How have NSO not caught a car bomb yet? They are literally running cyber intelligence ops for foreign governments, many of them certainly not NATO buddies, from the heart of Israel.
More than half of the Israeli population are of Mizrahi (Arab) and Sephardi (North African) ancestry. Many of them are post-1948 refugees from other Middle Eastern country.
It will be easier to understand Israeli cynicism toward the Arab and Islamic world, which includes selling surveillance software to brutal Arab regimes, if we stop assuming that the country is made of Western Jews.
It's Western leaders trying their best to make it seem they don't notice it.
The Sephardi are Jews from the Iberian Peninsula who were expelled in the 15th century by Ferdiand and Isabella in the Alhambra Decree. Sefarad is the Hebrew word for Spain. Mizrahi would include include both Northern Africa and what we today call the Middle East. Mizrahi is also not an Arab disctintion - example Jews from Persia would be Mizrahi as would Jews from Central Asian countries. Mizrahi means Eastern or Oriental in Hebrew.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Spain
On this thesis, English rapper lowkey: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU (to watch with your favorite invidious/piped instance)
Here's an unrestricted version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb2z0XwMtH8
But that Youtube prevents you from playing age-gated videos while logged out is a true shame. Thanks for the alternative link! We should upload that to Peertube instead :)
Certainly not NATO buddies? Israel never been a buddy of the West. Kennedy almost went for sanctioning them to death, Norko style. Such episodes were recurring until late seventies.
It's been a long running trope that NSO, and multiple other private espionage companies are just cover outlets for Israeli espionage agencies to deny that Israel works with enemies of America.