Responsible Statecraft reported on Wednesday that the surge in Israeli arms exports is exposing how the Zionist entity converts war, occupation, and US backing into long-term political leverage across the world.

At a time when anger continues to mount over Israeli military campaigns in Gaza, Lebanon, the occupied West Bank, and across the region, governments are still lining up to buy Israeli weapons.

For Tel Aviv, the report suggests, these deals are not only a source of revenue. They are a tool for binding states to the Israeli military-industrial complex and making them more hesitant to impose sanctions, arms embargoes, or other accountability measures.

From a Resistance-oriented reading, this arms boom reflects a deeper reality: “Israel” is not gaining legitimacy through diplomacy, but through militarized dependency. The more states depend on Israeli air and missile interception systems, drones, missiles, surveillance tools, and battlefield technologies, the more difficult it becomes for them to confront the entity over its wars and occupation policies.

Responsible Statecraft cited experts who said Israeli weapons contracts can lock governments into years-long relationships that survive even amid public outrage over Tel Aviv’s conduct. Seth Binder of the American Committee for Middle East Rights told RS that “arms deals are expensive and often create a long tail to negotiate, complete, and fulfill over the life of contract".

That long tail, the report argues, becomes political protection. Daniel Levy, president of the US/Middle East Project, said Israeli arms exports can "entrench relationships that constrain others' ability to hold accountable".

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