"The fate of the Palestinian people offers a warning about the future of humanity. When I recently visited the West Bank, Palestinians kept impressing the same point on me: Israel has turned their land into a laboratory. The technology of oppression that it has deployed including in its genocide in Gaza ranges from hi-tech surveillance to military drones and AI on the battlefield. These technologies have been exported to oppressive states across the world."
"This brings us to Donald Trump's board of peace, now set to rule Gaza. In the sleepy Oxfordshire village of Sutton Courtenay, where George Orwell lies buried, the ground itself ought to be shaking. This isn't peace. It's naked neocolonialism. Not a single seat is reserved for a Palestinian, let alone a survivor of Gaza. Trump will serve as chair in an individual capacity rather than as US president in other words, as Gaza's emperor."
Israeli practices in the West Bank and Gaza have turned Palestinian territory into a testing ground for oppressive technologies, including hi-tech surveillance, military drones, and battlefield AI. Those technologies have been exported to other repressive states. A proposed reconstruction board chaired by Donald Trump contains no Palestinian representation and includes figures associated with war, property development, and far-right politics. The board’s composition signals neocolonial control rather than genuine reconstruction or Palestinian autonomy. Historical failures to plan post-conflict rebuilding are cited as warnings about the likely outcomes for Gaza and its traumatised population.
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