Bibi van der Zee and Rob Evans [Guardian] 30 June 2010 - Five activists who caused £180,000 damage to an arms factory were acquitted after they argued they were seeking to prevent Israeli war crimes.

[YNet] 4 June 2010 - Norway's military says it has canceled a special operations seminar because the Defense Ministry objected to the inclusion of an Israeli army officer in the program.

AFP [YNet] Survey conducted two days after deadly Navy raid shows 9.5% of respondents already boycotting Israeli products, while 33.5% would like to. Head of country's Socialist Left party calls on international community to boycott arms trade with Jewish state

AFP [YNet] 2 June 2010 - Survey conducted two days after deadly Navy raid shows 9.5% of respondents already boycotting Israeli products, while 33.5% would like to. Head of country's Socialist Left party calls on international community to boycott arms trade with Jewish state

[Globes] - Israel is the world's third largest defense exporter, after the US and Russia.

[YNET] - Israeli company to supply Irish army with surveillance pods, masts for new fleet of armored vehicles; newspaper says purchase may be controversial in light of recent UN report on Gaza war

[Globes] - The Indian cabinet has reportedly approved the supply of Spyder anti-aircraft systems by Rafael worth $1 billion.

[Defense Industry Daily] - Elbit Systems in Haifa, Israel received a contract valued at EUR 17 million ($24 million) to provide Finland’s Ministry of Defence with high speed radio and data transmission communication syst

[Globes] - As Western armies grapple with the changing nature of warfare against terrorists, business is booming for Israeli lighweight armored vehicle makers.

[Globes] - 3D imaging technology company Camero has raised $4 million. The company has reportedly agreed a $5 million deal with the US army for its through-wall vision dissolutions, although it is declining to provide details of this contract.

[Stop the Wall] - This edition of the Stop the Wall BDS newsletter covers the many BDS protests and new campaign launches that occurred in France, USA and Canada. New groups took up BDS this month in Canada and Germany. Several victories are also covered, among them Veolia and Dexia Israel.

[Amira Hass, Haaretz] - Norway is reexamining its investments in several Israeli companies, in particular Elbit Systems.

[Stop the Wall] - Elbit Systems is one of the largest Israeli security and defense firms, specializing in military electronics, surveillance systems, UAVs and homeland security systems. The company provides both UAVs and other military technology for Occupation forces as well as security systems for the Wall and settlements.

[Human Rights Watch] - This 39-page report details six incidents resulting in 29 civilian deaths, among them eight children.

[The Guardian] - Exports of spare parts halted in response to Gaza Strip attacks in December-January

Britain has revoked export licences for weapons on Israeli navy missile boats because of their use during the offensive against the Gaza Strip.

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz - Britain has slapped a partial arms embargo on Israel, refusing to supply replacement parts and other equipment for Sa'ar 4.5 gunships because they participated in Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip earlier this year.

[Globes] - Deliveries of the electro-optical equipment will be made in 2009-10

[Globes] - Deliveries will begin in the fourth quarter of 2009 and run through mid-2010.

[Dan Williams, Reuters] - JERUSALEM, June 30 - Missile-firing Israeli drones unlawfully killed at least 29 Palestinian civilians during the Gaza Strip war, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

[Haaretz] - Around 20 people protested Saturday against the opening of an Israeli pavilion at the annual Paris Airshow.

[Stop the Wall] - A group of French activists from the BDS France campaign held a non- violent protest against the Israeli presence  at the Paris - Le  Bourget Air Show. Le Bourget Air Show is one of the largest weapons and aerospace technology fairs in the world.

[World Tribune] - The state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries has delivered its first batch of indigenous Kfir fighter-jets to the Colombian Air Force, Middle East Newsline reported.

Text of report by Spanish newspaper ABC website, on 15 June

[YNET] - New Delhi news agencies say Israel Military Industries, six other arms manufacturers, blacklisted for alleged illicit trading, bribing officials. Billions of dollars worth of defense contracts in jeopardy
Arie Egozi

[Globes] - The contracts were won by VSI, a joint venture of Elbit and Rockwell Collins.

An Elbit Systems Ltd. joint venture with Rockwell Collins has received several new contracts, with a total value of more than $54.1 million, for electronics systems for the F-35 aircraft.

[Globes] - The deals include an option to increase the orders by 80%.

Armored and rescue vehicle company Hatehof Ltd. (TASE:THF) reported today that it received final approval for several recently announced deals.

