The Financial Times has reviewed my book, The Palestine Laboratory, and it feels like 7/10. Written by journalist Mehul Srivastava, I disagree with many of his criticisms but that’s the life of an author.
Here’s the intro:
Warfare is, among many things, a spectacular advertisement for weapons, especially in the age of television. Having watched Israel’s Iron Dome missiles streak over Tel Aviv hunting down Hamas rockets, the Ukrainian government contacted its Israeli counterpart last October, hoping to buy the air defence system to fend off the Iranian drones swarming their skies.
If they’d read Antony Loewenstein’s The Palestine Laboratory, they would have known not to bother. The tiny country’s weapons exports, which hit just over $11bn in 2021, are a means to an end, he argues. Despots and dictators are welcome to them, so long as they serve a geopolitical necessity.
Read the whole thing: The Israeli weapons and spyware falling into the hands of despots | Financial Times