{"id":33156,"date":"2026-06-05T05:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=33156"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:52:54","slug":"the-world-condemned-israel-then-it-bought-19-2-billion-of-its-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=33156","title":{"rendered":"The world condemned Israel. Then it bought $19.2 billion of its weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Defense exports surged 30% to a record high as governments balanced political criticism with growing security demands.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-56.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33157\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year ago, when Israel\u2019s defense exports reached $14.8 billion in 2024, officials at the Ministry of Defense looked ahead to 2025 with concern and uncertainty about whether such an achievement could be replicated. Looming over those expectations was the accelerating international campaign to delegitimize Israel over its actions in Gaza, as casualty figures and images of destruction reverberated across the world. The French government, for example, went out of its way to obstruct the participation of Israeli defense companies that were \u201carming the IDF\u201d at an international defense exhibition in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-57.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33158\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calcalistech.com\/ctechnews\/article\/xklezahxp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.calcalistech.com\/ctechnews\/article\/xklezahxp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense exports surged 30% to a record high as governments balanced political criticism with growing security demands. A year ago, when Israel\u2019s defense exports reached $14.8 billion in 2024, officials at the Ministry of Defense looked ahead to 2025 with concern and uncertainty about whether such an achievement could be replicated. Looming over those expectations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[23875,1510,25915,30168,25382],"class_list":["post-33156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-idf-2","tag-israel-2","tag-lethal-weapons-2","tag-us-military-aid","tag-weapons-2","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33161,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33156\/revisions\/33161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}