Israel purchased only $8,986,000 worth of arms from the western nations during the four and a half year period ending last summer, while $13,029,000 worth of war material was sold by the West during the same period to Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia. These figures were culled here this week-end from major United Nations economic reports.
The figures do not include various recent large armament deal like the Egyptian-Czechoslovak munitions pact or Britain’s shipment of “demilitarized” tanks to Egypt. French arms trade is also excluded from the statistics as well as aircraft shipments of all kinds.
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