October 7, 2024 marks one year of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank. Meanwhile, during the last one year, many other nations like the regional power Iran and Israel also got entangled into a conflict, due to Israel’s operations to eliminate the entire top leadership of the Hezbollah and Hamas, and to render these organisations completely dismembered.
To achieve its overt objectives, Israel with full impunity attacked targets in Lebanon, Syria, and even Yemen. Acting as if it has been given the target to eliminate the maximum population of these countries.
Iran’s actions against Israel were termed as response to the ‘Axis of Resistance’, but who gave the right to Israel to act in this savage manner? While, it claims to have taken these actions against Iran, Iran’s actions against Israel are termed as aggression.
Further, the question of who is the aggressor, dominated the narrative last year completely ignoring and asking who is the intruder or usurper, hell bent on kicking the Palestinians from their own home land.
The reality is that Israel has morphed from an aggressor state to one of the world’s largest arms manufacturer and exporter. While this human tragedy was unfolding in the region, profits of Israel’s arms manufacturers were going through the roof.
This hidden aspect of the current war was explored by Turkey’s news outlet Anadolu Agency. As part of Anadolu’s series marking one year of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, the agency spoke to Antony Loewenstein, author of the book, The Palestine Laboratory, on how Israel uses Palestine as a tool to boost its defence industry exports, by marking them as ‘field tested’.
He said the war on Gaza, which has claimed more than 41,000 lives seems to be a testing ground for Israel’s new weaponry.
“Israel has been testing and using new weapons and technology in its wars. And already, it has been trying to sell those tools and technologies at various global arms fairs since October 7,” the Sydney-based author told Anadolu. He said Israeli exports reached a record $13.1 billion in 2023.
Here we should be aware of the fact that what Israel sells in the global........