“It’s not relevant to talk about whether the Israeli economy is going to collapse because it has already collapsed,” said Shir Hever on The Electronic Intifada Livestream for 10 July.
“It’s just acting with struts that are imposed by external forces that enable it to continue to exist,” he added.
Hever, author of The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation, says he faced criticism for prematurely saying the Israel economy was collapsing a year ago on The Electronic Intifada Livestream.
He admits he didn’t expect the Israeli economy or its genocide to last this long: “Because I didn’t anticipate the level of complicity from the West.”
Israel’s “complete lack of control over [its] own destiny” and its dependence on external support are two reasons why Hever says we are in “the zombie stage of the Israeli economy and society.”
Also, Israel’s budget was passed on 17 March with plans to transition funds away from war to urgent social and economic needs. But the next day Israel broke the ceasefire and so “The budget was a sham from the beginning,” said Hever.
We also covered Israel’s ongoing murders of Palestinians at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s so-called aid sites – nearly 800 have been killed and over 5,000 injured in the past six weeks.
Israel is also trying to revive its discredited 7 October mass rapes narrative, this time with British funding, as executive director Ali Abunimah and associate editor Asa Winstanley reported.
And after heavy losses in June, the Israeli military continued to lose soldiers amid stepped up resistance operations in Gaza, contributing editor Jon Elmer revealed in his report.
You can watch the whole program in the video at the top of this article.
Concentration camps for Gaza
Israel’s plans to force Palestinians into confined areas in the south of Gaza have drawn widespread condemnation, with Ehud Olmert, a former Israeli prime minister, likening it to Nazi concentration camps.
An official described the planned camp as “large tent city in Rafah where they will have hospitals and plenty of food” according to Haaretz.
The Boston Consulting Group “helped establish” the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The US firm “modeled the costs of ‘relocating’ Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch an aid scheme for the shattered enclave,” according to a report by The Financial Times.
Save the Children called the work that Boston Consulting Group has done with the GHF “utterly unacceptable.
About Shir Hever - the Scholar and Author
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The Privatization of Israeli Security
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Between 1994-2014, Israel’s security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world. This book is an investigation into this period and the conditions that created ‘Occupation Inc.’: the institution of a private military-security-industrial complex.
State sponsored violence is increasing as a result of this securitisation, but why is it necessary, and what are its implications? In this book, Shir Hever considers the impact of the ongoing Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation, the influence of U.S. military aid and the rise of neoliberalism in Israel, to make sense of this dramatic change in security policy.
Through the lens of political economy, this book shows how the Israeli security elites turn violence into a commodity in order to preserve their status and wealth, providing a fresh new perspective on the Israeli occupation.
The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation
Economy of the Occupation
The Economy of the Occupation (EOC) is a research project of the Alternative Information Center, a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization. In the years 2005-2013, fifteen publications were published on various topics related to the political economy of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and to various aspects of the Israeli and Palestinian economies.
The publications, called “socioeconomic bulletins” were numbered in volumes 1-30, as some were single-issues and some double. All were edited by Shir Hever, who also authored 25 of the volumes and co-authored two.
According to the publication’s mission statement, the EOC aims to offer a “new approach to the economic situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel” and to “provide accessible and singular analyses of the socio-economic interests behind the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
All of the publications were published in English, and some of them were also published in Hebrew and Arabic. Several were also translated into German, Italian or Japanese.
About the Scholar and Author
An independent economic researcher, manager of the Alliance for Justice between Israelis and Palestinians and coordinator of the military embargo campaign for the Boycott National Committee (BNC).
. His research topics include:
Privatization of security
Global arms trade
Israeli arms trade and security sector
The economic aspect of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory
International aid to the Palestinians and to Israel
Shir Hever holds a Ph.D from the Free University of Berlin. His most recent book, based on his Ph.D dissertation, is titled The Privatization of Israeli Security (Pluto Press, 2017).
Affiliations:
Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (board member) – a Jewish German organization promoting just peace in Israel/Palestine. The organization is a member of the EJJP: European Jews for Just Peace.
Alternative Information Center, a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization active in Jerusalem and Beit Sahour.
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