Who’s going to make money from the proposed “ceasefire” deal in Gaza?
The UK outlet Byline Times asked me to comment about the pro-Trump billionaires getting excited:
Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World which explores the sophisticated technological infrastructure of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, warns against Big Tech’s role in the post-war ‘management’ of Gaza. “I’ve spent over a decade investigating the role of Western defence and tech companies in the occupation of Palestine and decimation of Gaza since 7 October 2023,” he told Byline Times.
“The security of obtained data is highly questionable, Palestinians will not know what’s being kept on them, and this is just the latest example of Israel and its supporters looking for ways to ‘manage’ the occupation, a so-called ‘frictionless’ arrangement.’ During the Gaza genocide, Big Tech has been deeply complicit in Israel’s war machine, from Amazon to Microsoft and Google to Palantir, and these companies should be nowhere near the Palestinians who don’t need to be controlled by unaccountable Silicon Valley corporations.”