It seems to come out later that all the cries, news reports and claims of astonishment and a countries failure at knowing something was going to happen... the country surprised knew all along, allowed it and was going to use the event in the near future for their own political and power gains. The loss of life is always expendable for the greater power and control.
I'm old enough to remember that when Israeli warplanes were raining death on Gaza... when Israeli snipers were competing to see who could kneecap the greatest number of Palestinian children during the great march of return... and murdering journalists for covering their atrocities.. the good citizens of Sderot brought out lawn chairs to cheer them on.
That's a true story.
Now I feel sorry for those same good citizens of Sderot, but I wish the fuck I didn't.
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December 28, 2016 Country: Israel Author: Matt Kennard Grantee
Investigator Iyal Haddad explains the injuries the different spent weapons in his office have done to Palestinians. Image Matt Kennard. Palestine. 2016.
Round the back of Ramallah's .. https://electronicintifada.net/tags/ramallah .. main hospital lies the house of Iyad Haddad, a 52-year-old human rights investigator. His home office is the shopfront of a decrepit building and at first glance it looks like a bric-a-brac shop. But the objects placed out on the tables are not household trinkets. The surfaces are, in fact, cluttered with spent ammunition, tear gas .. https://electronicintifada.net/tags/tear-gas .. canisters, sponge bullets and shell casings.
Haddad has spent the past three decades documenting the violence of the Israeli forces occupying his people's land. These ugly little pieces of memorabilia are his testament to that process.
"Sometimes they are using us so they can know how to use each kind of weapon," he said. "For me, these kinds of activities by the Palestinians become helpful to the Israelis because it makes this area into a laboratory to test their weapons, to develop them and make it a commercial industry in order to sell them to other countries."
The idea that the Israeli arms industry benefits from the occupation through having a captive population it can test new weaponry on is now widely accepted.
[ Insert: How Israeli technology turns occupation into profit 9 Aug 2023 The Israeli military-industrial complex has turned the occupied Palestinian territory intoa testing ground for advanced weaponry and surveillance technology, which it exports worldwide. From powerful tools like the Pegasus software, which was used to hack the phones of high-profile individuals such as Jeff Bezos and Jamal Khashoggi, to selling drones to the European Union to monitor people seeking to cross the Mediterranean, Israel’s technology has become a global leader in conflicts around the world. https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2023/8/9/how-israeli-technology-turns-occupation-into-profit ]
The high-velocity tear gas canister has been heavily tested in Bilin. In 2009, the weapon killed Bassem Abu Rahmah .. https://electronicintifada.net/tags/bassem-abu-rahmah , an unarmed local activist, protesting the wall slicing into that village. At the end of 2011, another protester, Mustafa Tamimi .. https://electronicintifada.net/tags/mustafa-tamimi , was killed in Nabi Saleh by a tear gas canister, shot at his head.
Mr. Netanyahu, Tear Down This Wall by Robert Naiman November 10, 2009 On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Western leaders are full of self-congratulation. But their paeans to universal freedom ring hollow, when they bear large responsibility for another wall constricting human freedom: the apartheid wall dividing the Palestinian West Bank. P - Israeli authorities refer to it as a "separation barrier," but that's misleading. The wall doesn't separate pre-1967 Israel from the West Bank. If that's all it did, it would be an entirely different political object. Instead, the wall cuts deep into the Palestinian West Bank, separating Palestinians from each other and from their land, and signaling to the Palestinians that Israel intends to annex territory that Palestinians want for an independent Palestinian state. The fact that Western countries that support the Israeli government - above all the United States - say nothing about the West Bank wall signals to Palestinians that Western support for Palestinian statehood is merely rhetorical. [...] AFP notes that 85 percent of the planned wall is inside the West Bank, and it would leave 9.5 percent of the West Bank and 35,000 West Bank Palestinians between the barrier and the Green Line that marks the 1967 border with Israel. P - The World Court issued a resolution in 2004 calling for those parts of the barrier that are inside the West Bank to be torn down and for further construction in the territory to cease. Israel and Western countries have ignored the World Court resolution. P - Two years ago Israel's own High Court ruled against the route of the wall near the Palestinian village of Bilin, but the Israeli government ignored the ruling of its own highest court. [ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/world/middleeast/28bilin.html?_r=1 ] P - Today, the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" and the Palestinian Authority are at the brink of collapse, the New York Times reports. [ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/world/middleeast/10mideast.html ] 2009 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=43441616] ----
There is a sense of weariness in Haddad's voice. "I have seen how they are developing their tools and their weapons industry and the ways of dealing with the community," he said. "And, in 30 years, I never heard once that there is any kind of accountability for any soldier."
But he goes on. He must go on.