The value of the deals is NIS 320 million.

[Globes] - The companies said that GATR will be particularly effective in urban areas or against targets where a low collateral damage solution is required.

[Globes] - Israel will unveil its ambulance UAV for evacuating wounded soldiers from the battlefield.

[IAI] - Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been awarded multiple orders of 34 units of its advanced Multi-Mission Radar (MMR) type EL/M 2084. ELTA Systems Ltd., a group and wholly owned subsidiary of IAI, is the prime contractor and developer of the EL/M 2084.

[IAI] - Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has recently signed a contract worth tens of millions of dollars to provide a foreign customer with the GRIFFIN 3, the Next Generation Laser Guided Bomb (NGLGB) Kit. The GRIFFIN 3 Kit is an advanced guidance kit which is attached to a general purpose or penetration aerial bomb.

[IAI] - Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has signed a contract to supply a HAROP Loitering Munition (LM) system to a foreign customer. The contract is estimated to be worth over $100 million.

[IAI] - Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has recently signed a contract to develop and supply the land-based Barak 8 Air and Missile Defense (AMD) System to a foreign customer.

[IAI] - Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been awarded a contract worth tens of millions of dollars for six Super Dvora MK-III fast patrol boats by an Asian customer.

[IAI] - The Plug-In Optronic Payload 300 - Long Range (POP-300LR Observer), produced by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), has been selected by a European customer for use in a costal surveillance program.

[Press TV] - New Delhi has suspended all arms trade with Tel Aviv after blacklisting Israel Military Industries (IMI) over corruption allegations.

The Indian government says the contracts were halted for alleged 'illicit trading and bribery'.

Steven Green, [Antiwar.com] - On May 9, Israel announced to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York that it would release a set of maps showing where cluster munitions had been dropped by the Israeli Defense Forces during the IDF military incursions into South L

ITL Optronics Ltd. announced that it has just landed a 8.2 million dollar contract for the delivery of electro-optical systems to the US Ground Forces. The deal was closed through its US subsidiary, Fraser-Volpe LLC.  This follows another major US win, estimated at 14 million dollars, since ITL’s purchase of Fraser-Volpe in December 2007.

[Globes] - Defense electronics developer Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE: ESLT) US subsidiary Elbit Systems of America was awarded a contract from the US Army to develop, produce, and integrate mortar fire control systems.

David Cronin, [IPS] - BRUSSELS, May 29 (IPS) - French arms sales to Israel are "in total contradiction" of European Union rules on the defence industry, the author of a new study has said.

[Globes] - Yokne'am-based Soltam is suffering liquidity problems.

[Globes] - The company is a strategic partner with General Dynamics units on the project.

The Electronic Intifada - Contrary to the heavily-hyped image according to which the policy output of Finland is even-handed and neutral in the Israel/Palestine conflict, Finland is actually a major arms trading partner with Israel.

Globes - Russia recently announced that it was suspending the sale of combat aircraft to Syria.

Globes - The contract is worth nearly NIS 300 million over three years.

[Globes] - The company will supply 12.7mm remote controlled weapon stations for jeeps.

[Globes] - Revenue rose 6.6% to $656.9 million in the first quarter.

International defense company Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE: ESLT) reported first quarter revenue of $656.9 million, 6.6% higher than the $616.1 million recorded in the first quarter of 2008.

Defense Industry Daily - In April 2005, Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Elbit Systems won an contract to supply medium endurance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Turkish military.

[Globes] - Joint venture UAS Dynamics solutions will be based on Elbit's Hermes and Skylark systems.

Defense Industry Daily - The UAV market’s low cost of entry is spurring manufacturers around the world to enter, or re-enter, the military aircraft market as prime contractors.

[WRI] - From May 12th to 14th, Brussels Expo hosted the ITEC exhibition (International Training and Education Conference) the annual top event for companies in the military training and simulation business. On the first day of the event, Vredesactie activists went in undercover and revealed controversial links.

[Globes] - IBM, HP, and Dell are among the bidders.

Sources inform ''Globes'' that the IDF has published its first virtualization tender, worth $15 million. The IDF is due to pick an Israeli company to install systems made by VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) at IDF units.

Stop the Wall - Merchants of war visiting Brazil for the Latin American Aerospace and Defense (LAAD) Trade Show were met with a noisy protest made up of social movements, unions, student organizations, left parties and other popular organizations.

