© MicrosoftMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella
The evidence was provided in a Wednesday report by The Guardian, which showed how the company has been quietly entangled in the regime's vast surveillance dragnet targeting Palestinians.
The bombshell investigation revealed that Unit 8200, the Israeli military's notorious cyber-intelligence arm, has been storing millions of intercepted Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft's Azure cloud servers in Europe since at least 2022.
The surveillance apparatus, which captures calls "by the million each hour," is fueled by a staggering trove of data housed primarily in the Netherlands and Ireland, the probe found.
It monitors Palestinian life in microscopic detail, from the Gaza Strip's bomb-scarred neighborhoods to every corner of the occupied West Bank, the daily showed.
One insider, meanwhile, described a rising eagerness among Israeli officials, who see this system as the bedrock of "long-term control" in Gaza as the stored data continues to inform operations, despite telecoms destruction across the Palestinian territory.
Officers sifted through intercepted calls made near bombing targets to justify airstrikes in heavily populated civilian areas.
As one insider put it, "When they need to arrest someone and there isn't a good enough reason to do so, that's where they find the excuse."
The cloud deal: Protected by corporate deniability
In late 2021, Unit 8200's former commander, Yossi Sariel, met Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the company's headquarters. The topic focused on migrating Israeli military data, including surveillance targeting Palestinians, to Microsoft's cloud.
Sariel promised it would "solve our problems in the Palestinian arena."
Despite public claims of ignorance, Microsoft engineers were found to have helped build protective "security layers" around the intercepted data.
Internal communications have shown that Nadella described the partnership as "critical" and pledged corporate resources to support the effort. One senior Israeli source also said Sariel "bragged a lot" about his ties to the tech CEO.
By mid-2025, the partnership had enabled the storage of over 11,500 terabytes, equivalent to 200 million hours, of Israeli military audio surveillance on Azure servers.
Unit 8200 reportedly planned to shift 70% of its total data, including classified material, to Microsoft's platform.
Total control through AI, "noisy messages"
The investigation further revealed Microsoft's irrefutable contribution to Unit 8200's desire to expand as far as it could so it can monitor "everyone, all the time."
Towards the purpose, the company lent the unit its AI-driven tools such as "noisy message," which scanned texts for supposedly suspicious language and rated potential threats algorithmically.
One insider, meanwhile, described a rising eagerness among Israeli officials, who see this system as the bedrock of "long-term control" in Gaza.
Microsoft's technology has already contributed significantly to the regime's October 2023-present war of genocide on the coastal sliver that has claimed the lives of more than 61,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Profit over principle
For Microsoft, the surveillance partnership reportedly promised "hundreds of millions of dollars" in future revenue.
It was rated as a "brand moment" that could vault Azure to the top of global cloud wars.
Outsmarted by resistance
Despite its monumental dimensions, the collaboration failed to preempt Gaza-based resistance fighters' historic October 2023 operation against the occupied Palestinian territories.
The operation led to ensnarement of hundreds of Zionists, which the regime used as an excuse to launch the genocide.
Sariel quietly resigned, taking the fall for what he called Unit 8200's "intelligence and operational failure."
This investigation is far from the first one to expose the indispensable nature of American tech giants' contribution to the regime's regional atrocities.
Reader Comments
Simple justice beckons.
I did have Linux Puppy on another lap top but that died the death of modern stuff. Was ok but couldn't play certain TV channels 'on demand' videos, annoying.
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I think for the time being I'm just going to leave this in the package - but I can't deny I am most curious and I suspect it could serve many purposes - and well.....it just goes to show - there have been exponential changes in the last 34 years....so much flux - over the top in a way - but it portends potential in my mind.
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I'll tell this as well - it is printed on the box - literally typed: ~~~~~
The website mentioned is: www.gmktec.com
Maybe I ought reach out to them and see if they have a suggestion!
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BK
If you don't care about any updates, you can keep your Win10 as long as you like. M$ (and others) will provide security updates beyond this October, if you pay for that. Here a nice video explaining some of this stuff, from a relatively neutral perspective : [Link]
Anyway, here another suggestion: You can install a Linux OS parallel to your Windows, and use this for internet and similiar stuff. I have dual-boot systems for almost 20 years, and they used to work fine. Perhaps you will need to create space on the HD, e.g. by shrinking the Win partition. I would suggest to get a new HD (I suppose an SSD), a bit bigger than the current one. Clone to old HD with Win10 onto the new one, and use the free space for Linux (and/or data partitions). That's what I did with two refurbished notebooks I bought relatively cheap over the last two years.
And I would suggest Linux Mint, as it is relatively close to the classic Windows GUI and control concept. By which I mean the one before the ugly, flat smartphone tiles ...
