"WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware"
"Messaging app said it had ‘high confidence’ some users were targeted and ‘possibly compromised’ by Paragon Solutions spyware"
"WhatsApp said it believed the so-called vector, or means by which the infection was delivered to users, was through a malicious pdf file that was sent to individuals who were added to group chats. WhatsApp said it could say with “confidence” that Paragon was linked to this targeting."
Målgruppe: Journalister
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EDIT 1
Ny Info: 1. februar og 3. februar
3. februar:
Critic of Italy-Libya migration pact told he was target of Israeli spyware
Husam El Gomati, who reports on links between Italian government and Libya’s coastguard, fears for his sources
Her er det mer å grave i, saken der italienske myndigheter sendte en libyer ut av Italia, til tross for at det forelå en arrestordre på ham fra ICC:
1. februar 2025:
‘Why did we give back this alleged criminal?’ Pressure grows on Meloni after Italy releases wanted Libyan police chief
Critics accuse prime minister of pandering to Tripoli over migration after Osama Najim was freed despite an ICC warrant for alleged war crimes
EDIT 2 6. februar 2025
Owner of spyware used in alleged WhatsApp breach ends contract with Italy
Skudeneshavn 31. januar 2025 / 3. februar 2025 / 6. februar 2025
Yes, Benny Morris, Israel Did Perpetrate Ethnic Cleansing in 1948
Daniel BlatmanOctober 14, 2016
In
this 1968 photo from the UN Relief and Works Agency archive,
Palestinian refugees arrive in east Jordan in a continuing exodus from
the West Bank and Gaza Strip.AP Photo/UNRWA Photo Archives
A good historian always examines his conclusions. If he comes to the
conclusion that things he wrote previously require a reassessment, he is
obligated to face that. But a historian who, at the start of his
career, determined that Israel is responsible for the mass flight of the
Palestinians in 1948 and later changed his views until he became the
darling of the settler right, is a pathetic phenomenon. Benny Morris has
followed that path.
He has betrayed two key duties of the historian: to be open-minded
and recognize the extensive research literature that directly relates to
his own areas of research; and not to distort his own previous
conclusions due to current political insights. [Morris’ “Israel conducted no ethnic cleansing in 1948,” Haaretz, October 10, was in response to Daniel Blatman’s “Netanyahu, this Is what ethnic cleansing really looks like,” Haaretz, October 3.]
On March 10, 1948, the national Haganah headquarters approved Plan
Dalet, which discussed the intention of expelling as many Arabs as
possible from the territory of the future Jewish state. Morris wrote
about it in his book “1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War”
(2010). He stated that the plan aroused a historiographical dispute,
with pro-Palestinian historians claiming it was a master plan for
expelling the Arabs living in Israel. He claimed that a careful
examination of the plan’s wording leads to a different conclusion.
Whose different conclusion? That of scholars who are experts on
ethnic cleansing? Or legal experts who grappled with the problem? No,
that of Morris, of course. He does not accept the definition of ethnic
cleansing that was carried out by the Jews in 1948. Perhaps there was a
“mini” ethnic cleansing in Lod and Ramle. Perhaps some marginal massacre
(Deir Yassin), which caused the panicked flight of Palestinians.
The problem is that these are precisely the circumstances that lead
to ethnic cleansing. Had Morris bothered to properly study the documents
of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, he
would understand why his statements would be considered absurd at any
serious scientific conference.
The following was stated by the prosecutor in the trial of Radovan
Karadzic, the Bosnian-Serb leader who was convicted of responsibility
for the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Bosnia: “In ethnic cleansing ...
you act in such a way that in a given territory, the members of a given
ethnic group are eliminated. ... You have massacres. Everybody is not
massacred, but you have massacres in order to scare those populations.
... Naturally, the other people are driven away. They are afraid ...
and, of course, in the end these people simply want to leave. ... They
are driven away either on their own initiative or they are deported. ...
Some women are raped and, furthermore, often times what you have is the
destruction of the monuments which marked the presence of a given
population ... for instance, Catholic churches or mosques are
destroyed.”
