re: #31 BeenHereAwhile

And entrepreneural middlemen with Israeli connections like a old neighbor in Miami, sold captured Egyptian weapons to Central and South American dictators and political leaders like Anastasio Somoza.

My neighbor who got into weapon sales said Samoza was a good customer until he had leave Nicaragua. Samoza subsequently caught a bazooka shell in Paraguay.

I’ve never heard of the captured weapons being exported to Nicaragua. I do know that Somoza, among others, had a lot of Israeli made weapons and munitions, including small arms of every kind, artillery ammunition, aerial bombs and rockets, and vehicles. They also had Israeli uniforms, web gear, helmets etc.
Jimmy Carter did force Israel to end these deliveries after the start of the Sandinista revolution.
Israel also had a very extensive arms trade with South Africa, apparently including plans for the Jericho missile and even top secret material for the South African nuclear weapons program. Post apartheid revelations by the South African government are how we know that the Jericho was a direct copy of the French SSBS silo launched ballistic missile. The plans were apparently transfered before the French Israeli split in 1968.
That is all a dirty semi-secret but it does not invalidate anything I have said, or reduce the value of what we received from that relationship.
Successive administrations in this country have had leverage with Israel and largely refused to use it.