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Secret agreements: The Australian-Israel Defence Memorandum of Understanding
As the Australian government continues its vacuous utterances on Palestinian statehood, while denying it is supplying the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) with weapons, efforts to unearth details of the defence relationship between the countries have so far come to naught.
The Department of Trade and Foreign Affairs’ Israel brief is skimpy.
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Jewish Council of Australia says Israel is ‘rogue state’, demands end to military, political support Open letter to Senator Penny Wong: After 52 years of loyalty I will never vote Labor again Community leaders call on Albanese to isolate apartheid Israel, scrap weapons dealsIt notes that, since 2017, there has been “expanded cooperation on national security, defence and cyber security” and since 2018, defence officials have had annual talks. Early that year Australia appointed a resident Defence Attaché to its Embassy in Tel Aviv.
Conspicuously absent are details of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on defence cooperation, signed in 2017.
But 2017 was something of a critical year. The Australia-Israel Defence Industry Cooperation Joint Working Group was created that October.
The Department of Defence noted on August 22, 2018, that the intention was........
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