Israel’s Military Industrial Complex is Experimenting With Military Robots In Gaza “In an Effort to Avoid Harming Soldiers and Dogs”

https://expose-news.com/2024/03/05/israels-military-industrial-complex-is-experimenting-with-military-robots-in-gaza-in-an-effort-to-avoid-harming-soldiers-and-dogs/ “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” according to journalist and middle east affairs analyst Antony Lowenstein. “ 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.” he says. Lowenstein is also author of the book The Palestine Laboratory , among other titles, and in it claims that 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” he says “that they have perfected the architecture of control.” and he shows how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex through “s urveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration and brutality to the hi-tech tools that drive the ‘Start-up Nation .” The secretary general of the UN spoke of the “graveyard of children” due to the daily bombing of Gaza which has no safe areas.his has also resulted in journalists, UN workers providing aid, Health care professionals etc also being killed. According to Lowenstein , the last few months have seen the greatest number of Palestinians displaced and killed than ever before. Have these deaths been accidental have these people been caught in the crossfire despite Israel being world leaders in military technology which surely would also mean that the IOF are able differentiate between Hamas and innocent civilians in Gaza? “Self Defence?” According to the army veteran of seventeen years in the video below, yes they can. Josephine Guilbeau who has a background as an intelligence officer, says she can see clearly that the attacks on Gaza is “not self defence.” The civilian casualties is catastrophic, they’re targeting homes filled with children. Not only are they able to differentiate, they are routinely testing the new war machinery and using the people as guinea pigs according to Journalist Caitlin Johnstone who has authored the article below. So They’re Experimenting With Military Robots In Gaza Now By Caitlin Johnstone . One of the most horrifying facts about this dystopia we live in is that large-scale military operations are routinely used as  testing grounds for new war machinery, using human bodies as guinea pigs for experimentation in what amount to giant blood-soaked field laboratories  — all to benefit the strategic objectives of empire managers and the profit margins of the military-industrial complex. says Haaretz has a new article out titled “ Gaza Becomes Israel’s Testing Ground for Military Robots ”, which reports that “In an effort to avoid harming soldiers and dogs, the IDF has been experimenting with the use of robots and remote-controlled dogs in the Gaza War.” (Yeah because my gosh, can you imagine how terrible it would be if Israeli soldiers and dogs got harmed while carrying out a genocide?) The article’s author Sagi Cohen reports that drone-mounted robot dogs and remotely controlled bulldozers are two of the new apocalyptic horrors currently being battle-tested in Gaza, saying “defense establishment officials confirm that there has been a leap in the use and sophistication of robots on the battlefield.” Which is a pretty disconcerting sentence to read. This news comes out at the same time as a new  Public Citizen report  warning of the likely imminent arrival of autonomous weapons systems which will kill people with minimal instruction from human pilots, saying “The most serious worry involving autonomous weapons is that they inherently dehumanize the people targeted and make it easier to tolerate widespread killing, including in violation of international human rights law.” The more normalized robots become within the world’s militaries the closer we come to this point, and steps are already being taken in that direction. As Common Dreams’ Thor Benson  notes in an article  about the Public Citizen report, “Israel has  purchased  and at times deployed self-piloting, lethal drones.” Back in January Caitlin says she  wrote  that “Gaza is a live laboratory for the military industrial complex,” saying “Data is with absolute certainty being collected on all the newer weapons being field-tested on human bodies in Gaza (just like has been happening in Ukraine) to be used to benefit the war machine and arms industry.” What sparked this comment at the time was  reports  and first-hand  witness accounts  we’d seen coming out about the prolific use of IDF “sniper drones” in Gaza since October, with Israeli forces frequently shooting Palestinians with quad drones armed with rifles. Copious records are most assuredly being compiled on the effectiveness of these newer weapons and tactics in ending human lives, which will then be used to help market those weapons to other states and to improve their efficiency in killing. When I say this is most assuredly happening, I am not being hyperbolic for effect. Author and journalist Antony Loewenstein  gave a lengthy interview  on The Chris Hedges Report back in December about Israel’s  long and extensively documented history  of  using Gaza as a testing ground for new weapons, spyware, surveillance and security systems, AI, drones, and tactics, which has profited scores of corporations and enabled Israel to become a player of outsized success in the global weapons industry.  “Israel’s drones, surveillance technology including spyware, facial recognition software, and biometric gathering infrastructure, along with smart fences, experimental bombs, and AI-controlled machine guns are all tried out on the captive population in Gaza, often with lethal results,” says Hedges in introduction. “These weapons and technologies are then certified as ‘battle-tested’ and sold around the world.” This doesn’t only happen in Gaza. This past September The Wall Street Journal published an article titled “ The War in Ukraine Is Also a Giant Arms Fair ,” subtitled “Arms makers are getting orders for weapons being put to the test on the battlefield.” In January of last year CNN published a report titled “ How Ukraine became a testbed for Western weapons and battlefield innovation ,” with one source saying that Ukraine is “absolutely a weapons lab in every sense because none of this equipment has ever actually been used in a war between two industrially developed nations.” And of course we are also seeing this same phenomenon in Africa. In 2021 Mintpress News published a report by Scott Timcke titled “ West Africa is the Latest Testing Ground for US Military Artificial Intelligence ” about this very same trend. In 2020 Libya saw what is believed to have been the first time a human being has ever been  killed by a fully automated drone attack   — that is, killed without the machine having been told to do so by a human. The other day  we discussed  how the empire’s great weakness is that it depends on normal human beings to carry out its orders and turn the gears of the machine. If you look at the facts and think about them for a moment, it’s not hard to see how the empire managers are hoping to overcome this weakness in the future.