[Globes] - The firm will supply the US Navy with a gun system designed for fast maneuvering patrol boats.

Defense Industry Daily - Launched between 1988-1995, and commissioned between 1992-1996, Canada’s 12 City Class (now Halifax Class) frigates currently form the high end of its naval capabilities.

[Globes] - Defense electronics company Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE:ESLT) wholly-owned subsidiary Elbit Systems of America, LLC, has been selected as part of a team led by Rockwell Collins Inc.

[Globes] - The contract is to for electronic warfare equipment for the Canadian Navy's frigate upgrade program.

[Globes] - Deliveries of the $10.9 million order will be made this year.

[Globes] - The equipment is for the land forces of a European army that is a member of NATO.

Globes - Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. has won a US Navy tender to supply $48 million of its Mini-Typhoon anti-terror gun stations. In the final stage of the tender Rafael prevailed over major international companies including Norway's Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace.

Globes - Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE: ESLT) has won a €25 million contract from the Austrian Army for the company's new 12.7mm unmanned electrically remote controlled weapon stations. Deliveries will be made over the next four years.

Globes - The equipment is for the land forces of a European army that is a member of NATO.

[Globes] - A US military order will by used for US Air Force F-15E and F-16, Air National Guard F-15, and several US Navy F/A-18 single seat and dual seat platforms.

[Electronic Intifada] It came as no surprise to campaigners in the United Kingdom to hear the British Foreign Minister David Miliband reveal this week that components supplied by Britain were "almost certainly" used by Israel in its recent military assault on Gaza.

[Defense News] MOSCOW - Russia has purchased its first unmanned drones from Israel after its own manufacturers turned out to be ineffective at making the high-tech reconnaissance aircraft, a newspaper reported April 7.

Canadian Military Exports to Israel: Aiding and Abetting War Crimes in Gaza (2008-2009) [COAT]

By Richard Sanders, Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT); Editor, Press for Conversion! magazine

Defense Industry Daily - Colombia’s narco-terrorist FARC army has reportedly lost some of its military shine recently, thanks to years of unswerving pressure from the Colombian army.

Defense News - TEL AVIV - The Israel Air Force (IAF) is negotiating with St. Louis-based Boeing to buy up to six more AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters, which the service plans to arm with locally made Spike missiles and U.S. Hellfires.

Nicholas Watt, [The Guardian] Wednesday 22 April 2009 - Britain announced last night that it is to review all its military exports to Israel in the light of the recent offensive in the Gaza Strip which killed around 1,400 Palestinians.

Defense Industry Daily - Oshkosh Corp. in Oshkosh, WI supplies the US Marine Corps’ and /Navy Seebee construction battalions with MTVR medium trucks.

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's defense minister wants to buy a U.S. military system to protect its southern towns and strategic facilities from Gaza-fired rockets.

Defense Industry Daily - Britain has given the green light to the Watchkeeper Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program. The initial August 2005 contract award to Thales UK was worth around GBP 700 million, and the program expected to create or sustain up to 2,100 high-quality manufacturing jobs in the UK.

Globes - The silent vehicle uses a powerful electric motor backed by a diesel engine.

Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI) is developing an electric version of the Hummer all-terrain vehicle. IMI's Slavin plant, which also develops and upgrades armored vehicles and tanks.

BNC - This year the Latin America Aero & Defense trade show will be held in Rio de Janeiro from April 14 - 17. The show will host and promote the world's most renowned merchants and producers of war, repression, torture and mass murder. Israeli war criminals feature prominently among them.

Cnaan Liphshiz [Ha'aretz] 1 February 2009 - Belgium's government has agreed to ban the export to Israel of weapons that "strengthen it militarily," a Belgian minister said on Thursday. A Brussels-based research group accused Israel of enlisting child soldiers.

Over 60 Parliamentarians from different parties have so far signed a statement demanding an end to the slaughter in Gaza.

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES: Demanding an end to illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, Greens urge widespread grassroots support for the Palestine BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Campaign

Greens blast Clinton, Obama, and McCain for uncritical support of Israel despite mounting crimes

The Socialist Left Party, one of three parties in the Norwegian government, has renewed its support for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel.

On March 12-14, an all-India conference gathered hundreds of activists and representatives in Delhi to discuss the situation and the struggle in the Arab world and to further Indian solidarity with Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries under attack.

Ten thousand people braved the rain on June 9th to march for Palestine in Cape Town under the banner 'Free Palestine! End Israeli Occupation!'