Exactly as in 1948: Implied instructions, silent understandings,
sowing fear among the population whose flight is the objective; the
destruction of the physical presence left behind. In his first book on
the subject, “The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949”
(1989 in English), Morris wrote: “The attacks of the Haganah and the
Israel Defense Forces, expulsion orders, the fear of attacks and acts of
cruelty on the part of the Jews, the absence of assistance from the
Arab world and the Arab Higher Committee, the sense of helplessness and
abandonment, orders by Arab institutions and commanders to leave and
evacuate, in most cases was the direct and decisive reason for the
flight – an attack by the Haganah, Irgun, Lehi or the IDF, or the
inhabitants’ fear of such an attack.”
About 15 years ago, however, Morris changed his mind. In his book
“Correcting a Mistake: Jews and Arabs in Palestine/Israel, 1936-1956”
(2000), he stated: “The majority of the abandonments [by the
Palestinians] from most of the places, most of the time I attributed to
attacks by Jewish forces. Sometimes a historian has to correct a
mistake.” Hats off to a historian who admits an error. But Morris’
professional integrity is tested in light of what he told Ari Shavit
(Haaretz, January 2004): “I don’t think that the expulsions of 1948 were
war crimes. I think he [Ben-Gurion] made a serious historical mistake
in 1948 he got cold feet during the war. In the end, he faltered. If he
was already engaged in expulsion, maybe he should have done a complete
job.”
At the same time, Morris argues that Ben-Gurion “never gave an order
to expel the Arabs.” Indeed, no such written order has been found. And
the reader will wonder: So there was an order to expel, or perhaps
expulsion without an order? Or perhaps there was a mass expulsion, but
it was incomplete so therefore it’s not ethnic cleansing? And does
Morris regret the fact that no order was given to complete the ethnic
cleansing? Morris is fortunate that he doesn’t engage in Holocaust
research. He might have been capable of claiming that it wasn’t Hitler
who ordered the “Final Solution,” since, as we know, no written order by
him to murder European Jewry was ever found.
The expulsions were not war crimes, says Morris, because it was the
Arabs who started the war. In other words, hundreds of thousands of
innocent civilians who belong to the side that began the fighting have
to be expelled. Maybe Morris would agree that the genocide carried out
by the Germans against the Herero in 1904-1908 was justified since,
after all, the Herero began the rebellion against German colonialism in
Namibia.
Morris is right about one thing: The understandings that the Arabs
should be expelled were not carried out in full. There were commanders
who obeyed to the letter; there were others who didn’t. That’s exactly
why some 160,000 Arabs remained inside the State of Israel in 1949. Just
as tens of thousands of Armenians remained in Turkey after World War I,
because there were government officials who didn’t carry out orders to
the letter to expel or murder them. Fortunately, in 1948 there were IDF
commanders who refrained from doing what they knew they could do without
being held to account. If it weren’t for them, the war crime committed
by Israel would have been even greater.
"Revealed: how Roman Abramovich dodged taxes on cost of running his fleet of superyachts"
"Cyprus Confidential files suggest offshore scheme was used to evade tens of millions in VAT on long list of expenses"
" Among Blue Ocean’s advisers on the VAT status of Abramovich’s yachts was one of the world’s most prestigious accounting firms: Deloitte."
Selskapskonstruksjoner for å unngå å betale moms på både konstruksjon og drift av luksusskipene. Og der Deloitte tydeligvis "var med på notene".
Skattemyndighetene i Italia og på Kypros har vært på ballen, at her var det noe galt. Uklart om den endelige skatteregningen for Abramovich ....
EDIT 29. januar 2025 Ny artikkel i The Guardian, se Kilde:
"Roman Abramovich may owe HMRC £1bn for unpaid taxes, analysis shows"
Her er det snakk om skatt på gevinst av flere investerings-selskaper Abramovich har hatt. Lekkede papirer fra Kypros tyder på at han egentlig har vært skattepliktig til UK.
Artikkel i Washington post om våpenhvileavtalen i Libanon. Det viser seg at IDF under våpenhvile-perioden inntar ny områder. Og ikke minst ødelegger boliger i stort omfang i landsbyer i området.
