Four of these companies are state owned (ELTA, IAI, IMI and RAFAEL) and are responsible for about 75 percent of the arms sales, while the two private companies (Elbit systems and Elisra) make up the rest of the sales.55 The size of the workforce in the military industry (approximately 35,000) is still greater than the size of the workforce in the homeland security/surveillance industry (an estimat. [...] The company produces the passports in the UK, Hong Kong, Ethiopia and Iceland, the ID cards in Zanzibar, the drivers licenses in 33 Israel and the entry permit from Gaza, as well as a variety of cards for airport security, correctional facilities and homeland security offices in the US.142 Biometrics is precisely the kind of technology that is being deployed as a mechanism of social sorting and is. [...] In Ewalds words, “The sociological discovery of the regularity of criminality did not lead to the deduction that it was inadequate to treat the criminal in terms of responsibility.”161 Ewald contrasts the insurantial imaginary with the juridical logic, noting that the law is interested in the identity of the person who breached it, and not so much in patterns of behavior. [...] The experience of the high- tech professionals alongside the experience of the combat personnel is integral to the production process, not unlike the practice of testing the products in the field. [...] In the case where the military unit tested the 360i as it patrolled the barrier, it is clear that the motivation to produce the experience also came from external economic interests; namely, the interests of the Orad Group which invented and manufactures the product.
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