In my book, The Palestine Laboratory, I investigate the role and culpability of Israeli drones used by the European Union over the Mediterranean.
Here’s my interviews in The Irish Times with journalist Sally Hayden which proves that it’s still a very live issue:
“Israeli drones are essentially ones that have been tested over Gaza for many years,” said Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, which describes how this technology was reappropriated by the EU in the Mediterranean. “Israel and the EU are very close partners,” he said. “There’s huge amounts of defence relationships, huge amounts of weapons being sold.”
Despite the ongoing assault in Gaza, where more than 41,000 Gazans have been killed, and the more recent escalated Israeli air strike campaign which has displaced more than one fifth of Lebanon’s population, “there’s a willing disconnect between the reality of European arms companies selling weapons to worsen various global conflicts, and how huge amounts of individuals are fleeing those conflicts and trying to get into the EU,” Loewenstein said.
Read the whole piece: Israeli drones an essential part of EU’s attempt to stop refugees and migrants from reaching its ter