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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Firms profiting from Gaza genocide take part in London weapons fair</h1>
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<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-author"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/david-cronin">David Cronin</a></span>
<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-blog"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blog/rights-and-accountability">Rights and Accountability</a></span>
<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-publication-date"><span class="gmail-date-display-single">7 January 2024</span></span> </p>
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<p>The makers of the weapons with which Israel is destroying Gaza are seeking to drum up new sales. </p><small>
<span>APA images</span></small>
<p>Wargaming. Firepower. Lethality. Robotics.</p>
<p>All these topics will be <a href="https://www.defenceiq.com/events-internationalarmouredvehicles/index">discussed</a> at a major weapons fair in London later this month.</p>
<p>Such an event would be sinister at any time. That it is being
organized while a genocide is being carried out in Gaza adds a new layer
of immorality.</p>
<p><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/has-israel-benefited-war-europe">Rafael</a> and <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-were-laying-siege-israeli-weapons-plant/37506">Elbit Systems</a>
– leading players in Israel’s arms industry – are sponsors of
International Armoured Vehicles, as the exhibition and conference is
called.</p>
<p>The short profiles of these firms in the event’s official program – see below – do not mention that they are Israeli.</p>
<p>Representatives of Elbit are scheduled to give a presentation titled “Iron Fist.”</p>
<p><a href="https://elbitsystems.com/product/iron_fist/">Iron Fist</a> is the brand name of surveillance equipment and interceptors which Elbit has <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2023/10/20/active-protection-systems-for-armor-could-change-the-fight-in-gaza/?sh=754233073ba2">made</a> for a spanking new armored vehicle known as the Eitan.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-17/ty-article-magazine/.premium/spirit-is-the-most-important-weapon-here-a-day-with-the-israeli-army-in-gaza/0000018b-dd67-df9a-ab8b-dfef50f70000">Eitan</a> is being used by Israel during its current invasion of Gaza.</p>
<h2>Innovators assist genocide</h2>
<p>Not content with the horrors it is inflicting on Palestinians at
present, Israel is hoping to unveil new killing machines in the near
future.</p>
<p>On New Year’s Day, the weapons trade publication <em>IsraelDefense</em> published a <a href="https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/60797">puff piece</a> about the “Technological Brigade for Land.”</p>
<p>The “human and professional composition of the brigade is
extraordinary,” it stated. Boasting “thousands of servicemen and women”
and “484 engineers,” few other divisions in Israel’s military “have
professional staff at such high levels.”</p>
<p>The brigade has been “working closely with the combat units fighting
in Gaza to provide them with real-time technological innovations,” <em>IsraelDefense</em> reported.</p>
<p>The Tel Aviv newspaper <em>Haaretz</em> has a <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/when-haaretz-explains-israels-crimes">reputation</a>
for being more independent and critical. Some of its recent coverage
has nonetheless amounted to free advertising for Israel’s war industry.</p>
<p>A <em>Haaretz</em> <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-03/ty-article-magazine/.premium/suicide-drones-and-ai-with-gaza-as-testing-ground-israeli-defense-startups-flourish/0000018c-cf39-ddba-abad-cfb9a3ee0000">article</a>
which appeared a few days ago noted that the war in Gaza and expected
increases in military spending are “providing new opportunities for
defense startups.”</p>
<p>Never mind that starvation is rising in Gaza, the war is a boon to
Israel’s small businesses, the paper’s supposedly liberal readers were
told. Or at least that was the subliminal message.</p>
<p>The trendy topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to
feature prominently in the discussions at the aforementioned London
weapons fair.</p>
<p>It is a safe bet that its participants will be eager to find out more about <a href="https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/">Gospel</a> – an Israeli system using AI to identify targets.</p>
<p>Gospel had previously been <a href="https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/gaza-news/guardian-of-the-walls-the-first-ai-war-669371">tested</a> during the May 2021 attack on Gaza, which <em>The Jerusalem Post</em> dubbed “the world’s first AI war.”</p>
<p>Supporters of Israel like to gloat about how their beloved nation has fostered a culture of “<a href="https://startupnationcentral.org/">impatient innovation</a>.”</p>
<p>Israel’s impatient innovators are now rushing to assist a genocide.</p>
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