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Exporting Israel’s Technology of Occupation

KPFA - Against the Grain

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The History of Israel's Invasion and Occupation of Lebanon

Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 really historically is viewed as a complete disaster. But Israel sold it to countries around the world as a model of counterinsurgency and they're able to sell on the back of that huge numbers of weapons and tools. That this in some ways is a model for how many other nations want to commit crimes in their own states. In fact Israel was using an early form of drone technology back then which a lot of countries also were keen to copy but the Palestine laboratory then wasn't just actually in tangible weapons, it was also in language. After 9-11 the US adopted so much of this language when they were fighting their own so called war on terror.

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