Palantir Supplies Israel with New Tools Since Hamas War Started
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It has been less fashionable, however, to note that software, including the systems that currently enable target selection and mission planning, has become as vital to the elimination of an adversary as it is to protecting the innocent from harm.
The platforms in use by our defense and intelligence partners present a very real threat to the survival of our enemies.
But those same software systems may also make possible and indeed hasten the beginning of the end of an era of total and indiscriminate war."
- Alex Karp, Q1 Letter to Shareholders
Would Palantir stop doing business with Israel if the ICJ found it was committing genocide or if the ICC issued warrants for the arrest of Israel's leaders?
Palantir is the Quenya word for far-seeing, it has many uses beyond the seeing stones. Moreover the seeing stones (palantiri) were tools that always told you the truth but were still able to be bent to Sauron’s will.
You may disagree with their moral calculus on Gaza and Israel, but Karp has been very clear about what he thinks about defending Israel and why. He’s not casually entering the conflict for profit.
Some people obviously do, but Palantir? Lol. Lmao even.
While the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute, many countries Palantir operates in are [1], and coöperating after a conviction would open up individual Palantir employees to conviction under U.S. law [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_Parties_to_the_Rome_Sta...