Israeli Arms for Sale

Scarcely noticed in the continuing tension in Central America over the past year is the fact that a principal arms supplier to at least three countries in the region is Israel.

This is hardly news to arms experts, who know that Israel has become the world's seventh largest armaments exporter (after the U.S., the Soviet Union, France, Britain, West Germany and Italy). Its arms and military software sales have doubled in five years, and in 1982 exceeded $1.2 billion. Of this amount, some $150 million went to South America, principally to Argentina and...