American news is edited by Israeli spies

Date: 22 ottobre 2024 Author: Balthazar’s FeastBabylonianspire/Israeli spies

“The year after the attacks of October 7 Netanjahu is on a wave of victories”. This is the title of a fresh article published on the portal Axios describing the Israeli Prime Minister riding on an undefeated wave of triumphs. The stunning ones. ‘success’ military, as the author of the article notes Barak Ravid, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and a pager attack on Lebanon.

The same author late became viral for an article in which he claimed Israeli attacks on Hezbollah «are not designed to lead to war, but are an effort to accomplish “deescalation through escalation”». Social media users ridiculed Ravid for this bizarre, orwellian reasoning. But almost everyone missed the fact that Barak Ravid is an Israeli spy – or at least he was until recently. Ravid is Former analyst of the Israeli spy agency Unit 8200, a still last year he was a reservist in the Israel defence Force Group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barak_Ravidhttps://www.axios.com/authors/barak_ravidhttps://www.jta.org/2018/12/15/culture/jta-twitter-50-barak-ravidhttps://x.com/BarakRavid/status/1640064716797095936

Unit 8200 is the largest and possibly the most controversial Israeli spy organization. She was responsible for many loud spy and terrorist operations, including a fresh pager attack resulting in thousands of Lebanese civilians injured. If this investigation shows, Ravid is not the only Israeli erstwhile spy working in leading American media, working hard to produce western support for his country's actions.

Person in the White home case

Ravid rapidly became 1 of The most influential people in the Capitol press corps. In April won a prestigious White home press correspondent award “for overall excellence in relations with the White House”– 1 of the highest awards in American journalism. The judges were impressed by what they described as his "deep, almost intimate level of information acquisition in the US and abroad" and chose six articles as model pieces of journalism.

Most of these articles simply consisted of printing anonymous sources of the White home or Israeli government, making them look good and distanced president Biden from the horror of the Israeli attack on Palestine. There was so no functional difference between them and the White home press releases. For example, 1 of the stories the judges chose was called "Scoop: Biden tells Bibie that a 3-day break in battles can aid free any hostages" and portrayed the 46° president of the United States as a dedicated humanitarian whose goal is to reduce suffering. Another described how Biden became frustrated with Netanjah and the Israeli government.

Protesters urged reporters to leave the event in a motion of solidarity with their fallen colleagues in the Gaza Strip (at the time of writing this text this figure is at least 128 journalists). Not only did the boycott not happen, but the organizers awarded the highest prize to an Israeli intelligence authoritative who gained the reputation of possibly the most conscientious power stenographer in Washington..

Ravid was given the prize personally by president Biden, who hugged him like a brother. The fact that a known (former) Israeli spy could embrace Biden in this way speaks much not only of the intimate relation between the United States and Israel, but besides of the degree to which the establishment media settles power.

«It was a touching and unique evening that I could not imagine even in my wildest dreams. It would not be possible without my editors in @axios who made my stories better, without my sources that trusted me, without my household who came with me to Washington and without you readers. Thank you.»

Ravid gained fame by uncritically printing flattering information provided to him by the U.S. government or Israel and serving them as reports. In April, he wrote that “President Biden placed an ultimatum on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Thursday telephone conversation: If Israel does not change course in Gaza, “we will not be able to support you” and that “he pressed harder to end the fighting in the Gaza Strip during the six months of the war and warned for the first time that the US war policy would depend on Israel's compliance with its demands”, which included “immediate ceasefire”. In July, he repeated anonymous sources that told him that Netanyahu and Israel were pursuing "diplomatic solution" – another highly doubtful claim.

Ravid's another articles based on the same strategy include:

• Scoop: Biden tells Bibi he’s not in it for a year of war in Gaza
• Scoop: White home cancels meeting, colleges Netanyahu in protest over video
• Biden “running out” of patience with Bibi as Gaza war hits 100 days
• Biden-Bibi clash escapes as U.S. acquired of undermining Israel government
• Biden and Bibi “red lines” for Rafah put them on a collision course
• Biden on hot mic: Told Bibi we needed “come to Jesus” gathering on Gaza
• Scoop: White home loses trust in Israel government as mediate East spirals
• Israeli Minister lambasted at White home about Gaza and war strategy
• Scoop: Biden told Bibi U.S. won’t support an Israeli counterattack on Iran

This constant bleaching of Biden's administration has caused widespread mockery on the network.

