The Empire Consolidates: How Israel’s Strategic Agenda Drives Larry Ellison’s Media Takeover
Paramount’s proxy war, Warner’s forced bid, and the emerging censorship architecture built through billionaire acquisition rather than law.
Every outlet is pushing the same story:
“Paramount Plans Proxy Fight to Push Hostile Warner Bid.”
It’s being framed as corporate theater, another clash of executives and shareholders. But what the media is presenting is merely the visible layer of a far larger system, one designed to mask the strategic consolidation happening underneath. Paramount’s preparation for a proxy assault to force through a hostile takeover of Warner Bros. is not a business dispute. It is an escalation in a long-running war over control of the American information sphere. The man financing the maneuver — Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison — is not an ordinary investor. His record, political alliances, and operational behavior place him at the center of a far more consequential architecture: one that merges media consolidation, geopolitical alignment, and the suppression of public dissent into a single coherent strategy.
“This is not a merger. It is the construction of an information regime.”
The takeover attempt only makes sense when placed within Ellison’s broader moves over the past decade. In addition to his massive funding of pro-Israel political infrastructure, Ellison has quietly built one of the most powerful digital surveillance platforms in the world through Oracle’s government contracts. Those databases form the backbone of immigration systems, health systems, law-enforcement analytics, military logistics, and private-sector consumer tracking. Parallel to this, Ellison’s son David Ellison has been acquired Paramount, restructure CBS News, and now advance a campaign to seize Warner Bros. Discovery — an empire that includes CNN, HBO, and a vast network of international media channels. Ellison is also, simultaneously, the leading candidate being positioned to take over TikTok in the United States. Each of these developments appears distinct when seen through the narrow lens of corporate news. But taken together, they reveal a coherent architecture whose objective is unmistakable: consolidate the channels of perception before the next geopolitical rupture.
“The renewal of the Jewish State is something that I think touches all of us. For 2000 years we we were a stateless people now we have a country of our own.” — Larry Ellison. When an American billionaire controlling U.S. media declares allegiance to a foreign state, the system does not react with scrutiny. Its silence is the revelation.
These are not the words of a neutral investor. They outline a hierarchy of allegiance, one that becomes unmistakable once placed beside the leaked diplomatic correspondence between Ellison and Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor. The hacked archive shows far more than donor enthusiasm: it reveals Ellison vetting Marco Rubio for ideological obedience, arranging Rubio’s private grooming by Tony Blair, and effectively inserting himself into the machinery that would later shape America’s national-security policy, TikTok legislation, and the tightening of U.S. speech controls in alignment with Israeli strategic agenda.
This context is crucial, because Rubio did not simply support pro-Israel policy; he attempted to weaponize the U.S. passport system itself. A new bill would empower Rubio as the Secretary of State to strip American citizens of their passports without due process for what is defined as political speech. It was an unmistakable attempt to export Israeli-style speech repression into American law, bypassing courts, constitutional protections, and the very idea of dissent.
This is no longer donor influence. It is private, foreign-aligned political engineering disguised as democratic governance.
The Ellison–Prosor Emails: A Reconstructed Conversation
Email 1 — Early 2015: The Opening Signal
The first exchanges between Larry Ellison and Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor were not casual notes between acquaintances, they read like early-stage vetting sessions. Prosor, then finishing his term as Israel’s ambassador to the UN, reached out to Ellison as the GOP primary began to take shape. Marco Rubio was emerging as a potential front-runner, and Prosor wanted Ellison’s direct read: Is Rubio dependable? Is he aligned? Is he usable?
The framing of the request was unmistakable. Prosor wasn’t asking for political analysis. He was asking whether Rubio would carry Israel’s strategic line inside a future White House.
Email 2 — April 26, 2015: The Rubio File
Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor followed up with an email titled “Rubio speech,” requesting that Ellison send him the text of Rubio’s latest remarks, a speech where Rubio accused the Obama administration of “hostility to Israel.” The subtext here was simple: Prosor wanted documentation. He wanted to see the rhetoric, test its reliability, and confirm whether Rubio’s public posture matched Israel’s private expectations.
Email 3 — April 27, 2015: The Meeting
Within 24 hours, the emails show Ellison and Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor confirming a dinner together and preparing for Ellison’s direct meeting with Rubio. Ellison closes the message with a telling line:
“I’ll tell you how dinner goes with Senator Rubio.”
This is not how donors talk. This is how handlers talk.
Email 4 — April 30, 2015: The Scrutiny Question
Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor emailed Ellison again, thanking him for the previous evening and — crucially — asking the single most revealing question in the entire chain:
“Did he pass your scrutiny?”
Not your opinion.
Not your impressions.
Your scrutiny.
Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor wanted to know whether Rubio met Ellison’s loyalty threshold, specifically about Israel. He wanted confirmation that Rubio could be counted on as a strategic asset, not just a candidate.
Email 5 — Hours Later: The Answer
Ellison replies with the enthusiasm of a man who believes he has found a compliant instrument:
“Great meeting with Marco Rubio. I set him up to meet with Tony Blair. Marco will be a great friend for Israel.”
In one sentence, Ellison acknowledges:
- He vetted Rubio.
- He approved Rubio.
- He escalated Rubio into another power-center (Tony Blair).
