Chris Spencer

The Sneaky Seizure of Power

The twentieth century taught us to look for coups in uniforms and barricades. The twenty-first century has done away with theatre. Our coup is operated by cloud contracts and neural networks, debugged and fine-tuned to AI-Algorithm non-transparency. Democracy is not toppled but hacked, its processes outsourced to unelected contractors, data brokers, and machine-learning systems.

The coup central location is Israel, but the stakes are globally universal. Israel, the "Startup Nation," has honed the union of militarism, artificial intelligence, and privatized government as a test model. Gaza is a laboratory, corporations the enforcement ministries, and algorithms the last governors.

This premise is not nebulous, not speculative; it is already established in Lavender Talpiot and GOSPEL AI-Genocide. The Bureaucratic Smokescreen: "This autocracy thrives on automated bureaucracy. No one person or entity is a prime suspect in the crime of Genocide. There is Guilt, but it is spread out thinly amongst unindictable persons, universities, tech giants and murky shadow middleware, firmware and hardware – an electronic Waffen SS.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, by October 1, 2025, at least 66,148 Palestinians have been killed, and some 168,716 injured, since October 7, 2023. Rather than SS Stormtroopers on trial in The Hague, the co-conspirators are blade servers, NVIDIA chips, Peter Theirl, Bill Gates, et al. Untouchables.

I. Israel as Laboratory State

Lavender AI: Statist Bureaucratizing Death

It was exposed in March 2024 by +972 Magazine that Lavender, an artificial intelligence program employed to mass-produce target lists during the war in Gaza.[1] Military commanders attested that Lavender created kill lists on a scale, since soldiers scrolled through hundreds of names in minutes, rubber-stamping algorithmic warrants for death.

The framework did not balance legality or proportionality but probabilities—war reduced to data classification. Entire families were bombed on metadata grounds eventually justified on the grounds of statistical necessity. Lavender makes outsourcing of moral responsibility institutional: algorithms decide, humans merely check.

Lavender is not an aberration but the next logical stage in Israel’s long history of treating Gaza as a controlled testing ground—first for surveillance, then for drone warfare, and now for AI-driven precrime target selection.

Talpiot: The Conveyor Belt of Militarized Talent

The Talpiot Program, established in 1979, steers Israel's best mathematicians and scientists into the military-industrial establishment.[2] Alumni routinely seed tech firms overseas, resulting in what historian Yossi Shain describes as "a perpetual fusion of defense research and private innovation."[3] Waze (purchased by Google), PrimeSense (purchased by Apple), and Mobileye (purchased by Intel) all emerged from Talpiot brilliance.

The shape is deliberate: a conveyor belt that bears military know-how and translates it into consumer technology, washing war logic through international supply chains.

Talpiot was never just a talent program for evil geniuses but an institutionalized bridge between military R&D and global venture capitalists.

Unit 8200: Espionage as Entrepreneurial Culture

Israel's NSA equivalent, Unit 8200, has made a name for itself having a roster of alumni. Its alumni fill the banks of cybersecurity and spyware companies, NSO Group (manufacturer of Pegasus) among them.[4] In 2014, 43 Unit 8200 reservists came forward in demonstrating against Palestinian abuses of surveillance by refusing to serve.[5]

But the pipeline remains intact. From Check Point Software to Wiz Security, the Unit has recast intelligence tradecraft as entrepreneurship, selling surveillance as a business-as-usual model.

Unit 8200 has been explicitly compared to an “Israeli Harvard” for spies and coders. Entry is elite, training is intense, and alumni status functions as a permanent credential in global tech markets. Instead of Reich soldiers with machine guns, there are tech dweebs dressed in Patagonia and wearing security badge lanyards.

NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware is not just a product but a case study of how Unit 8200 alumni repackage surveillance skills into billion-dollar industries. Pegasus has been documented in use against journalists, dissidents, and political leaders worldwide—from Mexico to Hungary to Saudi Arabia. Thus, Palestinian surveillance functions as a laboratory for global authoritarianism.

