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Gaza war offers the ultimate marketing tool for Israeli arms companies
As investors worldwide drop cash on Israeli start-ups for 'battle-tested' weapons, defense tech CEOs are poised to be the war’s only victors.
By
Sophia Goodfriend
January 17, 2024
At Israel’s Cyber Week, generals and CEOs sell warfare as a techno-utopia
The human cost of surveillance and weaponry is hard to remember when the business of militarism is dressed up like a Silicon Valley work retreat.
By
Sophia Goodfriend
August 15, 2022
Oil, guns, and gas: How Gulf money will fuel Israel’s arms industry
Israel and its new Arab allies are striking major deals to advance fossil fuel projects — endangering the region's stability and the global climate.
By
Sahar Vardi
December 8, 2020
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The real winners in the Israel-UAE deal? Arms dealers
The normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates was presented as a peace deal. In reality, it's a license for weapons manufacturers to expand their customer base.
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Sahar Vardi
October 8, 2020
Israel’s arms exports: A decade of war and new markets
As Europe stops relying on Israel for arms exports, the Jewish state is looking for new markets, forging alliances with right-wing authoritarians who will likely use those weapons against their own citizens. By Ryan Wentz and Sahar Vardi Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez was supposed to light a torch during Israel’s 70th Independence Day ceremony next week.…
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April 12, 2018
Tel Aviv’s week of Pride and militarism
Next week, as tourists descend on Tel Aviv for the yearly pride parade, a separate international contingent will touch down in the city for a high-profile arms fair. By Tanya Rubinstein The upcoming Tel Aviv Pride parade has set social media, the streets and the queer community alight. In preparation for the June 9 march, the…
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Haokets
June 1, 2017
The true price Israel pays for the occupation
Both the economic and political elite in Israel benefit from the occupation in different ways. The longer the occupation persists, the wider become the gaps between these two ‘1 percents’ and the rest of the country. By Shlomo Swirski What is the cost to Israel of the occupation? And who in Israel is paying it?…
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May 17, 2017
Netanyahu’s Africa tour: A spit in the face of those Israel helps oppress
The Israeli public and its government need to internalize that ‘Israel’s pride,’ its wildly successful military export industry, has been an unending nightmare for the people of Africa. How can Netanyahu look the Rwandan and Ugandan people in the eyes? By Itay Mack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently on a tour of African states…
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July 6, 2016
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