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Germany has put a hold on new exports of weapons of war to Israel while it deals with legal challenges, according to a Reuters analysis of data and a source close to the Economy Ministry.

Last year, Germany approved arms exports to Israel worth 326.5 million euros ($363.5 million), including military equipment and war weapons, a 10-fold increase from 2022, according to data from the Economy Ministry, which approves export licences.

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    the latter included 3,000 portable anti-tank weapons

    Not useful for a genocide, really.

    and 500,000 rounds of ammunition for automatic or semi-automatic firearms

    That was training ammunition. I’m kinda surprised to not see the “artillery rounds” in that list – which weren’t rounds, but propellant charges, and like a couple of handful because they were sent over for testing and development, not to the army but industry.

    Israel has their own lawyers they can defend themselves.

    No they can’t because they’re denying facts. That’s not a defence strategy, that’s digging your own hole.

    As for the rest, I just see a lot of mental gymnastics to justify beating up or defunding people and organizations who go against the political mainstream.

    Acknowledging that Israel is doing all kinds of shit is not “against the mainstream”. Heck, watch DW news for a while it’s full of Israeli war crimes. DW, in case you don’t know, is run directly by the German federal government.