Posted on 01/15/2014 6:28:39 PM PST by steel_resolve
Israel's Defense Ministry, long suspected of supplying arms to dictatorial regimes and illegal organizations, has refused to divulge the full list of its weapons customers despite what the one analyst calls "serious failures that have recently been revealed in its export control department." ...snip...
The controversy was heightened by the surprise resignation in December of Meir Shalit, head of the ministry's Defense Export Control Agency, after a joint U.S.-Israel investigation found that a highly sensitive Israeli-produced electronic system licensed for sale to a French firm had been transferred to China
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They probably think such sales to the Chinese will get them back on good terms with the Democrats.
sounds like they were duped, not a willful sale with knowlege that the ultimate destination was China. Israel do export defense items to China but not everything is for sale to them.
There were resignations resulting from the inquiry...
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