Israeli human rights lawyer Eitay Mack is working to uncover both Israel’s historic ties to brutal military regimes, such as Pinochet’s Chile, as well as its current arms exports to countries carrying out gross violations of human rights, like South Sudan and Myanmar.

Israel's ticket to becoming an arms exporter — with deals dating as far back as the 1950s, when the global arms industry was already saturated — is Israel’s “no questions asked” policy, explains Mack: “You don’t criticize what we are doing in the occupied territories and inside Israel, and we won’t say anything and won’t ask questions about what you’re doing.”

Read more about uncovering Israel’s shady arms sales:

• Supreme Court rules against exposing Israel’s role in Bosnian genocide
• Israelis demand state open up past ties to Argentina junta
• Despite war crimes, Israel insists on selling arms to Myanmar
• The untold story of Israeli military exports to South Sudan

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