“Israel cracks down on sales of suicide drones to China to avoid heavy diplomatic cost in relationship with US”
“At least 20 Israeli arms dealers have been arrested by Israel’s secret police over several months, in what is now being revealed as one of Israel’s biggest arms-industry scandals in history.”
“Israel has a largely unregulated defence industry, allowing the Israeli government and its private companies to sell weapons, surveillance equipment and hi-tech to some of the most despotic regimes in the world from Uganda to the Philippines,”
“Israeli-made suicide drones were used extensively by Azerbaijan in its recent conflict with Armenia over the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh […] arms sales to countries like Myanmar, which has committed ethnic cleansing against Rohingya people, have been allowed to take place.”
“A new database on Israeli exports [The Database of Israeli military and Security Exports] launched by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organisation, lists three arms-export deals between Israel and China between 1998 and 2008: they involved missiles, loitering munitions and a satellite for the Beijing Olympics.”
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