The GOAT Merchant of Death: How Israel became the largest per-capita weapons hustler the world has ever known - susan abulhawa (2026-08-25)
https://susanabulhawa.substack.com/p/the-goat-merchant-of-death
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>> All weapons-transaction data were obtained from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (#SIPRI) … SIPRI only tracks major conventional weapons—aircraft, armor, missiles, air-defense systems, sensors, ships—and explicitly excludes small arms, ammunition, services, training, and most drone, cyber, and surveillance exports, which are leading Israeli exports. … Countries also differ enormously in how transparent they are about their own arms industries, and Israel is among the opaquest of any major exporter: it publishes … only a single annual aggregate dollar total from the Ministry of Defense, and only recently. That means the true scale of Israel’s weapons economy is greatly understated here…
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That is an illusion they’ve put up and intend to keep through mass disinformation. Truth is they’ve been collecting any dirt on the highest levels of societal positions. School boards, companies, government etc. You needn’t look any further than the Epstein situation and the comical lack of justice surrounding it.
So? And secondly, your last sentence actually contradicts your claim. If they were really that powerful, then why didn’t the people involved in Epstein’s stuff get into trouble, given that their situation is getting worse and worse? Because, it doesn’t matter. Their only leverage was being able to oppress the Arab-Islaamic world on behalf of the West and they are losing that.
My last statement IS me pointing out they’ve not been punished so I don’t understand how you came to that conclusion. Having leadership be compromised is obviously an issue. They control your laws, news, regulation, safety nets for regular people. Really question is why you’re jumping to their defense?
Whose defence?