Israel turning to other arms sources amid uncertainty of U.S., EU sales

Israel’s Western weapons sources are no longer a sure thing; Haaretz found that former Soviet republics are pitching in.

By Gili Cohen 02:39 25.08.14

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With the recent halt of a U.S. shipment of Hellfire missiles, and Spain and Britain announcing they were reconsidering their arms sales to...

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China has arms to sell
- By Arnold-Canada
- 17 Sep 2014
- 01:38AM
But Israel will only go that route if the USA refuses to sell.
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  Then, get them from China! If China agrees to arm Israel for free.
  - By Melissa
  - 07 Oct 2014
  - 08:03PM
  Israel doesn't pay.
  
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Israel turning to other arms sources?
- By Tony Silver - Kopenhagen
- 26 Aug 2014
- 06:50PM
I thought that Israel looking for a new sources for peace with its neighbours, but I was fool.!
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  Peace with her neighbours and military arms
  - By Arnold-Canada
  - 17 Sep 2014
  - 01:39AM
  There is no peace with Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis, and Syrians. When and if they will want to make peace with Israel we will look into the military arms file again. Till then the IDF is still a buyer in need.
  
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obama will be gone in 2 years and we dont need europe
- By zionist forever
- 25 Aug 2014
- 03:51PM
Obama might be an enemy but Israel has enough friends on Congress to make sure the American weapons flow and Obama will be gone in 2 years Israel won't be. The Hellfre missile incident took everybody by surprise but there is no doubt that Netanyahu is working on a way to avoid any repeats of this. With the Europeans, thanks to the conditions of ,military aid weapon most Israel's weapons come from the US and European imports are minimum and can be bought elsewhere so an arms embargo would be ann inconvenience but not a disaster. Israel also has its own arms industry that makes a wide range of weapons including bomb and ainto aircraft missile so it would be possible to carry out this operation even without the Hellfires. Israel should though increase the amount of support to its own arms industry this war has been a wake up call that we need to support the domestic arms industry as it did in the 60s after the Europeans stopped arming Israel because it won the 6 day war.
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  #2 - Obama might be an enemy.
  - By Tony Silver - Kopenhagen
  - 26 Aug 2014
  - 06:54PM
  Don´t be ungrateful. Obama gave his veto to please Israeli agents in America and destroyed the hope of the Palestinians to have their own state.
  
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  With enemies like that, who needs friends??
  - By American Patriot
  - 30 Aug 2014
  - 03:28PM
  With gifts of three thousand million dollars a year (thats what a billion is, a thousand millions so lets not minimize it it - sounds more shocking when its said that way, no?) to use against poor bastards who throw stones and hurl home-made pipe-bomb rockets, you still consider our president your enemy? You then gloat about how you have corrupted our democratic institutions by your control of our congress? America will awake...
  
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Punitive weapons from Ex Russian states wont do us any good.
- By Josh
- 25 Aug 2014
- 04:36AM
Its positive news that we get some supplies from Ex Russian states but these weapons are generation old and unsophisticated. We need sophisticated weapons to fight our enemies and no one else apart from US and EU can provide them.
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  We need sophisticated weapons to fight our enemies?
  - By Tony Silver - Kopenhagen
  - 26 Aug 2014
  - 06:58PM
  Your enemy? Does your enemy have an Army, war tanks, planes, or even some descent weapons to defend their children?
  
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  T.S. from Kopenhagen
  - By The Teacher/Instruct
  - 31 Aug 2014
  - 01:09AM
  Israel's enemies are criminals. They push their children in front of the soldiers. An entity that will be pushed over the precipice.Tony can look over the void & pay his last respects. But if he is really close to them, then he can carry out the last rites & jump after them, something similar to the Indian way when the woman (his wife) jumps after him on the pile of burning wood.
  
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