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by an additional $2 billion» .©? Compare this rapid growth with
the 24.5 percent decline in diamond exports in 1981; the
diamond labor force shrank by one-third in 1980.”° In the same
period chemical and plastics exports declined 4.9 percent and
textiles 17 percent.”’ But electronics, machinery, and metal
products, i.e. weapons, grew by 25.7 percent.” Until recently
Israeli arms exports were doubling every other year.”°
Until 1971 Israeli arms production was mainly ammunition
for small arms and parts for repair of foreign-produced equip-
ment. Supposedly, the original reason for the rapid shift into
broad-based production was to reduce Israeli reliance on
foreign suppliers.” However, in 1976 the Israeli Defense
Ministry had to cut back purchases of domestic weapons
because of a requirement that the $1.6 billion in American mili-
tary assistance that year be spent in the United States. The
Israelis shifted to export production though $1.5 billion was
later released to be spent for Israeli-produced weapons. ’°
1. Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, «!srael’s Global Ambitions», New York Times, January 6, 1983.
2. Davar, November 16, 1979, translated by Israel Shahak, /srael’s Global Role: Weapons
for Repression (Belmont, Mass.: Association of Arab-American University Graduates,
Inc., 1982), p.18; Eric Hooglund, /srael’s Arms Exports: Proxy Merchant for the U.S.
(Washington D.C.: Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee,1982), Background
Paper no.8,p.4; Ignacio Klich, «Israeli Arms: The New Carve-up», South (April 1982),
pp.7-10; David Lennon, «Sharon Takes Control of Israeli Arms Sales for Political
Benefits», Financial Times, December 18, 1981.
3. Lennon, «Sharon Takes Control...»; David Ignatius, «Homemade Security: Huge
Defense Industry Gives Israel Insurance Against an Arms Cutoff», Wail Street Journal,
September 17, 1981; Dan Goodgame, «!sraeli Arms Merchants Find Eager Buyers in
Latin Nations», Miami Herald, December 13, 1982.
4. Lennon, «Israel Cuts Defense Spending», Financial Times, December 23, 1980.
5. Hooglund, p.6; Klich, «Israeli Arms...» p.8.
6. Ha'aretz, February 20, 1980 in Esther Howard, «Israel: The Sorcerer's Apprentice».
MERIP Reports, February 1983, p.17;Lennon, «israel Cuts Defense Spending».
7. Lennon, «Israel Cuts Defense Spending».
8. «Israel: Seeking New Markets for Military Aircraft», Business Week, August 28, 1978.
9. EFE, Jerusalem, 18 December 1981, and Central American Report in Klich, «lsrael et
L'Amérique Latine: Le pari d'un engagement aceru aux cétés de Washington], Le Monde
Diplomatique, February 1983, p.17.
10. Israel Business and Investors’ Report, January 1981 in Howard, p.17; Hooglund,p.4;
Lennon, «Sharon Takes Control...»; «Israel: Seeking New Markets».
11. Ronald Slaughter, «Israeli Arms Trade: Cozying Up to Latin Armies», Resist (June/July
1982): 3, reprinted from NACLA’s Report on the Americas, January/February 1982.
12. Slaughter, p.3; Clarence Robinson,Jr., «Israel Arms Exports Spur Concem», Aviation
Week & Space Technology, date unknown but circa 1976.
13. Klich, «Israeli Arms...», p.8; Israel Business and Investors’ Report, January 1981 in
Howard, p.17.
14. Ma’‘ariv in World Press Review, June 1983, p.51.
15. U.S. General Accounting Office (henceforth GAO), U.S. Assistance to the State of
Israel: The Uncensored Draft Report (Washington, D.C.: American-Arab Anti-Discrimi-
nation Committee, July 8, 1983), p.45.
16. Larry Thorson, «Israel to Build Fighter-Bomber with U.S. Help», San Francisco Sunday
Examiner & Chronicle, June 12, 1983.
17. Bemard Weinraub, «Israel Criticizes U.S. on Technology Sale», New York Times, May
3, 1983.
18. Edward Walsh, «U.S.-lsrael Settle Aircraft Issue», Oakland Tribune, date unknown but
circa May 1983.
19. Lennon, «Sharon Takes Control...»; John Yemma, «israel Guns for Worldwide Arms
Market-Its Armaments Score Well, but Sales Are More Difficult», Christian Science
Monitor, December 27, 1983; GAO, pp.48-52.
20. Jerusalem Post, February 4, 1982, in Howard, p.21; «Israel: One of the Leading Arms
Merchants in the World», Palestine 9 (no.6, 16-30 April 1983): 30-32.
