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In 1948, the year Israel was founded, the Mer Group was established as a metal workshop.
Today it’s a much different company. It operates a dozen subsidiaries and employs 1,200 people in over 40 countries, selling wireless infrastructure, software for public transit ticketing systems, wastewater treatment, and more. But at the ISDEF Expo, an event held last June to show off Israeli technology to potential buyers from foreign security forces, the Mer Group’s representatives were only promoting one thing: surveillance products sold by the company’s security division.
The Mer Group’s evolution from cutting metal to electronic snooping reflects a larger shift in the Israeli economy. Technology is one of the main sectors in Israeli industry. And Israeli firms with ties to intelligence, like the Mer Group, are using their expertise to market themselves internationally. The company’s CEO, Nir Lempert, is a 22-year veteran of Unit 8200, the Israeli intelligence unit often compared to the National Security Agency, and is chairman of the unit’s alumni association. The Mer Group’s ties to Unit 8200 are hardly unique in Israel, where the cyber sector has become an integral aspect of the Israeli economy, exporting $6 billion worth of products and services in 2014.
When drafted into the army, Israel’s smartest youth are steered toward the intelligence unit and taught how to spy, hack, and create offensive cyberweapons. Unit 8200 and the National Security Agency reportedly developed the cyberweapon that attacked Iranian computers running the country’s nuclear program, and Unit 8200 engages in mass surveillance in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to veterans of the military intelligence branch.
Increasingly, the skills developed by spying and waging cyberwarfare don’t stay in the military. Unit 8200 is a feeder school to the private surveillance industry in Israel, the self-proclaimed “startup nation” — and the products those intelligence veterans create are sold to governments around the world to spy on people. While the companies that Unit 8200 veterans run say their technologies are essential to keeping people safe, privacy advocates warn their products undermine civil liberties.
In August, Privacy International, a watchdog group that investigates government surveillance, released a report on the global surveillance industry. The group identified 27 Israeli surveillance companies — the highest number per capita of any country in the world. (The United States leads the world in sheer number of surveillance companies: 122.) Unit 8200 veterans either founded or occupy high-level positions in at least eight of the Israeli surveillance companies named by Privacy International, according to publicly available information. And that list doesn’t include companies like Narus, which was founded by Israeli veterans of Unit 8200 but is now owned by Boeing, the American defense contractor. (Privacy International categorized Narus as an American company because it’s headquartered in California.) Narus technology helped AT&T collect internet traffic and billions of emails and forward that information to the National Security Agency, according to reporting in Wired magazine and documents from the Snowden archive.
“It is alarming that surveillance capabilities developed in some of the world’s most advanced spying agencies are being packaged and exported around the world for profit,” said Edin Omanovic, a research officer at Privacy International. “The proliferation of such intrusive surveillance capabilities is extremely dangerous and poses a real and fundamental threat to human rights and democratization.”
Photo: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images
Today, Amit Meyer is a journalist, an unusual career path for a veteran of Unit 8200. Many of his colleagues have taken the skills in intelligence collection and hacking they learned in the military and monetized them in the private sector. Unit 8200 is a “brand name” in Israel, a celebrated institution that allows members easy access to tech companies after their service, said Meyer. Sometimes technology companies approach alumni of the unit; other times alumni recommend one another. There’s a secret Facebook group for alumni filled with job offers at tech companies, Meyer said. “In many cases you just put Unit 8200 in your CV, and magic happens,” he told The Intercept.
Neve Gordon, an Israeli scholar who has studied the country’s homeland security industry, explained that Israel’s prominence in the surveillance industry stems from the close links between the Israel Defense Forces and the technology sector. In 1960, the Israeli military was developing computer software — nine years before the Israeli software industry and university computer science programs even existed. Israeli military units that work with computers, including Unit 8200, have become a “conveyor belt” toward Israel’s military and homeland security industry, said Gordon.
Gordon said there are two other reasons why Israel plays such an outsize role in the global surveillance industry. One is that there are “hardly any” legal limits on veterans “taking certain research ideas they worked on in the military and developing them” in the private sector. In addition, said Gordon, Israel’s decadeslong occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, along with its periodic wars, “provides a laboratory for testing and fine tuning different commodities that are created, or different technologies.”
Those technologies are then exported around the world.
Mer Security is one of the companies exporting spy products. It is well-known in the country’s security circles; it won an Israeli police contract in 1999 to establish “Mabat 2000,” which set up hundreds of cameras in Jerusalem’s Old City, a flashpoint of tensions in the occupied area. In an interview with the Israel Gateway magazine, a trade publication, Haim Mer, chairman of the company’s board and also a Unit 8200 veteran, explained that “the police needed a system in which ‘Big Brother’ would control and would allow for an overall view of events in the Old City area.”
At the ISDEF Expo, Eyal Raz, the product director for Mer Security, told The Intercept about what “Israel’s greatest security minds,” as a company brochure puts it, have created. Raz was showcasing Open Source Collection Analysis and Response, known as OSCAR, which trawls through the internet and social media platforms and promises to uncover hidden connections from the data OSCAR collects and monitors.
Another product, called Strategic Actionable Intelligence Platform, or SAIP, takes that data in and groups it together. To pinpoint “actionable intelligence,” SAIP uses technology that can highlight words, sentences, and information that might interest intelligence officers. These types of language analysis tools are increasingly popular with intelligence services around the world as a tool for pinpointing the next threat. These products claim to “understand what it’s reading,” as Raz said. For instance, a list of chemicals included in a paragraph may seem innocuous to the layperson, but the language analysis machine can recognize that the person is talking about making an explosive device, Raz said.
Raz explained another feature of SAIP: Users can create an avatar “in order to get the credentials to closed forums and to gather information from closed forums. This is also one way you can counterfeit your activities.” Facebook does not allow people to create fake profiles, but the technology Raz and others are selling promises to blend into social networks so that profiles operated by law enforcement look authentic. Multiple news outlets this year have reported that the Israeli Police use similar tactics by creating fake Facebook profiles to befriend targets of investigations and monitor Palestinians. Though Israeli Police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld was quoted in one report as confirming the police use this tactic, he denied this claim when contacted by The Intercept.
Mer Group’s clients are in Israel and abroad. The company does “joint development” work with Unit 8200, according to Raz, and they recruit veterans from the unit to work for the company. Other clients are scattered around the world, including in Europe, though Raz refused to divulge specifics. But publicly available information shows, for instance, that in 2011 Mer inked a $42 million contract with Buenos Aires to set up a “Safe City” system, complete with 1,200 surveillance cameras, including license plate recognition technology.
Ahmed Mansoor, a Dubai-based blogger and activist, poses for a portrait in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, on Sept. 25, 2012.
Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images
Unit 8200’s ties to the Israeli surveillance industry attracted widespread attention in late August, when digital security researchers at the University of Toronto-based Citizen Lab released a report detailing the provenance of a specific type of malware. They said it was likely that the United Arab Emirates had targeted Ahmed Mansoor, a prominent human rights activist, with sophisticated spyware that had the ability to turn his iPhone into a mobile surveillance device that could track his movement, record his phone calls, and control his phone camera and microphone.
Mansoor says he’s been targeted since 2011, the year he signed a petition demanding democratic reforms in the Emirates. “The state security authorities are basically very obsessed with the monitoring and spying on people, activists,” he said. “They are totally possessed with this kind of thinking.”
Citizen Lab analyzed the spyware after Mansoor received a text message with a link promising “new secrets about torture of Emiratis in state prison.” Rather than clicking, Mansoor sent the texts to the digital security group, which had also, in 2012, analyzed spyware created by Italian surveillance company Hacking Team that had infected Mansoor’s computer.