"AXIOS EXCLUSIVE: After selling Netanjah a million-dollar weapon, Biden released – loud – "Bad Blood" Taylor Swift. “Everyone could hear it“, says a origin close to Biden” Twitter user X David Grossman. "I'm inactive handing over large piles of cash and weapons, but I'm spinning my head so everyone knows I don't agree" –joked comedian Hussein Kesvani in consequence to Ravid's latest article suggesting that Biden had become “and more distrustful” to the Israeli government.

During this alleged divided between the United States and Israel, Biden's administration continued to express enthusiastic support for Israeli offensives, block resolutions on ceasefire and Palestinian statehood at the UN, and in the last 12 months, send arms worth $18 billion to Israel.

Well, No substance how questionable these reports are Axios, They play an crucial function for Washington, allowing Biden's administration to distance themselves from what global authorities called genocide. Ravid's occupation was creation of a government approval among elite liberal audiences who read Axios, allowing them to proceed to believe that the United States is an honest middleman for peace in Western Asia alternatively than a key helper for Israel.

Ravid does not hide his open contempt for the Palestinians. In September he retweeted a post in which he stated:

This is PaliNazi's way... they extort concessions without giving anything in return and then usage these concessions as the basis for the next circular of negotiations. PaliNazis cannot tell the truth.”

Less than a week later, he promoted a very dubious message by Israel's defence minister Yoava Gallant that Israeli defence forces had found a photograph of the children of Brigadier Al-Kassam Mohammed Sinwar celebrating before a massive photograph of aircraft hitting World Trade Center. Gallant stated that they found this photograph – clearly Trying to falsely tie Palestinians to 9/11 – in the tunnel, "where the Sinwar brothers hid like rats."

Infamous Spy Agency

Founded in 1952 Unit 8200 is the largest and most controversial branch of the Israeli army.

Responsible for secret operations, espionage, surveillance and cyber warfare, the group has been at the centre of the world's attention since 7 October 2023. It is commonly identified as an organization behind an infamous pager attack on Lebanon, resulting in at least 9 deaths and around 3,000 injuries. While many in Israel (and Ravid himself) called this operation a success, it was condemned worldwide as a gross act of terrorism, including by erstwhile CIA manager Leon Panetta.

Unit 8200 besides created an artificial intelligence-based killing list for the Gaza Strip, suggesting tens of thousands of people (including women and children) to kill. This software was the main targeting mechanics utilized by IDF in the first months of the attack on a densely populated belt. https://www.mintpressnews.com/peter-thiel-gasa-ai-war-white-house/288372

Described as Israeli Harvard, Unit 8200 is 1 of the most prestigious institutions in the country. The selection process is highly competitive; parents spend their fortunes on discipline and mathematics classes for their children, hoping to be selected for service there, beginning a lucrative career in the developing Israeli hi-tech sector.

It besides serves as a central component of Israel's futuristic repressive state apparatus. Using gigantic amounts of data collected on Palestinians by tracking all movement through facial designation cameras, monitoring their connections, messages, emails and individual data, Unit 8200 has created a dystopian network, which it uses for surveillance, harassment and repression of Palestinians.

Unit 8200 collects files on each Palestinian, including his medical history, sex life and search past so that this information can later be utilized for extortion or blackmail. If, for example, a individual betrays his spouse, desperately needs medical surgery or is secretly a homosexual, this can be utilized as a lever to transform civilians into informants and spies for Israel. 1 of Unit 8200's erstwhile agents said that as part of the training he was assigned to remember various Arabic words meaning “gay” so he could hear them in conversations. https://www.ft.com/content/69f150da-25b8-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c

Unit 8200 staff created any of the most downloaded applications in the planet and many of the most infamous spy programs, including Pegasus. Pegasus was utilized to surveillance tens of political leaders worldwide, including French Emmanuel Macron, South African Cyril Ramaphosa and Pakistani Imran Khan.

The Israeli government authorized the sale of Pegasus Central Intelligence Agency, as well as any of the most authoritarian governments in the world. These included Saudi Arabia, which utilized software to surveillance Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi before he was murdered by Saudi agents in Turkey.

