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"Technototalitarianism, Part Two"
"The Israel Connections: There is no separation between Israeli’s political system, military, intelligence agencies, and technology corporations. There is virtually no separation between those elements and their counterparts in the U.S., and Israel’s influence is almost as pervasive in other Western governments and bureaucracies.
The Palestinians, both before and after October 7, 2023, have been the beta test for Israeli surveillance, control, and military technologies. Israel’s recent attack on Iran, particular its assassinations of key Iranian figures, signaled that those technologies have moved beyond beta and confirmed their effectiveness.
Unit 8200 is an elite Israeli military intelligence division of the IDF responsible for,
according to Wikipedia, “clandestine operation, collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption, counterintelligence, cyberwarfare, military intelligence, and surveillance.” Many of its soldiers are 18- to 21-years old, who were identified in high school as exceptionally bright and put in after-school programs teaching computer coding and hacking skills. Unit 8200 has served as a feeder for Israeli, Silicon Valley, and other international IT companies as founders, financiers, and top management.
“
The Vast Network of Israeli Spy Tech Behind The Modern Surveillance State,” by Nate Bear, at ¡Do Not Panic!, 7/29/25, is a not-exhaustive compendium of Israeli surveillance companies, their capabilities, and their customers. Several strands emerge. Every company detailed is stacked with Unit 8200 alumni. They have signed contracts not just with national security and intelligence services but with local units, notably police departments, in the U.S., the UK, the rest of Europe, Australia, and South America. Occasionally these companies have run afoul of the law. The Biden administration blacklisted four Israeli companies, preventing them from doing business in the U.S. (but took no action against Israel’s government).
The blacklisting is unsettling, but what’s most disturbing, not just concerning the blacklisted companies but the many Israeli companies that have not faced legal censure, is the capabilities of their products and who is using them. Pegasus spyware from blacklisted NSO Group hacked WhatsApp accounts. (Meta, owner of WhatsApp, won $167 million in damages from NSO Group.) Two blacklisted companies, Cytrox and Itellexa, were founded by an ex-chief commander of Unit 8200, Ted Dilian,
who demonstrated to a Forbes journalist “how his software could remotely hack a phone within seconds.”
The scale of usage, and the range of capabilities provided by this Israeli spy tech, is vast. From face and voice recognition software, to interception and wiretap technology, to covert location tracking, to forced data extraction from smartphones and other devices.The tech, built by software engineers who cut their teeth writing code to enable and enforce Israeli domination over, and apartheid against Palestinians, is being sold to security services, police forces and immigration agencies across the west.
Any investigation of Israel high-tech surveillance and military companies involves deep diving through the murky depths of conjoined Israeli and U.S. technology, intelligence, weaponry, finance, politics, and organized crime. Focusing on Jeffrey Epstein and his network casts some light through the murk. Much of the factual information comes from the courageous and invaluable work of Whitney Webb at websites
MintPress News,
Unlimited Hangout, and
The Last American Vagabond.
Two important figures in Epstein’s rise are Leslie Wexner and Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father. Wexner and Charles Bronfman, a Canadian Jew from the Seagram’s liquor empire founded by his father, Samuel, founded the Mega group in 1991. Mega is a group of wealthy businessmen united by ties to pro-Israel advocacy and Jewish philanthropy. More nefariously, members have alleged and in some cases documented
ties to organized crime and U.S. and Israeli intelligence, which have a long and sordid history of using blackmail, particularly concerning victims’ sexual proclivities, to achieve their ends. Wexner was Epstein’s protege and financial advisor, a client of Epstein’s hedge fund, and transferred a $56 million Manhattan townhouse to an Epstein-controlled entity for free.
Robert Maxwell was not a known member of Mega,
but he was either a Mossad agent or closely linked to it. Mossad allegedly used money from Maxwell’s Mirror Newspaper Group’s pension fund to finance its European operations and had video footage of Maxwell in sexually compromising positions. Maxwell became a salesman for Promis software, ostensibly case management software for prosecutors. Israel intelligence obtained a copy of the software and planted a “trapdoor,” essentially a bug that allowed Mossad to access everything that was on computers and systems on which Promis was installed. “Dozens of countries used the software on their most carefully guarded computer systems, unaware that Mossad now had access to everything Promis touched.” Mossad gathered “...
troves of counterintelligence data, but also blackmail on other intelligence agencies and powerful figures.”
