Weapons Fair Leaves Israel Humiliated; Their Own Stand Became Evidence

Right, so Israeli arms firms have turned up in France to flog their genocidal wares and had a bit of a rude shock when they got there. The supposedly respectable end of their warmongering hit one of those arms’ fair events, Eurosatory 2026 as is the case here, what they bring to present as defence solutions of course being the very same things they’ve been using to vaporise neighbourhoods from Gaza to Southern Lebanon.But when they got to this latest arms bazaar catwalk, they didn’t exactly get the Victoria’s Secret treatment. Where they expected the usual routine of stands, buyers, handshakes and brochures amidst all of the military hardware parked under the exhibition lights, they found instead, walls, partitions and curtains cordoning all of their displays off. It was like somebody had shoved Israel’s arms industry into the naughty corner and told it to think very carefully about what it had done.At a weapons fair, the stand is the sales pitch. The whole point is to be seen. You do not spend all that money dragging your lovely battlefield-tested death catalogue to France so the best image of your company is a curtain. But that is what they got.Israel came looking for weapons buyers, France stuffed all of their wares behind barriers.