The appeal for drones, sent out to Gordon’s mailing list, has since grown into a “thermal drone matching campaign” run by the One Israel Fund, another charity based in the Five Towns that supports West Bank settlements. The group hosts tours of the West Bank and holds annual wine-tasting barbecues in the Five Towns to fund settlement security projects. Although it usually raises $3 million per year, the One Israel Fund took in $2.5 million in the month after Oct. 7, according to the Long Island Herald
Dunno, if it should be removed or not now, cause china can’t exactly control new york dipshits sales :(
https://www.972mag.com/drones-grenades-gaza-chinese-autel/
Is it China (i.e. the Chinese government) themselves or a company in China that is selling photography drones that the Israeli army is attaching grenade launchers to…hm…
Anyways not to say this isn’t bad and that Xi shouldn’t hang everyone at Autel but I think this meme is very stupid lol
Yeah the article specifically says “weaponizing” meaning that they weren’t weapons when they were made. So not as bad as the comic makes it out to be. However, why are you selling to Israeli military companies, Mr. Xi?
there’s basically no feature you can put in a drone that won’t get used to murder people
Yeah I get what you’re saying but idk personally anytime I hear “X, Y, and Z companies in China are doing this!!” I’m always willing to give the country/government itself a bit of slack given there’s 1.5 billion people living and like 100+ million business entities in China. Saying “The Chinese government was definitely aware of these companies’ sales to Israel” to me just sounds ridiculous because you could argue that the US/EU with their far smaller populations and consequently number of companies should be able to prevent any sale of illegal/restricted/etc stuff but that kind of shit happens 24/7. (One could argue that is just a natural consequence of capitalism of course but you know what I’m trying to say)
Not sure how the restrictions work, but if you use a VPN and select the Zionist settler-colony as your location, Autel won’t ship to you either from Amazon or AliExpress, from what I’ve seen other users try. I don’t doubt that the IOF is using them, but they don’t seem to be through direct channels.
I mean considering the lengths that the mossad went through to infiltrate the supply chain of an international pager manufacturer… The whole point is pretty moot. Intelligence agencies are perfectly capable of evading export restrictions.
If there is an iota of legitimate criticism in this post, it would be that state owned corporations are still operating under the conditions of profit motive, which can lead them to seek to turn a profit on human conflict.
Would not be impossible for Israel to just procure them through the US, like they do with basically everything else in their arsenal. Not trying to play defense for Autel, but I think having the DoD order a bunch of ‘photography drones’ and load them on a ship with their monthly supply of interceptor missiles is probably a bit more reasonable than like ‘backroom deals with Israel and Autel’.
Yep, that kind of export dodging seems like the most likey answer, especially because the PRC has a huge lead in drone production, meaning it’s probably cheaper and easier to do it this way. Still, I need to investigate more on my own.
The article says they did just that. Donations from Zionists through Facebook groups.