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Armed by Israel, Honduras’s illegitimate regime returns the favor at the U.N.

Once again, Israel is supporting a repressive regime in the Global South, this time in the poor Central American nation of Honduras — and Israeli activists are protesting vigorously.

Just after the November 26 election in Honduras, the results started to show a commanding margin for the pro-democracy opposition — until the vote-tabulating computers mysteriously went down. Many days later, the incumbent president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, had miraculously gained the lead, and Hondurans poured into the streets in nationwide peaceful demonstrations against the obvious theft.

The military and police have already killed 22 protesters, but the street demonstrations show no signs of stopping. The United States dishonestly endorsed the rigged results, even though observers from the Organization of American States had found so many irregularities that they recommended new elections.

Israel hides its arms exports. But last year, the Honduras regime revealed that it had bought $209 million worth of weapons from Israel, including surveillance drones for the army.

A representative of the Israeli activists, a courageous lawyer named Eitay Mack, sent a letter to the Israeli Defense Ministry asking it to freeze or cancel the arms sales. (Eitay Mack, who pushes for public scrutiny of Israeli security exports, has written for this site.)

Honduras just repaid Tel Aviv for the weapons sale — by casting one of the only 9 votes against the United Nations resolution condemning the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. (Here, in addition to the U.S. and Israel, is the rest of the list: Guatemala, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, and Togo.)

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Another example of Zionist evil propped up by American imperialism. The sale of arms by one rogue state to the other whether it’s apartheid South Africa or Honduras dictators it matters not to the Zionists.

It would be interesting to see the make up of the election consulting team, and the machine manufacturer.

They’re watching everyone, providing technology for other nations to spy on their citizens and selling weapons of death and destruction, the state of israel’s true export – merchants of death. Blight on the nations.

So Honduras gets $128m from the US to buy weapons in Israel.
https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/HND

Which basically means that US aid to Israel is even higher then what it directly gets.

Re: Guatemala who voted “no”.

“As such, it is no coincidence that Israel has always been the first to offer humanitarian aid to Guatemala after natural disasters.

The Jewish state owes a debt of gratitude to the Central American country.

Many well-informed Guatemalans I met proudly reminded me of their country’s role in the establishment of the State of Israel.

One was Jorge Garcia Granados, the Guatemalan ambassador to the UN, who was a member of the UN Special Committee on Palestine and lobbied for votes on behalf of the Jewish state. In fact, Guatemala was among the first countries to recognize Israel. In doing so Guatemala created a “butterfly effect,” bringing many other Latin American countries to join in the support of the establishment of the new state. …

Israeli influence and involvement are very prominent in Guatemala, and include civil infrastructure, water purification solutions and modern agriculture technologies. But it is especially felt in the field of security. Many Israelis coming from elite combat units in Israel, and with a significant security background, realized that their experience is a great added value in Guatemala. As a third world country struggling with significant challenges of personal security and public safety, many Israeli security companies were established to help combat these problems.”
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Israel-Guatemala-a-surprisingly-close-friendship-348165

US foreign aid to Guatemala in 2016: $297m.
https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/GTM

More than twice as much as the aid for Honduras. And again Israel indirectly gets money from the US by aiding Guatamala’s security and civilian projects.