“Right now we are seeing a military force in Israel that is completely unprepared for anyone who has the means to fight back.”
…. Shir Hever explains how mass surveillance is used on Palestinians and exported to other governments around the world, and how Palestinian resistance is able to punch holes into Israel’s technological superiority.
“The Israeli security elite is in a deep crisis,” he tells The Electronic Intifada Podcast.
Israel’s weapons and surveillance technology industry – much of it run by private entrepreneurs – is able to test its new products on Palestinians. The industry has been able to capitalize on its unethical experiments by promoting its innovations as “battle-proven” and some Israeli arms companies have reaped enormous profits.
Yet “right now we are seeing a military force in Israel that is completely unprepared for anyone who has the means to fight back,” Hever says.”
Podcast Ep 22: Why Israel isn’t as powerful as it wants us to think | The Electronic Intifada
Economist Shir Hever discusses Israel’s private arms and security sector.
— Read on electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-22-why-israel-isnt-powerful-it-wants-us-think
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