An interview published by the British magazine New Left Review with American anthropological researcher Sophia Goodfriend revealed that Israel's military intelligence Unit 8200 had stored by July 2025 about 200 million hours of Palestinian voice calls, transcribed and translated, on Microsoft Azure servers in Ireland.
The researcher explained that the military establishment employs advanced automated targeting programs such as "Lavender" and "Gospel" to generate huge numbers of military targets daily, amid an official easing of restrictions on the number of civilians permitted to be targeted.
Goodfriend noted that the ongoing operations in Gaza and the West Bank coincide with the army's transformation into a radical ideological apparatus, and Israeli society's shift toward comprehensive aggressive militarization after the events of 7 October.
On the political and economic level, the researcher pointed out that the recent Knesset elections produced a stalled map, with 53 seats for Netanyahu's camp against 48 for the opposition camp and 19 seats for Arab parties, amid a fragile economic resilience dependent on the technology sector and the reserve economy, the emigration of about 300,000 people from Israel, and a declining bet on American security guarantees in favor of the formation of alternative regional alliances.
