Thread by @TaliShapiro

1| "Don't worry, we only sell our #Orwellian wares to governments." ~#TheOnlyDemocracyInTheMiddleEast™ 👇
theguardian.com/world/2021/jul… #NotTheOnion🍍 #Israel #capitalism #NSOGroup #PegasusProject

2| What caught my eye in this @guardian article was the quote:

“In Israel there is a strong political movement to make #diplomacy through #business. Business first, diplomacy later. When you make a deal together, it opens a lot of doors to diplomacy.”

3| The notion that #profits trump #consent is rather disturbing, but perfectly in line with the product- #spyware.

4| However capitalism is not necissarily the primary goal of this #TrojanPegasus, and the satire practically writes itself: "Here's your violation of #privacy doohickey, we absolutely do not commit to not using it on you."

5| In #doublespeak that only the truly naive may be inclined to believe, #NSO denies that it gives Israel access to the information it acquires for your government:

6| "NSO Group is a private company. It is not a ‘tool of Israeli diplomacy’; it is not a backdoor for Israeli #intelligence; and it does not take direction from any government leader."

Which would be totally believable had we known it not to be true.

https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1244975738291453954

7| Israel's government added that it's perfectly capable of regulating and investigating itself and its own #corporations, which again, would be ironic, if it weren't so terrifyingly a lie.
web.archive.org/web/2021072409…

8| Not only that, but just like we know that Israel is collecting information on non-Israelis and using it against them (

https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1097859097821614080

)..

9| ..we also know that Israel is doing its damnedest to not investigate itself or its own corporations.

https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1419622622254575619

10| And on the other hand, Israel willingly not knowing what the governments it sells its spyware do with it, is just as a terrifying (and fictional) concept.
jacobinmag.com/2018/11/israel…

11| Celebrities, over and over again, it's been proven that whatever Israel inflicts on #Palestinians (theguardian.com/world/2014/sep…), it's ready to sell to your government to inflict on you. If not for solidarity, then at least for that- #boycottIsrael!

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