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A couple of weeks ago, Australian journalist and author Antony Loewenstein, a longtime Israel-Palestine observer, won the 2023 Walkley Book Award<\/a> (Australia\u2019s equivalent of the Pulitzer) for his latest work, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World<\/em><\/a> (Verso 2023). A TMR contributor to our GAZA issue, we asked Antony to present the book in this new excerpt. He is the author of one of our most-read stories, published during the last major assault on Gaza in 2021, The Warm, Resilient and Steadfast People of Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Antony Loewenstein<\/h4>\n

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History didn\u2019t begin on October 7, 2023. Palestine was occupied long before then.<\/p>\n

And yet the brutal Hamas attacks on October 7 were unprecedented. Daring in execution and merciless towards Israeli civilians, the Israeli response was always going to be overwhelming. True to form, the Jewish state unleashed a disproportionate\u00a0bombardment of Gaza, killing at least 15,000 civilians at the time of writing and displacing the majority of \u00a02.3 million Palestinian citizens residing there. Most of my Gazan friends have lost their homes, refugees in their own land.<\/p>\n

My book was released in May 2023, nearly six months before the Hamas attacks, but it\u2019s exploded in popularity around the world since October 7 because many people want to understand how Israel tried (and failed) to imprison the entire population of Gaza in a techno-dystopian jail. Gazans have long been the ultimate guinea-pigs in a cruel, 24\/7 testing ground with the most sophisticated forms of Israeli drones, surveillance equipment and \u201csmart\u201d fences. However, Israel fell victim to technical hubris, the belief that the most expensive forms of repressive tech would bring security.<\/p>\n

Israelis will never be safe while Palestinians live under occupation.<\/p>\n

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Killing or injuring Palestinians should be as easy as ordering pizza. That was the logic behind an Israeli military-designed app in 2020 that allowed a commander in the field to send details about a target on an electronic device to troops who would then quickly neutralize that Palestinian. The colonel working on the project, Oren Matzliach, told the Israel Defense website that the strike would be \u201clike ordering a book on Amazon or a pizza in a pizzeria using your smartphone.\u201d 1<\/p>\n

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The Palestine Laboratory<\/em> is published by Verso<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This kind of dehumanization is the inevitable result of endless occupation. It is also an export asset. What\u2019s appealing to growing numbers of regimes globally is learning how Israel gets away with politicide. That term was adapted to Israel\/Palestine by the late Israeli scholar and professor of sociology Baruch Kimmerling, who argued in 2003 that Israel\u2019s domestic and foreign policy is \u201clargely oriented towards one major goal: the politicide of the Palestinian people. By politicide I mean a process that has, as its ultimate goal, the dissolution of the Palestinian people\u2019s existence as a legitimate social, political, and economic entity. This process may also but not necessarily include their partial or complete ethnic cleansing from the territory known as the Land of Israel.\u201d 2<\/p>\n

A rare moment of Israeli political honesty came in October 2021 when far-right Israeli parliamentarian Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionist Party and ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said in the Knesset to the Arab members, \u201cYou\u2019re only here by mistake, because [founding prime minister David] Ben-Gurion didn\u2019t finish the job, didn\u2019t throw you out in \u201948.\u201d It was an acknowledgment that ethnic cleansing took place in 1948, albeit delivered by one of the most racist and homophobic Israeli politicians.<\/p>\n

It is not a new point of view; in fact, it\u2019s been state ideology since 1948. Declassified documents from the Israel State Archives in 2021 revealed that attitudes toward the Palestinians have not changed much since the 1940s. It has been official policy, at least among some of the nation\u2019s senior military and political elites, to forcibly expel Arabs to neighboring countries for the entire period of the country\u2019s existence. Reuven Aloni, deputy director general of the Israel Lands Administration, said during a 1965 meeting that the ideal goal was \u201cpopulation exchange.\u201d He was optimistic \u201cthat a day will come, in another ten, fifteen or twenty years, when there will be a situation of a certain kind, with a war or something resembling a war, when the basic solution will be a matter of transferring the Arabs. I think that we should think about this as a final goal.\u201d 3<\/p>\n