"Tested and retested"
"The laboratoryof the occupied territories is where things can be fine-tuned, they can be tested, they can be retested," said Neve Gordon .. https://electronicintifada.net/tags/neve-gordon , a politics professor at Ben-Gurion .. https://electronicintifada.net/tags/ben-gurion-university-negev .. University of the Negev. "They can say, 'Hey this was used by the IDF [Israel's military], this must be good.' And that helps the marketing of the goods."
Later, in Ramallah, I sat down with Abdallah Abu Rahmah .. https://electronicintifada.net/tags/abdallah-abu-rahmeh , coordinator of the Popular Struggle Committee against the wall and settlements in Bilin. Every Friday – for a decade – he and his neighbors have gone to the wall to protest.
"There are many reports about when they [the Israelis] have tried to sell military products and they told the buyers about its use in Bilin," said Abu Rahmah. "Things like skunk water, they used it the first time in our village."
Skunk water .. https://electronicintifada.net/tags/skunk-water .. is a putrid smelling liquid that is sprayed at protesters in order to get them to disperse. "Because Bilin is famous, sometimes they come to our actions and they take video and photographs showing how effective the weapons are in stopping the action," Abu Rahmah said.
"Now, there has always been a tension," added Halper, also a founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions .. https://electronicintifada.net/tags/icahd . "Because you've had the right wing that look at the West Bank as Judea and Samaria and Gaza as Gush Katif and, of course, East Jerusalem. So they want it all as part of the land of Israel. But then you've got another part especially the – I would say the military and the economic people – that say, 'Hey, this is a laboratory, this is really a resource for us, and we really shouldn't give it up.'"
"In East Jerusalem, the Americans give Israel sponge bullets," Mack said. "First, they started with a blue sponge bullet but then they decided – this is their statement – that because the Palestinians wore a lot of clothes, it was not very effective so then they changed it to a [more powerful] black sponge bullet, which caused huge damage and there are dozens of Palestinians that have lost their eyes and other organs of their body."
The company's brochure for these bullets contains a note marked "caution." It reads: "Shots to the head, neck, thorax, heart or spine can result in fatal or serious injury."
More than 75 percent of all weapons exported .. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.713087 .. by Israel are made by the first three of those firms. In 2015, the total value of Israel's arms exports came to $5.7 billion.
Israel allocates .. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS .. more than 5 percent of gross domestic product to the military. That means Israel spends a higher proportion of its national income on the military than even the US, the world's only superpower.
"War sells weapons"
Some veterans of the Israeli military have developed careers as experts on the arms industry.
I asked Brom if it's true that Israeli arms companies use the fact that their products have been tested on Palestinians to gain international business. "Of course," he replied. "Why not? Marketing [professionals] try to use any advantage and if they can use the advantage that this system was tested operationally and it worked, they will of course use it for marketing."
Uzi Rubin, a founder of Arrow, an Israeli anti-ballistic missiles program, is now a researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Bar-Ilan University .. https://electronicintifada.net/tags/bar-ilan-university-0 .. near Tel Aviv.
He defended the way Israel has marketed its weapons as "battle proven."
"It is legitimate because the Vietnam War sold a lot of weapons," he said. "War usually sells weapons. But this is not to say that Israel is seeking war in order to sell weapons."
[That's a novel justification for an immoral act. Or is it novel.]
In her view, the Israeli weapons industry should think beyond weapons such as tear gas and skunk water that it is already deploying in the West Bank.
"I'm talking about using the electromagnetic spectrum or high-powered microwaves to get people dizzy," she said. "If you're dizzy you lose your balance. You know, I'd rather people just get an upset stomach and really just have to have diarrhea right in the middle of a demonstration or puke their guts out than to be killed."
Her comments reveal much about the sadistic mentality of Israel's weapons-makers and their promoters. For them, Palestinians are not human beings worthy of respect but subjects in one cruel experiment after another.
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Türkiye is ready to do its part to stop the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and reduce the tensions, Turkish President Erdogan says.
Turkish President Erdogan urges for geographically integrated Palestinian state based on 1967 borders. / Photo: AA
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the realisation of an independent, and geographically integrated Palestinian state based on 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as capital, could not be delayed any longer.
“Lasting peace in the Middle East is only possible through a final settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” Erdogan said on Sunday at the opening ceremony of Mor Efrem Syriac Orthodox Church in Yesilkoy on the European side of Istanbul.
Erdogan said Türkiye is ready to do its part to stop the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and reduce the tensions that escalated on Saturday.
Palestinian group Hamas launched Operation Al Aqsa Flood, saying it was in response to the storming of the Al Aqsa Mosque and increased settler violence. It said it fired rockets and captured many Israelis.
In retaliation, the Israeli army initiated Operation Swords of Iron against Hamas, launching air strikes on the Gaza city.
Fighting continued into its second day on Sunday and Israel declared a "state of war".
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