{"id":258632,"date":"2024-04-08T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=258632"},"modified":"2024-04-03T06:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T05:04:58","slug":"grotesque-we-all-live-in-the-palestine-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/grotesque-we-all-live-in-the-palestine-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Grotesque: We All Live in the Palestine Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gaza-robot-testing-weapons-genocide-palestine-israel-usa.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-258633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gaza-robot-testing-weapons-genocide-palestine-israel-usa-472x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gaza-robot-testing-weapons-genocide-palestine-israel-usa-472x1024.jpg 472w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gaza-robot-testing-weapons-genocide-palestine-israel-usa-138x300.jpg 138w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gaza-robot-testing-weapons-genocide-palestine-israel-usa-768x1665.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gaza-robot-testing-weapons-genocide-palestine-israel-usa-709x1536.jpg 709w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gaza-robot-testing-weapons-genocide-palestine-israel-usa-945x2048.jpg 945w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gaza-robot-testing-weapons-genocide-palestine-israel-usa.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Israel is live-testing the most sophisticated killing machines and surveillance in its war of aggression against the population of Gaza.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>3 Apr 2024<\/em> &#8211; Deadly robot dogs are in our future. Israel is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2024-03-03\/ty-article-magazine\/.premium\/gaza-becomes-israels-testing-ground-for-remote-control-military-robots\/0000018e-03ed-def2-a98e-cfff1e640000?utm_source=mailchimp&amp;utm_medium=Content&amp;utm_campaign=daily-brief&amp;utm_content=6e2200a1d2\"  rel=\"\">using and testing them<\/a>, both made in Israel and the US, in its destruction of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just one example, and there are so many more, of Israel not wanting to \u201cwaste\u201d the opportunity in Gaza to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defensehere.com\/en\/israel-is-using-the-new-weapons-it-has-taken-into-its-inventory-for-the-first-time-in-gaza#:~:text=The%20new%20and%20advanced%20military,the%20Negev%207%20machine%20gun\"  rel=\"\">show off<\/a> its military hardware to an excited global market. My <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/2684-the-palestine-laboratory\"  rel=\"\">latest book<\/a>, <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scribepublications.com.au\/books-authors\/books\/the-palestine-laboratory-9781922310408\"  rel=\"\">The Palestine Laboratory<\/a><\/em>, examines this globally (pre 7 October 2023).<\/p>\n<p>It fits into a broader and mainstream Israeli narrative that Palestinians in Gaza <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/programs\/latenightlive\/gideon-levy-says-israel-has-achieved-nothing-in-gaza\/103574148\"  rel=\"\">don\u2019t deserve safety or security<\/a>. They\u2019re not Jewish and therefore sub-human. If this sounds extreme, you haven\u2019t been paying attention to Israel for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>The dehumanisation of Palestinians has been so complete that most Israelis, and many in the Jewish Diaspora, believe that destroying Gaza will make them safer. If anything, it\u2019s achieving the complete opposite. Jewish lives are now vastly less safe after months of genocidal violence in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Look at this to understand a very common view in Israel and the Zionist world:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/antonyloewenstein.substack.com\/p\/we-all-live-in-the-palestine-laboratory?utm_campaign=email-half-post&amp;r=b6biw&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" >TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE Go to Original &#8211; antonyloewenstein.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Apr 2024 &#8211; Israel is live-testing the most sophisticated killing machines and surveillance in its war of aggression against the population of Gaza. It is using and testing deadly robot dogs, both made in Israel and the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[532,1854,2898,1199,2242,87,865,1643,1029,1966,1644,88,2416,715,427,124,70,965,1025],"class_list":["post-258632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-colonialism","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-ecocide","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-famine","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-hamas","tag-hunger","tag-international-court-of-justice-icj","tag-israel","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-massacre","tag-palestine","tag-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258634,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258632\/revisions\/258634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}