In addition, Arab rulers, despite all the weapons their states have bought from America and elsewhere, again find themselves exposed to their own people as impotent to handle a serious regional problem.
Despite the crudeness of the weapons, many have landed in Sderot, killing around a dozen people in the last three years and wounding scores more.
They inherited a world laid waste by war and rebuilt it, staying clear of further war despite the power of the weapons they had to hand.
In a report being released today, Amnesty International accuses Russia, China, Poland, Belarus and other countries of selling military weaponry to Sudan despite the fact that the weapons are being used to conduct human rights abuses against civilians in the western Darfur region.
"No one, whoever he is, has the right, despite the various weapons at his disposal, to prevent this mighty people from fulfilling its religious duties," he added.
(Despite the futuristic weapons, some World War II era cars -- Volkswagen Beetles and Mercedes-Benzes -- are depicted in loving detail. And a real-world detail is included: when someone gets into a car, the auto's body sinks from the weight.) The elite police unit is known as the Capital Police Organization; its foes are primarily a terrorist group called the Sect.
The UK kept quiet about a loophole allowing the US to continue storing cluster bombs on its territory despite an international ban on the weapons.
The most notable event of Obama's visit was the lifting of the weapons embargo, despite a partial lifting in 2014 on non-lethals like maritime security goods.
A second shipment was removed around 27 January; that same day, the U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, expressed concern over the worsening delays and assessed that Syria already has the resources required to transport the weapons promptly despite the ongoing civil war.