Recent The MintPress News investigation showed that a large part of the planet VPN marketplace is owned and operated by an Israeli company headed and co-founded by Unit alumni 8200.

How Israeli spies control your VPN

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In 2014, 43 Unit 8200 reservists issued a joint message declaring they no longer want to service in this unit due to its unethical practices, including the deficiency of discrimination between average Palestinian citizens and terrorists. The letter besides noted that their intelligence was transmitted to influential local politicians who utilized it at their own discretion. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/unit-8200-refuseniks-face-sharp-action-army-wave-anger-politicians

This public message has made Ravid angered his associates. Following the scandal, Ravid went to Israeli military radio to attack the whistleblowers. Ravid said Opposition to the business of Palestine means opposition to Israel itselfbecause business is simply a fundamental “part” of Israel. “If the problem is truly occupation,” he said, “then your taxes are besides a problem – they finance the soldier on checkpoint, the education system... and 8200 is simply a large spin”. https://forward.com/opinion/205716/meet-the-good-kids-who-refuse-to-spy-for-israel/

Apart from Ravid's comments, the question is: Is it truly acceptable that members of the group designed to infiltrate, surveillance and track down alien populations that have produced many of the most dangerous and invasive spy technologies in the planet and is widely believed to be behind highly advanced global terrorist attacks, compose news about Israel and Palestine for Americans? - What would be the reaction, If high-ranking figures in American media were revealed as Hezbollah, Hamas, or Russian F.S.B. intelligence officers?

The news of Israel is provided to you by Israel

However, Ravid is not the only influential writer in America who has deep ties to the Israeli state. Shachar Peled spent 3 years as an officer at Unit 8200, leading a squad of analysts active in surveillance, intelligence and cyber warfare. She besides served as technological analyst in Israeli intelligence service Shin Bet. In 2017, she was hired as maker and screenwriter by CNN and spent 3 years creating segments for Fareed Zakaria and Christiane Amanpour programs. Google later hired her as a elder media specialist.

Another Unit 8200 agent who worked for CNN is Tal Heinrich. Heinrich She spent 3 years as Unit Agent 8200. From 2014 to 2017, she was a field and information maker in the notoriously pro-Israeli CNN office in Jerusalem, where she was 1 of the main journalists shaping the American knowing of the operation Protective Edge, Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, resulting in over 2,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands being displaced. Heinrich later left CNN and is now the authoritative spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanjah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Heinrich

CNN's love of hiring Israeli politicians continues to this day. For example Tamar Michaelis He is presently working for the network, producing most of the content on Israel and Palestine. This happens even though previously served as an authoritative IDF spokesperson in Israel's defence Forces. https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-reporting/

Meanwhile New York Times hired Anat Schwartz, a erstwhile intelligence officer of Israeli air force with zero journalism experience. Schwartz co-authored an infamous and presently discredited article “Screams Without Words”, who claimed that Hamas fighters systematically raped Israelis sexually on October 7. All employees Times Rebellion due to deficiency of evidence and verification of facts in the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anat_Schwartzhttps://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/watch-ny-times-investigation-mass-rape-hamas-falls-apart

Many employees The fresh York Times, including chief columnist David Brooks, has children serving in IDF; even if they study or supply opinions on the region, The Times never revealed these gross conflicts of interest to readers. He besides did not uncover that he had bought a home in Jerusalem for his head of office, who in 1948 was stolen from the Palestinian intellectual household Ghada Karma. https://mondoweiss.net/2014//10/another-reporters-israeli/

MintPress News did last year An interview with Karma about her latest book and Israeli attempts to silence her https://www.mintpressnews.com/surviving-nakba-one-state-solution-being-cancelled-ghada-karmi/285113/. erstwhile Editor New York Times Magazine and current editor-in-chief The Atlantic,Jeffrey Goldberghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg dropped out of college at the University of Pennsylvania to volunteer as an IDF prison defender during the first Palestinian intifade (rise). In his memories Goldberg revealed that while serving in the IDF, he helped conceal cases of abuse against Palestinian prisoners. https://jewishcurrents.org/jeffrey-goldberg-doesnt-speak-for-the-jews

Also social media companies are filled with erstwhile agents Unit 8200. study MintPress of 2022 showed that In Google As many as 99 erstwhile agents of Unit 8200 work.

