Countries at war seeing US, Israeli actions in Gaza ‘as a model to follow’
We’ve been speaking to Antony Loewenstein, a journalist and the author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on Israel’s arms and surveillance industry.
He told Al Jazeera that he is worried that other countries will see the US and Israel’s militarised aid operations, via the GHF, as a model.
“I’ve written a lot about the issue of Palestine being a model for the surveillance and weapons industry, and it’s now exported globally. What I am already hearing is that what Israel and America is doing in Gaza is looked at by other countries as a model,” Loweinstein said.
“You and I might see this as a disaster – civilians are being murdered at huge rates – but that’s not an impediment to other countries doing the same thing in their own conflicts.
“Why? Because there’s no accountability. There’s been hundreds of Palestinians killed in the last month, but no Israeli soldiers are being held to account, no trial is happening in Israel, and there frankly won’t be.
“Israel investigates itself, and easily finds itself innocent,” Lowenstein added.
“This is what worries me, that what’s happening in Gaza is a model that other countries will follow in the months and years ahead.”
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GHF’s operations in Gaza are part of a ‘dark mission’ to expel Palestinians
We have more from Antony Loewenstein, a journalist and author of The Palestine Laboratory. He said Israel and the US’s push to take over aid distribution from the UN in Gaza, via the GHF, is aimed at pushing out Palestinians from the coastal enclave.
He said Israel loathes the UN’s presence in occupied Palestinian territory because it sees the world body as “perpetuating the Palestinian issue”.
“It’s nonsense. The issue is that there is an occupation that has been going on for decades. That’s what’s perpetuating the situation, not the UN,” Loewenstein said.
He went on to note that a recent study published in the Nature magazine has found that an estimated 84,000 people have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israel’s war.
“These are staggering numbers of people,” he said.
“And in the last five weeks, since this aid operation has begun, there’s been well over 600 killed, and there’s no indication right now that that’s stopping. And it’s worth saying that the goal is also pretty clear. Israel now controls the whole of the Gaza Strip militarily, and Palestinian civilians are in pretty much 20-21 percent of it, meaning that the vast majority of Gaza has no Palestinians or very, very few,” he continued.
“And the fear that I have … is that the so called long term goal here is to, for those Palestinians who stay, who refuse to leave – assuming they’re given any option to do anything else – their life will be essentially misery and intense siege forever, at least for the foreseeable future. And this aid operation is part of that very, very dark mission.”