After it was revealed that Epstein had evaded stricter sentencing in 2008 due to his links to “intelligence,” it was the Mossad ties of Ghislaine Maxwell’s father that have led many to speculate that Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation was sharing incriminating information with the Mossad. Former CBS executive producer and current journalist for the media outlet Narativ, Zev Shalev, has since claimed that he independently confirmed that Epstein was tied directly to the Mossad.
There is no smoking-gun evidence of Epstein’s ties to Mossad. Rarely does such evidence surface in journalism concerning intelligence agencies and powerful figures. However, in the recent controversy about releasing all of the Epstein material that has given Trump so much heartburn, potential revelation of Epstein-Mossad links is infrequently mentioned as a reason for Trump’s reticence, even in the AM. It is instead attributed to potential revelations of his involvement in sexual activities with underage children provided by Epstein.
If Epstein was indeed funneling blackmail material to Mossad, the agency would obviously not want that fact or the material itself to be revealed. Not only would publicizing the material destroy its surreptitious effectiveness, it would also roil the controversy concerning Israel’s influence on the U.S. government. There are many possible reasons why the Trump administration is, at best, slow walking release of the Epstein materials. In light of longstanding connections between organized crime, U.S. and Israeli intelligence, and powerful political, financial, and business figures in the U.S. and Israel, including Trump (see “
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case,” 7/18/19, and “
Government by Blackmail: Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s Mentor and the Dark Secrets of the Reagan Era,” 7/25/19, both by Whitney Webb, Mint Press News), the potential Epstein-Mossad connection is the betting favorite. If that’s the case, the prospect of full disclosure is virtually nonexistent.
One historical development that predates Jeffrey Epstein and may seem like ancient history - it’s from the Reagan administration - merits mention because it remains chillingly relevant today. Beginning in 1982, as part of the highly classified Continuity of Government (COG) program, [Oliver] North used the PROMIS software at a 6,100-square-foot “command center” in the Department of Justice, as well as at a smaller operations room at the White House, to compile a list of American dissidents and “potential troublemakers” if the COG protocol was ever invoked.
According to a senior government official with a high-ranking security clearance and service in five presidential administrations who spoke to Radar in 2008, this was: “A database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived ‘enemies of the state’ almost instantaneously.”
In 1993, Wired described North’s use of PROMIS in compiling this database as follows: “Using PROMIS, sources point out, North could have drawn up lists of anyone ever arrested for a political protest, for example, or anyone who had ever refused to pay their taxes. Compared to PROMIS, Richard Nixon’s enemies list or Sen. Joe McCarthy’s blacklist look downright crude.”
The COG program defined this “time of panic” as “a national crisis, such as nuclear war, violent and widespread internal dissent, or national opposition to a US military invasion abroad,” whereby the government would suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, and incarcerate perceived dissidents and other “unfriendlies” in order to prevent the government’s (or then-serving administration’s) overthrow.
This secretive database has often been referred to as “Main Core” by government insiders and, most troubling of all, it still exists today. Journalist Christ Ketcham, citing senior government officials, reported in 2008 that, at that time, Main Core was believed to contain the names of as many as 8 million Americans. Eleven years later, it is highly likely that the number of Americans included in the Main Core database has grown considerably.
Not surprisingly, Main Core has an Israel connection: Though most reporting on Main Core, from the time its existence was first revealed to the present, has treated the database as something used by the U.S. government and U.S. intelligence for domestic purposes, MintPress has learned that Israeli intelligence was also involved with the creation of the Main Core database. According to a former U.S. intelligence official with direct knowledge of the U.S. intelligence community’s use of PROMIS and Main Core from the 1980s to 2000s, Israeli intelligence played a role in the U.S. government’s deployment of PROMIS as the software used for the Main Core domestic surveillance database system.
