SKJOLD said:
The Arms industry will lose out, legal or otherwise.
SK
Realistically not really:
A few boxes of 7.62, 5.56 and the odd RPG7 round here or there isn't going to have much impact on the share price of IMI et all and most of the actual weaponry used there is so far beyond the end user mentioned on the original paperwork that makes no odds.
If you want to known the future you must explore the past:
This current shindig has it's roots way back in the 1920's when a number of countries got together to argue the toss about a large are of sand, rock
and flies stretching from the Litani river to Syria and the sea. Despite GB having won this fair and square by treating the locals very roughly the League of Nations stuck their collective oar in and decided to issue a mandate facilitating the immigration of Jews. We were governing the place at the time and receiving al lot of grief for our troubles from the ungrateful 'wogs' .
The War made things worse and things got very nasty for the Army, who had their hands tied by red tape when it came to handing out the necessary.
At the end of the War for reasons known only to the powers that be at the time we tried to prevent the dispossessed Jews of Europe from pitching camp in an area that was meant to be their homeland. This was something of a cock up and eventually the UN took over the whole mess.
The UN fed up with the Arabs and Jews knocking the stuffing out of each other were about to declared partition between the two. At the same time (194

the State of Israel was created the Arabs (the whole lot of them: Iraq, Syria, Jordan etc.) kicked up and attacked Israel.
This led to a UN brokered ceasefire and the allocation of 'Palestine' - to the victors the spoils. Gaza went to Egypt and the West Bank of the Jordan River got 'taken back' by Jordan.
Palestine had ceased to exist but was still referred to by various politicals
including the PLO but in 'Promised Land' terms rather than anything tangible. They eventually decided in 1988 after much in fighting with the Arab League claimed that a separate state of Palestine, governed from Jerusalem should exist and made it so.
Unfortunately neither the UN nor Israel accepted this, Result: more years of aggro and fighting until once the Cold War had died off other countries stepped in and persuaded both parties (PLO + Israel) to recognize each other's legitimacy. In 1996 both parties were told to play nicely and not argue over The West Bank nor Gaza for a period of no more than 5 years.
This Oslo peace initiative very nearly settled the whole thing.
Unfortunately neither side played by the rules, they blamed each other and ended up with an Intafada - un uprising- rockets fired at Israel, general naughtiness on the part of the IDF, and the worlds press pouring in to be shot at, squashed by M4s, gassed and captured.
In short no-one is trying to keep the thing going. The 'Palestine' conflict feeds on the natural animosities between Jews and Arabs. There is nothing to be gained by this row other than to promote the hate pedalled by few delirious, foaming fundamentalists on both sides.
Who knows? maybe the good old Brits had the right idea when they tried to prevent the 1946 exodus to Palestine........
That pre-trip briefing last time out was not a wasted 2 hours.