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Weapons & Arms Trade
Arms Trade to Israel
Israel's arms imports mainly come from the US and, to a lesser extent, Germany, France and the UK. The US is, of course, Israel's main supporter and provider of arms. It provides Israel with $3bn in annual aid and in 2001 alone US arms sales to Israel were worth $2.95bn. Germany is Israel's next biggest arms supplier -- between 1996 and 2000, it supplied Israel with weaponry worth $765m. France exported major conventional weapons worth $50m to Israel between 1996 and 2000.
Documents/Overview
Who really smuggled weapons to Rafah?, Arjan El Fassed (20 May 2004)
Arming the occupation: Israel and the Arms Trade, country report published by the London-based Campaign Against the Arms Trade (October 2002)
Backgrounder: A Chronology of US Military Aid and Weapons Contracts to Israel, 1995-2002 (PDF) Backgrounder, Institute for Southern Studies (April 2002)
Undermining Global Security: the European Union's arms exports, Amnesty International (14 May 2004)
Commentary & Analysis
US may sell up to $600 million to Israeli Air Force, after Israel-US agreement on China, Arjan El Fassed (23 July 2005)
Who really smuggled weapons to Rafah?, Arjan El Fassed (20 May 2004)
Military trade Philips in violation with Dutch arms policy, Campagne tegen Wapenhandel (1 April 2004)
Enough reason to impose a European arms embargo on Israel, Arjan El Fassed (11 April 2002)
UK arms trade with Israel
Restrictions on defense sales to Israel deal hard blow to UK exporters, MENA (30 July 2003)
Step Forward, Tony Blair, Ali Abunimah (15 May 2003)
UK breaking arms sales rules, says rights group, EIU ViewsWire (26 July 2002)
US arms trade with Israel
US may sell up to $600 million to Israeli Air Force, after Israel-US agreement on China, Arjan El Fassed (23 July 2005)
Amnesty International calls for suspension of weapons transfers, Amnesty International (17 March 2003)
U.S. Security Assistance to Israel (PDF) Joseph Yackley and Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus (May 2002)
Our Beachhead in the Middle East, MotherJones (updated)
US Arms Clients Profiles: Israel, FAS (updated)
U.S. Arms Transfers and Security Assistance to Israel (PDF) Frida Berrigan and William Hartung, Foreign Policy in Focus (8 May 2002)
U.S. Security Assistance to Israel (PDF) Joseph Yackley, Foreign Policy in Focus (June 2001)
Companies Providing Arms to the Israeli Military, Global Exchange (updated)
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