Israel fumes as France nixes weapons stands at airshow
France closed four main Israeli companies in Paris Airshow for showing the increasing tensions between Israel and emphasizing the increasing tensions between the traditional allies.
A source familiar with the issue told Reuters that Israeli companies came from the French authorities after they did not comply with a direction from a French security agency to remove aggressive or kinetic weapons from stands.
The stands were used by Elbit Systems, Rafael, IAI and Uvision. Three smaller Israeli stands and the Israeli Ministry of Defense stands without equipment remain open.
France, which has long been an Israeli ally, gradually hardened its position on Benjamin Netanyahu government about its actions in Gaza and military interventions abroad.
French President Emmanuel Macron made a distinction between Israel’s right to protect himself last week, and he strikes strikes because France supported and did not recommend it to Iran.
The Israeli Defense Ministry said that it categorically rejects the order of removing some weapons systems from exhibitions, and that these exhibition organizers responded by building a black wall that separates the Israeli industry pavilions from others.
He added that this action was carried out in the middle of the night after Israeli defense officials and finished the screens of companies.
“This ugly and unprecedented decision, policy -oriented and commercial issues recreates in a statement,” the ministry said in a statement. He said.
Rafael described the French movement as an uninhabited, unjust and politically motivated ,, added the Israeli Ministry of Defense of the Defense of the Defense of the Defense of some equipment.
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