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AloeVera

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3. Thanks. Microsoft is one of many...
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 01:21 PM
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There is a web of corporate giants - tech companies like Palantir, Microsoft and Amazon, financial institutions, along with arms manufacturers etc - that have been sustaining Israel's "economy of occupation and now genocide". It's profitable for them.
Also for the Israeli companies. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange jumped 200% since the start of the war, amassing gains of $220 billion.

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, wrote a report ocalled "Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide" last month. Microsoft was one of the companies she identified. Shortly after, she was sanctioned by the U.S. - at great personal cost to her.

I don't expect a reversal by Microsoft or the others. If they haven't disengaged by now, they are all complicit. Too much money to be made.

Here's her report:
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/

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