Israel probably had Promis’s “trapdoor” access to the Main Core database, and if it did, it probably used it not just for surveillance, but blackmail. Main Core flagged Americans for surveillance and possible detention by the George W. Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks. It may be incorporated into Trump administration (first and second) proposals to prevent mass shootings.
Three Israeli companies are capitalizing on the public’s safety fears, for which so many liberties are being sacrificed without any corresponding gain in safety. All three companies are loaded with Unit 8200 alumni, and have extensive ties to the Israeli government, Israeli and U.S. intelligence, and U.S. high-tech companies. Presumably all three companies’ products have a “trapdoor” capability similar - although undoubtedly upgraded - to that of Promis software. They are also at the forefront of the effort to develop pre-crime, or predictive, policing.
Carbyne911, or simply Carbyne, has a global business developing call-handling, identification, and crisis management capabilities, and markets its product as a solution to mass shootings.
It also has a consumer app “... that provides emergency services with access to a caller’s camera and location and also runs any caller’s identity through any linked government database.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who has deep ties to Israel’s intelligence community, is an investor, as was Jeffrey Epstein. (Barak also has extensive and documented ties to Epstein’s sex ring and Mega member Leslie Wexner.) A third investor is Peter Thiel. Two former Secretaries of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff (Bush administration) and Kirsten Nielsen (first Trump administration) are currently on
Carbyne’s Advisory Board.
While NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware garnered public notoriety and blacklisting from the Biden administration, a much lower-profile company,
Toka, markets more high-powered spyware, often to Pegasus customers. Pegasus was confined to hacking smartphones. Toka’s hacking suite, classified as a “lawful intercept” product, can hack not just smartphones, but any device connected to the Internet, including the Internet of Things. Toka does not disclose the flaws, called exploits, that it hacks to the hacked companies. The company was founded by Ehud Barak and according to an Israeli Ministry of Defense website, “works closely” with the
ministry and other Israeli intelligence and security agencies. Toka claims its products are sold only to “trusted” governments, those whose policies are in alignment with the Israeli government. That group certainly includes the U.S. government.
The use of “pre-crime”, as detailed in sci-fi epics like Phillip K. Dick’s The Minority Report, has deeply unsettling implications for society, civil liberties and the future of policing. As noted by the British Journal of Criminology, “pre-crime links coercive state actions to suspicion without the need for charge, prosecution or conviction” and is part of a larger trend “towards integrating national security [e.g., intelligence agencies] into criminal justice.” Indeed, as I have noted in my work for many years now, American and Israeli intelligence agencies, particularly their most nefarious components, have covertly been the drivers of “pre-crime” protocols meant to eliminate public dissent since the 1980s, if not even earlier.
Gabriel, an Israeli company whose management and advisory board comprise former officials of Mossad, the CIA, and FBI, is on the cutting edge of pre-crime surveillance and response systems. The company’s marketing is based on identifying mass casualty threats; the company was launched in 2016 after a Tel Aviv shooting and the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. (Safety is a ubiquitous hook for the surveillance and security infrastructure.) Gabriel’s “
threat detection” suite employs AI-driven “smart cameras” and facial recognition and related technologies, and panic buttons to detect and issue alerts of fights, weapons, and other “abnormal behavior” in the many facilities - schools, houses of worship, retail stores, warehouses, data centers, and banks - that are its target market.
The company is integrating its system into drones and robots, presumably to respond to detected threats. Eventually the detection, identification, and response to threats - including deadly force - may be automated. Gabriel also seeks to
network its systems to better integrate them into smart cities, “... which utilizes the internet of things and ubiquitous sensors and cameras to harvest massive troves of data that are then used to ‘manage service delivery,’ with those services including the deployment of law enforcement.”
Two men are primarily responsible for seeding the amalgamation of American and Israeli high-tech, intelligence, and military - Benjamin Netanyahu and Paul Singer. Netanyahu has made no secret of his encouragement and support for this amalgamation. Singer, an American hedge-fund billionaire, has provided funding, and nuts-and-bolts know-how to make it happen.
