According to this, MBS called Netanyahu in Sept 2020 asking to renew the license for Pegasus, which had been withheld by the Israeli defense department. Netanyahu agreed, on condition that Saudi Arabia will open its skies to Israeli flights.
news.walla.co.il/item/3485535
news.walla.co.il/item/3485535
A month later, this happened. An Israeli commercial airliner landed publicly in Saudi Arabia for the first time. jpost.com/middle-east/fi…
So many idiots at the time hailed this as "progress towards peace". In fact what happened was that a corrupt politician facing indictment offered a bloodthirsty tyrant cyber weapons in return for a public gesture that he can sell as "diplomatic victory" to his electorate.
I had to delete the previous thread and tweet this one because they deleted their own tweet, but it's still up on their website. It cites an NYT source.
Note that this also proves (again) that Saudi usage of cyber weapons to hack of dissidents, journalists, and activists across the world, is a strategy that comes all the way from the top. MBS cannot claim that this is something that's the brainchild of some lower advisers.
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