The United Kingdom will not halt arms sales to Israel by British companies after reviewing the latest legal advice on the matter, Foreign Minister David Cameron has said.
Some opposition political parties in Britain have called for the government to recall Parliament from its current holiday and revoke the export licences, and also to publish the legal advice the government has used to reach its position.
“This was yet another missed opportunity from David Cameron to move himself and other UK officials away from their current complicity in Israeli war crimes, apartheid and possible genocide,” said Amnesty International UK’s crisis response manager, Kristyan Benedict.
Israel denies it has committed war crimes or genocide in its assault on Gaza, and has rejected the use of the term “apartheid” to describe its treatment of Palestinians.
The entire Western world has zero moral standing, and it’s very odd how they all support Israel. It seems Israel is the boss, and that raises a lot of questions.
I suspect we’re risking an increase in terror attacks in the west and should they reference Israel, leaders will really have no defence. What Israel is doing and has done has nothing to do with democracy. It’s nothing less than a repeat of the wars of colonialism, just in a modern settling, and supporting it casts Western progress away from its colonial history to being highly questionable.
The western world is losing it’s legitimacy by supporting Israel like this, and it makes so little overt sense.
The suspected rise in terror attacks was 6 months ago and nothing came of it. Hamas is not interested in attacking civilians in other countries. Only ISIS does that but ISIS does not care about Palestinians.
