its purpose was not to be used against Americans,  though it could be.  Well, apparently it is now also being used as an unjustifiable excuse to target people beyond our borders - in their own nations.  

Worse there is an entire generation of young adult voters, some in their mid 20s by now, who have probably never heard of the Patriot Act, which was created before they were born.  All who wonder when fascism "officially" started growing into what we see today in U.S.A., need look no further than "the Patriot Act" and it's criminal abuses.  It apparently was not temporary, and was always intended to  criminally target Americans and citizens of other nations, also, in their own nations.

Obviously a variety of ramifications are associated with the issue regarding ICE being at the Olympics.  The worst of them is how ICE presence is now being used to threaten people in other nations with its presence in their nations.  Normal Americans are and should be aghast and ashamed regarding the lawlessness of the current rogue U.S. administration.  It has been violating so frequently that  Congress can not keep up with the overwhelming amount of work it creates for them, all of which is  litigious.