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**Spread** · (This post was last modified: 01-31-2012 05:55 AM by Spread.)

The government and military have unofficially outsourced some of their intelligence work to private organizations that monitor anti-Israel incitement in the Palestinian media and are associated with right-wing politics, according to several high-ranking government and military sources.

The situation - which the sources said stemmed from a lack of resources, shifting priorities and years of neglect - has prompted some government officials to ask Military Intelligence chief Aviv Kochavi in the last few weeks to take action. Staff members in PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu's bureau were among the officials who complained to Kochavi.

A Military Intelligence decision to more closely monitor social media, blogs and other online sources after the events of the Arab Spring has meant dramatically reduced monitoring of the mainstream Arab-language media, the IDF sources said. They said Military Intelligence has almost totally stopped monitoring major television stations in real time, like Al Jazeera, Al-Manar and Palestinian television.

For instance, they said, MI soldiers listen to the Friday sermons broadcast on Palestinian television and radio stations a few days later.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/new...s-1.410082

**UcDat**

so they put everything they had into spying on everyone's tweets and don't have anyone left to watch the news...

Lmao

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