The world condemned Israel. Then it bought $19.2 billion of its weapons
Defense exports surged 30% to a record high as governments balanced political criticism with growing security demands.
A year ago, when Israel’s 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 “arming the IDF” at an international defense exhibition in Paris.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