Singer’s project to bolster Israel’s tech economy at the U.S.’ expense is known as Start-Up Nation Central, which he founded in response to the global Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement that seeks to use nonviolent means to pressure Israel to comply with international law in relation to its treatment of Palestinians.
This project is directly linked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who in recent years has publicly mentioned that it has been his “deliberate policy” to have former members of Israel’s “military and intelligence units… merge into companies with local partners and foreign partners” in order to make it all but impossible for major corporations and foreign governments to boycott Israel.
Singer has funded neoconservative and Zionist think tanks and lobbying groups and has been a top donor to the Republican Party, Trump, and Netanyahu. He recently contributed $1 million to a Super PAC
devoted to unseating pain-in-Trump’s-ass Thomas Massie in a primary challenge next year. He seeded Start-UP Nation Central (SUNC) with $20 million in 2015. Its singular focus is building up Israel’s tech economy.
Within the last ten years, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Sandisk, Nvidia, PayPal, Palantir, Dell, Intel, and Microsoft have opened research and development centers and production facilities in Israel, often encouraged by SUNC. Intel and Microsoft made multibillion dollar investments, creating thousands of new jobs in Israel,
while at the same time laying off thousands of employees in the U.S. As mentioned in
Part One, Larry Ellison’s Oracle has acquired Israeli companies. The desire to create a Israel-centered technological ecosystem has only gotten stronger since October 7, 2023, as world revulsion to Israel’s genocidal response to the Hamas attack has grown, even within the U.S., its long-time political patron. Netanyahu recently called for Israel’s economic self-sufficiency, recognizing the country’s growing international isolation.
SUNC has also encouraged the migration of former Unit 8200 members to positions within U.S. high tech companies. Particularly troubling is the fact that, since SUNC’s founding, the number of former Unit 8200 members in top positions in American tech companies has skyrocketed. Based on a non-exhaustive analysis conducted by Mintpress of over 200 LinkedIn accounts of former Israeli military intelligence and intelligence officers in three major tech companies, numerous former Unit 8200 alumni were found to currently hold top managerial or executive positions in Microsoft, Google and Facebook.
Technology always needs beta tests. Israel’s Palestinian population has been a beta test for Israeli and American surveillance and military technology since the 1950s. Once its effectiveness is proven, that technology stays in place. Like the U.S. government, Israel’s has never been morally fastidious concerning to whom it sells its technology, including to states that don’t recognize Israel. Intelligence and military technology has long been a leading Israeli export.
“The most effective example of separatism is the encirclement of Gaza, trapping more than 2 million Palestinians behind high fences, under constant drone surveillance, infrequent missile attack, and largely closed borders enforced by Israel and Egypt. When Israel completed the sixty-five-kilometer high-tech barrier along the entire border with Gaza in late 2021, at a cost of US$1.11 billion, a ceremony in southern Israel took place to mark the occasion. Haaretz described the wall as “a complex engineering and technological system: the only one of its kind in the world” that required construction assistance from Europe.9”
Israel’s fleet of satellites enable it to monitor Gaza to a resolution of .5 square meters in all weather and cloud conditions, night and day. Hermes 900 drones with electro-optical and infrared sensors, thermal monitors, laser designation and electronic listening devices pick up anything the satellites might have missed. Prior to the Hamas attack, there were so many Israeli drones flying over Gaza that Gazans complained of sleep deprivation due to the persistent drone buzz. True to its start-of-the-art reputation, in 2021
Israel became the first country to use AI-controlled drone swarms for location, identification, and attack.
Israel’s human (on the ground – HUMINT) intelligence prowess was equally formidable. Shin Bet HUMINT led the IDF to frequently intercept and shut down Hamas border tunnels. Shin Bet’s infiltration of Hamas’ literal underground network was so exhaustive, and Hamas so destabilized, that Hamas resorted to mass executions of suspected spies and possible collaborators. Shin Bet’s Mista’arvim counter-terrorism unit and the IDF’s elite Maglan unit were able to conduct targeted assassinations and many other acts of espionage and surveillance inside Gaza .
In addition to all of this, the Palestinians were the most surveilled and searched people on Earth. Everyone who entered or left Gaza was subjected to the “Blue Wolf” system. Biometric ID, monitored by facial recognition software, combined with strictly controlled entry and exit permits were required at the armed checkpoints that were the only official way in an out of Gaza. The “Blue Wolf” system logged every movement on what Israeli intelligence operatives called “Facebook for Palestinians.” So extensive and intrusive was Israel’s spying on Palestinians that, in 2014, former members of Israel’s Unit 8200 wrote a joint letter to the Israeli government protesting the oppressive surveillance.
Iain Davis’s three-part series, “Unacknowledged False Flags; The October 7th Hamas Attack,” (
Part 1,
Part 2, and
Part 3) extensively documents the many warnings Israel received of an impending Hamas attack and the implausible elements of its dilatory response. He shreds the official narrative (the internal contradictions of which strained credulity when it was promulgated), concluding, as the title indicates, that the attack was a false flag. Readers are referred to the series for further details.
The suggestion is abjectly cynical, but Israel may have decided that continued Palestinian beta testing of its surveillance technologies was no longer necessary - they had been tested, debugged, and met specifications - and that it was time to beta test its genocidal technologies by ridding Israel of Palestinians.
Here, too, Israel know-how is state-of-the-art. It employs AI-based systems to target its bombing attacks. Habsora (“The Gospel”) AI relies on Israel’s extensive data base of Gazan structures, including homes, which contains records of the number and in many cases the identity of Palestinians occupying them, to
generate structural targets and calculate the number of civilians likely to be killed. Attacks on Hamas targets that will kill large numbers of Palestinian civilians are approved by Israeli military officers, particularly if the Hamas target is high in the command structure.
Lavender is another system that relies on AI and machine-learning algorithms. It pinpoints people rather than structures and puts suspected operatives of Hamas’ and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s military wings on a kill list, regardless of rank or military importance.
However, once the list was expanded to include tens of thousands of lower-ranking operatives, the Israeli army figured it had to rely on automated software and artificial intelligence. The result, the sources testify, was that the role of human personnel in incriminating Palestinians as military operatives was pushed aside, and AI did most of the work instead. According to four of the sources who spoke to +972 and Local Call, Lavender - which was developed to create human targets in the current war - has marked some 37,000 Palestinians as suspected “Hamas militants,” most of them junior, for assassination (the IDF Spokesperson denied the existence of such a kill list in a statement to +972 and Local Call).
For low-level operatives, collateral damage of 15 to 20 civilian deaths are acceptable under Lavender’s protocols; for high-level operatives killings of more than 100 civilians have been authorized. The latter receive more than the cursory or nonexistent human review given to Lavender decisions concerning the former. Because it is easier to identify operatives’ private homes than where they conduct military operations, homes are Lavender’s preferred targets. Automatic tracking programs, one of which is the perniciously named “Where’s Daddy?”, have been developed
that pinpoint when targets are at their homes. Of course, a bomb that strikes a home is likely to wipe out both the target and his family, but that is regarded as acceptable and even desirable collateral damage.
On June 13, 2025, Israel assassinated 11 of Iran’s top military commanders, nuclear scientists, and its chief nuclear weapons negotiators. There were reports that Israel and the U.S. hoped that this decapitation strike would so cripple Iran that its regime would fail, paving the way for the subjugation of Iran. That hope wasn’t realized. However the assassinations served another purpose, not widely noted or reported - to instill fear in world leaders. Several of the assassinated figures were killed in their homes; in some cases their families were victims as well. The strikes were similar to those that had become commonplace in Gaza, guided by Israeli’s surveillance and AI-driven targeting technology.
