“The appeal is that these weapons have been tested on Palestinians… That’s how Israel has made and kept a lot of friends”, Loewenstein says.
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War… Israel’s Most Profitable Business
In this conversation, journalist Frank Barat interviews Antony Loewenstein, an independent journalist, filmmaker, and co-founder of Declassified Australia. Loewenstein released his book, “The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World” in May 2023, and in this interview, he delves into how Israel’s military industrial complex used the occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technologies that they advertise and export around the world, including to Arab states.
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