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> The biggest shock came from Morocco, which was apparently responsible for installing Pegasus spyware on the phones of five French cabinet ministers and for se
by atmosx 5y ago
> The biggest shock came from Morocco, which was apparently responsible for installing Pegasus spyware on the phones of five French cabinet ministers and for seeking to target Emmanuel Macron.
So much bias, superiority complex and stupidity packed in this statement alone. Amazing.
- eli_gottlieb 5y agoWhen you're right, you're right. Did people really think economic growth would bypass the entire MENA region just because the Arab Spring revealed some unsavory things about the governments? Or that anyone in the regional tech sector would hesitate for a second to make money off MENA states getting back at their old colonizers? Actually, the author's name being Edan Ring (eg: obviously Hebrew) aside, that's the most interesting political angle here! NSO is opening doors for Israel to act as a Middle Eastern country, eg: spying, cracking, abusing human rights, trying to fuck with Europe, and making money off the whole lot. To a certain degree, the "shock and horror" angle is because Israeli Leftists and Westerners have actually bought their own bullshit about Israel being a Western implantation into the region, rather than a native growth: they have to at least pretend to be surprised when a Middle Eastern country (Israel) acts like its Middle Eastern peers (Morocco, the UAE).
- atmosx 5y ago:-)