Summary
The powerful sector of the Israeli economy, in Shir Hever’s account following Naomi Klein and Neve Gordon, that emerged to create technology for the Israeli government and army to control the occupied population and repress its resistance, and whose companies rely on equipment being tested on Palestinians to promote their sales (Exploitation of Palestinian Labour in Contemporary Zionist Colonialism, PDF p.6-7 / printed p.129-130).
Details
- Klein first suggested in ‘Laboratory for a Fortress World’ (2007), developed in The Shock Doctrine, that Israel is turning the Palestinian Territories, especially Gaza, into laboratories for new Israeli-made weapons and control mechanisms (PDF p.6, notes 7-8).
- Companies such as Elbit, Magal and Nice have sought markets other than the Israeli Ministry of Defense and have come to rely on their equipment being tested on Palestinians in order to promote their sales, as described by Gordon (PDF p.6-7, note 9).
- The new product is not a physical product but an accumulation of experience and technology for Warehousing (PDF p.7).
- Scale, on Ackerman (2002) as cited: merely 10-15% of Israel’s exports, 3-4% of its GDP and 1-3% of its workforce, so the Israeli economy cannot be argued to be primarily based on exploiting the Palestinian population (PDF p.7, note 10).
Related pages
Exploitation of Palestinian Labour in Contemporary Zionist Colonialism, Naomi Klein, Neve Gordon, Warehousing, Fortress Israel