- And he affirmed Rubio’s role as a political asset for Israel.
This is not normal donor behavior. This is political placement. Subsequent emails between Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor and Ellison continue in the same tone — friendly, coordinated, and strategically aligned. The ambassador and the billionaire remained in active communication about Rubio’s positioning, messaging, and alignment.
The Outcome
A month later, Ellison held a private fundraiser for Rubio at his Woodside estate, the first public sign of the partnership that the emails had already made clear. Between 2015 and 2016, Ellison funneled $5 million into Rubio-aligned PACs, effectively becoming one of the senator’s top financial lifelines.
And Rubio, exactly as Ellison had forecast, became one of the Senate’s most vocal defenders of Israel — in rhetoric, policy, and foreign-policy posture.
Operation Mockingbird 2.0: How Ellison’s Media Conquest Became the New Censorship Architecture”
The deeper context is essential to understand why Ellison’s bid for Warner Bros. is so urgent. After October 7, elite networks aligned with Israeli interests attempted to impose sweeping censorship across American digital platforms. DHS advisory boards, FBI “disinformation” directives, NGO partnerships, and congressional pressure campaigns were deployed with unprecedented velocity, seeking to criminalize or suppress criticism of Israel both during and after the Gaza massacres. But federal courts stepped in. Whistleblowers leaked internal documents. Independent media exposed coordination between government agencies and Silicon Valley. And public trust in mainstream outlets collapsed.
The Empire encountered a problem: the public refused to be managed.
Thus the pivot. The system abandoned direct censorship and returned to an older, historically proven doctrine — the one deployed through Operation Mockingbird, through Cold War perception management, through post-9/11 propaganda pipelines, and through the pre-Iraq War disinformation campaigns: if you cannot silence dissent through regulation, you silence it by controlling the platforms where dissent circulates. Ellison’s attempt to claim Paramount, Warner, CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok is the modern execution of that doctrine, now accelerated and merged with data surveillance at a level the twentieth century intelligence networks could only imagine.
Warner Bros. Discovery is not simply a studio. It is an international broadcast architecture that shapes the consciousness of hundreds of millions. CNN remains a global framing mechanism for geopolitical narratives. HBO’s prestige programming defines cultural memory. Discovery’s factual channels supply the low-level explanatory worldviews that many Americans internalize without question. To acquire all of this while simultaneously acquiring a short-form social ecosystem like TikTok — and while already controlling CBS — is to construct a unified perception grid. This is the infrastructure through which public understanding of war, dissent, and political legitimacy is manufactured.
“The battlefield is no longer territory. It is interpretation.”
What makes the Ellison consolidation uniquely dangerous is not simply the scale of the media he seeks to command, but the geopolitical alignment of his loyalties. Ellison is the largest donor in history to Friends of the IDF. He has pledged more than $350 million to the Tony Blair Institute, which has, in turn, shaped U.S.–Israel digital governance proposals and advised on Netanyahu’s post-war restructuring plan for Gaza. During his September 2025 visit to the United States, Netanyahu publicly told a room of American social-media influencers that TikTok would be one of Israel’s “new battle weapons,” and openly stated that he was personally involved in pushing the U.S. acquisition process forward, adding that he would speak with Elon Musk to impose additional content restrictions on American users. To place the platform’s influence architecture under the authority of a billionaire whose political commitments are explicitly aligned with Israeli strategic aims is not a business development; it is a national-security event.
The historical parallels are unmistakable. After the Iraq War intelligence failures, the Bush administration did not dismantle the narrative machinery that produced false consensus. It expanded it. After the Vietnam-era revelations of CIA media penetration, the agency did not reduce its influence operations. It privatized them through relationships with industry, think tanks, and aligned donors. After the Church Committee exposed surveillance excesses, the intelligence community shifted to private contractors, NGOs, and tech conglomerates. The Ellison consolidation is simply the next iteration of this evolution: a hybrid model where billionaires serve as the public-facing custodians of state-aligned information control.
Paramount’s proxy fight is not an isolated event. It is the visible manifestation of a systemic doctrine: consolidate, centralize, and silence. With TikTok under threat of forced sale, Ellison emerges as the preferred candidate for both Congress and Israel’s political class, precisely because he is aligned, reliable, and willing to construct the censorship infrastructure through which future American foreign policy must pass. Warner Bros. Discovery is the missing piece — the final pillar required to unify network news, entertainment, short-form platforms, surveillance databases, and geopolitical messaging under a single interoperable authority.
“Empires do not ban speech. They acquire the platforms where speech occurs.”
This is the architecture taking shape. It explains why the Paramount bid persists despite resistance from Warner’s board, despite weak financial logic, and despite Wall Street hesitation. The objective is not profit. The objective is informational sovereignty — a monopoly over the narratives that determine public consent for war, surveillance, and geopolitical alignment. When the traditional architecture of censorship collapses, consolidation becomes the new method of control.
The stakes are not abstract. You cannot sell a war with Iran, Lebanon, or Yemen while independent platforms transmit unfiltered footage of civilian casualties. You cannot justify endless military aid when Americans witness atrocities in Gaza in real time. You cannot maintain the legitimacy of an empire when the public can see the empire. Ellison’s consolidation is not a response to market conditions. It is a response to dissent.
As George Orwell warned, “All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
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