Britain is suspending the sale of a raft of arms components being used by Israel in Gaza after concluding there is a real risk weapons could be used in violation of international humanitarian law.
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced Monday that 30 licenses, including parts for fighter planes, helicopters and drones will be immediately put on hold.
I assume this action will result in an assault by UK defense industry lobbyists upon the the current government.
If Mexico were to attack the US over frankly reasonable major grievances would the UK cut us off?
When we went after ISIS? In Afghanistan? In Iraq? In Vietnam? In Korea?
In WW II did we cut off the English? We could have ignored them.
There are forces of Islam only. Israel is an Arab run country with a minority Muslim population.
There has to come a day when Muslims separate church and state. There are four other wars in the region that are worse, have worse famines, and worse disease.
The world is very comfortably ignoring 12 million refugees in Sudan and far worse death rates than Gaza. Similarly with Syria, Somalia, and Yemen.
Why does Gaza matter? Hamas does not care. Hamas wants your sympathy but will only be a force of Islam only. Religion thou shall not kill but the religious are most likely to kill those in the same religion in war. It is not accident that the only country where Muslims are not killing only Muslims is Israel. Israel is centrally located. Otherwise, it is only Muslims in the name of god killing other Muslims.
I digress and you do not care about that or acknowledge it is the only issue.
Labor in the UK has a problem. Most in the UK support Israel. People will not like the pandering.
The first line of defense for most Arab countries against Iran is Israel. Those countries do not want the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas to be rising up with Iran’s help.
If Israel was militarily cut off at the knees thanks for nothing as five Arab capitals break into civil war with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Keep the killing going by being the “good guy”.