Palestine Laboratory
by Antony Loewenstein · first published 2023
100% recommend
Why HN recommends it
Investigates how Israel developed and tested military, surveillance and security technologies in the Palestinian territories, then exported them abroad. A well-researched read for anyone curious about that link.
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How Israel makes a killing from the occupation. 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 Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers this largely hidden wor
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I always thought this was a new thing until I read The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein. Over more than 50 years Israel has developed a global export industry around military, surveillance, and security technologies that were developed and tested through its control…
on “Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes” ↗apropos of nothing I highly recommend "The Palestine Laboratory" by Anthony Loewenstein
on “Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm” ↗…for large-scale espionage" or just "The Israeli government thinks it would be good to have great cybersecurity skills in the country so they bend the rules a little". A good well-researched read is The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein.
on “AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware” ↗See the book "The Palestine Laboratory" for more on this. https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2684-the-palestine...
on “Civil society in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland targeted with Pegasus spyware” ↗…and such applications are things no government should be proud of deploying. And it's things like this that are ripe to come to other countries. An interesting book that goes into this concept is "The Palestine Laboratory." Sad times indeed.
…was going to happen and allowed the music festival to go on a day longer, one might guess they were frothing at the mouth at how good that propoganda was going to be. Take a read of the book title The Palestine Laboratory - How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World - and you'll even learn that Israel has a long long history of murder around the world, aint none of this new. One side won the propoganda…