Yehoshua Verbin, commander of the military government that ruled over Arab citizens between 1948 and 1966, admitted that ethnic cleansing occurred in 1948. \u201cWe expelled around half a million Arabs, we burnt homes, we looted their land \u2014 from their point of view \u2014 we didn\u2019t give it back, we took land \u2026\u201d he said. The \u201csolution\u201d offered, then and now, was eerily similar to Kimmerling\u2019s thesis; either make the Arabs disappear, and if that was not possible render them unequal in the hope that they might emigrate by choice for a better life elsewhere. Kimmerling could have added that politicide became a marketable tool around the world for nations and officials that wanted to emulate Israeli \u201csuccess.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2002, Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld explained on Australian television what he saw as the dilemma faced by the Jewish state:<\/p>\n

They [Israeli soldiers] are very brave people \u2026 they are idealists \u2026 they want to serve their country and they want to prove themselves. The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose-lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel\u2026if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape. Now the Israeli army has not by any means been the worst of the lot. It has not done what for instance the Americans did in Vietnam\u2026it did not use napalm, it did not kill millions of people. So everything is relative, but by definition, to return to what I said earlier if you are strong and you are fighting the weak, then anything you do is criminal. 4<\/p>\n

Van Creveld was not factually wrong, but he underestimated how appealing the ideology of domination has become after more than seven decades of occupation. Israel\u2019s homeland security industry has effectively monetized its tools and strategy, showing with battle-tested examples how a belief in separation, keeping Palestinians and Israelis distant from each other so long as the latter dominated the former, was the solution in the short to medium term. Separatists, argued Kimmerling, wanted \u201cthe opposite of ethnic cleansing but it would have a similar practical and psychological outcome. It is rooted in a mixture of intertwined emotions: distrust, fear and a hatred of Arabs, combined with the desire to remove Israel from its immediate cultural milieu.\u201d 5<\/p>\n

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Palestinians flee to the southern Gaza on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip, Nov. 9, 2023. (photo Hatem Moussa AP).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Separate and Unequal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Separatism is the ascendant ideology in the Israeli mainstream. Prominent Israeli historian Benny Morris told Reuters in 2020 that disappearing Palestinians from view was an ideal solution for Israeli Jews. \u201cIsraelis have gone off Palestinians,\u201d he said. \u201cThey want as little as possible to do with them, want as few of them around as possible and the [separation] fence [between Israel and the West Bank] helps that situation emerge.\u201d 6<\/p>\n

Morris blamed that on the Palestinian campaign of suicide bombings during the Second Intifada between 2000 and 2005, in which more than 3,100 Palestinians and 1,038 Israelis were killed, 6,000 Palestinians arrested, and 4,100 Palestinians homes destroyed. 7<\/p>\n

The most effective example of separatism is the encirclement of Gaza, trapping more than 2 million Palestinians behind high fences, under constant drone surveillance, infrequent missile attack, and largely closed borders enforced by Israel and Egypt. 8 When Israel completed the 65-kilometer hightech barrier along the entire border with Gaza in late 2021, at a cost of US$1.11 billion, a ceremony in southern Israel took place to mark the occasion. Haaretz described the wall as \u201ca complex engineering and technological system: the only one of its kind in the world\u201d that required construction assistance from Europe. 9<\/p>\n

Back in 2002, three years before Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon withdrew 9,000 Jewish settlers from Gaza, Israeli historian Van Creveld predicted the vision: \u201c[The only solution is] building a wall between us and the other side, so tall that even the birds cannot fly over it \u2026 so as to avoid any kind of friction for a long, long time in the future \u2026 We could formally finish the problem, at least in Gaza, in 48 hours, by getting out and building a proper wall. And then of course, if anybody tries to climb over the wall, we kill him.\u201d 10<\/p>\n