“We’ve never seen any exploits like this for a mobile device which operates on the very latest version,” said Bill Marczak, a senior research fellow at Citizen Lab who co-authored the report.
The culprit behind the spyware, Citizen Lab’s report concluded, was the NSO Group, a secretive Israeli surveillance company.
Details about the NSO Group are hard to come by. Their founders rarely talk to the press. They have no website. Israeli and foreign news media have reported that Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, the founders of the company, are veterans of Unit 8200. However, some Israeli outlets have reported that they served in other units. Still, at least three of NSO Group’s current employees served in the intelligence unit, according to their LinkedIn pages. And Unit 8200 veterans provided the company with $1.6 million in seed money to develop Pegasus, the name for the spyware, according to Defense News, a trade publication.
Zamir Dahbash, the spokesperson for the company, did not answer specific questions about the NSO Group, which was bought in 2014 for $120 million by a U.S. private equity fund. He told The Intercept in a statement that “the company sells only to authorized governmental agencies, and fully complies with strict export control laws and regulations. … The agreements signed with the company’s customers require that the company’s products only be used in a lawful manner.”
On its face, an Israeli surveillance company selling spyware to an Arab nation is striking. The United Arab Emirates and Israel do not have official diplomatic relations, and like in other parts of the Arab world, many Emiratis detest Israel’s decadeslong occupation of Arab lands. But NSO Group’s sale to the UAE is an indication of the growing ties between Israel and the Gulf state, which has a growing appetite for surveillance gear.
“These regimes are unstable in the sense that most of the people living in these regimes do not have basic rights,” said Gordon, the Israeli scholar, “and they constantly need to monitor and surveil their populations.”
In February 2015, the Middle East Eye writer Rori Donaghy reported that the UAE had signed a contract with Asia Global Technologies, a Swiss-registered company owned by an Israeli and reportedly staffed by former Israeli intelligence agents, to set up a surveillance system featuring thousands of cameras.
Donaghy, who is also the founder of the Emirates Centre for Human Rights, said the UAE has quietly bought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of security products from Israel in recent years. The UAE turns to Israel, he said, because it believes Israelis are “simply the best in this market, the most intrusive, the most secretive.”
Top photo: People observe surveillance cameras on screens inside the Jerusalem Police’s Mabat 2000 unit on Nov. 17, 2015, in Jerusalem.
Israel is a pin drop of sanity in an ocean of nut bags.
For the most part.
I’m wondering if any of the anti-Palestinian trolls who are swarming the thread (Israel’s paid social media manipulation program should be up on the Intercept’s slate, lord knows they’d have to have truckloads of IP address data to mine that would show some damning patterns) would claim that there’s a “gray area” to the Holocaust.
I don’t. And neither do the various Holocaust survivors who have come out to condemn Israel for reminding them of the Nazi regime with their behavior.
As a medical doctor who had multiple opportunities to practice in Gaza over the past 30 years I’d like to challenge Mona’s critics to spend a couple of months in Gaza or the West Bank as Palestinians. Years ago the book “Black Like Me” gave young whites like me a chance to experience life as blacks do in America. Walk in Palestinian shoes for awhile and see then respond to Mona.????
My tribe-alect is a bit rusty but the implication of picturing a guy in a police ????? hoodie w/ the text of story would be : Police are snooping on us?
Apologies: hebrew letters don’t get along w/ TI s website; just wanted to try.
So here’s the disturbing thing: major metro police dept are being trained by Israeli groups, .. it’s really only a matter of time before HR abuses start happening.
Oh wait.
Hasbara troll Jack Green persists in pretending the explicitly colonialist nature of 1920s Zionism isn’t fact
He is well aware that in early 1920s Palestine, Zionist Jews were treating Arabs horribly and conspicuously planning to ethnically cleanse them. Vladimir Jabotinksy is the father of political Zionism, the Zionism that prevailed and led to ethnically cleansing the Arabs of Palestine in sufficient numbers to create a majority-Jewish State of Israel.
In the 1920s Jabotinsky was busy publishing about the “justice” of this atrocious plan and arguing with fellow Zionists who wanted to co-exist peaceably with the indigenous Arab population. Jabotinsky was writing material such as this about the Zionists who did not want to simply steal the land from the Arabs:
In the 1920s, the indigenous Arabs understood, very well, what the ever-increasing numbers of Zionist colonizers were doing to them, and what they intended to eventually do. Jabotinsky was emerging as the most popular leader of Zionists and he was quite candid about these matters. Hence, a great deal of fear and rage and some violence, including some killing, from the victims.
After all, Jabotinsky said that objecting to stealing the land from Palestinians was the morality of “cannibals” and that it was “civilized” for Jews to ethnically cleanse Arabs. The Arabs understood exactly what they were dealing with and responded as all peoples would, which Jabotinsky entirely and explicitly understood they would do.
“… against the wishes of its population…”
If an African-American family buys a house in a lily-white town against the wishes of its population, does this African-American family deserve to be murdered?
If invading Europeans colonialists are taking over an African village with announced plans to ethnically cleanse those Africans whose land they have not purchased, then yes, the victims’ riots — entailing violence — are justified.
Evidence that those Jews who were murdered by Palestinians in the 1920’s had announced plans to ethnically cleanse those Palestinians whose land they had not purchased?
Reread my post — it’s about “colonizers” and how they intend to “colonize.” And about how the indigenous always respond to colonizers. I have more, but you’ve already seen it.
Why do you do this? It’s bizarre, and counter to your interests.
None of that is evidence that those particular Jews who were murdered by Palestinians in the 1920’s had announced plans to ethnically cleanse those Palestinians whose land they had not purchased.
Uh-huh. Jack, you moron — angry, oppressed indigenous populations sometimes do this thing called “rioting.” And when that happens, they are often violent and end up killing members of the tribe that is oppressing them.
They do this without trials and without taking evidence to establish personal guilt. Injustice breeds atrocity; this is a tale as old as human existence.
That’s how it happens in the world, Jack. Jabotinsky knew this.
So, Jack, did Moshe Dayan know this. You’ve seen this quote a million times. He said it in 1956 as a eulogy for a dead Israeli soldier:
See that, Jack? “Steel helmet and gun barrel,” is what he’s talking about there, Jack, because they are colonizers and settlers. It’s what they did and were still doing in 1956, and are still doing now.
The clear-eyed (and monstrous) Dayan understood that no indigenous people would passively accept what Zionists did and do to the Palestinians.
God, it must suck to be a hasbara troll. The facts are so awful for your POV you have to resort to inanity all the time!!
So riots are OK?
So murdering people without trials and without taking evidence to establish personal guilt is OK?
“…Zionist Jews were …conspicuously planning to ethnically cleanse them…”
Every Zionist Jew?
How could they ethnically cleanse the Arabs when the Arabs outnumbered them 10 to 1?
When were they planning to ethnically cleanse the Arabs?
Ask Jabotinsky and his colleagues how it was being put in motion and with what support and resources. He and they wrote a great deal.
But you know that. I’m done feeding your idiocy unless and until another reader makes a good faith request for more information.
So if someone is planning to do something wrong, it’s OK to find someone of the same religion & murder him?
Imagine my delight; I just started checking this site and lo and behold there’s Mona, Glenn G.’s # 1 fangirl.
I enjoyed her posts at the Guardian and always wondered where she went. And here she is again performing her den mother duties.
