[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.
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[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. The POP-300LR will be integrated with radar and will provide the customer with 24/7, all weather long range observation and surveillance capabilities.
[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'. Arms deals with six other companies --from Poland, Singapore as well as India-- were also suspended.
In the first smashing and convincing victory of the global BDS movement in the field of corporate responsibility and ethical compliance, Veolia is reportedly abandoning the Jerusalem Light Rail project, an illegal project that aims at connecting Israeli colonies built on occupied Palestinian territory to the city of Jerusalem. As the Haaretz article below admits, the BDS campaign's success in costing Veolia some $7 billion worth of contracts is the key behind this decision by the troubled company to pull out of the project.
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 Lebanon in July-August of 2006.
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.
by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation MR Zine, Chicago, IL (June 3) -- For the sixth year in a row, members of Jewish, Christian, and human rights organizations will be present at Caterpillar, Inc.'s annual shareholder meeting to demand that Caterpillar end its complicity with violations of human rights and international law in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.
Below - Saudi told to axe rail deal over Israel link (Maktoob.com) - Palestine urges withdrawal of rail contract (Gulf News) Saudi told to axe rail deal over Israel link Maktoob.com - May 30, 2009 France’s Alstom, part of consortium building Mecca-Medina rail link, involved in disputed Israel rail project.
[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.
Amjad Barham The Guardian 26 May 2009 Palestinian academics have been heartened by the outpouring of solidarity with our people on the part of British academics and students – the latter attested to by the creative "student occupation movement" in the wake of the brutal Israeli war against the Palestinian people in Gaza last December and January. What does the Palestinian academic community expect from international colleagues?
A Call from Palestine Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) PSCABI-Gaza, Occupied Palestine 29 May, 2009 "Gaza today has become the test of our indispensable morality and common humanity." Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee, 27 December 2008 Statement