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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