The ‘Palestinian laboratory'

Arab Times

05-03-2025

Israel released Nael Barghouti after he spent 45 years in prison as a freedom fighter. However, there are still some among our own people who shamelessly continue to sympathize with the Zionist entity, and justify its actions under the pretext that Hamas is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood Group. They insist on refusing to differentiate between a fundamental disagreement with Hamas's ideology and positions, and the Palestinian right to a free and secure state. It seems they have little desire for Palestinians to enjoy a free and secure homeland, for reasons that are no longer a mystery. Jewish-Australian freelance investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein recently released his book titled 'The Palestinian Laboratory'. Few people in our countries, especially those concerned with the issue, have heard of this book, which was first published nearly a year ago. In his book, Loewenstein exposes Israel's crimes, not only within its own borders but also against many peoples governed by merciless dictatorial regimes. These regimes import weapons, mass surveillance devices, and abuse systems from Israel. According to the book, Israel ranks ninth globally in exporting weapons, spying systems, surveillance, and eavesdropping technologies.
It highlights how Israel has benefited from its occupation of Palestinian territories by using it as a testing ground for developing its weapons. With a population of seven million people, the occupied territories serve as an illegal laboratory, where these individuals are subjected to experiments, all of them monitored by highly advanced systems. Consequently, Israel managed to collect a tremendous amount of information about every Palestinian citizen, and it resorted to hiring vast storage capacities from Google and Amazon to store the collected data. The Israeli military-industrial complex uses the occupied Palestinian territories as an open field to test the effects of weapons and surveillance technologies before exporting them to many countries around the world. This unethical exploitation has provided Israel with great experience in controlling the population of any country through surveillance, home demolitions, long-term imprisonment of Palestinians, and the abuse of highly advanced systems and high-tech tools such as the Pegasus spyware, all used in a brutal manner. The book has been praised by leading international intellectuals and politicians as a tragic and sordid record of how Israel, once seen as a moral model in their eyes, has transformed into a supplier of the most brutal tools of sabotage in world history. It highlights Israel's disregard for ethics and its insistence on treating the Palestinian people as human laboratory subjects for criminal experiments. Loewenstein based his book and the television report on certified research, studies, and interviews with a wide variety of Palestinians and former Israeli security officials. The video link is available at the end of this article.
The renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky commented on the book, stating that it is highly recommended for reading because it exposes the hidden and shocking face of Israeli colonialism and the way it uses its oppression of the Palestinians to strengthen its military and security industries, in blatant violation of global human rights principles. Prominent and independent Jewish intellectuals have regarded the book as a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the horrific story of how Israel established its technological economy, built on spyware, drones, and horrific devices that enable it to enslave the Palestinians and deprive them of their basic rights, including the right to possess their own nationality in their homeland. These are testimonies from prominent Jewish witnesses, including Israelis. Yet, there are still those among us who are unashamed to openly express their support for Israel! Here is the link to the book: