Just when you think the world had had enough of the constant 'Russian hacker' narrative that US politics and mainstream media keep pushing without coherent proof, some Israelis decided to kick that excruciatingly dead horse just one more time.
Comment: Israelis seem to have a remarkable affection for dead horses. Case in point: "anti-Semitism."
According to a report by Israel's Channel 12, tech security audit company CGI - hired by the Blue and White party to check for cybersecurity flaws - came to the conclusion that those notoriously pesky Russian hackers had breached the phones of Benny Gantz, party leader and main political opponent of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as phones belonging to Hod Betzer, Ido Har-Tuv and Ronen Moshe - Gantz's chief of staff, campaign leader and adviser, correspondingly.
"This is a powerful hack the likes of which we have never seen before," CGI gushed in their summary, according to The Jerusalem Post.
Instead of ringing alarms, however, the party took the CGI report with a big bag of salt and turned to other cyber experts for a second opinion. Why? Because the CGI findings come suspiciously close to the upcoming 9 September Parliamentary election.
Comment: According to Moshe Yalon, one of the leaders of the bloc: