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When I buy a knife I decide it's primary purpose. Personally I ship them into the UK to vagrants who use them for self defense in the subways.

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I bought my Cutco knife from a yard sale to slice my veggies and my enemies, Cutco is complicit in my crimes!

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Hey! I get this joke! Thanks Lenin!

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Hell yeah comrade!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago

Holy shit that newlinesmag article is something else. Fucking wild.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

The article says they did just that. Donations from Zionists through Facebook groups.

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Toyota should be marketing their pickups as "Lightweight, Tactical, improvised fighting vehicles".

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I had a back forth with someone from ml earlier today about this article, a post they have since deleted. These drones must have been bought between the July 31, 2023 export restrictions on drone tech and the July 2024 adjustments to those restrictions. The drones do not drop bombs, they have a universal mechanism that can drop anything and Israel has created a mechanism to attach to that universal mechanism to drop grenades.

As it stands now China will not ship these drones to Israel. According to Autel, they have banned the sale of their drones to the entire region. They've made two statements on the matter. Here:

DJI has a similar statement pre 2023:

On Amazon and other platforms you can not get these drones shipped to Israel:

In the 9 months between the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the adjustments to drone exports Israel bought ~~20,000~~ Chinese made drones (likely through consumer channels) and also relied on civilian donations of drones.

“Soldiers independently launched crowdfunding campaigns,” L. explained. “Our company received around NIS 500,000 (approximately $150,000) in donations, which we also used to buy drones.” C., another soldier, recalled being asked to sign thank-you letters to Americans who had donated EVO drones to his battalion.

In a Facebook group named “The Israeli Drone Pilots Community,” many posts request EVO drone donations for units in Gaza. Multiple pages on Headstart (an Israeli crowdfunding startup) were also created to independently raise funds for drone purchases.

The timeline on this purchase is unclear. It's also unclear if the changes to the export restrictions are a response to this purchase.

correction: Israel intends to buy 20,000 Israeli made drones.

From everything I've read and seen there isn't currently direct sales of drones from China to Israel.

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Rule 3 violation detected! This was a bait post! the-pigs

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More than 20 countries are convening in Bogota next week to declare “concrete measures against Israel’s violations of international law”, diplomats told Middle East Eye.

The “emergency summit” is due to be held on 15-16 July, co-hosted by the governments of Colombia and South Africa as co-chairs of The Hague Group, to coordinate diplomatic and legal action to counter what they describe as “a climate of impunity” enabled by Israel and its powerful allies.

The founding members of the group included Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa.

States due to take part in the summit include Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Honduras, Indonesia, Ireland, Lebanon, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Portugal, Spain, Qatar, Turkey, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay, and Palestine.

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Try and stop me! ecoterrorist

[-] [email protected] 50 points 13 hours ago

jesus-christ If I discovered my parents were sitting on millions of dollars after decades of penny-pinching and complaining about finances, I think I might just die. So much of what you described sounds like my parents, and I also have very little perspective on how much they actually have on hand. How did you find out they had all this money kicking around?!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

Which Chinese drones can they get from Amazon? I just replied to you in another comment and showed that the AUTEL brand drones can't be shipped to Israel via Amazon, and they have a statement on their website making it clear they will not ship them. https://hexbear.net/comment/6319426

DJI doesn't appear to ship to Israel either and also has a statement on their website from 2022 about the use of their drones for military operations.

I really don't care about the links and will not bother reading them as they contradict basic observations.

Oh, I'm sorry! Did I provide you evidence that there are no targeted bans on drones? Why do you think Ukraine can't "buy drones from China" (again, a process you haven't even explained)? Is it because they have no functioning economy and no semblance of an operating country because their territory is currently and actively being besieged? Is UPS supposed to roll up on the battle field and drop off a stack of DJI drones from a recently obliterated Amazon Warehouse directly to the Azov Battalion?

We live in a globalized capitalist economy; you could buy DJI drones right now and contact Zelenskyy directly and have them shipped to his doorstep tomorrow if you so wished.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

Where does the IDF get their drones sourced from? Resellers? Direct partnerships with AUTEL? China has implemented global restrictions on selling drones and drone technology for the use as weapons. You continue to say that "China is selling drones to Israel," but all you've shown is that Israel is acquiring Chinese drones; how they source them is important here, and you have yet to show how they source these drones. If they are sourcing them through third-party resellers internationally, then that's obviously different compared to the claim that they're getting them "from China," which, again, you haven't defined in any capacity. Amazon could be that third-party entity that facilitates getting around these export restrictions, which is why it's relevant. The drones featured in the article you posted are easily acquired from Amazon.

You know, I decided to look at Amazon's Israeli website, and they won't even ship AUTEL drones to Israel.

So the question still stands: how does the IDF get the drones? According to Autel, they have banned the sale of their drones to the entire region. They've made two statements on the matter. Here:

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The United States only has about 25% of the Patriot missile interceptors it needs for all of the Pentagon’s military plans after burning through stockpiles in the Middle East in recent months, an alarming depletion that led to the Trump administration freezing the latest transfer of munitions to Ukraine.

The stockpile of the Patriot missiles has fallen so low that it raised concern inside the Pentagon that it could jeopardize potential US military operations, and deputy defense secretary, Stephen Feinberg, authorized the transfer to be halted while they reviewed where weapons were being sent.

Donald Trump appeared to reverse at least part of that decision on Monday when he told reporters in advance of a dinner at the White House with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would “send some more weapons” to Ukraine, although he did not disclose whether that would include Patriot systems.

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