Israeli Dalet infiltrated all Arab TV channels at once, when the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), affiliated with the Arab League, linked its cloud network (ASBU Cloud) with the Israelis.
Last year, the Union (based in Tunisia) launched a “cloud network” project that connects all members of the Union to each other, through which they exchange photos, videos, texts, and many applications and services in the field of informatics.
The network consists of servers on global cloud networks and Internet connections, through which the abstracts and files received are indexed by artificial intelligence services, unification of central storage devices (Data Center) where data and information are stored and voice communication devices are unified. This eventually ends with Dalet, an Israeli manufacturer of technology systems.
The Israeli company is one of three main companies working on the ASBU Cloud project, and “helps” media channels manage their news assets and create visual and audio content as well as archiving and exchange systems.
Dalet's website indicates that it was founded in 1993 by brothers Solomon and Michel Al-Haddad, and David Lasri, in the Beersheba area, southern Palestine. This trio is still managing it. While Lasri is interested in the French branch, the Haddad brothers are interested in managing the main research and development center in Beersheba.
The Haddad brothers dream, as stated in one of the introductory texts on their account on LinkedIn, "to establish a society that will be responsible for the livelihood and lives of hundreds of people over the years. Not just any society, but a Zionist society that produces technological products in Israel and sells them to major customers in the outside".
This is exactly what happened with the Arab League, which joined the company’s list of clients abroad and became part of the contributors to supporting the Israeli economy and the society that the Haddad brothers dream of establishing.
Dalet also categorized the union’s cooperation as “trust” and said in a post “We feel proud to be part of the strategic (ASBU Cloud) project to enhance its operations and make it more flexible.”
Since the beginning of May 2023, and under this project, workers in the union and in the official media in the Arab countries have been using the Dalet system on their computers in work centers or on their own devices to exchange and edit files.
Since access to the system requires entering the username, password, and email, all this information is available to the Israeli company that owns the system, its keys, and programs, which enables it to monitor and penetrate easily.
According to information published by the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper, among the employees of the Israeli company are officers and soldiers from the reserve ranks of the Israeli army who were involved in the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip. Some of them clearly indicate in their identification box their previous jobs in the notorious "8200" intelligence unit of the Mossad.
It is noteworthy that the company's name Dalet, which means the letter "D" in Hebrew and is pronounced "Dalet", is the same that was adopted by the Zionist "Haganah" organization to displace Palestinians from their homes in 1948, in the name of Plan "D".
The Union's CIO Director, Salem Al-Zoubi, said that Dalet has become "the backbone of ASBU Cloud’s digital media supply chain". It is noteworthy that Al-Zoubi, because of his position, is primarily responsible for ensuring the highest level of information protection and personal security for those working on the platform.
Responsibilities in the union are distributed between its president, Abdul Rahim Suleiman, from Sudan, in addition to the engineering committee concerned with the project which is headed by the Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information, Nasser Ahmed Muheisen, and his two deputies, the first being the director of the media department at the Saudi Radio and Television Corporation, Muwaffaq bin Fawaz Al-Shammari and the second the director of the broadcast technology department of Abu Dhabi Media Company, Abdullah Omar Al Hashemi.
As of November 2023, the number of those registered on the cloud network, including the Dalet system, reached about 150 employees from official television and radio stations, according to figures from the "Standing Committee for Engineering Affairs in the Union" which also revealed that the outcome of exchanges on the network up to August 2023 amounted to 60% of the total television exchanges and 83% of radio exchanges.
Positions and trends vary within the Arab media on the Palestinian issue, as some of them line up under the title of "normalizing with the enemy" while others embrace "resistance in all its sects and names".
Normalization, through an analysis of the development of media discourse, began adopting this policy a long time ago, as some Arab media outlets used religious or nationalist justifications to justify normalization with the Israeli enemy.
This media trend changes with the change in political events and developments in the region and according to historical circumstances from the establishment of the Zionist entity in occupied Palestine up to the current reality.
What the Arab States Broadcasting Union did is considered one of two: either lack of responsibility or collusion against Arab countries that have not yet joined the trend of normalizers, such as Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Iraq and Algeria.
Lebanon, which is subjected to continuous attacks from the Israeli enemy, is supposed to deal with extreme caution regarding everything related to it in terms of companies, programs, devices, and applications, especially since it is exposed to a cyber intelligence war on more than one level. Hereby, the Lebanese government and the Minister of Information are expected to communicate with the Union to stop or withdraw from the project.
It is noteworthy that the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), one of the joint Arab action institutions, was established in 1969 to develop Arab cooperation in the radio and television field. It serves as an umbrella that brings together official Arab radio and television stations and a number of private channels and foreign Arabic-speaking agencies. It provides its members with radio and television training, news, programmatic and sports exchanges, and coverage of major events in the Arab region and beyond, in addition to consulting services.
