I don't want to do whataboutism and I completely agree that international arms trade is a seriously evil, especially with the kind of partners the article menti

I don't want to do whataboutism and I completely agree that international arms trade is a seriously evil, especially with the kind of partners the article mentions... But I really don't like the overall tone of the article and the way it paints Israel as uniquely nefarious. Eg: > In the Israeli cyberweapon sector, he argues, “the companies are implementing government policy.” Mack says Israeli companies are not truly private, like their European or American counterparts. “Israel has so much military sensitivity” that, in effect, many of these cyberweapon sales are “military agreements between governments.” Oh please. You will never find an arm sales from French, British or American companies that wasn't mediated on some level by their respective government. In France the top executives of weapons companies (eg Dassault, Thales) often come from the same school (ENA) as the political elite, and are always well connected to whoever the current president and ministers are. Thales in particular is owned at 25% by the government. Israel plays the same game everyone else in the world plays, they just happen to have a more immediate stake in it. Any discussion of weapon sales that doesn't mention the broader picture is misleading at best.