As I recall her “narrative” is that she used to believe the simplistic Zionist narrative of the Jewish people going home to a land that had no inhabitants and making the dessert bloom. But having “seen the light” she now is a proponent of the simplistic Palestinian narrative where they are pure victims of the evil Zionists who commit genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid. Her Palestinians have no agency and no responsibility. No one can criticize them because they are victims and victims only. If they commit terrorism, well, hey–they Jews invented terrorism so too bad.
She has, at the ready, cut and paste all the arguments which show that the Israelis are the evil one–they say it themselves!
So very fun and entertaining.
Best of all I see she is still policing the comments section, advising folks how to deal with those who do not things her way. Everyone who argues with her is a Hasbara troll; notice they are not human – they “infest” the site and need to be cleaned up/ignored. They are cretins.
Thank you Mona, I’m glad you’re still around fighting the good fight.
You must not have been paying attention at the Graun. It surprises no one else that I’m here. I’ve been posting in Glenn’s comments since he began blogging in late ’05, and like a buncha others we have followed him from site to site as his career took off. (He and I were friends and had a professional relationship before that, as is also rather well known.)
The only real issue I have to pick is this:
No. What I’ve done is immerse myself in the issue, reading scores of books by both scholars and journalists,as well as hundreds of relevant articles. I now know far, far more than I did when I swallowed the facile, dopey “Exodus” narrative that saturated the U.S. for decades.
The actual facts very strongly militate against Zionists. That’s just the way it is.
And I guess I’ll also address two other matters:
That’s just petulant and silly.
Nope. There’s a lot of those, to be sure, and especially at the Graun. But Craig Summers isn’t one of those, and neither are quite a few other hardcore Zionists who argue here. But Jack Green? Oh, hell yes.
-That’s just petulant and silly
I don’t think so. You’re a zealous advocate for the Palestinian narrative and you see everything in very stark black and white terms. We certainly know what you think about the Israeli narrative. No grey there.
But what do you think the responsibility of the Palestinians is? Are they just victims, whose violence is completely understandable? Did they make any mistakes or commit any crimes over the last 100 years?
I also wonder if you’ve ever been to Israel and seen the country because your characterization of it is a caricature of the place I’ve seen (and I’ve been to the West Bank and Gaza).
Defining Apartheid: Israel’s Record
Apartheid and Israel has arisen as a topic below. The following is a very long excerpt from a document that was compiled in 2002 by Israeli Uri Strauss for the Electronic Intifada. (The fact of apartheid has only beocme clearer since 2002.) The document presents the internationally-accepted definition of ‘Apartheid’ alongside relevant examples of Israel’s human rights record. It might be useful as a reference as the discussion here continues:
“… for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination…”
Israel’s is not trying to dominate Palestinians. Israel is trying to defend itself from Palestinians.
And you have no idea what are you talking about!
Let someone come and steal YOUR land; will they have to defend themselves from you?
Zero land had been stolen in 1920,
yet
“The [1929] riots took the form, in the most part, of attacks by Arabs on Jews .“
“… 133 Jews were killed by Arabs and 339 others were injured…”
“… 110 Arabs were killed and 232 were injured, the vast majority by the British police while trying to suppress the riots.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots
I’ve debunked this hasbara troll’s talking points on this and much else. I will do so here again, on that specific point about the ’29 riot, only if another reader asking in good faith requests that I do so. Suffice it to say he’s spewing bullshit.
I guess he wants me to post more of the copious documentation I have demonstrating Zionist depravity. He’s seen it frequently, and is well aware that all his spewing does is give me fodder for educating more people on the awful behavior of Zionists. But there you have it. I’ll get to it in a bit in a new post.
Jack Green is a hasbara troll. He’s been shown many, many times that Israel was and is the aggressor, and thus by definition cannot be “defending itself” from its victims. But recycling his hasbara crap is what those trolls do.
Zero land had been stolen in 1929.
“The [1929] riots took the form, in the most part, of attacks by Arabs on Jews .“
That means that Arabs were the aggressors.
Fascinating. You admit that eventually land would be stolen.
In any event, and as you well know, Zionists had been publicly planning to take land by force for a long time, and were grossly discriminating against Arabs in the farms and businesses they had purchased from absentee landlords. Ethnic cleansing was overtly planned. And happened.
You know all of this. You’ve seen me document it at least a dozen times.
I assume you’ve been assigned here and continue even tho you are undermining your own cause. Because it’s your job and/or assignment. [shrug]
Jews were outnumbered 10 to 1.
Force would be met by much stronger force.
Why would Zionists attempt to take land by force when they could just buy the land?
For all the reasons they said they’d take the land. And eventually did just that. See above post on Jabotinsky. Furthermore, you know all the answers; you are a hasbara troll simply looking to do hasbara. Not playing.
That doesn’t answer my question “Why would Zionists attempt to take land by force when they could just buy the land?” Especially when Jews were outnumbered 10 to 1.
Force would be met by much stronger force.
On October 20 2016, at 2:52 p.m., psychotic copy/paste troll and Christian-zio cretin “Jack Green” mindlessly copied/pasted for the umpteenth time:
Because your precious little gang of foreign zio-Jew invaders, occupiers, terrorists, colonizers, ethnic cleansers, land thieves, criminals, rapists, murderers, usurpers, pigs and assholes couldn’t “just buy the land”, you psychotic little Christian-zio window licker.
Boo fucking hoo.
Yea, you filthy Jew-baiting Christian-zio anti-Semite and cretin, except that the Palestinians had and continue to have every right to use very violent fucking force when dealing with violent FOTB foreign invaders, occupiers, terrorists, colonizers, ethnic cleansers, land thieves, criminals, rapists, murderers, usurpers, pigs and assholes.
Because your precious little gang of foreign zio-Jew invaders, occupiers, terrorists, colonizers, ethnic cleansers, land thieves, criminals, rapists, murderers, usurpers, pigs and assholes couldn’t “just buy the land”, you obtuse little Christian-zio cretin.
On October 18 2016, at 9:28 p.m., copy/paste troll and Christian-zio cretin “Jack Green” mindlessly copied/pasted for the umpteenth time:
ROFL! Er, yea, you mindless little rapture-ready Christian-Zionist cuck and anti-Semite, except that your precious little gang of foreign zio-Jew invaders, occupiers, terrorists, colonizers, ethnic cleansers, land thieves, criminals, rapists, murderers, usurpers, pigs and assholes have been trying to dominate the Palestinians since the first Zionist descent upon Palestine—i.e., since circa 1880. So you and your precious little gang of foreign zio-Jew invaders, occupiers, terrorists, colonizers, ethnic cleansers, land thieves, criminals, rapists, murderers, usurpers, pigs and assholes can get fucked—and royally. And you will.
Virulent, fascist racism is mainstream among Jewish Israelis
Strong words, and I do not at all mean them hyperbolically; it is literally so.
Imagine being a Palestinian in Israel or in the apartheid territories and observing that a very popular, state-funded rabbi , Yitzhak Shapira, publishes a popular book which includes such rancid claims as this:
The same Rabbi Shapira is strongly supported by Dov Lior, the former Chief Rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces. Imagine the average Palestinian seeing this guy is a good pal of Rabbi Shapira’s:
The. IDF’s. Chief. Rabbi.
Not some anonymous nut on Twitter. Racist hatred is standard fare in Israel, including at the very top.
95%+ of the Arab world views Jews unfavorably (note: not Israelis, but Jews. People in the Arab world have an average IQ of about 90, but I suspect they still know the difference).
Source: http://i.imgur.com/VIS47ce.png, http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Poll-90-percent-of-ME-views-Jews-unfavorably
Interestingly Arab-Israelis have much higher opinions of Jews when they’re exposed to the real thing and not the crap they get fed on propaganda TV.