The key to understanding all this is that Iran is now a digital Panopticon prison, now that the US and Israel, and probably some other regional allies of these two, can detect a person’s location, communications, conversations, and state of mind at any time, anywhere. The Iranian leadership is effectively already in a digital prison. A person can now be tracked based on their walking gait, unique heartbeat, voice, the network of people in their circle, and their own behavioral patterns. There is no place to hide in a digital Panopticon prison.
The Iran attack was those technologies’ “roadshow,” demonstrating new capabilities of the world’s most proficient assassins. Another important conclusion to be drawn from these recent developments is that the Jewish State has certainly now established itself as history’s most prolific and skillful practitioner of assassinations as a technique of statecraft, having easily surpassed the notorious exploits of that small band of heretical Muslims who terrorized Middle Eastern leaders a thousand years ago and gave their name to that lethal tactic. Any introductory history books that describe the famed Order of Assassins as the foremost employers of that craft should therefore be revised.
Israel had plenty of on-the-ground operatives in Iran, some of whom launched drones used in the assassination (Iran executed some of them afterwards as spies). However, Israel’s digital control grid was essential for pinpointing the targets. It’s one thing to institute a Panopticon in Gaza, which is within Israel and had a captive population of 2.1 million (prior to 10/7/23). The degree of difficulty is an order of magnitude greater monitoring a hostile power with a population of approximately 92 million, but apparently that’s what Israel and the U.S. have done.
It was immediately obvious that the Iranian assassinations had planetary implications. If software can identify each person in Iran, then, as long as Starlink or other U.S. satellite constellations are operating overhead, those who control the panopticon can identify pretty much anyone, anywhere. Whether with drones, invisible weaponry, or missiles, parties who are remote and unaccountable can influence targets’ thoughts and health or end their life—all on a highly economic basis.
The current standoff between Israel and Iran may last longer than many commentators think. Iran’s remaining leaders fear being the next targets of Israel’s assassination complex. Israel fears Iranian missiles and drone swarms it cannot stop, and the resultant damage to infrastructure and military and intelligence installations.
Most people will go through life oblivious to the fact that virtually everything they do, write, and say is being monitored and recorded. The authorities may not yet know how many times you go to the bathroom every day, but surely the Internet of Toilets is coming. (Sooner than you might think. See “
Yikes! Digital Tracking Bathroom Passes For Students,” by Patti Johnson, The Burning Platform, 10/5/25) Nominal leaders, particularly in the West, can’t afford insouciance in light of Israel’s reputation as the world’s best assassins. As the Iran decapitation strike, the pager strike in Lebanon, a successful decapitation strike in Yemen that wiped out the nation’s Prime Minister and most of his Cabinet, and an unsuccessful Hamas decapitation strike in Doha, Qatar demonstrate, Israel recognizes no constraints on its murderous activities. It has been indifferent to the damage those attacks have inflicted on U.S. - its supposed closest ally - diplomacy and credibility.
There is no conclusive proof that Israel was behind Charlie Kirk’s assassination. If it was, there probably never will be; Israel generally covers its tracks very well. However, notwithstanding multiple denials by Netanyahu, that Israel was almost immediately and widely fingered as the main suspect after the official story was shredded can only amplify the fear that many prominent people - including Trump - must have of what can happen to them if they cross an Israeli red line.
U.S. and Israeli intelligence, military, and high tech companies are so intertwined that it’s analytically correct to think of them as one complex. While the complex has plenty of links to globalist entities - the World Economic Forum, the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, UN, WHO, IMF, BIS, etc. - when the control grid and technototalitarian squeeze are fully instituted, the complex will be at the apex.
The technototalitarians include most of the world’s richest people. However, the key to their ascendancy is that they control the brainpower behind the surveillance and military technologies that are the heart of the control grid. The only concentration of brainpower comparable to Silicon Valley’s and Israel’s is China’s, and there, too, it serves technototalitarian purposes. It is the ultimate revenge of the nerds. “Democracy” may be nominally preserved and elections held, but voters will only be offered choices between controlled figureheads like Trump and J.D. Vance.
We will all be Palestinians - surveilled, enslaved, and eliminated should we prove troublesome."
Part Three: The Squeeze
