Winner of the 2023 Walkley non fiction journalism prize Finalist for the 2023 Moore Prize for
Human Rights Writing Israel' s military industrial complex uses the occupied Palestinian
territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export
around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years occupation of the West
Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an "enemy"
population the Palestinians. It' s here that they have perfected the architecture of
control. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein author of Disaster Capitalism uncovers
this largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents revealing interviews
and on-the-ground reporting. This book shows in-depth for the first time how Palestine has
become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance home
demolitions indefinite incarceration and brutality to the hi-tech tools that drive the '
Start-up Nation' . From the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos' and Jamal
Khashoggi' s phones the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of
Rohingyas and drones used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who
are left to drown. Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware
that fuels the globe' s most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st
century Israel has built the ultimate model.