Henceforth, I’m ignoring you (unless someone I deem to be asking in good faith indicates they would like to see an answer to something you raised). I commenced that last April until you recently returned — I had forgotten who you were.
You evince a deep, chronic psychological need to announce how you are victorious, wrecking me, and yada, yada, and you also are promiscuous with accusations of mental infirmity and my purported need to take medication. That’s what you did last spring, and what you do now upon your return.
I shall mostly ignore you. On occasion I shall link readers to your inane notions of who is a “radical leftist” and what constitutes “evidence” of leftist economist opinion. That’s a good exposition of your utter foolishness and why you merit ignoring.
You’re spamming the board and should be banned.
She is, but she is also TI spoiled lapdog. So, they will never ban her.
99.99999999999%+ of zios are brain damaged anti-Semite bigots:
Note: not a pot of zio-colonial hummus on the fakejoooooistani flag, but a Star of David.
You are free to do as you please, of course, but I suggest in almost every sub-thread in which it first replies to you, you simply reply to it with a pre-fabricated announcement of ignoring it. I’ve used that tactic to great effect with multiple trolls and/or cretins.
It often drives them sufficiently batshit that they go away, and also informs readers why you don’t substantively address their (vile and inane) claims. And even if they remain, it disincentives their posting a lot more drivel because they know they can’t get a rise out of you; thus cutting down on board pollution.
I say we take the gloves off and pummel’em in the Zionism. It’s the only way to be sure.
I must take issue with some commentators on this site, Israeli apartheid is not on a par with South African apartheid…. It is much worse..
“As Palestine joins the International Criminal Court, former U.N. Special Rapporteur John Dugard talks about how an apartheid case could be brought against Israel in the ICC. “I’m a South African who lived through apartheid,” Dugard said. “I have no hesitation in saying that Israel’s crimes are infinitely worse than those committed by the apartheid regime of South Africa.” http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/6/ex_un_official_john_dugard_israel
Did Apartheid SA have black judges on its supreme court?
Does your zio apartheid shithole of fakejoooooistan have black judges on its “supreme court”?
Israel is virulently racist against black people. Indeed, Black Lives Matter is quite active there.
The ethno-religious nationalism and Jewish supremacy on which Israel was founded is inherently racist; its people, including public officials, often slip in their public statements and reveal reality. A prime example would be Israel’s Interior Minister, Eli Yishai.
In a mid-2012 interview, Minister Yishai said that Africans, “along with the Palestinians, will bring a quick end to the Zionist dream,” since “[m]ost of those people arriving here are Muslims who think the country doesn’t belong to us, the white man.”Referring to refugees from Sudan and Eritrea as an “infiltrator threat,” he told the press he was eager to deport all African immigrants for, in his words, “the benefit of the Zionist dream.”
For most Jews in Israel it has to be white Jews all the way down. They treat the black Jews like dogs.
Yet Israel brought in thousands of Ethiopian Jews.
Israel did not just let them in.
Israel sent planes to Ethiopia &
brought in black people at no cost to the black people.
Astonishing! You told a truth, with no twists or salient facts omitted.
Yes, several decades ago Israel airlifted several thousand Ethiopian Jews into Israel. The Ethiopian Jews in Israel who now engage in BLM protests against racism and police brutality in that nation. I can and will upon request — post videos of racist Israeli mobs, or collections of tweets showing the obscene levels of anti-black racism in Israel.
Did Apartheid SA have Arab judges on its supreme court?
Israel does.
Does having “Arab judges on its supreme court” provide your precious zio apartheid shithole with some hot legal defense against the crime of apartheid? No, your precious zio apartheid shithole doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on.
Several members of the African National Congress, who have seen both, certainly take that position.
Zionists gave the word modern terrorism and continues to be a depraved ideology
Below, an Israel apologist, David, claims Israel is surrounded by “crazy Islamist terrorists.” As a Zionist, David has no standing to object to terrorism.
It’s surpassingly common for deceitful Israel apologists (a redundancy; defending Israel requires lies) to withhold the fact that Palestinian terrorism is a reaction to ZIONIST TERRORISM.
In our era it is common to associate terrorism with Muslims, but Zionist Jews actually introduced a great deal of terrorist methods and ideology to modernity. Zionist terrorists in Mandate Palestine innovated the letter bomb, in 1954 Israel hijacked a Syrian airways civilian jet to obtain hostages,and in 1956 shot down an Egyptian civilian airplane, killing 16 civilians, in order to assassinate a military leader.
Moreover, without terrorism the State of Israel likely would not have come to exist in 1948. Zionist terrorism demonstrated that “terrorism can, in the right conditions and with the appropriate strategy and tactics, succeed in attaining at least some of its practitioners’ fundamental aims.” Indeed, “[i]n the end, the [Zionist] terrorists got what they wanted.”
Pre-state Zionists carried out extensive terror against Arab civilians, the British and politically unacceptable Jews. They also murdered UN mediator Folke Bernadotte, who as head of the Swedish Red Cross during WWII had rescued thousands of concentration camp survivors. In 1943 Yitzhak Shamir wrote the article Terror for the journal of Lehi — the terrorist organization he headed— and therein advocated the “dismiss[al of] all the ‘phobia’ and babble against terror with simple, obvious arguments.” “Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war,” he wrote, and “We are very far from any moral hesitations when concerned with the national struggle.” “First and foremost, terror is for us a part of the political war appropriate for the circumstances of today, and its task is a major one: it demonstrates in the clearest language, heard throughout the world including by our unfortunate brethren outside the gates of this country, our war against the occupier.”
Additionally, Menachem Begin slaughtered many Arabs in pre-state Israel and was responsible for the infamous massacre of innocent Palestinians in their village of Deir Yassin.Both Begin and Shamir appeared on Palestine Police wanted posters for crimes of terrorism, and both would some day be elected prime minister of Israel. So, although Israel doesn’t negotiate with terrorists it evidently has no problem making Jewish ones their chief executive.
Zionism destroys Jewish souls. Having done so, having made many Jews into monsters, Zionism’s victims then also commit atrocities. Zionists then have the fucking gall to blame the Palestinian victims for theirbad acts.
(References given upon request.)
Lol at this meltdown. Take your meds, you’re embarrassing your son.
Henceforth, I’m ignoring you (unless someone I deem to be asking in good faith indicates they would like to see an answer to something you raised). I commenced that last April until you recently returned — I had forgotten who you were.
You evince a deep, chronic psychological need to announce how you are victorious, wrecking me, and yada, yada, and you also are promiscuous with accusation of mental infirmity and amy purported need to take medication. That’s what you did last spring, and what you do now upon your return.
I shall mostly ignore you. On occasion I shall link readers to your inane notions of who is a “radical leftist.”That’s a good exposition of your utter foolishness and why you merit ignoring.
Mona is mad as fuck because she couldn’t actually respond to my substantive points (she just dismissed them as “non-sequiturs” like most dullards do). So she clings to my one heresy, which was calling Dylan Matthews a radical leftist. Indeed, most people would consider someone who wants to expand the welfare state while simultaneously . But I acknowledged that you might disagree, while you never extended the courtesy of even rubbing your two remaining brain cells to process my argument, which I repeatedly clarified for you so that your low cognitive ability would not handicap your understanding.
By the way, for those readers who actually read through the clusterfuck that Mona linked to: she accused Matthews of lying when he said lefty minimum wage scholars were concerned about a $15 minimum wage. It turns out that one of them did go public:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/the-minimum-wage-how-much-is-too-much.html
Mona hasn’t apologized for her insanity yet, because she uses emotional and motivated reasoning.