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In the weeks after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Israeli journalist and columnist Gideon Levy reminded his readers of an uncomfortable truth. He told them that their long-held belief, that military power was all that matters to stay alive and prosper, was a lie. \u201cThe lesson Israel should be learning from Ukraine is the opposite,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMilitary power is not enough, it is impossible to survive alone, we need true international support, which can\u2019t be bought just by developing drones that drop bombs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Levy explained that the age of the Jewish state paralyzing the world when it cries \u201canti- Semitism\u201d was coming to a close. He hoped that the world\u2019s \u201cguilt\u201d because of the Holocaust would soon end and allow it to finally challenge Israeli violence and occupation. \u201cIf Israel continues to rely so much on its military power, the guilt and emotional extortion and the power that comes with it will wane,\u201d he warned. 11<\/p>\n

This was a view that has rarely appeared in the Western media. Israel is still often framed as a thriving if beleaguered democracy and a key ally in the battle against extremism. Its status as a leading defense exporter is legendary, willing to militarily assist, arm, or train the majority of nations on earth. Very few other countries can match this stature.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe growth of Israel\u2019s defense industries is a story of success inseparable from the history of the State of Israel and the entire Zionist project,\u201d wrote right-wing Israeli think- tank, the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, in 2018. \u201cIsrael\u2019s defense industries are a source of national pride \u2014 and rightfully so.\u201d 12<\/p>\n

Only occasionally is this image ruptured. For example, when Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch accuse Israel of being an apartheid state. Or when Ret. Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, declared in 2021 that Israel might not exist in 20 years\u2019 time because it is a \u201cstrategic liability of the first order for the United States\u201d and becoming an \u201capartheid state.\u201d13<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Israel\u2019s position as a global leader in surveillance, drones, and ethnonationalist fervor will not dim anytime soon. There is currently no political or financial price being paid by Israelis for maintaining this system. If anything, Russia\u2019s actions in Ukraine will fuel the global arms race, especially in Europe, to invest even more money in the most lethal offensive and defensive weapons from drones to missiles and surveillance tech to phone- hacking tools. Israel is a direct beneficiary of this surging investment.<\/p>\n

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End Notes<\/h4>\n

1\u2014David Cronin, \u201cApp makes killing Palestinians as easy as ordering pizzas<\/a>,\u201d Electronic Intifada, Dec 2, 2020.
\n2\u2014Baruch Kimmerling, Politicide: The Real Legacy of Ariel Sharon<\/em><\/a>, London: Verso, 2003, p. 3.
\n3\u2014Adam Raz, \u201cWhen the Shin Bet chief warned that educated Arabs <\/a>are a \u2018problem\u2019 for Israel<\/a>,\u201d Haaretz, Sep 16, 2021.
\n4\u2014Jennifer Byrne, \u201cInterview with Martin van Creveld,\u201d ABC\u00a0Australia Foreign Correspondent, March 20, 2002.
\n5\u2014Kimmerling, Politicide<\/em>, p. 169.
\n6\u2014Stephen Farrell, Dan Williams, and Maayan Lubell, \u201cPalestinians <\/a>out of sight and out of mind for Israelis seared by 2000 uprising<\/a>,\u201d Reuters, Sept 29, 2020.
\n7\u2014Gideon Levy, \u201cThe Second Intifada, 20 years on: Thousands died <\/a>in a struggle that failed<\/a>,\u201d Haaretz, Sep 26, 2020.
\n8\u2014Ben White, \u201cIsrael-Palestine: Normalizing apartheid under the <\/a>guise of \u2018shrinking the conflict,\u2019<\/a>\u201d Middle East Eye, Sept 24, 2021.
\n9\u2014Yaniv Kubovich, \u201cIsrael completes vast, billion- dollar Gaza barrier,<\/a>\u201d Haaretz, Dec 7, 2021.
\n10\u2014Byrne, \u201cInterview with Martin van Creveld.\u201d
\n11\u2014Gideon Levy, \u201cIsrael is strong\u2014at extortion and pity<\/a>,\u201d Haaretz, March 10, 2022.
\n12\u2014Uzi Rabin, Israel\u2019s Defense Industries: From Clandestine Work<\/a>shops to Global Giants, Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security<\/a>, 2018.
\n13\u2014Philip Weiss, \u201cIsrael will be \u2018gone\u2019 in 20 years\u2014says Wilkerson, former State Dept. aide<\/a>,\u201d Mondoweiss, Sept 22, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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