Mossad: From Human Spycraft to Algorithmic Reach

The Mossad, once mythologized on human behalf for acts of heroism, has now devoted itself to algorithmic incorporation. Its Cyber Directorate employs AI for predictive targeting, diaspora profiling, and insinuation into digital networks.[6] The agency illustrates the larger trend: intelligence as a measure of machine extent, not human danger.

The Mossad has millions of paid informants Globally; their nomenclature uses the name “Sayanim” which is Hebrew for “Helper.” The Helpers, or Mossad Sayanim work everywhere from McDonalds and DMV to The Pentagon.

II. Capital as the Engine of Statism

Peter Thiel and Palantir – The Israeli Flea Wagging the American Dog

Peter Thiel is the philosopher-capitalist of rule by algorithm. Palantir Technologies, his firm funded by CIA venture capital via In-Q-Tel in 2003,[7] now works behind data infrastructures for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.K. National Health Service, and even war-time logistics for Ukraine.[8]

Palantir captures what Shoshana Zuboff has coined "surveillance capitalism",[9] but refined to a degree: it replaces elected decision-making with dashboards, performing state actions in proprietary software controlled by ISRAELI contractors.

Paul Singer and Financialized Security

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer, through Elliott Management, has invested billions in defense firms and Israeli tech firms and sponsored pro-Israel think tanks like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.[10] Singer summarizes the intersection of geopolitics and capital: national security articulated as returns to shareholders, not parliaments.

Both Thiel and Singer exemplify how capital no longer merely influences the state—it subsumes it, converting national governance into a function of private geopolitical strategy.

This is not merely outsourcing—it is outsourcing sovereignty. When code written in Tel Aviv or Palo Alto makes decisions about borders, benefits, or battlefields, the state ceases to be accountable to its own citizens and becomes a client of capitalized expertise. In America, we have become The United States of Talpiot. Our national borders are meaningless, overshadowed by the Cloud and NSO Group.

Big Tech as Ministries of State

The US tech monopolies are privatized ministries of state.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) runs clandestine "Secret Cloud" regions for the Pentagon and CIA[11] and runs Israel's $1.2 billion Project Nimbus, housing sensitive state information in defiance of protests from staff.[12]
• Google runs R&D facilities in Haifa and Tel Aviv and had ex-CEO Eric Schmidt heading up the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board, reporting directly on how to militarize AI.[13]
• Microsoft enrolls Israel in its Azure security cloud network through acquiring Israeli cybersecurity firms such as Adallom and CyberX.[14]
• Intel employs over 11,000 people in Israel, the country's biggest private sector employer, producing chips to train AI throughout the world.[15]
• Apple, Meta, Nvidia, IBM, and Oracle also maintain Israeli R&D centers, incorporating dual-use technology into world networks.[16]

They privatize sovereignty. What is conducted in parliaments no longer is controlled through corporate service contracts and non-disclosure agreements.

Little-known but telling: In 2021, Amazon and Google employees leaked internal documents revealing that Project Nimbus — Israel’s $1.2 billion cloud contract — explicitly prohibits denial-of-service to the Israeli military or government, even in cases of human rights concerns. The contract also bars public discussion of the project, embedding mafia omerta into the infrastructure of occupation and genocide.

II. Exporting the Control Model

Pegasus and Spyware as Commodity

Pegasus spyware was reported by Citizen Lab and Amnesty International in over 40 states, targeting journalists, activists, and opposition politicians.[17] In Mexico, anti-corruption lawyers; in India, opposition politicians; in Hungary, investigative journalists. Candiru and QuaDream widen the model, with turnkey surveillance available to regimes who will quash dissent.[18]

Surveillance is commodified—available for purchase by any client who has means.

Defense Conglomerates as Salesmen of Statism

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and Elbit Systems peddle drones, missile defense, and biometric checkpoints to the world.[19] Their products construct the foundation of European border surveillance, Colombian counterinsurgency, and police patrol on US urban streets. Products are "dual-use"—as useful on the battlefield as on the urban street.

State repression is being packaged, globalized, and normalized through Israeli tech and capital. 

·  Israeli firms like NSO Group (Pegasus), Candiru, and QuaDream create turnkey surveillance systems — ready-made tools for hacking phones, tracking individuals, and mapping networks of dissent.