Mona: 1
Elan: 0
By the way, if you think Zionism has turned Jews into “monsters”, one wonders what you think of the Palestinian extremists who slit 4 year olds throats and laugh about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibya_massacre
I wonder what hasbara trolls like Elan and Jack Green think about any of the numerous massacres committed by the IDF since 1948 against Palestinians? I urge everyone to read the above Wiki entry about the Qibya massacre: it happened in 1953, the commander of the Israeli troops was the infamous war criminal Ariel Sharon. 69 Palestinians were killed; 45 houses destroyed; a school destroyed; and a mosque! The act was condemned by the U.S. State Department, the UN Security Council, and by Jewish communities worldwide. The IDF engineers, knowing full well Palestinian men, women and children were in their homes at the time of the attack, put dynamite in all of their homes and blew up the homes! Snipers shot at any of the families which tried to escape, so that they were trapped in their homes, and then the homes with occupants inside were blown up with dynamite. Well, Elan, this is only one of hundreds of such massacres since 1948 done by your ‘monsters’ the IDF. Yes Palestinains have tried to fight back, but by far and away your ‘monster’ brethren have done the vast majority of monstrous massacres of Palestinians. Of that there is absolutely no question.
How can Palestinian terrorism be a reaction to Zionist terrorism, when there was Palestinian terrorism in the 1920’s, but Zionist terrorism didn’t start until the 1930’s as self-defense against Palestinian terrorism?
“The [1929] riots took the form, in the most part, of attacks by Arabs on Jews .“
“… 110 Arabs were killed and 232 were injured, the vast majority by the British police while trying to suppress the riots.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots
You are a hasbara troll who recycles the same hasbara points, often verbatim, over and over, in thread after thread here. I have repeatedly debunked that point. I will do so again only if requested to by another reader whom I deem to be asking in good faith.
“These regimes are unstable in the sense that most of the people living in these regimes do not have basic rights,” said Gordon, the Israeli scholar, “and they constantly need to monitor and surveil their populations.”
He is obviously talking about his own government and its oppressive relations with the Palestinians, which, without support from the US government, Bibi would be going the way of Assad in Syria.
Go Israel! Well done.
Israel is surrounded by crazy Islamist terrorists, and the West has a lot to learn from it in guarding its own security. Instead, the ultra-leftie author insinuates that having a security industry is bad. Shame on him.
Israel is an ethno-religious, Jewish-supremacist apartheid state existing on stolen land taken from the people it ethnically cleansed, most of whom it occupies now in Gaza and the West Bank (some fled to Jordan). As the aggressor and oppressor, nothing Israel does can be self-defense; the Palestinians have a right to resist.
Moreover, Zionist terrorists introduced much of modern terrorism to the modern world. Israel would literally not exist but for Zionist terrorists, two of whom , Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, Zionists would elect to be prime minister.
Israel, therefore, lacks all standing to object to “terrorism.”
What we “learn” from Israel is how to deal barbarically with oppressed people. It’s no accident that many of our law enforcement officers, who kill and oppress African-Americans, are trained in or by Israel.
The most prominent aspect of this article is an assumption –
a most common assumption throughout much of the world –
that there is a separation between the militarized government
and the “private sector” in capitalist economics.
The great enemy in Israel and other capital worshiping states
is any separation of capital from private and privatizing predators.
The military-spy-government is there (and lots of other places)
to use the majority of humans to feed the bank accounts of the
most dominating predators.
Israel, the Saudi-fied Arabia, and the “free market” NATO-mics
(military industrial complexes) are, possibly, the most notable
examples of how the worship of privatized monetary greed will use
military force and secrecy on its deliberately hamstrung victims,
including within their own faking boundaries, as well as elsewhere,
to pocket money
to feed the egos of the worst excuses for human beings.
The Saudis don’t bother pretending to really give a rat’s ass about
human rights, but the NATOmics and their pet project in Israel
have a history of using an illusion of “democracy” as their preferred
ploy to keep the suckers in line. The truth is that the corruption
of Saudi-fied Arabia was created and is supported by the others because
it reflects their true desires for the expression of a unified state
under private control and private profits.
All of their versions of religious devotion are also part of the deception
which are united by their economic wet dream of global domination
under private wealth.
For them, it seems, to be god-like is to be emotionally inaccessible and
exceedingly powerful over all other lifeforms.
It’s a dying fantasy. Without U.S. and Israeli support the Saudi Royals would have been replaced by a parliamentary democracy several decades ago, in the 1970s, and they are well aware of this fact. They really only have two choices now: (one) accept the British model of retreat from monarchy to powerless yet relatively wealthy Royals, or (two) go the French route for removing monarchies from power, i.e. the guillotine model.
Those are the only two options; the debacles sponsored by the Saudis in Yemen and Syria are just their desperate last gasp effort to hold onto power, with the ardent support of the United States, from Obama to Pelosi to Mccain.
The truth of the matter:
https://bdn-data.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2015/01/10097621_H14422827-600×417.jpg
Obama was there to, right where GW Bush was before him, where Clinton was, where Bush and Reagan and Carter and Ford and Nixon and Johnson and Kennedy and Eisenhower and Truman and, yes, it was FDR who cut the Saudi-American deal originally, 1945, wasn’t it?
Bye bye Empire, Empire Bye-Bye!
The man who is talked about the most these days gets visited by Pamela Anderson carrying bags of sandwiches, gets his internet access cut off and The Intercept does not report a word about this? Something very fishy is going on and we need to know what it is. Please inform the population about what you know.
In answer to Zionist propagandists who routinely conflate “Jews” with the most grotesquely inhuman, mass-murderous, Zionist monsters:
They do so in the context of falsely accusing decent people of being anti-Semitic, but it is their conflation itself that is anti-Semitic.
Moreover, telling people who criticize Israel that they “must hate Jews,” is as much a directive as an accusation. Given the zealousness with which that directive is disseminated, it’s entirely likely that some people just acquiesce.
Since Zionists’ exploitative conflation implies that they have no way of knowing:
1) “Jews” are people who share a common RELIGION; not people who share a common desire to brutally annex Palestine.
2) Zionists have no right to promote hatred of innocent Jewish people who have nothing to do with Zionism.
3) Zionists have no right to implicitly deny the existence of the many Jewish people who explicitly reject and criticize Zionism.
There are more Jewish people who do NOT live in Israel, than who live in Israel, and it is NOT the case that they all support Israel’s savagery.
It is not even the case that all Jewish Israelis support Israel’s savagery.
Need?
It’s nice to see Israel building stronger relations with its Arab neighbors, by helping them spy on their populations. Governments in all countries share a common interest – the need to control their unruly citizenry. Where possible, they should advance this goal through cooperation rather than conflict.
Nice to see you alive and kicking, Benny. Though we were inveterate enemies for a time, I always admired the firmness of your convictions.
I am positively buoyant at the reality of surveillance these days. Would that I had a scintilla of the capacity our men have now, there’d have been no such thing as a paper trail.
Let’s do lunch sometime.
The annoying pest: The hasbara troll
Jack Green is a hasbara troll; there are and have been quite a few others of them infesting this site.
At any reasonably prominent site, there are always a number of accounts who make it their mission to post vacuous, misleading and disruptive Zionist bullshit. Often, they are following talking points issued by both formal and informal “hasbara” projects. (Hasbara means “explaining” in Hebrew; in practice it means “propaganda.”)
Max Blumenthal has described these annoying creatures and their programs thus:
Jack Green almost certainly is a hasbara troll.
