“Every
two years or so, the Israeli military attacks Gaza, attacks the Gaza
Strip, and causes a lot of destruction. But right after each one of
those attacks, there is a trade show in which Israeli weapon
companies show their wares, show their technologies, and boast that
these are the very technologies that have been used just now against
Palestinians in Gaza. We saw that after the attack of 2008-2009,
known as Cast Lead, where the main theme was those robots that go
into houses to look around corners. Then we saw that again in the
attack of 2012, which was called Pillar of Cloud, in which the main
theme was the Iron Dome system that can intercept the Palestinian
rockets. And now, in the current attack, we have again the Iron Dome
system that is supposed to intercept rockets.”
“And
all of these Israeli companies, which are becoming an increasingly
important and very significant part of the Israeli export system and
the Israeli economy, depend on those wars. They depend on periodic
fighting where they can showcase their equipment, their technology.
And the first thing that they say when they try to market whatever it
is that they develop: we've already used that on actual human beings.
And by making that claim, they're able to compete with weapon
manufacturers from other countries.”
“All of
these companies are also extremely connected to the United States.
And the United States is the biggest supplier of aid, military aid to
Israel. And this military aid comes in the form of weapons, actually.
So these military companies have learned to work in symbiosis with
the U.S. arms industry so that they develop their technologies
together in order to provide components which are produced in Israel
and work with U.S.-manufactured weapons. So, in fact, this war is
not, this attack on Gaza is not just a trade show for the Israeli
arms industry; it's also a trade show for the United States arms
industry. And the demand for weapons always increases every time
Israel goes into another cycle of violence in the Middle East.”
“I
think there's one point that is very important to make, though,
because through understanding the importance of the arms trade to
this conflict, we can also understand why the Hamas Party has made
its ceasefire proposition, joined with the Islamic Jihad about two
weeks ago, in which they offered a ten-year ceasefire. Now, Hamas is
[an] acronym for Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, which
means the Islamic resistance movement. Their whole idea is to resist
the occupation. And they basically said in their ceasefire offer,
we're willing to stop resisting the occupation for ten years. And I
think they only could make that offer because they knew that Israel
would not accept it. They knew that the Israeli arms industry is so
dependent on these cycles of attacks every two years that Israel will
never accept a ten-year ceasefire, because it would be a deadly blow
to the Israeli arms industry.”
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Germany
does not care to whom is selling weapons, whether these weapons
will be used against population inside countries, like in the case
of Bahrain or S. Arabia and knows very well that these countries
do have enough money to buy weapons. It's worth to remember that
Germany sold 6 nuclear submarines to Israel, tanks and many more.
Israel
can play a critical role in this case by blocking Germany to sell
weapons in other countries and the most characteristic example
until now was S. Arabia. During the latest months we see the
reverse of this situation as S. Arabia ordered 200 tanks from
Germany with special equipment to be used in urban centers against
its population in case of serious riots. This has been done with
the approval of Israel and this is an economic parameter of the
situation in the Middle East for Angela Merkel.
But
Israel is also doing business with the situation in Gaza. Those
who have visited exhibitions of defence systems in the US and
Europe, should have noticed that the weapon systems used in
conflicts between countries have been replaced by other systems
for controlling population in urban areas. Israelis are using
videos from previous attacks in Gaza to demonstrate, for example,
drones or other military equipment which has been used against
Palestinians.
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