Can Submarine cables be tapped?

Submarine cables are laid on the ocean floor to connect different regions of the world, enabling high-speed data transmission between continents. They are owned and operated by telecommunications companies and consortiums, with the primary purpose of facilitating global communication.

The answer is yes. Sub cables can be tapped.

Operation Ivy Bells was a joint United States Navy, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and National Security Agency (NSA) mission whose objective was to place wire taps on Soviet underwater communication lines during the Cold War.

As Edward Snowden revealed in an archive he released, the NSA taps the chokepoints with submarines such as the USS Jimmy Carter, which has been called "the Navy's underwater eavesdropper."

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The powerful solidarity of hundreds of #Norwegians with Palestine in the streets of #Norway

The SCADA systems of several Israeli gas fields were hacked by the Cyb3r Drag0nz and ByteBlitz Team, disabling much of the equipment.

Team claims responsibility for the cyber attack and is responsible for the damage to Israeli gas fields.

#OpIsrael

Hundreds walk out of MIT Commencement for Palestine 🇵🇸

The savage NYPD attacking peaceful protesters in front of the Brooklyn Museums demanding the museum to divest from israeli interests .

Protestors have taken over Bay Concourse at Union Station! There can be no business as usual while Gaza is under attack by the depraved zionist state! #ShutItDown 🇵🇸

🇩🇰 Copenhagen today #GhostPrincess

Plaza st west Union st #GhostPrincess

Anti-colonial, antifascist resistance, exploding out onto the streets of Paris right now. The French workers in solidarity with their comrades in Kanaky & Palestine. This is how we confront the far right. The only good fascism is dead fascism. #antireport

In Iceland, allegedly one of the most peaceful, democratic, and free countries on the planet, the police used pepper spray on Pro-Palestine protesters without any provocation.

Lyon #GhostPrincess

Chile says it will back South Africa’s genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Indonesians wave Palestinian flags and hold a sign saying, ‘All eyes on Rafah’, at a solidarity rally outside the US Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia [Bagus Indahono/EPA-EFE]

A woman holds a sign saying, ‘All eyes on Rafah’, during a solidarity rally called by Kanak organisations, Urgence Palestine and anti-fascist movements at the Place de la Republique in Paris [Zakaria Abedlkafi/AFP]

A student activist holds a placard denouncing the war in Gaza in New Delhi, India [Altaf Qadri/AP]

Health workers in Dublin, Ireland hold signs saying, ‘Sanctions now’, and ‘All eyes on Rafah’, at a solidarity rally on Saturday [Anadolu images]

Palestinian baby Yousef Al-Jojo, 10-months, sits on his mother’s lap at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip where he is being treated for malnutrition on Saturday [Haitham Imad/EPA]

A protest was organized on Saturday in front of the Egyptian embassy in Berlin against the complicity of Egypt in Israel's genocide in Gaza through the closure of the Rafah border crossing and the detention of Egyptians, who were vocal about Gaza.

“Zionism is fascism, exactly.” George Habash (Part 1)

George Habash was a Palestinian doctor and the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Born in Lydda to an Orthodox Christian family during the  British Mandate of Palestine, Habash attended medical school at the  American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon. Habash returned to Lydda in 1948 despite rising violence from Zionists; he and his family were soon displaced from Lydda and eventually moved to Amman in Jordan. Habash joined the 'Urwah al-Wuthqa literary society at AUB, which held discussions on the need for armed revolution, particularly against the Zionists. A year later, Habash met with individuals from Syria and Egypt, with whom he formed Al-Kata'ib, a Pan-Arabist group with the goal of liberating Palestine. Al-Kata'ib developed a paramilitary wing with support of al-Wuthqa, but disintegrated following heightened prosecution, forcing Habash to essentially go underground. 

Following the end of the Six-Day War and the "Israeli" occupation of Al-Quds, Habash formed the PFLP, which soon abandoned pan-Arab nationalism for Marxist-Leninism. The PFLP was an umbrella of several secular radical organizations, but internal dissent led to these groups becoming independent, two of which exist to this day: the PFLP-GC and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). With Habash as the head, the PFLP took part in the Palestinian Revolution in Jordan, a war between the Arafat-led PLO and King Hussein - most notably leading the hijacking of four planes leaving Jaffa "Tel Aviv", and takeover of an airport in Jordan. 

George Habash's sharp political leadership granted him the nickname of "Al-Hakeem" - meaning "the wise man" - but it also made him a target. Habash survived multiple attempts on his life from the Zionists, including in 1973 when a plane leaving Beirut, which he was not on, was hijacked by "Israelis" who thought he was one of the passengers. He continued on as one of the key leaders of the First Intifada, and as Secretariat-General of the PFLP. 

Throughout his life, Habash was a champion of Palestinian liberation over negotiation, stating in 1974: “The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as a revolutionary organization, struggles for the interest of the oppressed Palestinian masses, for liberation, repatriation and self determination. Given that we are part of the Arab liberation movement and the world revolution, the P.F.L.P. cannot adopt a position except through the recognition of the basic interests of these revolutionary forces.”

George Habash: “Our real enemy is not Israel and Zionism only, it is American Imperialism, who is backing Israel because Israel is... a bodyguard for American imperialist interests.”