Israeli company Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) and Dutch company Artillerie Inrichtingen Armaments (AIA) plan to establish the production and assembly of IWI weapons systems in the Netherlands. As part of the planned cooperation, AIA will manufacture and assemble ARAD 5 rifles and NEGEV UX machine guns, the Jerusalem Post reports.
IWI is to provide its Dutch partner with core technologies, product expertise, and manufacturing know-how. For its part, AIA will create production capacity in the Netherlands, as well as infrastructure for the supply and technical support of these products.
The companies expect that the cooperation will form a basis for long-term production, the development of technical expertise, and support for weapons throughout their life cycle in the Netherlands. According to AIA, the Dutch government was not involved in this arrangement.
IWI is known, among other things, for developing the Uzi submachine gun and is the main weapons supplier to the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Police.
Israel is very technologically advanced. The Netherlands does not produce its own rifle or machine gun. I wonder will it adopt the ARAD 5 as its standard rifle and the NEGEV UX machine gun as its standard light machine gun.
When tax payers have less right of movement, than occupation weaponry does, then passports have been reduced from being glorified hall passes to nothing more than cattle tags.
Capitalists need to be contained. When the profit motive conflicts with national interests, the companies and ceos must be either brought to abide by the will of the country, or imprisoned. This is ultimately a pollitical failure by the right leaning leadership in the netherlands. Welcome to American levels of pain, friends.
To do so in one of the most anti-Israel societies currently. Hmm
I’d rank the Netherlands as a tier 2 Zionist country. Right below the USA, Germany and the UK. But they’re climbing rapidly to tier 1. The ICJ is a joke.
Well til then. Got too do something about it
Some dutch hero with some kerosene, Styrofoam, and some glass bottles could do the funniest thing.
