Ties between Google's Project Nimbus and Israel's military

[Protostome]

Great to hear :)

[UrineSqueegee]

>a Wired investigation found public statements

Well then it's not really hidden is it then?

Google has deep ties with the Tel Aviv start up world. Their plan currently is to buy Cybersecurity company Wiz for 26b.

[Cupertino95014]

... and the problem is?

The US is supporting Israel and supplying it with weapons. Neither Presidential candidate has any intention of changing that, nor is there majority Congressional support for changing it.

[sundalia]

Many Googlers are not comfortable with that.

Lots of them are immigrants who understandably don't want to be associated with US-endorsed genocide.

[linearrust]

Example of how punctuation can make all the difference...

'... and the problem is: The US is supporting Israel and supplying it with weapons. Neither Presidential candidate has any intention of changing that, nor is there majority Congressional support for changing it.'

The american people are mostly against israel and sending billions to israel. And yet nearly all of congress, presidential candidates, etc are in favor of it. Something is awry with representative government when nearly 100% of the politicians are not representative of the american people.

[bensmoif]

Many people believe what you're describing is the problem.

[hdlothia]

Israel is a high tech hub. Hopefully some new advances can come out of this collaboration that make us all safer.

[austin-cheney]

Doesn’t that sound somewhat similar to hoping pharmaceuticals strike partnerships with African warlords to test what could one day be some new amazing drug. It just sounds grossly unethical so as to directly extract profits from intentional human harm on a large scale.

I suspect I would feel completely different about this if the Israeli military weren’t currently in a conflict indiscriminately killing dozens or hundreds of civilians as collateral damage in pursuit of single targets, or if they weren’t intentionally and illegally taking land from people in an area that isn’t a conflict zone at all.

[dang]

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

[bensmoif]

Everyone who cares about the use of technology to conduct warfare, especially the corporate power leveraged to enhance the killing power of the state.

[tehf0x]

Employees, investors and customers who don't want to falicitate the horrors going on in Gaza I would guess.