Larry Ellison’s Power Play: How a Tech Billionaire Vetted Marco Rubio for Israel and Helped Shape U.S. Policy
“Marco will be a great friend for Israel.” — Larry Ellison, 2015 email to Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor
The Secret Vetting Behind Washington’s New Axis
Long before Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison positioned himself as one of Donald Trump’s closest billionaire allies, he was already working behind the scenes to secure political loyalty to Israel from key American figures, including Florida’s own Marco Rubio.
According to leaked diplomatic emails reviewed by investigative outlet Drop Site News, Ellison personally vetted Rubio in 2015 for his “fealty toward Israel” while the young senator was preparing a presidential run. The correspondence, taken from the hacked inbox of former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor, shows Ellison and Prosor coordinating introductions, reviewing Rubio’s speeches, and arranging a direct meeting between Rubio and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Ellison later wrote to Prosor, “Hi Ron. Great meeting with Marco Rubio. I set him up to meet with Tony Blair. Marco will be a great friend for Israel.”
Weeks later, Ellison hosted a private fundraiser for Rubio at his Woodside, California mansion, channeling millions into the Conservative Solutions super PAC that backed Rubio’s campaign. The emails suggest this support was conditional, based on Rubio’s unwavering alignment with Israeli interests.
The Rise of the Oracle State
Today, Ellison’s influence stretches far beyond Silicon Valley. As Oracle’s stock price soared and the company cemented control over global data infrastructure, Ellison began building something even larger — a political network marrying technology, intelligence, and foreign policy.
His donations to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change now exceed $350 million, effectively turning Blair’s organization into an arm of Oracle’s global influence. Investigations by New Statesman and Lighthouse Reports found that the Institute’s senior staff routinely met with Oracle executives in joint “retreats,” and that Oracle employees regularly attended TBI strategy sessions.
A former staffer told reporters, “It’s hard to get across just how deeply connected the two organizations are. The meetings were like they’re part of the same organization.”
Through this partnership, Ellison and Blair have promoted what Ellison calls a “marriage between government, corporate power, and tech surveillance.” In a 2024 investor call, Ellison openly endorsed mass monitoring:
“We’re going to have supervision. Every police officer will be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report it. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”
This is the man now shaping the next phase of U.S. foreign policy, from Gaza to TikTok.
TikTok, Gaza, and the New Information War
When President Donald Trump reappointed Marco Rubio as Secretary of State in his second administration, Rubio quickly became a central figure in steering TikTok’s U.S. operations toward Ellison’s control. Oracle now audits TikTok’s algorithm, retrains its recommendation engine, and effectively acts as a state-sanctioned gatekeeper for digital information.
The timing is not coincidental. Israeli officials and U.S. pro-Israel lobbyists have publicly blamed TikTok for declining American support for Israel among younger generations. Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League urged that Israel’s allies must “capture” the platform. Even Benjamin Netanyahu called it “the most important purchase going on right now,” declaring, “Weapons change over time, the most important ones are on social media.”
Ellison’s new control over TikTok, backed by Rubio’s foreign policy apparatus, has given Israel’s advocates a direct line to the largest youth communications platform in the world.
From Silicon Valley to the Battlefield
Ellison’s pro-Israel activism extends beyond rhetoric. He has donated more than $16 million to the Friends of the IDF, the largest private gift ever made to the group. His company Oracle provides cloud infrastructure to major defense contractors including Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
Meanwhile, a separate investigation by The Ditch, an Irish outlet, uncovered that a German firm with a Nazi-era weapons legacy, Wieland Group, is shipping the largest known U.S.-origin munitions load to Israel through the Port of Paulsboro, New Jersey. The cargo, bound for Ashdod, Israel, departs from a Buffalo, New York facility.
While Ellison is not named in that shipping network, the pattern is clear: Big Tech billionaires and legacy arms suppliers are fusing their resources, data systems, and political connections to fuel an industrial-scale war economy.
Florida’s Complicity
That Ellison chose Rubio, a Florida politician, as his vetted partner is no accident. Florida has long been a strategic hub for both defense contracting and pro-Israel political fundraising. Miami and Fort Lauderdale host major Israeli tech investors, many of whom now overlap with Oracle’s cloud infrastructure clientele. By elevating Rubio from senator to Secretary of State under Trump, Ellison ensured that Florida’s political elite, a state pivotal in every modern election, would remain aligned with both the Israeli government and the billionaire surveillance complex driving modern warfare.
The Bigger Picture
This is not just about emails or old fundraisers. It’s about the privatization of foreign policy, where billionaires like Ellison can handpick U.S. officials, control digital communications platforms, and fund global surveillance programs under the guise of “security” and “innovation.”
It’s the new empire of influence: a merger of government, tech, and war wrapped in the language of democracy.
Ellison, Rubio, and Blair represent a 21st-century axis of power, one that answers to no electorate, no accountability, and no higher ideal than control.