Every TI post where ‘Jack Green’ posts should come with this warning.
Thank you.
I think I catch most of them, but feel free to copy ‘n paste.
Mona, take your meds you paranoid freak.
Henceforth, I’m ignoring you (unless someone I deem to be asking in good faith indicates they would like to see an answer to something you raised). I commenced that last April until you recently returned — I had forgotten who you were.
You evince a deep, chronic psychological need to announce how you are victorious, wrecking me, and yada, yada, and you also are promiscuous with accusation of mental infirmity and amy purported need to take medication. That’s what you did last spring, and what you do now upon your return.
I shall mostly ignore you. On occasion I shall link readers to your inane notions of who is a “radical leftist.” That’s a good exposition of your utter foolishness and why you merit ignoring.
Mona thanks for the above.
Yes, Mona Jack Green certainly is one of the Hasbara trolls, but we both neglected to mention not even a good one.
And as you obviously know when we answer him, other than exposing him and the like as you often do, we are actually letting them control the conversation. I know you rarely go for that and are just helping to make it so others do not fall into their trap.
The effort of the Hasbara trolls unfortunately is over and above what Israel has already arranged relating to their global control of the media and entertainment industry, so I find it particularly annoying when they jam up the few outlets that can shed light in crucial areas.
I actually stopped watching Thom Hartman, because he would sometimes bring at least two people on to debate him. If I wanted to listen to those type people I could just turn on Fox Non News. Truth gets so little air time and popular writing space we have to make the best use of what we have, and not let them…control it…muddy it…waste it…
“Israel has already arranged relating to their global control of the media and entertainment industry”
I wonder why people think The Intercept is a safe space for anti-Semites. After all, there’s only a few people blaming the Zionists for their vice grip on Hollywood and Brooklyn real estate every time someone writes an article here. One wonders why Greenwald stands for this…
following the genocide and land theft against the Palestinians and Palestine at NAKBA 1948, and the highly successful terrorist bombing of the hotel by… moshe? ergud? liked?, the israelis then threatened the US by bombing the USS Liberty killing 34 American servicemen aboard the ship, got McCain’s daddy to cover it up, and told Americans
meanwhile – the poor unarmed Palestinian farmers kept getting slaughtered.
the wise israelis, sensing world condemnation, figured they better keep a sharp eye out for pissed off retaliators.
now why do you suppose Hellary WSBW Clinton wants to cancel our 1st & 2nd amendments? BDS
Awwww, is the poor zio anti-Semite not feeling safe? Why don’t you take your poor vulnerable self back to your safe space on Stormfront and ask one of your new ickle Nazi friends for a hug.
What is it about this website that attracts so many mentally ill people?
I guess the fact that its “journalism” basically consists of dressing up conspiracy theories in lefty language and document leaks.
What is it about your Zionism that produces so many brain damaged anti-Semite bigots?
You are correct.
It is pretty “nutty” for people to be truth-seekers in a country where secrecy, deceit and overt corruption at every level of our government (including the mainstream media) has become the “norm”.
Somebody get me some reeds so I can start weaving my basket.
@Elan my rare response to a Hasbara troll.
Glen Greenwald certainly has better things to do then respond to Hasbara trolls.
Put together a film that shows the horrors of the Holocaust and it will be graciously welcomed and heavily promoted at every film festival, and most likely eligible to be shown on most of the U.S 40,000 theatre screens.
Put together a film that shows Israel’s criminally disproportionate slaughter of the Palestinian people and it will be blacklisted from every U.S. film festival, and unlikely to be show on even one U.S. theater screen.
Additionally it is best to not label opinions shared by many Jewish souls among which are prominent figures of Israel including rabbis as anti-sematic.
The conflating of the spirituality of Judaism with the concept of Zionism has amorally contributed to the cruelest of hardships over vast decades upon the Palestinian people, while simultaneously fostering resentment of the most reverent and spiritual Jewish people, which on a religious basis wanted no part of a Jewish state.
See Jews Against Zionism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awCOSRg-gks
Right. In the first months this particular troll was here I and others substantively answered many of his hasbara talking points. Since then, when I do answer, it’s usually just to announce I won’t answer him yet again, but if any other reader asks in good faith about a point the troll has made, then I will address it.
That’s the best way to handle the hasbara troll: 1. A general announcement identifying him with an explanation of what a hasbara troll is, and 2. few substantive replies to his recycled, verbatim talking points and mostly offering only to address them in case any new readers would like to see a rebuttal.
And you certainly know how to rebutt. Love your posts.
certain israelis wanted to provoke/precipitate a war between US (operating as christians) and muslims.
Name check Max Blumenthal? Check.
Employ the redundant ad-infinitum cliché “Hasbara Troll”? Check.
In fact, you said it an effing 11 times.
Annoying as shit. And so, here’s 11 more:
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murder of 34 American service persons by zionist terrorists 8 June 1967? CHECK.
The devil is in the details as this article points out. Alex gives more confirmation of what we knew; that peace would end the profits of the Israeli Surveillance Technology Industry, and other War Industry profit sources such as their “60% share of global drone exports”, marketed as “Battle tested on the schools and hospitals of Gaza”.
How Israel Became a Hub for Surveillance Technology
The short answer is By way of deception . . .
Read about the Promis software scandal. This Wiki will get you started.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw
So, how much of this technology does Israel use for domestic surveillance vs. foreign intelligence collection, exactly?
After all the mossad ops they are falling prey to the deceivers
The saying “keep your enemies closer” doesnt get any closer than hearing and seeing everything everyone does. Paranoia runs deep.
When you’re an Apartheid regime, of course you prioritize surveillance to allow you to keep the majority of the population disadvantaged, disenfranchised, and oppressed. The other things you prioritize is weapons systems to kill those who try and claim their rights, and a propaganda system to keep others from feeling the revulsion your actions deserve.
South African MP Rev. Dr. Kenneth Meshoe wrote in the San Francisco Examiner, “As a black South African who lived under apartheid, this system was implemented in South Africa to subjugate people of color and deny them a variety of their rights. In my view, Israel cannot be compared to apartheid in South Africa. Those who make the accusation expose their ignorance of what apartheid really is.” Meshoe made this statement upon visiting San Francisco, where he was shocked to learn of posters posted within the city comparing Israel to the apartheid regime in South Africa. He asserted, “As a black South African under apartheid, I, among other things, could not vote, nor could I freely travel the landscape of South Africa. No person of color could hold high government office. The races were strictly segregated at sports arenas, public restrooms, schools and on public transportation. People of color had inferior hospitals, medical care and education. If a white doctor was willing to take a black patient, he had to examine him or her in a back room or some other hidden place. In my numerous visits to Israel, I did not see any of the above.”
“I have witnessed the systemic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces,” he said in a statement. “Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government.”
The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town made the statement as the 10th annual Israel Apartheid Week opened Sunday in South Africa. The initiative, part of the international boycott, divestment and sanctions movement’s campaign against Israel, is being marked in 87 cities this year.
Tutu visited Israel in 1989.
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.578872
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Desmond-Tutu-Israel-guilty-of-apartheid-in-treatment-of-Palestinians-344874
https://electronicintifada.net/tags/archbishop-desmond-tutu
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.578872
MP Rev. Dr. Kenneth Meshoe is a fundamentalist Christian who, like most of those, is ardently pro-Zionist; Jesus is coming back and the Rapture is going to zap him into heaven as long as Israel exists. You know this, because I told you and documented it last time you brought up Meshoe.
You are a hasbara troll. Hasbara trolls repeat and recycle the same stuff, over and over, whether it has beenedebunked or not. And you’ve been spewing the same hasbara here since approximately last April.
