US drone assassination techniques were directly exported from Israeli practice in Palestine

Evidence

In 2001, U.S. secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld had become convinced that “the techniques used by the Israelis against the Palestinians could quite simply be deployed on a larger scale.” What he had in mind was Israel’s programs of “targeted assassinations,” the existence of which had recently been recognized by the Israeli leadership. As Eyal Weizman explains, the occupied territories had become “the world’s largest laboratory for airborne thanatotactics,” so it was not surprising that they would eventually be exported. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 165 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US drone doctrine was directly sourced from Israeli targeted assassination practice — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 165; Israel markets weapons as field-tested against Palestinians — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 335; Palestinians served as test subjects for Israeli security tech exported worldwide. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 589

Related

• US drone doctrine was directly sourced from Israeli targeted assassination practice (similarity 0.96)
• Israel formally codified combatant-immunity doctrine first developed in the 1990s (similarity 0.84)
• Israel markets weapons as field-tested against Palestinians (similarity 0.82)
• Palestinians served as test subjects for Israeli security tech exported worldwide. (similarity 0.82)
• Israel formalized the doctrine that protecting Israeli soldiers outranks enemy civilians. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• US drone doctrine was directly sourced from Israeli targeted assassination practice #corroborates (0.95) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 165