Who, exactly, does Israel sell arms to?

After my story on Friday showing that despite worldwide headlines, Israel sells practically no weapons to Myanmar, I looked at the SIPRI database to learn more about who Israel does sell weapons to.

Here are the top countries to receive Israeli arms since 2000:

Two of the top ten recipients of Israeli arms are Muslim nations.

The full list:

Country	Israeli arms imports, in millions, 2000-2016
India	2800
Turkey	854
United States	840
Singapore	528
Azerbaijan	453
Colombia	362
Sri Lanka	312
South Korea	304
United Kingdom	241
Mexico	235
Brazil	229
Italy	196
Romania	168
Germany (FRG)	154
Chile	153
Australia	152
Spain	143
Viet Nam	134
Greece	120
Netherlands	119
Equatorial Guinea	82
Poland	80
Myanmar	73
Unknown recipient(s)	72
China	55
Finland	51
Jordan	48
Venezuela	44
Kazakhstan	40
Morocco	40
Portugal	34
Dominican Republic	33
Ecuador	33
Belgium	32
Uganda	29
Nigeria	25
Thailand	23
Rwanda	18
France	17
Peru	16
South Africa	16
Czech Republic	15
New Zealand	15
Sweden	14
Georgia	13
Honduras	13
Angola	12
Paraguay	12
Cameroon	11
Denmark	11
Philippines	11
Canada	9
Ethiopia	9
United Nations**	9
Austria	8
Taiwan (ROC)	8
Senegal	7
Argentina	5
Hungary	5
Mauritius	5
Bulgaria	4
Chad	4
Croatia	4
El Salvador	4
Russia	4
Seychelles	3
Switzerland	3
Cyprus	1
Guinea	1
Indonesia	1
Lesotho	1
Cote d'Ivoire	0
Lithuania	0
Turkmenistan	0

Here is more detailed data on who Israel has sold arms to over the past 6 years:

TIV of arms exports from Israel, 2011-2016
Figures are SIPRI Trend Indicator Values (TIVs) expressed in millions.
Figures may not add up due to the conventions of rounding.
A '0' indicates that the value of deliveries is less than 0.5m
For more information, see http://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers/sources-and-methods/
Source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database
Generated: 18 September 2017
	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	Total
Austria	2	2	2				6
Azerbaijan	5	9	25	21	121	248	428
Belgium	4	4	4	1	7		19
Brazil	19	18	21	27	17	16	118
Cameroon				1	2		3
Chile	18	3	9				30
Colombia	55		8	19	24		106
Czech Republic		8	8				15
Denmark			10				10
Dominican Republic	12						12
Equatorial Guinea	70						70
Ethiopia			1	3	3	3	9
Germany (FRG)	6	15	15	15	15	24	90
Honduras				13			13
India	156	161	119	157	276	599	1466
Indonesia		1					1
Italy	21	16	10	20	20	37	122
Jordan					48		48
Lithuania					0		0
Mauritius						3	3
Mexico					4	25	29
Myanmar	1						1
Netherlands	12						12
New Zealand	3	5	5	3			15
Nigeria	6		12				18
Paraguay	6	6					12
Peru						1	1
Philippines					6	4	10
Poland	11	11	9				30
Portugal	9	3					11
Russia			2	1			3
Rwanda			13				13
Senegal				1	4	3	7
Seychelles			3				3
Singapore	74	57	15		13	43	201
South Africa	3	5					8
South Korea		35	28	24	40	58	185
Spain	18	27	23	4			71
Sri Lanka	11						11
Thailand	0			3	5		8
Turkey	22	9		17	15		63
Turkmenistan						0	0
United Kingdom	11	31	20	20	24	34	141
United Nations**						9	9
United States	15	25	35	35	40	55	205
Unknown recipient(s)	5		13	3	3	31	54
Viet Nam			26	14	7	68	116
Total	572	449	432	399	694	1260	3805

You can even find out specifically what weapons were sold to whom. The UN leased a drone from Israel for use in Mali; Israel gave Jordan 16 second-hand  AH-1F Cobra combat helicopters as a gift in 2015 to help fight ISIS.

Oh, and the weapons Israel did sell to Myanmar? A patrol boat and a second-hand naval gun. Not exactly weapons that are useful to kill the local Muslim population. But that doesn't stop the Independent and Haaretz from pretending that Israel is the major supplier of weapons to enable genocide.

Here is yet another example of how the media simply ignores real facts.

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