The Structural Origins and Damaging Impact of the Deep Israel Lobby Part 2 (with Grant Smith)
Send us Fan MailThe Structural Origins and Damaging Impact of the Deep Israel Lobby Part 2 (with Grant Smith)Greetings and welcome to Understanding Israel Palestine, a Beyond the Walls edition, I am Jeremy Rothe-Kushel. For this episode, after a Beyond the Walls special Cyber Occupation Report, we return to hear the 2nd part of my archived interview with Grant F. Smith, the research director at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, about the Structural Origins and Damaging Impact of the Deep Israel Lobby. Resources & Further ReadingTo review the primary source documents, declassified files, and extensive research discussed in this episode, please explore Grant Smith’s archival work:Israel Lobby Archive: A comprehensive repository of declassified documents regarding lobbying and espionage.IRmep: The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy's ongoing reports and analysis.-----------Understanding Israel Palestine archives: kkfi.org/program/understanding-israel-palestine/Beyond the Walls newsletter: beyondthewalls.substack.com-----------A Beyond the Walls special Cyber Occupation Report From Occupied Palestine to American Precincts: The Cyber-Intelligence Pipeline Seeking to Be Behind Your Local 911Across the United States, municipal police departments are quietly signing off on cellular interception gear from Cognyte Solutions—an Israeli surveillance vendor spun out of Verint Systems.Long before Cognyte began marketing interception hardware to American city councils, Verint was building the physical tap into domestic telecommunications. As investigative author James Bamford and former NSA Technical Director William Binney have documented, the surveillance pipeline ran in a full, cynical circle. Binney—the veteran cryptanalyst-mathematician who resigned from the NSA in late 2001 after thirty years when the agency turned its collection apparatus inward—revealed how advanced U.S. signals intelligence technology was shared with Israeli intelligence. Following September 11, that very technology was repackaged, privatized, and sold back to the U.S. government through companies like Narus and Verint—contractors wired directly into AT&T and Verizon switches to execute bulk domestic surveillance with foreign-administered backdoors.Today, that architecture has migrated from federal switchboards straight into domestic neighborhoods.Flock Safety now operates an automated license plate reader network logging billions of vehicular movements across American streets every month. Flock’s operational scaling was driven under its former Chief Operating Officer, Elan Greenberg. Greenberg—a Cornell graduate and NYU Stern MBA who served more than a decade as an officer in the U.S. Marine Forces Reserve—subsequently transitioned to executive leadership at Augury. Augury, an AI sensor firm founded in Haifa and backed by Israeli venture capital, is steeped in veterans of Israel’s military-technical sector. It represents a recurring circuit: U.S. military-trained logistical leadership bridging domestic tracking grids with Tel Aviv-founded hardware networks.Meanwhile, Axon Enterprise has absorbed Fusus, pulling private Ring cameras, commercial video feeds, and municipal traffic sensors into unified "Real-Time Crime Centers."All that neighborhood telemetry flows into the Microsoft Azure Government cloud—an environment fortified and audited by Adallom, the cybersecurity firm founded by alumni of Israel’s elite Talpiot military program and Unit 8200, which was swallowed into Microsoft’s core architecture.The final lock turned in early 2026 when Axon completed its 625-million-dollar acquisition of Carbyne911. Originally launched and financed by convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein alongside former Israeli Prime Minister and military intelligence chief Ehud Barak, Carbyne was engineered to access citizen smartphone cameras, real-time geolocation, and biometric audio streams the moment a caller dials 911.Just as Verint and Narus established bulk-collection interception points inside telecom switches twenty years ago, Axon’s absorption of Carbyne hardwires an identical architecture directly into municipal emergency dispatch:Cognyte intercepts the mobile signal.Flock logs vehicular movement.Fusus aggregates private and public cameras.Carbyne taps the 911 caller at the point of distress.And Talpiot- and Unit 8200-engineered cloud infrastructure guards the vault.What was beta-tested on subjugated populations in occupied Palestine hasn't just arrived on Main Street—it has become the privatized nervous system of American municipal policing, turning public safety into an end-to-end digital occupation.
