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It's interesting how quickly the mainstream media settled in on the unproven and disputed claim that Russia is behind the SolarWinds/SUNBURST hack of US government computer systems. The hack is believed to have begun as early as March 2020 and was first detected by private cybersecurity firms.

Russia is one likely suspect but there are a number of other countries that might have the means and motive for such a cyberattack. However, most accounts only mention Russia and, rarely, China and do not mention the possibility of a cyber false flag attack.

Israel, which has a long history* of espionage and related attacks against US targets, is, to my knowledge, never mentioned as a suspect country. I don't have any evidence that Israel was behind the SUNBURST attack but here are some interesting coincidences not widely reported. They don't all have an obvious tie to Israel.

1. In April 2019, SolarWinds bought an Israeli IT firm called Samanage. Globes described the puchase: "This is the first time it [SolarWinds] has bought an Israeli company. It is expected to set up it[s] first development center in Israel on the basis of Samanage." Samanage was founded by an Israeli cyberwarfare unit alumnus, Doron Gordon. Here's what Gordon said in a 2016 interview:

The Israeli entrepreneurial culture originates from a military-based education instead of a formal collegiate path that is commonly found in Western societies.

My passion for technology started in elementary school and significantly accelerated during my service with the Israel Defense Forces in an elite computer unit. After completing my service, the military experience and friendships developed helped me forge my own strategic framework for building a company and leading a team of highly-qualified engineers to create amazing products.

2. Christopher Krebs, a (recently fired) Trump administration official, who was widely hailed for pronouncing the 2020 US presidential election the "most secure in American history" was the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during the entire months-long period that the SUNBURST attacked went undetected. Krebs was also in charge when "cellphone surveillance devices ... were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington". Unnamed US officials fingered Israel as the likely culprit.

3. "Just days before the [SUNBURST] hack came to light, the firm's [i.e. SolarWinds] two biggest investors, Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo, sold more than $280 million in stock to a Canadian public pension fund", according to Security Week.

4. According to Globes, "The share prices of Israel's two largest publicly traded cybersecurity companies ..." rose "sharply" on the news of the SolarWinds breach.

Note on Israeli Attacks on the U.S.
* For example, there is the 1947 attempted assassination of Harry Truman by Lehi/the Stern Gang; 1954's Operation Susannah/the Lavon Affair, a false flag bomb attack against US diplomatic facilities in Cairo; the deadly 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty; an alleged false flag assassination attempt against the US Ambassador to Lebanon in 1979; decades of transfers of US and US-bankrolled Israeli military technology to China by Israel and other economic espionage; the Jonathan Pollard espionage scandal in 1985; the Lawrence Franklin/AIPAC espionage scandal in 2004; the Ben-Ami Kadish espionage scandal in 2008; and, the Stewart Nozette espionage scandal in 2009. These are only the alleged or confirmed Israeli operations that have been exposed. They are all largely unknown by the American public and Israel has never been held publicly accountable for any of them.

In 2014, Jeff Stein at Newsweek wrote a series of articles on Israeli espionage directed against the United States. Here are some of them:

• Israel Won't Stop Spying on the U.S.
• Israel's Aggressive Spying in the U.S. Mostly Hushed Up
• Top Israeli Official to Meet with Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Feinstein
• Feinstein Takes Trust But Verify Approach on Israeli Spying
• The Latest Document From the Snowden Trove Highlights Israeli Spying
• Israel Eavesdropped on President Clinton's Diplomatic Phone Calls
• Israel Flagged as Top Spy Threat to U.S. in New Snowden/NSA Document