Arms Sales

AronT on August 6th, 2009

One of the saddest aspects of Israel’s occupation and militarization has to do with the the huge role arm sales now play in the Israeli economy. It wasn’t always this way, and someday I hope to write a longer piece on the topic and my own peripheral involvement in this area. Besides the morally despicable [...]

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AronT on March 16th, 2009

Rafael is one of Israel’s sophisticated military industries. Apparently their international sales team is a bit less sophisticated. Recently they created a video promo for the India Air show, to promote their extensive business there. Ha’aretz tells the story: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel’s armament development authority, has launched a promotional film that was dubbed [...]

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