Mustafa Barghouti - how life changed in 1967, "terrible racism" in the media and Gaza

Orthodox Jews clashed with the police as they blocked a road in the city of Bnei Brack on Thursday in protest against their conscription into the Israeli army.

The protest came more than a week after Israeli lawmakers voted to revive a bill that would increase the conscription of Orthodox Jewish men only gradually, despite objections from the defence minister and criticism it falls short of the army’s needs.

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In this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, we sit down with investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein to talk about how for decades, Israel used its occupation of Palestinians as a testing ground for new weaponry, which it then packages and sells to governments around the world.

In fact, Loewenstein argues that since its inception, Israel built its economy around military and surveillance technology, exporting it to some of the world’s most repressive regimes including Myanmar, Pinochet’s Chile and apartheid South Africa.

As the devastating war in Gaza wages on, Israeli defence contractors have already begun advertising drones, hightech firearms and robot dogs battle-tested in the field and ready to be sent abroad.

#TheBigPicture is produced and presented by Mohamed Hassan. It’s a weekly show about the big ideas that shape our past, present and future.

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Timeline:
00:00 - Intro
2:09 - How Israel became a weapons research hub for the West
7:04 - How Israel armed oppressive regimes
9:31 - Israel’s relationship with partheid South Africa
12:15 - The Palestine Laboratory: Testing weapons on occupied subjects
15:52 - Battle testing new weapons in Gaza since 7 October
19:14 - Top Gun & Hollywood military propaganda
22:45 - Gaza news footage used to sell Israeli arms
30:57 - Surveillance technology in hot demand
35:22 - Israel as the ‘border of Europe’
41:46 - The farright’s obsession with Israel
49:48 - India’s Hindu nationalism modelled on Zionism
55:00 - What has changed since 7 October
1:03:59 - Outro

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As Israeli forces raid Nasser Hospital in Gaza, trapping hundreds of patients there and arresting medical staff, we speak with emergency room physician Dr. Thaer Ahmad, who just recently returned to the United States after three weeks volunteering at the hospital. “We’re just asking that hospitals not be targeted, that they not be bombed, and that doctors and nurses can provide for their patients without being worried that they may be killed, that they may be abducted or arrested,” says Ahmad. “We need a ceasefire now. Hospitals need to be protected and functioning.” He also criticizes the American Medical Association for speaking out against Russian attacks on hospitals in Ukraine but staying silent on much more widespread attacks on medical facilities and personnel in Gaza.

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Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh stood in front of the International Court of Justice as part of South Africa's legal team taking action against Israel for it's conduct against Gaza.