Israeli Lawyer Raps Gov't For Helping Putin Crush Anti-War Protesters

Russia's protesters against President Vladimir Putin's irrational, immoral war in Ukraine are the conscience and hope of the world.

Photo Insert: Jewish artist, Yelena Osipova, the 90-year old arrested by Russian police in St. Petersburg for having joined the protest against the Russian invasion

In 1991, as the tanks and troops of an attempted putsch advanced towards Moscow, in lieu of reporting the news, Soviet state television broadcast Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" ballet on loop. The failed putsch was the harbinger of the downfall of the Soviet regime, Israeli lawyer and activist Eitay Mack wrote for Haaretz.

When, last week, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin closed down the last of Russia’s independent TV stations, capping the strangulation of media over recent years by threats, false incrimination, and the extortion of journalists, the channel signed off with a call of "No war!" – and an image of “Swan Lake.”

Many in Russia believe that Putin’s war is a disaster. The Russians protesting Putin's war in Ukraine, despite intense Kremlin propaganda and repression, are the conscience of the world. Israeli cyberweapons and its shameful, sycophantic policies are betraying them.

“The State of Israel is exceptional among Western countries in that it has refrained from sharply condemning and imposing sanctions on Putin and the circle around him that are responsible for the war. Israeli officials' statements have, for the most part omitted the identification of who is actually attacking Ukraine, committing crimes against the Ukrainian people and against the stability of the international order as if it were a natural disaster or an alien invasion from another planet,” Mack argued.

Worse, Israeli has authorized the Israeli Cellebrite company to sell its mobile phone hacking device to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (Sledstvenny Komitet), which serves President Putin as a key tool of internal repression.

The device, known as a Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), allows all information to be extracted for a mobile phone and to recover information that was erased.

On July 21, 2020, the Investigative Committee’s chief Alexander Bastrykin had a video call with the heads of his district and regional units, summarizing activities in 2019.

The most popular forensic tool used was the UFED system, which hacked mobile phones at least 26,000 times. Putin continues to hack the phones of Russian dissidents and citizens opposed to the invasion of Ukraine.

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YelenaOsipova - a well known artist and protestor in StPetersburg.