Jack Green is a Habara troll… If it looks like a duck it’s a duck…If it swims like a duck it’s a duck …if it quacks like a duck it’s a duck… if it’s apartheid it’s apartheid.
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/1.671538
independent*dot*co*dot*uk/voices/calling-israels-occupation-of-palestine-apartheid-isnt-lazy-or-inflammatory-its-based-on-fact-a6893706.html
Well said, Mr. Pearce.
Great article! The Israeli role in mass surveillance and their close alliance with the United States on this needs more attention. It’s similar in scope and style to the partnership between the United States and Israel on nuclear weapons issues, in which the U.S. State Departments lobbies the UN and the IAEA to prevent calls for Israel to come clean on the scale of it nuclear weapons program and accept international inspections, while at the same time the DOE and NNSA has a bilateral cooperation deal with the Israeli nuclear program:
These kind of activities deserve more scrutiny, particularly when the technology, be it nuclear or cyberwarfare (or chemical or biological) technology is being privatized and sold to other countries.
P. S. About the NSO Group, the private equity firm involved is Francisco Partners, headquartered in San Francisco:
In an interesting example of the corporate wars, Microsoft is using the attack on Apple iphones by these guys to claim iOS is not as trustworthy as claimed:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-apple-can-no-more-secure-your-iphone-than-google-can-secure-android/
Will Apple retaliate? Corporate cyberwarfare espionage in the William Gibson model? Where’s the popcorn?
microsoft oughta know something about untrustworthy – they practice it.
Apple appears to make the effort to have total privacy.
MICROSOFT?
I DONT THINK SO.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-attack-can-steal-your-username-password-and-other-logins/
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At least Apple appears to make the effort.
MICROSOFT?
I DONT THINK SO
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it’s amazing what you can do with just a few billlion a year in extorted money and an ever-increasing supply of stolen land and resources. truly kings of innovation amongst men. good thing that money wasn’t wasted on tech classes for rural and/or inner-city kids in the US, amirite?
i’m just glad the israelis have used this knowledge responsibly and not done anything dumb…like, i dunno…releasing malware that attacks SCADA systems and can cause nuclear centrifuges to malfunction and explode. that would be REALLY fucking stupid.
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Extortion (also called shakedown, outwrestling, and exaction) is a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from an institution, through coercion.
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Israel and the institutionalized Wahhabis of the Middle East are aligned to defeat Shia Islam, with the help of the corrupted warmongers and imperialists of the West.
I think that pipe dream has run its course. It’s time for the adults to come in, and force Iran and Saudi Arabia to sit down at the same table and negotiate peacefully (this means ending the regime change games in Syria and Yemen), to settle their differences. Israel should be firmly told to stay out of it, and focus on their domestic conflict with the Palestinians.
If Russia and America agreed to cooperate instead of play brinkmanship games, with getting rid of ISIS as the main agenda, this could really work – as long as all the lunatics at the State Department who still believe in the notion of replacing Assad with covert action are retired out to pasture. Haven’t they demonstrated enough reckless incompetence already? Libya was a disaster, Iraq was a disaster, Afghanistan is an ongoing disaster – enough already.
“But if that happens, American global prestige and power will be diminished in everyone’s eyes and our hegemony will suffer as a result!”
Yes, indeed. That’s the reality anyway, so get over the whole superpower imperial wet dream already; it’s done; throw the PNAC / CNAS agenda papers in the trash and come up with some new strategy based on diplomacy and negotiation with other countries. Gosh, what a radical notion – talking to people instead of shooting at them.
Magnificently put. Oh, how I wish such sense would take hold. Instead we get Clinton, who wants to massively inflame the situation further.
Agreed. I wonder if outsiders can ever force the Saudis and Iranians to actually take such a step.
How can Iran and Saudi Arabia be forced?
Obviously they’re aligned ostensibly as well to defeat the (also Wahhabi) ISIS, merely because the House of Saud wants to have the monopoly on vicious Salafism in the region. But the assault on Shi’ite Islam is also an unreported primary reason for the interventionism and surveillance abuses.
Why?
The overarching goal (and this includes resource control) is Full Spectrum Dominance for the West and its allies. That some of these allies are themselves Islamist extremists like the House of Saud shows the hypocrisy of the claims that surveillance and interventionism are for protective or humanitarian causes.
Looks like a typical case of Ricardian comparative advantage with the government pipeline giving an assist.
Israel is a nation full of highly educated, high IQ and entrepreneurial people. It’s no surprise that they have succeeded in developing these sophisticated industries even if they make some people squirm. Human capital is very scarce in the Middle East.
Woooooosssshhhh goes the point of the article. Right over Elan’s head.
Do tell then why is Israel so dependent on financial capital from American taxpayers, particularly in the arena of arms sales, if they are full of so much human capital and such high IQ, highly educated and entrepreneurial folks running around in abundance all over Israel?
I mean if Israel is so very very awesome and its people quite “high” in all relevant metrics, why do they only rank 23rd in the world in nominal per capita GDP? I’ll tell you why, because they live on a shitty little unproductive parcel of real estate, and if it wasn’t for American financial largesse and protection at the UN, they’d be even lower, I’m guessing in the 90s, like Jordan its neighbor.
Israel’s GDP is 290 billion dollars (2013).
US assistance is 3.8 billion dollars (1.3%) – drop in a bucket – 75% of which is spent for US military hardware. For that US receives priceless intelligence about the region which otherwise would be really hard and expensive to get by.
@ Leo
3.8 billions is “direct” aid, on a yearly basis and Netanyahoo is asking for 5 billion a year. That has zero to do with the total “aid” that is given Israel in terms of subsidized military arms sales, or preferable laws that incentivize charity and aid from private Americans.
But here’s the deal, if it’s such a “drop in the bucket” why should American taxpayers give a single red cent to Israel.
Well that’s highly debatable. I don’t think we’d need any “priceless” intelligence in the ME if it wasn’t for our support of Israel and its treatment of its neighbors. But we can agree to disagree on that.
Indeed, Israel and US enjoy special relations in areas of military technology and intelligence. And, perhaps, that includes subsidizing military arms sales to Israel. But it goes both ways. Notably, in 1980s US forced Israel to abandon development of its own jet fighter Lavi that could become a potent and much cheaper competitor to F-16 and F-18 US jet fighters. Imagine, how much money would have Israel saved and made. Instead Israel essentially had to abandon its own aspiration to become valuable player in this area of science, technology and arms market. Also, it is worth mentioning that US not once restrained Israel from selling arms to a third countries not so amicable to US and its interests in the world. Israel complied. So, instead of bashing good relations between two allies, we should better empower them. It is one of the best foreign relation investment US can make.
The whole world benefits from Israel’s advances in science, medicine & technology, but we Americans also benefit from our access to intelligence from MOSSAD which is considered one of the world’s best intelligence agencies & from being able to pre-position military supplies in Israel in case we want to intervene in the Middle East & from Israeli expertise in developing weapons systems. We gave F-15’s to Israel & Israel improved them, 700 modifications. Thanks to Israel, we now have better warplanes. Also, Israel is a laboratory & the Israelis are guinea pigs in learning how a democratic society can deal with terrorism. Israel is on the front line battling terrorism. The terrorists say “First the Saturday people (Jews) then the Sunday people (Christians.) Israel is the barrier island protecting the West.
Let all that be true, for argument’s sake only.
Worth oppressing an entire people over?
Show me a democratic society that occupies over 2 million people, arsehole?
Just so you know, you are replying to a known hasbara troll.