·  These are not bespoke operations; they are off-the-shelf products, designed for easy deployment by governments, with user-friendly dashboards and vendor support.

·  Repression becomes a service, sold like cloud storage or antivirus software: simple, scalable, and legal under the guise of “national security.”

IV. Academia as the Church of Innovation

The top universities sanctify the militarization of science.

• MIT's CSAIL has continued AI research on Pentagon contracts for decades, underwriting DARPA programs.[20]
• Stanford remains a pipeline for Silicon Valley firms acting in military and non-military applications.
• Harvard's Berkman Klein Center euphemizes AI surveillance as "digital governance."
• In Israel, the Technion and Weizmann Institute feed research directly into IDF units, perpetuating the Talpiot and 8200 pipelines.[21]

The result is academic laundering: lethal technologies marketed as value-free "innovation."

Universities once questioned power. Now they sanctify it.

Across the U.S. and Israel, elite academic institutions have become research arms of the security state — laundering military technologies through the language of progress and innovation.

At MIT, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has quietly worked on Pentagon-funded AI projects for decades, helping to build out DARPA’s technological arsenal. Stanford acts as a direct pipeline into Silicon Valley, feeding engineers and ideas into firms that power both military and corporate surveillance. Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center repackages state surveillance as "digital governance," giving it a liberal gloss.

In Israel, the partnership is even more explicit. The Technion and Weizmann Institute serve as feeder institutions for elite military units like Talpiot and Unit 8200 — the very organizations behind Israel’s surveillance exports and cyberwarfare infrastructure.

The result is academic laundering: warfighting tools rebranded as neutral innovation. Drone swarms become "robotics," predictive policing becomes "data science," and censorship algorithms become "content moderation."

The university no longer stands outside the system of control — it legitimizes it, giving empire its intellectual cover.

V. Gaza as Template

The 2023-25 Gaza war was and is an ongoing experiment in automated genocide, not a battle nor a war. The technologies of artificial intelligence like Lavender, surveillance drones, and predictive analytics turned a blockade into a lab. International critics like South Africa's 2024 genocide petition to the International Court of Justice[22] condemned the scale of bombings on civilians. Israel rejected the charge, but outside law lies precedent: populations rendered as data, death rationalized as statistical outcome.

South Africa v Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)

• What is it: South Africa filed a case at the ICJ (the UN’s principal court for disputes between states) on 29 December 2023. It alleges that Israel has violated the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide through its actions in Gaza. AP News+5International Court of Justice+5Government of South Africa+5
• What has been ordered: On 26 January 2024, the ICJ issued provisional measures, ordering Israel to take all measures within its power to prevent genocidal acts under the Genocide Convention; to punish incitement to genocide; to allow humanitarian aid; and to preserve evidence. Government of South Africa+3International Court of Justice+3International Court of Justice+3
• Current status: The case is ongoing. South Africa filed its main memorial (i.e. a detailed submission of its evidence) in October 2024. Israel denies the genocide claims. The ICJ has not yet issued a final ruling on whether Israel’s conduct legally amounts to genocide. AP News+3Government of South Africa+3

VI. Consequences: The Algorithm in the World Around You

What has been tested in Gaza filters, quietly, into the everyday lives of global citizens.

• Immigration: Palantir runs ICE's Integrated Case Management system, prioritizing migrants according to risk scores.[23] The ETIAS system of the European Union applies the same predictive profiling.
• Healthcare: Britain's National Health Service entered into a £330 million contract with Palantir to oversee its data platform,[24] diminishing patient care to the function of U.S.-Israeli software paradigms.
• Banking and Credit: Unit 8200 graduate-fueled predication methodologies drive fraud detection and risk grading, now widely used against dissidents in economic deplatforming.[25]
• Policing: Predictive policing technologies (e.g., PredPol, ShotSpotter) directly borrow from Israeli population control techniques, deploying occupation logics into US cities.[26]

This is what is being exported: not just drones and surveillance code, but a model of governing where citizens are sets of data, protest is metadata, and sovereignty is outsourced on subscription code.

