How Israel’s military industry profits from war in Gaza
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Israel’s war on Gaza has turbocharged its already booming military-tech industry, with weapons and surveillance systems tested on Palestinians continuing to be sold around the world. Israel’s role as a global arms innovator has only deepened since October 7, 2023, and some governments and corporations are profiting.
In this episode:
- Antony Loewenstein (@antloewenstein), author, The Palestine Laboratory
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan, Sonia Bhagat and Ashish Malhotra, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Kingwell Ma, Kisaa Zehra, Mariana Navarette, Manny Panaretos and our guest host, Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.
Joe Plourde mixed this episode. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today is genocide actually good for business. |
| 0:16.3 | All these tools that Israel has been using in weapons |
| 0:19.9 | is essentially sold as battle tested, |
| 0:24.0 | openly and unashamedly. |
| 0:26.5 | Israel's military tech sector is booming. |
| 0:29.2 | Where could the technology tested on Palestinians and Gaza go next? |
| 0:34.5 | I'm Kevin Horton, and this is The Take. |
| 0:48.8 | So my name is Anthony Lowenstein. I'm the independent journalist filmmaker and the author of the Palestine Laboratory and I'm coming to you from Sydney, Australia. |
| 0:57.8 | Okay, Anthony Lowenstein, welcome back to the take. You know, the first time we spoke, you had |
| 1:02.9 | just published your book, The Palestine Laboratory, which was written before Israel's war on Gaza |
| 1:08.1 | began. And I guess the basic premise of the book |
| 1:10.8 | is that Israel used the Palestinian territories |
| 1:13.7 | as kind of a testing ground |
| 1:15.1 | to experiment with technology for export |
| 1:17.7 | for the rest of the world. |
| 1:19.2 | We should say it's also an amazing award-winning |
| 1:21.3 | Al Jazeera English documentary series |
| 1:23.1 | and podcast series, so plug there. |
| 1:26.3 | So Anthony, if it was a laboratory before the war, now it's, I don't know, a full-fledged |
| 1:32.5 | research center. |
| 1:34.0 | So give us an update. |
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