<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thr0wwy</author><text>Israel is not in the NATO and it&amp;#x27;s time that we Westerners stop treating it as a Western entity.&lt;p&gt;More than half of the Israeli population are of Mizrahi (Arab) and Sephardi (North African) ancestry. Many of them are post-1948 refugees from other Middle Eastern country.&lt;p&gt;It will be easier to understand Israeli cynicism toward the Arab and Islamic world, which includes selling surveillance software to brutal Arab regimes, if we stop assuming that the country is made of Western Jews.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stefan_</author><text>How have NSO not caught a car bomb yet? They are literally running cyber intelligence ops for foreign governments, many of them certainly not NATO buddies, from the heart of Israel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How NSO&apos;s Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists</title><url>https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-how-nso-s-pegasus-is-used-to-spy-on-journalists-1.10010560</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>1cvmask</author><text>After all the news and fanfare and Snowden revelations (there was also the Church commission in the 1970s) I really wonder if there are any real terrorists that actually use anything digital anymore. It seems governments are only left to spy on their own citizens, politicians, opposition and public advocates.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stefan_</author><text>How have NSO not caught a car bomb yet? They are literally running cyber intelligence ops for foreign governments, many of them certainly not NATO buddies, from the heart of Israel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How NSO&apos;s Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists</title><url>https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-how-nso-s-pegasus-is-used-to-spy-on-journalists-1.10010560</url></story>