ICE, IDF, and the Palantir State: El Salvador Was the Dress Rehearsal
They perfected it on Palestinians.
They industrialised it on migrants.
They field tested it on El Salvador.
Now they’re scaling it to you.
This isn’t three separate stories but one operating system:
occupation tech/border tech/global control grid.
1. From Gaza to the Datacenter
For decades, Palestine has been the sandbox where the worst “security innovations” are born.
The Israeli military has built vast biometric databases and facial-recognition systems like Blue Wolf to tag and track Palestinians across the West Bank, turning entire cities into open-air labs for surveillance.
In Gaza, AI assisted targeting systems such as Lavender have been used to auto-generate kill lists at industrial speed, with life-or-death decisions made by algorithms chewing through mountains of data.
Israeli companies then export this tech as “combat-tested” and “field-proven” polished sales language for:
“We tried it on a captive population first.”
This is the template:
permanent emergency, permanent exception, permanent data-driven warfare.
2. ICE: Occupation Logic at the U.S Border
Now take that logic, swap the label from “terrorist” to “illegal,” and you arrive at ICE.
Palantir slides perfectly into this architecture.
Since 2014, Palantir has built case-management systems for ICE that fuse together DMV records, utility bills, criminal databases, and more into a single searchable panopticon.
Those tools: FALCON and related platforms power arrest targeting, workplace raids, and fast-track deportations.
Even polite liberal outlets admit it: Palantir is one of the private architects of the surveillance state, knitting together ICE’s data so agents can hunt people down with a few clicks.
Meanwhile:
DHS cofunds joint “threat detection” and drone programs with Israel.
Israeli firms like Elbit and Paragon sell the same radars, towers, and spyware they use around Gaza and the West Bank to U.S agencies along the southern border.
The point isn’t just migration control.
It’s practice, refining the tools, normalizing the methods, and building a shared doctrine:
Treat human beings as data points to be scored, sorted, and neutralized.
3. El Salvador: Prototype for the Palantir Age
Enter El Salvador ghe “miracle” case the West can’t shut up about.
On paper, it’s simple:
take the former murder capital of the world, unleash mass arrests, and voilà ….crime plummets.
But under the hood?
Bukele’s government declared a rolling state of exception, suspending basic rights and locking up more than 80,000 people with little or no due process.
Journalists and activists were hacked with Pegasus spyware (NSO Group, Israel), while the government built new digital infrastructure under the banner of “public safety.”
A mega-prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center, was constructed as a high-tech warehouse, designed as much for spectacle as for security.
Layer on top:
Bitcoin nation-brand marketing pushed by foreign crypto influencers and Western PR fixers.
And of course, El Presidente’s wife is a chosenite.
In a country with maybe 100 Jews total, somehow the presidency still ends up married into the tribe.
Wild coincidence, I’m sure.
And now, the next phase: reprogramming the kids.
Bukele has just inked a deal with Elon Musk’s xAI to roll out “the world’s first national education program with AI.” Grok branded software will be adapted into a tutoring system for every public-school student in the country.
One hand disappears a generation of young men into a mega-prison.
The other hand “personalizes” the minds of their little brothers and sisters through a centralized AI brain.
Now zoom out.
This isn’t crime control.:
How fast can you flag “gang suspects” at scale?
How many people can you disappear into a prison complex before the world shrugs and moves on?
How easily will a population trade its rights for the IMAGE of order?
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Mike
