WATCH: The Palestine Laboratory & Surveillance Capitalism

Israel uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology they then export around the world to despots and democracies, says journalist Antony Lowenstein.

A new book by journalist Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory, (Scribe Publications) explores how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world. Presented in this video by journalist Peter Cronau, Loewenstein’s co-editor at Declassified Australia and co-author of A Secret Australia.

Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an “enemy” population, the Palestinians.

It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control. Best-selling journalist Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers this largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting.

This book shows in-depth, for the first time, how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration and brutality to the hi-tech tools that drive the ‘Start-up Nation’.

From the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos’ and Jamal Khashoggi’s phones, the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas and drones used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown.

Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware that fuels the globe’s most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model. — From the publisher.

Video by Cathy Vogan for Consortium News.