Horsecrap.
The US doesnt receive a god dam thing.
Corpo rats get to increase the already super inflated value of their shit stock.
And what do you do with shit stock? You/we get stuck having to maintain it’s value and promoting an increase in the value to guarantee interest rate replacement so the wallpigs can sell the crap to imbeciles who support warpigs and ceo shit-for-brains can get their millions stock options, back dated criminally or otherwise.
>I mean if Israel is so very very awesome and its people quite “high” in all relevant metrics, why do they only rank 23rd in the world in nominal per capita GDP?
That’s a pretty good ranking when 25% of your population is a different demographic entirely (Arabs and Orthodox Jews, who are much poorer).
It’s not true that a 3 billion/year subsidy to the defense budget could turn a poor country into a wealthy developed country. After all, we give billions to Egypt and Jordan and they’re still poor. What’s the last $1 billion tech start up that came out of Egypt like Waze in Israel?
I didn’t argue that a $3 billion subsidy turns a poor country into a rich country. I’m arguing that a rich country shouldn’t give a single dime to another purportedly rich country. Why does Israel need any help from the US taxpayers? It doesn’t simply put.
And to be precise, America gives Egypt about $1.2 billion a year in military aid over the last 6 years and about $330 million per in straight economic assistance. Jordan is a flip for about $800 million in economic assistance and $300 million in military aid.
Who cares? I’m quite convinced that “tech start ups” aren’t going to save anybody or anything unless they are in the energy sector, rather than the Twitter sector of tech. So not really impressed with a $1 billion “tech start up” unless I know what it does and why.
List of technological and scientific advances made by Israeli scientist and engineers can be much large in size than the article we are discussing. Please do not make me to type it all.
Please allow me just one fairly fresh quote from Bill Gates pertaining Israel’s role in tech world.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/bill-gates-israeli-tech-changing-the-world/
We give aid to China which has the world’s second biggest economy.
oh gee, a supporter of genocide and land theft.
You would have loved Adolf!
He turned a small parcel of land into a bigger parcel of land!
He “moved out” all the residents who lived upon the land he wanted.
He even killed some of them.
Perhaps you might think of him as a big success.
People who talk like you? They like to bully for support from ignoramuses and cowards and recruit monsters because they have a mental abnormality, a dysfunction, somewhere between autism and schizo. Apparently there are a lot of them.
genocide?
“shitty little unproductive parcel of real estate”
That’s another misunderstanding of yours regarding economic growth. Countries with low levels of human capital/IQ like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia rely on the rents from natural resources. Most rich countries like Israel are rich because they don’t need it, though they have discovered large amounts of natural gas which should help.
Really, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela are “low levels of human capital/IQ”. Do tell. Venezuela has one of highest literacy rates in that region at about 95% and so is Saudi Arabia’s.
Again, if Israel is such a “rich country” why should my country subsidize anything that goes on there, particularly when all Americans don’t have healthcare while all Israeli citizens do?
Yeah extracting more hydrocarbons is a real genius plan for the planet and Israel.
You’d think given the weather in Israel, and their collective big brains, they’d be the world leader in solar technology and its deployment.
I’m laughing at your claims about Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. So they know how to read, who cares? Can they innovate or manufacture? No. They are worthless to the world economy except that they lucked out with large oil deposits. They are completely screwed in their future because they bet everything on large oil profits forever. In the end, their trajectories will be similar to their non-petro state equivalents: poor and going nowhere fast, like Ecuador and Yemen. Israel will be smiling.
You should really keep up on modern events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Saudi_Arabia
From your link:
“Innovation
Saudi has not been a hotbed of technological innovation. The number of Saudi patents registered in the United States between 1977 and 2010 came to 382—less than twelve per year”
hahaha
Venezuela is of course struggling at present given their over dependence on oil revenues.
But they are on completely different “trajectories” than Ecuador or Yemen. So basically you’re full of shit.
And why of course would Israel be smiling at the prospect of any other nation being “poor and going nowhere fast”?
Oh that’s right, Israel doesn’t really give much of a flying fuck about anybody in the world except themselves.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/08/world/la-fg-israel-foreign-aid-20130609
I’m so very very shocked that the militaristic Apartheid regime of Israel doesn’t believe in giving much foreign aid. I guess all that “human capital” and “high IQs” and entrepreneurial gumption doesn’t really translate so well to helping the less fortunate in the world.
Veering a bit off your original point, aren’t you? Goal post shifting is to be expected from someone who got wrecked in the argument. Pwned
Let the Chosen Brains be 30 % bigger than those of Goyishe ordinary mortals and Ziocapitalism be the total bees knees.
In what way does it absolve Israel’s retched history of colonialism/oppression of an entire people, asshat, now over 70 years?
You’d think that if Israelis were collectively that smart they might have figured out their current course toward self-destruction might be a tad foolish? No?
Former Supreme Commander of NATO and U.S. Secretary of State Gen. Alexander Haig (deceased) described Israel as “the largest US aircraft carrier, which does not require even one US soldier, cannot be sunk, is the most cost-effective and battle-tested, located in a region which is critical to vital US interests. If there would not be an Israel, the US would have to deploy real aircraft carriers, along with tens of thousands of US soldiers, which would cost tens of billions of dollars annually, dragging the US unnecessarily into local, regional and global conflicts.”[6]
Again, if assumed true, well worth oppressing an entire people for, in your obscene book!
And by the by, you better hope the American public never wises up to the way the world really works, and doesn’t demand full rapprochement with Iran, because long-term, Iran has way more to offer the world in terms of economic capacity and influence than continued subsidization of Israel or the likes of Saudi Arabia and the other gulf kingdoms.
Really? Which nation has showed the better economic growth over the last 20 years–China or Israel?
Which nation has lower average amounts “human capital”? China has 54 million people who are functionally illiterate, yet their economy has been growing at about triple the rate of Israel’s.
LOL! You’re making a fool of yourself now.
Go read a development economics textbook. Israel went from a middle income to a high income country. China (a growth miracle to be sure) went from a dirt poor country to a low middle income country. Of course their growth rate is higher.
Israel is still richer per capita. China’s economic potential is excellent, of course, but it has nothing to do with the topic at hand. You’re grasping at straws.
You’re transparently a racist troll. Btw, the colonial/non-colonial dynamics at play in countries like Israel and Venezuela, respectively, are much more determinative of social and economic developmental outcomes than raw human intelligence, which, in point of fact, is non-existent, as it simply doesn’t occur in a vacuum. Colonialism crushes autochthonous civilizations, and decimates the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of colonized societies, especially the kind that persists for centuries, this is what accounts for the productive differences in presently existing human societies, the economic role assigned to them by historical and ongoing colonialist/neocolonialist dynamics.
Sure, blame it on colonialism and not corrupt, inept leadership which ran large deficits on an unsustainable commodity boom. That will help the starving people of Venezuela survive. How’s that working out for ya?
Nah, he should blame Zionism for your low self esteem and your room temperature IQ, anti-Semite, for sure.
Are you mad that Israel produces high tech startups and sells them to Europe while Saudi Arabia produces dull princes who spend their money instagram whores and Pakistani slaves? Oh yeah, you are very mad.
Yea, anti-Semite, I’m mad, real mad at Zionism’s propensity for producing dull anti-Semites who suffer from low self esteem and have room temperature IQs.
Oh yea, anti-Semite, I’m madder than mad…LOL.
In a nutshell.
“shitty little unproductive parcel of real estate”
or, A VERY LARGE PARCEL OF ORGANIZED CRIMINALS.
Stoooopid A-rabs! Nothing but trouble makers!