A little over a week ago, Israel and Germany signed a cybersecurity agreement to expand their existing cooperation. “I attach enormous importance to the overall cooperation between Israel and Germany,” Netanyahu said during the signing. “Israel’s enemies should know: Our eyes are on them at all times and everywhere,” read a statement on the agreement from his office.

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, who traveled to Israel to sign the deal, said he wanted to take Israel as a “model.” “We are relying on systematic exchange rather than ad-hoc cooperation,” Dobrindt told German media. “Israel is Germany’s most important partner outside of NATO and the EU,” his ministry stated.

According to the German newspaper Bild, the agreement includes cooperation between Germany’s elite police unit GSG 9 and the Israeli police’s counterterrorism unit, known colloquially as Yamam. This unit has carried out extrajudicial assassinations of Palestinians in the West Bank, and was also involved in Israel’s hostage rescue operation in Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza in June 2024, during which four Israelis were freed and over 270 Palestinians were killed. Bild also reported plans for a joint German-Israeli AI and cybersecurity research center.

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    According to the German newspaper Bild

    This is not a “German newspaper”, it’s a dirty boulevard paper for the silent generation and some late boomers. It is a horrible shame for humanity this thing exists.

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      Sadly Bild is ranked as Germany’s most read "paper. In reality Bild is a propaganda tabloid, its goal is not to make money but to push narratives. They then get a lot of money from large banks and insurance companies which had their narratives pushed for “advertising”. Unsurprisingly they have got many Zionist “advertisers” as well.

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        True too. Sadly so, i might add. I so hoped this piece of shit-paper would slowly die out with the silent generation, but…it does not seem so :(