Aid to Israel
Military Aid
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. (Added 12 August 2003)

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 n Focus (June 2001)
  • Companies Providing Arms to the Israeli Military, Global Exchange (updated)


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