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Netanyahu condemns ‘shameful’ UK suspension of some Israel arms sales

www.theguardian.com Netanyahu condemns ‘shameful’ UK suspension of some Israel arms sales

Israeli PM says move will embolden a genocidal Hamas as British government faces growing backlash

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Wasn't it 30/350 licenses?

And Israel likes to cite these 1200 deaths while neglecting the fact that they've killed over 40000 Palestinians in retaliation and taken the opportunity to plunder the land.

The only thing shameful is that the UK continues to turn a blind eye.

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- Whats also shameful is that israel knowingly(according to BBC and many high ranking sources) let october 7 happen just so they could justify the genocide. How can the israeli people ever forgive that?
  
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  israel knowingly(according to BBC and many high ranking sources) let october 7 happen
  
  Any links for this? I've wondered about that from the beginning, but I haven't seen anyone "official" come out and suggest it.
  
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lol what does Netanyahu know of shame ?

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- Knows it can work on others
  
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  On brits ??
  
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- Trick question! Fascists are sociopathic and feel neither empathy or shame.
  
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There was an interesting comment in the previous post about this. Whilst conspiracy nonsense is often quite common here on Lemmy I do feel in this case it's pretty accurate of what's going on.

Lammy and his French counterpart were recently in Israel having high level meetings with the Israeli government. No doubt the topic of on going support from the UK & France came up and no doubt Lammy would have mentioned that it doesn't look good politically in the UK to still have these licenses for arms to kill Palestinians. The US is being particularly quiet on this one given the election but a Trump team member recently said something to the effect of "The UK can get fucked if it stops selling arms to Israel... I tell you hwat".

So, to me, this really does feel like the UK trying to balance politics at home and abroad. Even the way Lammy sheepishly apologised for suspending a tiny fraction of arms sales to Israel. Just enough to placate the voters at home whilst trying not to damage inward investment from countries that fully support Israel's campaign (i.e. the US and Israel itself).

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- I wouldn't put too much emphasis on random things Trump idiots say though. The Trump administration basically is a sack of cats as far as discipline goes and people to have a tendency to just say random stuff which isn't necessarily policy.
  
  There's very little support for selling arms to Israel. You don't need international relations with the potential Trump government to really come into it.
  
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  There's little support for selling arms to Israel except by the Military Industrial Complex. They've spent years manufacturing consent from the public to keep selling arms to places that are all but guaranteed to start wars and/or commit war crimes.
  
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Poor little murderer

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I hope he chokes on his food and no one knows the Heimlich maneuver.

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- I hope he gets the Gadaffi treatment, sword right up the rectum
  
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  Too easy.
  
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That will teach him. He can only have most of the guns, but not all of the guns.

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- We should never start anything that doesn't accomplish 100% of its goal immediately.
  
  Got it.
  
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  I don't think you got that joke did you?
  
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pobrecito

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