Posted on 08/13/2014 5:13:14 PM PDT by Nachum
If Hamas attacks Israel with rocket fire and Israel retaliates, the British government has threatened to suspend some arms exports to Israel. This is, as Yuval Steinitz points out here, tantamount to inviting Hamas to launch new jihad attacks against Israel, knowing that the response from the West will be more excoriation of Israel, not resistance to jihad terror.
“UK Govt ‘Encouraging Hamas To Fire At Israel,’” by Tom Rayner, Sky News, August 12, 2014 (thanks to Hiro):
An Israeli cabinet minister has accused the UK government of ‘encouraging’ Hamas to re-start rocket fire from Gaza, following a decision to suspend some arms exports to Israel if fighting resumes.
On Wednesday night, the Department of Business confirmed it would freeze 12 licenses for arms export contracts of UK companies to Israel if “significant hostilities resume”.
Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said the decision was “exceedingly odd” and warned it could be a motivation for Hamas to refuse an extension of the ceasefire, which came into effect on Sunday night.
“I tell you honestly, I heard it, but although I have a PHD in Philosophy, I didn’t understand it. What is the message? I want to understand what is the message?”, said Mr Steinitz, addressing the Jerusalem Press Club.
“If this is the message it’s exceedingly odd, I don’t believe that this is the message.
“If Hamas will resume rocket launching at our cities tonight. If Hamas will choose to resume the fighting and the rocket attacks against Israeli civilians then Britain will put some restrictions on defence cooperation with Israel?
“I hope this is not the message because this could be very encouraging for Hamas to resume fire.”
The announcement by Business Secretary Vince Cable followed a review of licensed exports to Israel ordered by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.
The review found 12 contracts related to components and parts that could be used by the Israeli military as part of its operations in Gaza.
Arms export licences can be suspended by the UK if there is clear risk the exported goods might be used in actions considered to be political repression, or could provoke or prolong a conflict.
“The UK Government has not been able to clarify if the export licence criteria are being met. In light of that uncertainty we have taken the decision to suspend these existing export licences in the event of a resumption of significant hostilities”, said Mr Cable.
He added: “In the event of the renewal of significant hostilities, the Government’s concern is that it may not have sufficient information to determine whether the licence assessment criteria have been contravened.
“For example, whether a serious violation of international humanitarian law has occurred and whether equipment containing UK components has been used. It therefore would suspend licences while it establishes more information.”…
I wonder if #4 Downing Street is putting any pressure on Sky News over that.
Londonistan supports Hamas....I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you.
Vince Cable, and the Lib-Dems in general, are complete and utter f.ing idiots. The Tories, left to their own devices, would not have come out with something as stupidly anti-Israeli as this.
"Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has been outspoken in his criticisms of the Israeli operation in Gaza, while Prime Minister David Cameron has been keen to reaffirm Israel's right to self-defence."
Yep.
Certain aspects of WWII are not yet over. Ike was perfectly correct when he ordered the filming of the horrors of the death camps knowing that in the future there would be efforts to deny or discount them. The Jews were, are and I believe always will be a religion/nation under attack.
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Of course they're encouraging Hamas. It's already started.
Interesting that Yuval Steinitz describes himself as although I have a PHD in Philosophy, I didn’t understand it. I'd have looked to his service in the Golani Brigade, wounded in the 1982 Lebanon war as more important background relative to fighting terror, but it's not uncommon in the Knesset. I acknowledge he never spent Christmas in Cambodia, but our Secretary of State didn't either.
Just like they did when they turned over weapons, military bases and high ground to the Arab terrorists of 1948. Truly, there’s nothing new under the sun and that definitely includes Whitehall.
Assuming you mean #10?
The official residence of the PM?
I don’t know how I messed that up
Who stays in #4?
His maid?
Probably the Secretary of mutton, or perhaps the haggis liaison to the Scots.
Cameron destroyed the Conservative party now he’s surrending to Islamonazis.
Great Britain just showing the other countries of the EU that they are more Third World than any of the others. Pretty soon mayors will be rounding up Jews and sending them to ghettos like Liverpool, Leeds, London, etc.
Winston Churchill is rolling over in his grave — totally enraged by the socialist creeps that have taken over the UK...
In 1948, RAF planes and ground crew shot down five Arab planes and repelled an attack on Ramat David airfield. The only western nation to fire on the Arabs in that war.
Quoted from The Giant Book of Hyperbole.
A touch ironic, given you come from the state of Leo Frank.
The UK is still supplying Israel with military weapons and equipment (none which will be used in Gaza ironically), as confirmed two nights ago by Sky News and the BBC and other major British media.
The UK govt has also again reaffirmed its public support for Israel this week, and that Israel has ‘a legitimate right to self-defence’.
The UK is still supplying Israel with military weapons and equipment (none which will be used in Gaza ironically), as confirmed two nights ago by Sky News and the BBC and other major British media.
The UK govt has also again reaffirmed its public support for Israel this week, and that Israel has ‘a legitimate right to self-defence’.
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