The secret sauce of the Israeli economy

Testing weapons on the Palestinians

Why, despite the scale of the horrors it has wrought in Gaza, is the geopolitical outrage against Israel insignificant compared what would another country have had to deal with? The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology Of Profession All Over The World by investigative journalist Anthony Loewenstein builds a detailed example of how Israel, by becoming a major supplier of weapons and surveillance technologies to most countries around the world, has done an excellent job of insuring itself against moral censure and other sanctions.

Israel’s world-class arms industry is developed with equipment that is ‘easy’ to test occupied Palestinians, then marketed as “battle tested,” the book says. This is then used to gain international diplomatic support. The UN itself gives Israeli companies security contracts, including for CCTV cameras, drones and threat detection systems.

The book continues. That’s what it says not under Netanyahu only ethno-nationalism has been turbocharged, he has that convinced many other countries to use Israel as a model: “Netanyahuism as an ideology will outlive him.”

According to the book, historically speaking Israel made apartheid possible in South Africa, genocide in Rwanda, plus dictators like Pinochet, Suharto, Ceausescu and ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier. Today, ‘operational envy’ is of Israel’s technology and its ‘willingness to act with relative freedom and confidence when confronting threats’ penetrating. This is reflected in an endless range of customers including India, China, US, UK and EU.

It’s not just countries, though. From Mexican drug cartels to 2016 Trump campaign against Harvey Weinstein, Many private parties nowadays also pay for ‘private Mossads’, details Loewenstein.

He also writes that Big.’s workforce and machine learning biases Technical support of the Israeli line. This resources the censorship and restrictions experiences of Palestinians under physical occupation are replicated the online worlds. There is widespread ‘digital orientalism’ and then there are even more dystopian tools. Israel has used secret algorithms that target Facebook to arrest Palestinians based on “precrime incidents.”

Regarding the relationship between the US and Israel, the book elaborates on the extent to which Israel “benefited” from the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The message reads: “We have been waging a war on terror since birth. We’ll show you how it’s done.”

After admiration for his internal security sector, Israel’s resilience after the 2008 global financial crisis crisis provoked applause for his start-up “miracle”. But what didn’t get attention was what generated the innovations and profits. In fact, it is the experience of controlling another people that sells Israel on the world market, the book says.

A “majority” of Israeli entrepreneurs are strongly influenced by their time in the IDF. The book quotes one of them: “When it comes to the US military resumes: Silicon Valley is illiterate. What a waste of great leadership talent from Iraq and Afghanistan.”

As of October 7, 2023, Israeli defense companies are actually experiencedcreate greater demand. It’s live now-testing new weapons in Gaza, Loewenstein suggests. And with one “voluptuous aesthetics of warfare”, these are proudly displayed on social media to reach potential global buyers.

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