21. Klich, «Israeli Arms...», p.8; Israel Business and Investors’ Report, January 1981 in
Howard, p.17; Larry Remer, «israeli Weapons Industry Goes Boom», Los Angeles
Times, July 29, 1981; Ignatius; Remer, «Look Who is Selling Arms to Right Wing Dic-
tatorships», Los Angeles Times, July 29, 1981.
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Remer, «Look Who...»; Colonel John Weebs, ed., Jane’s Weapons (London: Jane’s
Publishing Company, 1982-83), 8th ed., pp. 152-54.
Klich,«Israeli Arms...», p.9; «The Israel-Latin America Connection», Le Monde Dip-
lomatique, September 1980.
Yemma.
Bernard Gwertzman, «Israelis Allowed to Use U.S. Aid to Develop Tank», New York
Times, July 23, 1977; GAO, p.45.
Ha’aretz, February 18, 1979 in Shahak.
Speech by Wolf Ehriich of Israeli Communist Party, San Francisco, June 13, 1983.
Shahak, p.36.
Drew Middleton, «Israeli Arms: A Top Export», New York Times, March 15, 1981.
Ma’ariv, November 19, 1979 in Shahak, p.36.
«|srael: Carving a Big Slice of World Arms Sales», Business Week, December 8, 1980.
Koteret Rashit, May 17, 1983.
Klich, «Israeli Arms...», pp.9-10; Hooglund, p.6; Howard, p.18.
Economist, November 5, 1977 in Shahak, p.29.
Klich,«lsraeli Arms...», p.9.
Howard, p.22.
Howard, p.23.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Willie J. Breytenbach, «lsrael/South Africa: Isolation and Cooperation», Africa Report
(November-December 1980): 39-43.
Le Monde, January 27, 1983 and Libération, January 31, 1983 in «lsrael’'s Game in
Africa and Latin America», Palestine 9 (no.2, February 1-15, 1983): 21-23.
Aviation Week and Space Technology, March 31, 1975, and Israeli Investment Author-
ity, New York, /nvesting in Israel in Howard, p.19.
«Marketing in Israel», US Department of Commerce Overseas Business Reports, July
1980 in Howard, p.19.
Business Week, April 20, 1981 in Howard, p.19.
Ignatius.
Middleton.
Ignatius.
Ignatius.
«Israel: Seeking New Markets for Military Aircraft», Business Week, August 28, 1978.
«israel: One of the Leading Arms Merchants».
Ignatius.
New York Times, June 7, 1982 in Howard, p.21.
Thomas R. Stauffer, U.S. Aid to Israel: The Vital Link (Washington, D.C.: Middle East
Institute, 1983), Middle East Problem Paper no.24, p.7; GAO, p.39.
Israel Business and Investors’ Report, August 1981 in Howard, p.21.
Jerusalem Post, April 12, 1982 in Howard, p.21.
GAO, p.14.
Stauffer, p.7.
Lennon, «lsrael Expects Growth in Sales of Military Goods to America», Financial
Times, March 23, 1981.
Jeff Gerth, «Defense Aide Admits Firm Link», Oakland Tribune, April 17, 1983; «De-
fense Aide Got Client Fees», San Francisco Chronicle, April 18, 1983.
Shahak, p.15; Nadav Safran, Israel: The Embattled Ally (Cambridge, Mass.: 1978),
p.117 in Howard, p.19.
Ma’anrv, April 4, 1981 in Shahak, p.37; Israleft, no.220, February 1, 1983, p.9.
Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1981, and Financial Times, August 18, 1981 in Howard,
p.22.
lsraleft,p.9.
D'vora Ben Shaul, «Recession or Redirection» Jerusalem Post International Edition,
May 29-June 4, 1983.
Felix Kessler, «Israel's Defense Industries Enjoy an Export Boom», Wail Street Journal,
April 21, 1975.
Klich, «Israeli Arms...»,p.8.
Hooglund, p.7.
Klich, «israeli Arms...»,p.8; /sraleft; Middleton; «lsraeli Arms for Sale», Time, March 28,
1983.
Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1981 and Financial Times, August 18, 1981 in Howard,
p.22.
Jerusalem Post, March 24, April 21, 1982 in Howard, p.19.
Joumal of Commerce, December 11, 1981 in Howard, p.19.
Ibid.
Hooglund, p.7.
Hooglund, pp.6-7; Klich «Israeli Arms...»,p.8.
«Israel is Trying to Increase Weapons Sales Abroad», New York Times, January 12,
1976.
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