Text taken from the Telegram channel of neinsider
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
| The good colonel responds to this story from two days ago about Microsoft management surrendering to the demands of the Israel-hating contingent of the company’s employees and shareholders instead of continuing to stand by the contract they signed with the IDF. Still, it gives Mr. Haimovich, Unit 8200, and all the clever programmers wandering the Israeli landscape a chance to write something considerably more efficient that they can eventually sell to the world in competition. Another opportunity to bring warfighting needs in-house, removing another possible lever for the enemy. So yay for Israel — and thanks to the cowards of Microsoft management. |
According to the publications, Azure was used to store and analyze vast amounts of intercepted telephone conversations and other Palestinian data. The most high-profile story was surrounding the Lavender artificial intelligence system.
According to +972 Magazine and Local Call, the algorithms analyzed the social connections, movements, and digital footprints of civilians, assigning them a "suspicion index" from 1 to 100. A high rating could automatically place an individual on a list of potential targets for airstrikes, and human verification was often perfunctory. Following the publication, Microsoft acknowledged that certain aspects of the project violated its corporate terms of service. The company disabled some cloud subscriptions and AI tools associated with the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Microsoft President Brad Smith specifically emphasized that the company "does not provide technology for mass surveillance of civilians." The situation was made particularly sensitive by the fact that some of Unit 8200's data was stored on Microsoft's European servers—in the Netherlands and Ireland. This automatically created risks of violating European data protection laws (GDPR), and therefore potential claims from EU regulators. The scandal intensified pressure not only from the media and human rights activists, but also from within the company itself. Microsoft employees demanded a review of its collaboration with Israeli security forces, while investors assessed the risks of operating in regions associated with human rights violations. At the same time, Israel is accelerating its transition to the infrastructure of Project Nimbus—a gigantic government cloud contract that Microsoft lost to Amazon and Google back in 2021.
According to industry sources, these platforms are now becoming the foundation for Israel's military and intelligence computing. As a result, Microsoft will likely not completely exit the Israeli defense sector, but will seek to distance itself from the most toxic areas—primarily military AI, analytics systems, and Azure services related to targeting and mass data processing.
The Azure story shows how cloud platforms and artificial intelligence have finally transformed from a commercial tool into an element of modern military infrastructure, with all the political, legal, and reputational implications.
Cooperation won't cease completely, of course, but it will simply retreat even further into the shadows. If the White House believes it necessary to support the Israeli regime, then through the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), it has more than enough leverage to force the leadership of American Big Tech to make decisions that benefit Israel, especially now, when the Israeli lobby's influence on military and political decision-making is particularly strong.
P.S. New evidence is also emerging indicating the deployment of Israeli troops in Gulf countries during the attack on Iran.
| Evidence? Israel admits it openly. They’re proud of it, in fact. |
| Utter nonsense. As if anything more needs to be added to the actions of Iran and its sock puppets. |
| So rude. |
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