Hey! I woke up at 06:00 to check what was wrong with a service. It turned out, a server in Germany could not reach a server in Finland in the 20" timeout I had set.

You set your timeout in inches? I thought you were all metric over tehre, except for socket drivers which are universally imperial :P

Yes, although miles would be more appropriate! https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

Just for the record

20": English notation for twenty seconds

Analysis regarding latencies and packet loss due to cut cables:

https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/does-the-internet-rou...

How did you reach the conclusion it was not an inside job? Or an intentional israeli delay so the response was "justified"?

I'm not being snarky, but from what I gather, Isreal could have prevented that.

What?