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UK 'reviewing' £8bn worth of arms sales to Israel, Ministers claim military equipment not used in Gaza

Rowena Mason
The Guardian
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:11 UTC
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© Atef Safadi/EPAAmong the export licences granted to 130 British arms-makers, one is for a company selling components for Israel’s main battle tank.
The British government is reviewing the sale of £8bn in arms and military goods to Israel to see whether each licence is appropriate in light of the conflict in Gaza, Downing Street has said. Ministers said they would not stop licensing military equipment to Israel outright because they believed the country had a "legitimate right to self-defence".

The contracts - mostly for cryptographic software and military communications, but also weapon parts - will be individually examined to ensure they are not being used for internal repression or the provocation of conflict. Downing Street confirmed it was conducting the review after David Cameron gave his strongest comments yet on the crisis, saying the UN was right to condemn the shelling of schools as a "moral outrage".

The prime minister, however, stopped short of Ed Miliband's outright opposition to Israel's incursion into Gaza, and made it clear that the British government blamed Hamas for provoking the conflict.

"We are currently reviewing all export licences to Israel to confirm that we think they are appropriate," the prime minister's deputy official spokesman said.
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Whistle

IDF leak: Sniper fire against civilians fleeing Shuja'iyya bombing massacre was 'revenge' - Whistleblower arrested after revealing this on Facebook

Joey Ayoub
Global Voices
Sun, 03 Aug 2014 10:42 UTC
Eran Efrati
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Former combat soldier and company sergeant of the Israeli army turned whistle-blower Eran Efrati, aged 28, was arrested by the Israeli authorities and questioned concerning his research regarding the use of illegal weapons in Gaza.

On Tuesday, July 29, Efrati announced on Facebook that he received information from sources within the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealing what he claims to be the real reason for the Shuja'iyya massacre which occurred nine days prior on July 20: namely that civilians were targeted and killed by Israeli soldiers as punishment for the death of soldiers in their units.

Comment: Shujayea: Massacre at Dawn - This is what Israel's 'war' looks like: Exclusive footage from inside Gaza



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Arrow Up

Ole! Spain halts arms exports to Israel over Gaza war


Press TV
Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:13 UTC
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An Israeli soldier holds a weapon near the Gaza Strip (file photo).
The Spanish government has decided to "temporarily halt" all arms and military exports to Israel in the wake of Tel Aviv's offensive in the Gaza Strip, a Spanish daily reports.

The decision to impose an arms embargo on Israel was reached last Thursday during a session of an inter-ministerial committee on arms manufacturing which is comprised of representatives from the prime minister's office, ministries of economy, defense, foreign affairs and finance, El Pais said in a report released on Tuesday.
Spain provides Israel with missile parts, fuses from hand grenades, mortar parts, electro-optical equipment and fire control systems
The decision to suspend arms exports is not definite and will be reviewed at the next committee session in September.

Spain is the second country to stop arm sales to Israel in the past 24 hours as the British government also said on Monday that it is reviewing all arms export licenses to Israel to assure that the arms are being put to "appropriate" use.

The Israeli military aggression has taken the lives of more than 1,880 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and wounded over 9,600 others in Gaza since July 8.

International bodies and human rights groups say civilians account for the majority of the victims of the ongoing Israeli war. Women and children make up the bulk of the civilian casualties there.

The UN Human Rights Council recently passed a resolution, calling for an independent probe into Israel's war crimes in Gaza.
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Star of David

Best of the Web: The virtue & necessity of deconstructing 'anti-semitism'

Mark Green
PersecutionPrivilegeandPower.com
Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:27 UTC
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Those of us who dare to criticize Israel's centrality in American life are at a real disadvantage. We are disgusted by what we see, but contemporary protocol requires us to show respect and tolerance to the very people who inspire the disgust in the first place. Worse still, our tormentors have no reciprocal obligation for civility. The deck of cards in this dispute is stacked. Saying the wrong word, uttering an incorrect phrase, and one can be tarred as a disreputable 'Anti-Semite', which has become the scarlet letter of our time.

Have Jews been mistreated, shunned, defamed and killed? Certainly. Have Jews done the same? Most definitely. And to make matters worse, they're still at it. Unfortunately, 'post-Holocaust' rules of discourse now dictate extreme rhetorical deference on this subject. This favors the opposition. There are linguistic land-mines everywhere. And they're been laid out almost exclusively by the other team. Fortunately, one Jewish blogger has recently provided the non-Jewish world with a 19-point guide on what NOT say about Jews and Israel if you wish to avoid the stigma of 'anti-Semitism'.
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Magnify

9/11 probe closing in on a desperate Israel

Dr. Kevin Barrett
PressTV
Tue, 05 Aug 2014 01:23 UTC
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© news.nationalgeographic.com9/11: World Trade Center south tower collapsing.
Why is Israel committing suicide?

Netanyahu's genocidal onslaught in Gaza has done more to delegitimize the Zionist entity than the work of all the world's anti-Zionists put together. Yet the Israeli military cannot stop the Palestinian resistance; from an Israeli standpoint, the hecatomb in Gaza serves no military or strategic purpose.

Is Israel insane?

That is a rhetorical question. The real question is: WHY is Israel lashing out like a nation gone mad?

Comment: Finally the facts are beginning to surface and the American public will see the tragedy of 9/11 for what it really was... a horrible manipulation to further psychopathic agendas and pull the wool over the eyes of a shocked nation in mourning. If you haven't already, read 9/11The Ultimate Truth by Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Joe Quinn. It's all there.