"Despite truce, Israel has damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings in Lebanon"
"The Israeli military also moved into dozens of new positions across southern Lebanon in the first 40 days of the ceasefire."
Våpenhvile-avtalen som USA og Frankrike har formulert er upresis mht hva som er brudd. Dette utnytter IDF.
Opinion | Why Did Halevi Let the Israeli Army Commit War Crimes Against the Palestinians?
A Palestinian child walks in the rain amidst building rubble in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday.Credit: AFP/Eyad Baba
IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi's resignation announcement leaves a somewhat sour taste. An important state official is about to leave his position and disappear into the unknown.
Was he a good chief of staff? Was his performance in the course of his brief term competent and up to expectations? Was he in control of the army he was in charge of? Was he in control of the army's combatant branch? Was he aware of the manipulations wielded by Benjamin Netanyahu and his government members on the General Staff and on the Israeli public?
Command, in my understanding, begins with control and supervision from the top. Here lies the first obstacle: total lack of control of the goings-on in the West Bank. The army in the West Bank, beginning with the division commander and down to several brigade commanders, has turned into loyal militias of the settlement movement, utterly betraying its duty as an occupying force, which is to protect the civilian Palestinian population there.
The army forces in the West Bank have become collaborators with the Jewish terrorists throughout the region. They are partners to abusing the Palestinians, to depriving shepherd communities of water, to preventing Palestinian farmers from harvesting their olives, and to legitimizing pogroms in Palestinian villages. Brigade commanders safeguarded pilgrimages to Joseph's Tomb and even took part in them as the settlers' guests, severely disrupting the Palestinians' lives in the area. Did the chief of staff know about the blatant violations of the law committed by the army under his command, or were his eyes blind to all this?
After the appalling October 7 massacre, in which my son Tom was killed in his home in Kibbutz Kissufim – didn't the chief of staff see Netanyahu's cynical manipulation of the army and of all Israelis, declaring a war of revenge intended to keep him in power as long as it continues? Why didn't the chief of staff bear down to return all the hostages right away, even at the price of releasing terrorists and avoiding war?
IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi in the Gaza Strip, in January.
IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi in the Gaza Strip, in January.Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit
Why did he fall in line with the government's bizarre decisions to flatten the Gaza Strip and kill tens of thousands of civilians, women and children? Why did he agree to let the army bring rabbis into the combatant units, and agree to go along with the brainwashing that this was a religious war, a war of revival, turning the army into a body that commits war crimes and crimes against humanity? Why did he keep silent in the face of loosening military discipline, allowing civilians into war zones and leading to a soldiers' deaths? Why did he enable the attempt to whitewash the investigating of the incident in which Ze'ev Ehrlich and the soldier Gur Kehati were killed?
Granted, after the October 7 shock, the chief of staff and the army came to their senses, fought and led Israel to significant military achievements. And yet, many questions are waiting for answers. Some of the questions will never be answered by those responsible, so the call to set up a state inquiry commission must be shouted out from every stage and in every forum.
Netanyahu must take responsibility and resign forthwith, together with the incompetent ministers making up his criminal government. And we, members of liberal civil society and the protest movements, must be united in our demand to return all the hostages, while at the same time keeping our eyes on the ball – the regime coup is in process and our supreme commitment, along with returning the hostages, is to prevent the justice minister and his gang to continue abusing our Israel.
The writer is the father of Tom Godo, who was killed in Hamas' attack on Kibbutz Kissufim on October 2023.
Professor Omer Shatz reiser sak hos ICC mot israelske ledere, der fokus er på "incitement to genocide". Han har en lang rekke med uttalelser som han mener kvalifiserer til ICC-vurdering:
"The Israeli Lawyer Filing a Landmark Genocide Case Against Israel at the ICC"
"Rather
than directly accusing Israeli officials of committing genocide in
Gaza, law professor Omer Shatz is taking a different tack: trying to
establish a pattern of incitement to genocide. He explains why he is
pressing for the International Criminal Court to act."
