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UK Support for US Bomb Shipments to Israel

Posted July 26th, 2006 by ringverse
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The obscene fawning support of our Labour government for the slaughter in Lebanon and Gaza has been obvious and repugnant. As a stooge of US foreign policy, we have been backing up Dubya and Condi in refusing to call for an immediate cease fire. But our support consists of far more than just words.

Britain has been used as a staging post for major shipments of bunker-busting bombs from America to Israel. The Israelis want the 5,000lb smart bombs to attack the bunkers being used by Hizbollah leaders in Lebanon.

Two chartered Airbus A310 cargo planes filled with GBU 28 laser-guided bombs landed at Prestwick airport, near Glasgow, for refuelling and crew rests after flying across the Atlantic at the weekend, defence sources confirmed. The airport has also been used by the CIA for rendition flights carrying terrorist suspects.

In a press conference earlier this week, with a look of complete disgust on his face Blair refused to comment on a question about the letter that the Lib Dems had written to him asking for a moratorium on the shipment of arms to Israel. Now we know why. In the same article the FCO make some plaintive noises about "looking at our approach to these flights." The FCO are obviously still labouring under the misguided impression that they have some input into George Bush's Tony Blair's foreign policy...

Craig Murray comments:

We condemn Syria and Iran for supplying weapons to Hizbollah, while 100 times their weight of US munitions have fallen on Lebanon, and more US bombs are now being urgently dispatched to kill more children, with UK support. Britain has broken the longstanding EU concensus on Palestine and removed any counterweight to the US.

Whenever you think Blair can bring us no lower in international morality, he does it. It is no longer possible for anyone to justify continued membership of the Labour Party. This government is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocents through its support for Bush's imperialist wars. Anyone who stays in the Labour Party should be shunned as a moral pariah.

Meanwhile, this makes for interesting reading:

SANCTION REGIMES, ARMS EMBARGOES AND RESTRICTIONS ON THE EXPORT OF STRATEGIC GOODS

EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports