Israel markets weapons as field-tested against Palestinians

Evidence

Israeli corporations are the most competitive in the field, able to market their commodities as being “tested on the Palestinians.” While the European Union uses its Heron drones to defend its maritime borders against migrants, Israel’s military-industrial complex armed a number of authoritarian governments that perpetuated genocides—against the Tutsi in Rwanda, against the Tamils in Sri Lanka, and against the Rohingya in Myanmar. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 335

Categorization

• SHARE: The sheer brutality of ‘tested on the Palestinians’ as a marketing slogan is a devastating detail to drop into a conversation with anyone studying military supply chains.
• XREF: connects to: US drone assassination techniques were directly exported from Israeli practice in Palestine; Occupation functions as a self-perpetuating fuel that keeps Israel’s war economy running; Palestinians served as test subjects for Israeli security tech exported worldwide. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 589

Broader Connections

• US drone assassination techniques were directly exported from Israeli practice in Palestine #corroborates (0.85)
• Occupation functions as a self-perpetuating fuel that keeps Israel’s war economy running #expands (0.80)