The Algorithm Never Sleeps

Twentieth-century fascism was cacophonous—jackboots, placards, demonstrations. Its twenty-first-century form is seamless. It does not storm legislatures; it colonizes them. It does not censor the press; it curates feeds. It does not jail dissidents in bulk; it profiles and pre-emptively deplatforms them.

Israel is not anomalous but paradigmatic. Its model propagates itself via AWS contracts, Palantir screens, Pegasus malware, and academic networks. Democracies are not failing—but being optimized as algorithmic autocracies.

And while the citizen grows tired, complains, and sleeps, the algorithm never does. This article is delisted or downlisted by Google and Bing, both of whom may be and are probably complicit in Gaza Genocide.

The involvement of Google (or more broadly its parent, Alphabet) is alleged via its cloud / AI / infrastructure / contracts (for example, via “Project Nimbus”) that provide backend support or services that may enable the Israeli state’s data-intensive operations. Palestine Studies+3The Nation+3Novara Media+3

Microsoft / Amazon are also often named, since cloud and AI infrastructure is rarely a monopoly, and multiple providers may supply services. The New Arab+3Novara Media+3

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity related to actions in Gaza. The charges include "starvation as a method of warfare" and "murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts". Both men have not been arrested and extradicted.

Sources

[1]: Yuval Abraham, “Lavender: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing of Gaza,” +972 Magazine, March 27, 2024.
[2]: Daniella Peled, “Talpiot: Israel’s Elite Military Program,” BBC, July 2010.

[3]: Yossi Shain, The Israeli Century, 2022.
[4]: Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, 2018.

[5]: Isabel Kershner, “Dozens of Israeli Reservists Refuse to Serve in Protest of Occupation,” New York Times, Sept. 2014.
[6]: Nadav Pollak, “Israel’s Cyber Operations: Mossad and the Future of Espionage,” Washington Institute, 2020.

[7]: Stephen Graham, “In-Q-Tel and the Origins of Palantir,” Forbes, 2016.
[8]: Caroline Haskins, “Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Predictive Policing Technology,” The Verge, Feb. 2018.

[9]: Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2019.
[10]: Eli Clifton, “Paul Singer: Hedge Fund Billionaire Behind Pro-Israel Power Networks,” The Intercept, 2018.

[11]: Frank Konkel, “The Details About the CIA’s Deal With Amazon,” The Atlantic, July 2014.
[12]: Jack Nicas, “Amazon and Google’s Secretive Project Nimbus Contract in Israel,” New York Times, June 2022.

[13]: Eric Schmidt, “AI and National Security,” CNAS Report, 2019.
[14]: Tom Warren, “Microsoft Buys Israeli Cybersecurity Firm Adallom,” The Verge, July 2015.

[15]: Orr Hirschauge, “Intel Israel’s Global AI Role,” Wall Street Journal, 2023.
[16]: David Shamah, “Why Every Tech Giant Has an R&D Center in Israel,” Times of Israel, 2021.

[17]: Amnesty International, “The Pegasus Project,” 2021.
[18]: Haaretz Investigations, “Inside Candiru,” 2021.

[19]: Seth Frantzman, Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence, and the Battle for the Future, 2021.
[20]: DARPA Project Database, “MIT CSAIL Contracts,” 2017–2023.

[21]: Shlomo Maital, “Technion and Israel’s High-Tech Rise,” Technion Review, 2019.
[22]: “Application of the Convention on Genocide (South Africa v. Israel),” International Court of Justice filings, 2024.

[23]: Brennan Center for Justice, “Palantir and ICE,” 2019.
[24]: Sarah Boseley, “Palantir Wins £330m NHS Data Deal,” Guardian, Nov. 2023.

[25]: Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction, 2016.

[26]: Kristian Lum & William Isaac, “Predictive Policing: Assessing the Impact,” Significance, 2016.

[27]: Palestine Studies+3The Nation+3Novara Media+3

[28]: The New Arab+3Novara Media+3

Algorithmic Genocidal Autocracy: The Israeli Coup of Democracies by Machine

Chris Spencer