“There’s absolutely no justification for their export simply due to the contracting body being the U.S. government.”
The United States government announced this week that a Quebec-based company will be the principal contractor in a “possible” $61-million US sale of high explosive mortar cartridges and related equipment to Israel.
According to a notice published by the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency on Tuesday, “The Government of Israel has requested to buy fifty thousand (50,000) M933A1 120mm High Explosive (HE) mortar cartridges with M783 fuzes.”
“The principal contractor will be General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems Inc., located in Quebec, Canada.” The value of the potential sale, which has been approved by the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, is equal to approximately $83 million Canadian.
The goods and related equipment will be added to a previous sale valued at approximately $410,000 US, below the threshold at which the American government is required to notify Congress, according to the notice. Deliveries are expected to begin in 2026.
The potential mortar cartridge sale is part of a total of $20 billion US in weapon exports to Israel that the U.S. government announced it had approved this week.
The news shatters the Trudeau government’s repeated claims that only “non-lethal” Canadian goods have made their way to Israel since the beginning of that state’s brutal war on Gaza last October, which prompted a genocide case against it at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) back in December. (more...)
U.S. Names Quebec Contractor In Newly Approved Arms Sale To Israel
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