The Palestine Laboratory

How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

Narrated by: Finlay Robertson

** Winner of the 2023 Walkley Book Award for Non-fiction Journalism **

** Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing **

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 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 defense hardware that fuels the globe's most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model.

“A sad and sordid record of how "the light unto the nations" became the purveyor of the means of violence and brutal repression from Guatemala to Myanmar and wherever else the opportunity arose.” - Noam Chomsky

“A sharp exposé of how Israel's suppression of Palestine has translated into lucrative anti-terrorist systems that the Israeli government exports globally...[An] eye-opening delineation of the alarming ramifications of Israel's status as an 'ethnonationalist state.” - Kirkus Reviews

©2023 Antony Loewenstein (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd

Frightening

This is some Middle East history very well hidden from main stream news and even most other sources.
The impact on the world is huge. The danger of this supply of arms and technology to any tyrant who has money to pay for these goods and services is scary.
The reader is vey articulate, but his bias for the subject is plain.

Very informative

Very informative book - however, the narrator performance was actually quite annoying at some points, it really impacted the overall experience

Facts

Its got em all over the place- about time someone jewish spit facts related to palestine

Important read by knowledgeable and credible journalist

Is that what our world will become? Country can kill and steal as long as they are “West” friend? Depressing. There is a lot of propaganda and gaslighting when it comes to ongoing genocide of Palestinian people, of course one can listen to that and feel better, the truth is much harder to acknowledge - human life being completely disregarded and it’s happening while “civilized” world stands by, watching. This book provides insightful account of what’s actually happening and why.

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Equating what is going on in Palestine to the Uyghurs is ridiculous and sort of ruins this novel a bit. There’s an ongoing genocide in Palestine. It’s not even comparable.

Important but badly edited

You would think you would get clear a ti b between tested in palestine and sold on to bad people. but is is more a collection of rambling anekdotes that form no overall narrative or point. the author tends to drift between stories and levels of israeli involvement very fluidly. Eg eu border policy is bad but it would with or without isreali drones and it is not clear how this is related. Could have used a rewrite