Israel might be termed a “test-tube state”, one originally cooked up – like apartheid South Africa – in the laboratories of western settler colonialism.
But, even more so than apartheid South Africa, Israel has over time become deeply useful to western corporations, especially the most lucrative of them, in the military-industrial complex.
Israel has transformed the Palestinian territories into its own laboratories, where – via the Shin Bet and Israeli military – corporations can test out new forms of surveillance, crowd control, imprisonment strategies, warfare, weapons development, and Artificial Intelligence programmes.
Israel helps the corporations analyse the ability of humans to endure or resist these various forms of oppression, and as a consequence make adjustments and refinements.
And finally, Israel helps the corporations by testing, through its criminal endeavours, ways to improve public relations and media strategies that obscure the horrifying reality, as well as schemes for eroding international legal norms and constraints.
University research departments are often funded to do similar kinds of work, but they cannot compete with the giant, real-world, real-time laboratory offered by Israel.
The technologies and strategies Israel is testing are all highly lucrative. Western corporations understand that they will be essential in securing their futures in the face of greater popular resistance as austerity continues to grip, environmental degradation – such as river pollution – increases, and the climate breaks down further.
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@972mag@Ha_Matar What a crap use of your time and energy. Maybe you have found a loophole (not sure why you'd hunt for one) but it is definitely counter the spirit of the BDS movement.
@larson109@mehdirhasan I don't know what the fuck you're on about. I'm British, I live in France, I surrendered to no-one. Go smoke some fentanyl and polish your guns you twat.