Remember the Armenians

THE MOUNTING CASUALTIES OF THE GAZA conflict have led to cries of genocide! from all sides. Forgetting Hamas’s kidnap raid into southern Israel on 7 October 2023, pressure in Western countries to block arms sales to the IDF has grown dramatically as public concern about the human cost of war in the Strip mounts. Less noticed by anti-arms trade campaigners in the West, and missed too by foreign enthusiasts for shipping arms to Israel, is the apparent paradox that she has steadily increased her own arms exports even while drawing in munitions from the USA at a rate unseen since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Israel’s key export market at the moment is Azerbaijan, with reports of transport planes flying to Baku from Ben Gurion lighting up the web. Why…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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