MPs are calling for a full account of arms exports to Israel amid growing concerns that British military equipment was used during the bombardment of Gaza – contrary to Israeli assurances and UK export guidelines.
The government was adamant UK exports were not used in drone aircraft...Now, however, ministers say they are unsure what equipment was used...British arms control officials have admitted they are unable to say whether UK-made aircraft engines were fitted to drones. And ministers say they have been unable to ascertain whether the planes were fitted with the pilots' electronic kit for launching missiles, which was controversially – but legally – sold by BAE Systems to Israel, via the US, in 2002.
MPs on the joint committee currently examining arms controls have expressed their frustration at the lack of information...Describing Israel as a "country of concern", the UK says it refuses to export military goods that can be used for internal repression or external aggression.
P.S. Remember this joke:
An Israeli arrives at London 's Heathrow airport.
As he fills out the entry form, the immigration officer asks him: "Occupation?"
The Israeli promptly replies: "No, no, just visiting!"
(Kippah tip: CR)
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Quite honestly, I don't know why some of these morons don't just hop a ship the the middle east now ans walk the streets barring their necks.
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Let's strip this fight down to the actual bare facts. You elect a Nazi-like terrorist government, (and I use the comparison precisely), whose primary goal and charter is the destruction of the state of Israel.
They create schools where textbooks expound on the concept of Jews and Christians being monkeys and enemies of Islam who must be destroyed. They establish summer camps that teach 7 year olds the virtues of becoming suicide bombers, actually constructing a sample vest model complete with dynamite sticks, in arts & crafts. They continue to publicly describe Jews on radio, tv and newspapers as something lower than vermin, all of whom must be exterminated.
They spend all their time building tunnels and smuggling weapons to kill innocent civilians in Israel, instead of building businesses and a better life. They fire rockets regularly into Israeli towns and cities to goad Israel into a short-lived response that ultimately becomes a pr coup. They have weekly parades attended by upwards of 100,000 people screaming, "We will destroy the Zionist criminal pigs," and much worse.
Then, when this moral democracy legitimately and legally responds to the thousands of rocket attacks on its cities through a serious military action, you cry like babies. Please--I need an air sickness bag. Those brave (sic) Hamas leaders run underground like sewer rats, leaving their supportive, so called "innocent civilians" to die for them.
And much of the world continues to repeat the same mistakes of history. In fact, Europe learned absolutely nothing from WWII. Instead of learning that decent, moral nations must "fight evil," the Europeans learned that "fighting is evil."
This whole blogsite is poison. You can't possibly believe the fascist nonsense you have written on here. Shame on you.
I wish you were just visiting in Palestine...
Yeah - all Israel is the bad guy - we hate everyone and want to dominate the world... so we put on suicide belts and vests and go into pizza parlors, looking for the most children in a group so we can stand near them to kill them first; we infiltrate kindergartens and kill as many children as possible while they are just playing or sleeping or learning their aleph-bet; we enter the home of people on Friday night while they are praying to G-d and murder them at their Shabbat table; we blow up city buses and nightclubs; etc. etc. etc. - no, wait, that's not Israel, that's (let's see now) - the PLO/Fatah and all factions thereof, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc. etc. etc....
Gosh - Israel is so ugly, with empty sand dunes, no green spaces, nothing on our shop shelves, high unemployment so that people just stand around doing nothing all day, censored media (okay, that part is sort of true)... oh, wait - that's not Israel, that's Gaza with Hamas in charge!
Hummm - better do more research so I can understand all this better... gotta figure out a way to make Israel the bad guy, even when it's NOT!
I'll help you with research
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/04/gaza.idf/index.html
or just go here
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/
Apparently killing 1300 people, 400 of which are CHILDREN doesn't make one a bad guy in your eyes.
Your conciousness is ugly just like your picture.
My picture? Now, now, let's not get too personal here.
I was replying to Susan
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