Linux is very stable, and has a large range of different (and often specialized) distributions to choose from. Some for the common user, some "forensics and hacker" distros, some media player distros, some gaming distros, and so on.
Unless you have very specific requirements for which no Linux software exists (or no appropriate one), there is no reason to stick with M$. Some proprietary software for special fields like video editing (Adobe) or software development tools (microcontrollers, PLCs, etc.) have no proper Linux equivalent. But this is a can of worms anyway - your "special tool" software, often costing a 4...5 digit sum per user licence , might stop working with the next Windows version, or even next "security update". I could tell a few real-world examples here ...
Now I'll share even more than anybody probably cares about - but his desire is to setup this game we have played - our gaming group which goes way back.....the game is called "Magic Realm" - and let me just say - tis not for the "weak-willed" who aren't willing to read a long, long rulebook - way too long you want my opinion. I said to my friend - might it not make sense to first start out with a "simpler game" - but apparently he has code for the aforementioned game and so I guess he doesn't think so.....I mainly just want to learn about some of the "nuts & bolts" of Linux.
Regards,
Ken
But if you want to delve into the "nuts and bolts", toss the mouse and learn to love the keyboard. And memorize all those cryptic commands ... : sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n1
Oh - do you remember Lotus 123? It was in vogue prior to Excel - and let me tell you - the keystrokes made things so much easier after the fingers were well-trained!
Ken
ps - in my career as an "environmental consultant" I did work with what I think is (was?) a German company - Kurz Hastings. They made magnetic tape that used to go on credit cards - amongst other things using a rotogravure printing setup - with organics required - and a thermal oxidizer as well.
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Now there is a product out there these days - reminds me of another facility where they made "catalyst-product" using precious metal that I remember - that facility was in Massachusetts, but I'm not sure it is there anymore - I think it was "sold" off.....
Anyhow - the product I'm thinking about is as follows:
Here is an example of it: [Link]
For good measure I have acquired some of this - not the bill in the image mind ya - just the cheaper "1" version - containing 1/1000 troy ounce gold - that script will always have value - I got some from South Dakota and Utah - and rumor I heard is others states are jumping on this bandwagon - good I say. I suspect it could be a real business opportunity - and maybe already is for Kurz.
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I should add there was a "screwdriver" facility in Murphy, NC - it also is no longer operating like so many of the facilities I used to help out - but damn - they had some fine electroplating operations there - and the handles they made from extruded plastic - top notch they were in the day.
But I'm pretty sure the installation has an option to shrink an existing Windows partition, and install Linux beside it. And it strongly recommends to backup all data before, which I would second ...
You could make a backup of the whole installation (HD), try the Linux installation, and revert back in case of serious issues (which I never experienced in approximately 20...30 installations over the years). But this depends on the "fill level" of your HD. While even larger Linux distros work with less than 16GB, you will probably need more than 50GB for application and data.
An alternative would be, as suggested, another hard disk of the same kind you system has, only bigger (either magnetic or SSD). Clone the old HD onto the new one, leave the remaining space free. Confirm you can boot into Windows from the new HD. In this case, the Linux (Mint) installation will automatically suggest to install it onto the free space.
By the way, most Linux distros, especially Linux Mint, come as "Live image". Burn them on a DVD or USB stick, and you can try it out as long as you like without changing the system. An icon to install it to harddisk is placed on the desktop, you can't miss it. Those live images are relatively slow, as they come on slow media. Installed to HD they are much faster, boot times are about 10 seconds on a moderately recent system.
Distros like this come in several "flavors", with differing degrees of integration and comfort, but also system impact. But even the "cinnamon"edition runs fine on PCs/notebooks which are five to ten years old.
For an even older system with a single-core CPU like Pentium V or IV (yes, I still have those), I would recommend something like the Xfce edition.
Who are the companies complicit in Israel's 'genocide'? The UN's Francesca Albanese provides the answer
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has issued a report naming several US giants among companies aiding Israel's occupation and war on Gaza. Companies from other countries - from China to...Brave AI: " Israel was blindsided by Hamas on October 7, 2023, due to a combination of strategic miscalculation, overconfidence, and institutional failures . Israeli intelligence and military leadership had become habituated to warning signals and largely dismissed the possibility that Hamas could or would launch a large-scale attack from the Gaza Strip."
Oct 7 was the false flag that established the "justification" for Israel's attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Everything was engineered just as America's 9/11 false flag.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and other "leading tech" companies are all three-letter agency front ends, maneuvered into their monopoly positions by proxies like In-Q-Tel. Now they just fulfill their purpose.