Summary
Author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Picador, 2007), whose chapter ‘Losing the Peace Incentive: Israel as Warning’ David Lloyd cites for Israel as the model of the cutting-edge homeland security state, its repression technologies developed in the laboratory of the Occupied Territories and exported to the neo-liberal world (Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, PDF p.15, 18-19 / printed p.73, 76-77).
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Quoted: ‘[a]n entire country has turned itself into a fortified gated community, surrounded by locked-out people living in permanently excluded red zones’ (PDF p.15 / printed p.73, citing Klein, p.558).
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Klein suggests the model for the global normalisation of the exception: Israel has become exemplary of the generalised State of Exception, furnishing ‘the cutting-edge homeland security state’ (PDF p.18 / printed p.76, citing Klein, p.551).
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“As Klein points out, Israel’s economic prosperity is predicated on its development of the technologies of repression in the laboratory of the Occupied Territories and their export to the neo-liberal world; virtually every major police department in the United States has benefited from its instruction in racial profiling and other counter-terrorist methods” (PDF p.19 / printed p.77, citing Klein, pp.549-557). The claims are Klein’s as Lloyd presents them; no source for them beyond Klein’s chapter is given in the article.
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In Exploitation of Palestinian Labour in Contemporary Zionist Colonialism, Hever credits Klein with first suggesting the laboratory idea in a 2007 article entitled ‘Laboratory for a Fortress World’, further developed in The Shock Doctrine: that Israel is turning the Palestinian Territories, especially Gaza, into laboratories for new Israeli-made weapons and control mechanisms, a new form of exploitation transforming Palestinians from exploited workers to exploited ‘guinea pigs’ (PDF p.6 / printed p.129, notes 7-8).
Related pages
Exploitation of Palestinian Labour in Contemporary Zionist Colonialism, Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, State of Exception, Eyal Weizman