The British government has played a significant role in facilitating Israel's

genocidal onslaught against the Palestinian people through its use of its global

platform to champion Israel's slaughter, its failure to use its diplomatic position to challenge this

crime of historic proportions. It's failure to use its relationship with the United

States to stop the atrocities being committed on a daily basis and of course its arming of has been

committed on a daily basis and of course it's arming of this genocide with weapons.

Now today's been announced by the British Foreign Secretary David Lamy

that the British government is suspending some arms exports licenses to Israel.

The operative word here being some, which I come on to.

That's after a view by the government which found a clear risk, in adverse quotes,

that British arms could be used in serious violations of

humanitarian law specifically relating to the treatment of Palestinian detainees and the supply

of aid to Gaza. I should say that the British government has a legal duty if it has legal advice

stating that Israel is committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, not to provide arms to enable those war crimes.

So it's not like you should go, well hey, British government, look what they're doing on their own

steam. They have a legal obligation not to arm a genocide.

Now what's covered in this includes components for drones, helicopters and fighter aircraft.

Now before you start cracking open those champagne bottles, that's 30 arms export licenses

which have been suspended out of about 300 arms licenses to Israel. So they've

suspended about 10%. And specifically it excludes components for

Israel's F-35 fighters which are raining down death and destruction on the people of Gaza,

with 15% of every F-35 fighters components being made here in the UK. Now this genocide has been going on now for 11 months.

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