Are weapons makers active in Europe deliberately avoiding the word “Israel?”
Germany’s Diehl Defence recently announced it had signed a “teaming agreement” on rocket artillery ammunition with Elbit Systems. The announcement did not mention that Elbit is an Israeli firm.
Two days earlier Elbit Systems UK issued a statement about how it had “successfully completed” a “critical design review” on providing new equipment to the British Army. The statement celebrated how the equipment will allow troops to “identify targets with high accuracy” and support “hundreds of jobs across the UK.”
The inference that Elbit Systems UK is as British as cucumber sandwiches is dishonest. It is a subsidiary of Israel’s Elbit Systems – though the statement did not include that salient fact.
Such omissions are telling.