"Shatz argues that genocide is difficult to prove because the required
intent is detached from the act. "You need to show the crime was
intended to destroy the group as such. In incitement, by contrast, the
genocidal intent is manifested in public statements."
Anklagede personer: "The report mentions - Netanyahu, - Gallant, - President Isaac Herzog, - current Defense Minister Israel Katz, - retired army general Giora Eiland, - Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, - National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and - journalist Zvi Yehezkeli."
For disse har Shatz samlet en rekke uttalelser som underbygger hans sak.
Min kommentar om dette i debatt i Aftenposten:
Jan Marton Jensen
for noen sekunder siden
Professor Omer Shatz anlegger sak mot flere israelske ledere om "INCITEMENT to Genocide".
DA fokuserer han på disses offentlige uttalelser:
"The Israeli Lawyer Filing a Landmark Genocide Case Against Israel at the ICC"
Innsenderen skriver at TikTok sine algoritmer er mer "demokratiske" sammenlignet med Meta og X. Og i mindre grad er "politiske".
Kogressen i USA har forbudt TikTok brukt i USA med kinesisk eierskap. Da tok TikTok-eieren løsningen av lufta i USA.
Men Trump ga selskapet en ny frist til å finne en eier-løsning.
Det gjenstår å se, noen tror at Meta blir kjøper.
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EN av kommentarene til innlegget:
Gunnar Dalen
for fire timer siden
Det er da ingen hemmelighet at samtlige av sosiale medier er underlagt egensensur med algoritmer som endres hele tiden, alt ettersom hva som er politisk korrekt i øyeblikket.
Det er heller ingen hemmelighet at de også lar seg styre etter pålegg fra de enkelte lands myndigheter.
Dette tror jeg ganske så mange har opplevd ved å bli utestengt av mer eller mindre uforståelige grunner.
"Revealed: Microsoft deepened ties with Israeli military to provide tech support during Gaza war"
"Leaked documents shed light on how Israel integrated the US tech giant into its war effort to meet growing demand for cloud and AI tools"
"The Israeli military’s reliance on Microsoft’s cloud technology and artificial intelligence systems surged during the most intensive phase of its bombardment of Gaza, leaked documents reveal.
The files offer an inside view of how Microsoft deepened its relationship with Israel’s defence establishment after 7 October 2023, supplying the military with greater computing and storage services and striking at least $10m in deals to provide thousands of hours of technical support."
................. Tidligere leverte Microsoft mest administrative løsninger. Nå i økende grad datakraft i skyen til "Intelligence" (Etterretning) og ikke minst AI (Kunstig intelligens) ved valg og utførelse av bomber.
Tech-selskaper blir mer og mer integrert med sin teknologi i utførelse av krig. Foreløpig lite kjent omfang. Denne utviklingen åpner for diskusjon om etikk og veien videre ....
Lagt inn kommentar i debatt i Aftenposten 23. jan 2025:
"Vi har sviktet barna i Gaza. Hvordan kan vi sikre at det aldri skjer igjen?"
Min kommentar:
Lagt inn klokka 10.50 Umiddelbar melding om sensur: Nedenstående kommentar ikke kan vises før etter "moderasjon":
Kommentaren din vil være synlig etter moderasjon.
Jan Marton Jensen
for noen sekunder siden
Forståelig fortvilelse.
Det må forskes videre:
På hvordan "den evige militære okkupasjonsmakt", IDF kan flytte grensene for "akseptabel" krigføring og ødeleggelser, først erklærte og så praktiserte:
- Dahiya-doktrinen
- Tilbake til steinalderen
- Dehumanisering ved språkbruk
- Tvungen 3 års militær opplæring i "behandling" av de okkuperte
- Yeshivaer på okkupert område
- Religionens makt
- Gruppepress
- Bruk av kunstig intelligens til å "vurdere" bombe-effektivitet
- Mangel på feedback om grusomhetene, Sensur
- Mangel på oppgjør med tidligere grusomheter
Det er mye å ta tak i.
Og da må dette innlegget med sin fortvilelse gå over til analyse og påvirkning.
For barnas skyld.
Da gjenstår å se hvor lenge Aftenposten sitter på en helt kurant debattkommentar.
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