Anti-Israel Colombia integrates IAI’s Barak air defense system | According to the ZM website, the Colombian Air Force is integrating the first battery of the system, including the command and control systems and radars.

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1. Colombia, whose president Gustavo Petro is one of the loudest international critics of Israel, is at the same time integrating Israel Aerospace Industries’ Barak MX air defense system into its air force.

   The deal, worth about $131 million and signed in 2022, is moving ahead on schedule, with the first battery now being integrated and full deployment planned over the coming years.

   Geopolitically, this is both hypocritical and telling.

   Publicly, Colombia positions itself as fiercely anti Israel, yet in practice it relies on advanced Israeli technology to protect its own skies.

   It shows how even governments that attack Israel politically, still trust and depend on its defense systems when their own security is at stake, exposing a clear gap between rhetoric and real world interests.

   Colombia is not unique in this. South Africa, for example, has taken a leading role in attacking Israel over its response to the war initiated from Gaza, while at the same time becoming Israel’s [number one coal supplier.](https://www.news24.com/business/climate-future/energy/sa-is-now-israels-largest-coal-supplier-following-colombias-ban-20251218-0818)

2. One would wonder who’s planes they have in mind doing so.

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