Also Facebook employment dozens of erstwhile spies from a controversial unit. This includes Emi Palmor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emi_Palmorwho sits on the Supervisory Board Meta.

This one. 21-member panel yet decides the direction of Facebook, Instagram and another Meta offers, deciding what content should be allowed, promoted and suppressed. Meta was formally condemned for systematically suppressing Palestinian voices on its platforms by Human Rights Watch, that documented above 1000 cases of overt anti-Palestinian censorship only in October and November 2023. The measurement of this bias is that at any point Instagram automatically inserted the word “terrorist” into user profiles who called themselves Palestinians.

Despite the widespread claims of American politicians that this is an anti-Israeli habitat and anti-Semitic racism, also TickTok employ many erstwhile Unit 8200 agents at key positions in its organization. For example In 2021 he hired Asaph Hochman as global head of product strategy and operation. Before joining TikTok, Hochman spent over 5 years as an Israeli spy. He presently works for Meta. https://www.yu.edu/faculty/pages/hochman-asaf

Upper pro-Israeli censorship

As for the Israeli attack on their neighbours, corporate media consistently show pro-Israeli bias. New York Times, For example, he regularly refrains from identifying the perpetrator of force erstwhile it is the Israeli army and describes the genocide of about 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 as average “migration”. Analysis of paper reports has shown that words specified as “slaughter”, “massacre” and “terrifying” appear 22 times more frequently erstwhile talking about Israeli deaths than Palestinians, despite the gigantic difference in the number of killed on both sides.

In an article on how Israeli soldiers fired 335 rounds into a car containing a Palestinian child, and then shot the paramedics who came to rescue them, CNN print header “Five-year-old Palestinian girl found dead after being trapped in a car with dead relatives” – a title that can be interpreted as a tragic accident.

Such reports are not a coincidence. Everything comes from above. A Leaked Note New York Times of November revealed that company management has clearly instructed its reporters not to usage words specified as “genocide”, “slaughter” and “ethnic cleansing” erstwhile discussing Israel’s actions https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/. Staff Times must refrain from utilizing words specified as “camp for refugees”, “territory occupied”, and even “Palestine” in its reports, which almost prevents the transmission to the recipients of any of the most basic facts.

CNN employees are under akin pressure. Last October New CEO Mark Thompson sent a note to all employees, instructing them to make certain Hamas (and not Israel) is presented as liable for violence; to always usage the word “controlled by Hamas” during debates on the Ministry of wellness in the Gaza Strip and death tolls among civilians, and to prevent them from reporting Hamas' point of view, which, according to the elder manager of standards and information practices, “is not worth publishing” and boils down to “inciting rhetoric and propaganda”. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/04/cnn-staff-pro-israel-bias

Both Times, and CNN fired many journalists due to their opposition to Israel's actions or support for the liberation of Palestine. In November Jazmine Hughes of the Times was forced to leave after she signed an open letter opposing genocide in Palestine https://www.ws.org/en/articles/2023/11/08/tmot-n08.html. Last year's paper She terminated her contract with Hosam Salem after a run of force from a pro-Israeli group Honest Reporting https://imemc.org/article/new-york-times-fires-palestian-journalist/https://www.mintpressnews.com/honest-reporting-israel-linked-group-getting-palestin-journalists-fired/282593/. CNN presenter Marc Lamont Hill was abruptly released in 2018 for calling for the liberation of Palestine in a speech at the UN.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/marc-lamont-hill-fired-cnn-after-his-speech-israel-draws-n942151

Large organizations specified as Axios, CNN and the fresh York Times evidently know who they employ. These are 1 of the most sought-after jobs in journalism, and hundreds of candidates are likely to apply for all post. The fact that these organizations choose Israeli spies over all others raises serious questions about their journalistic credibility and goals.

Employing agents from Unit 8200 to make American news should be just as unthinkable as hiring Hamas or Hezbollah fighters as reporters. However, erstwhile Israeli spies were entrusted with informing the American public about the ongoing offensives of their country against Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran and Syria. How does this show the credibility and bias of our mass media?

Because Israel could not proceed this war without American help, the conflict for American minds is as crucial as action in the field. As the propaganda war continues, The boundaries between a writer and a militant are blurry.

The fact that many leading journalists providing us with news about Israel/Palestinian is virtually erstwhile agents of Israeli intelligence, that is all it emphasizes.

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