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Bad Guys

Dutch foreign minister Timmermans: Violence by Israel on Gaza is 'unacceptable'


DutchNews
Tue, 05 Aug 2014 08:22 UTC
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© ANPDutch foreign minister Frans Timmermans
Foreign minister Frans Timmermans says the violence being wreaked by Israel on Gaza is 'unacceptable'.

In an opinion piece in the NRC on Tuesday, Timmermans calls for an independent inquiry into the bombardment of UN schools and a hospital.

He writes that the Israeli bombardment and the Hamas rockets 'only increase the hate, the fear and the hopelessness'.

However, he does not point the finger of blame, saying that only once the fighting stops can the underlying reasons for the violence be dealt with.

Comment: It seems that recent protests in the Netherlands, during which protesters asked Timmermans to 'stop the apartheid', and a petition (of 40,000 signatures) that called on the Dutch government to impose sanctions on Israel (which was personally handed over to Timmermans five days ago), may have contributed to Timmermans finally speaking out against the violence committed by Israel. It remains to be seen however whether Timmermans, or the Dutch government, will take any action against Israel. Currently this seems unlikely as the Netherlands seems to be more involved with banning protests, and supporting the West's agenda in Iraq.

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Bad Guys

Senior intelligence officers: Obama should release evidence


WashingtonsBlog
Tue, 29 Jul 2014 05:47 UTC
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Preface: With the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine turning a local civil war into a U.S. confrontation with Russia, former high-level U.S. intelligence veterans released a statement today urging President Obama to release what evidence he has about the tragedy and silence the exaggeration and rush to judgment. (The whole post is a must-read; but we at Washington's Blog have added bolding for emphasis.)

Signatory Bill Binney - the former senior technical director at the NSA, and a man who battled the Soviet Union for decades - tells Washington's Blog:
In my analytic efforts to predict intentions and capabilities down through the years, I always made sure that I had multi-factors verifying what I was asserting. So far, I don't see that discipline here in this administration or the IC [i.e. the United States intelligence community].

Comment: A voice of sanity from former intelligence officers in a sea of lies, deception and spin. But I wouldn't hold my breath ... What the authors don't (want to?) realise, is that the treatment of the Obama administration (and many others before him) with the facts on the ground are deliberate. The agenda behind is not to find the truth, but to use (or even better set up) situations, in which a hegemonial agenda can be pushed - in this case the isolation of Russia, which at this stage is the only country left that can oppose Washington militarily; to prevent Russia and China to leave their old enmity behind; and to save the dollar hegenomy.

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Megaphone

UK foreign office minister Baroness Warsi quits in protest at government policy on Gaza

Matt Chorley
Mail Online
Tue, 05 Aug 2014 03:38 UTC
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Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi today dramatically resigned in protest at the government's policy on Gaza.

The first Muslim woman to serve in the Cabinet posted a message on Twitter announcing she 'can no longer support Govt policy on #Gaza'.

The loss of the former Tory party chairman will put pressure on David Cameron, who has refused to say whether Israel's actions in Gaza are 'criminal'.

In a statement posted on her Twitter feed, she said: 'With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on Gaza.'
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Arrow Down

U.S. government caught using humanitarian HIV program as a front to foster Cuban dissent

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:38 UTC
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Regular readers of Liberty Blitzkrieg will recall that earlier this year I highlighted how the U.S. government covertly created a "Cuban Twitter" called ZunZuneo in a failed attempt to overthrow the island nation's regime.

The elaborate plot was implemented under the umbrella of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which is responsible for overseeing billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid.

If you need a refresher, check out the post: Conspiracy Fact - How the U.S. Government Covertly Invented a "Cuban Twitter" to Create Revolution.

Well we now know that USAID went a lot further than that. Another scheme to unseat the Cuban government has now been revealed. This time with even more immoral foundations, and which could disrupt genuine humanitarian relief efforts the world over.

Incredibly, the U.S. government used an HIV program as a front to foster dissent amongst Cuba's youth.

The HIV-prevention workshop was even referred to as the "perfect excuse to recruit political activists." Despicable.
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Star of David

Out-Hitlering Hitler: Israeli official calls for concentration camps, ethnic cleansing of Gazans

Jill Reilly
Daily Mail UK
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 22:18 UTC
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This man has no soul: Moshe Feiglin called for concentration camps in Gaza in his action plan
An Israeli official has called for concentration camps in Gaza and 'the conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of all fighting forces and their supporters'.

Moshe Feiglin, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud Party, posted the inflammatory message on his Facebook page at the weekend.

He lays out a detailed plan for the destruction of Gaza - which includes shipping its residents across the world - in a letter he addressed to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The message, which received more than 2,000 likes on his page, lists four action points which he wants to be enforced as soon as possible.

Feiglin details the first one as 'defining the enemy' and states: 'The strategic enemy is extremist Arab Islam in all its varieties, from Iran to Gaza, which seeks to annihilate Israel in its entirety. The immediate enemy is Hamas. (Not the tunnels, not the rockets, but Hamas.)'

He says another important part of his plan is the 'conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of all fighting forces and their supporters.'

The Gaza war, now in its fourth week, has left more than 1,800 Palestinians dead.

Comment: Perhaps it is Feiglin who needs a new home: preferably one about 6 feet by 4 feet, with lightly padded walls, and a thin slot for his daily, limited-calorie 'diet'. Perhaps Bibi can keep him company, too.

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