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Pro-Palestinian activists damage planes at UK military base
Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | 20 June 2025

Posted on 06/20/2025 5:37:49 AM PDT by Apparatchik

LONDON (Reuters) -Pro-Palestinian activists broke into a Royal Air Force base in central England on Friday, damaging and spraying red paint over two planes used for refuelling and transport.

Palestine Action said two members had entered the Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire, putting paint into the engines of the Voyager aircraft and further damaging them with crowbars.

"Despite publicly condemning the Israeli government, Britain continues to send military cargo, fly spy planes over Gaza and refuel U.S./Israeli fighter jets," the group said in a statement, posting a video of the incident on X.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: fafo; nazis; palestineaction; palestinians; unitedkingdom; whataretheirfrnicks
What’s more concerning is the apparent piss poor security at RAF bases. I would hope that our military bases are better guarded, whether here or abroad and any idiot Israel haters who might try this will end up justifiably shot.
1 posted on 06/20/2025 5:37:49 AM PDT by Apparatchik
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To: Apparatchik

Indeed. Those “activists” should have been shot stone cold dead the instant their feet crossed into the flight-line.


2 posted on 06/20/2025 5:40:23 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

What I want to know is why weren’t they?!


3 posted on 06/20/2025 5:47:27 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Remember, this is Great Britainstan. The King and Parliament will ask their sacred Muslim community to forgive them for
making entry onto the base so difficult.
4 posted on 06/20/2025 5:48:03 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: Apparatchik; NorthMountain; No name given

UK is lousy with muzzies.....I wouldn’t doubt they had help from the inside.


5 posted on 06/20/2025 5:53:19 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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"What’s more concerning is the apparent piss poor security at RAF bases."

Yeah, how in the world did a bunch of wackos ever get that close to the aircraft..?

6 posted on 06/20/2025 5:54:55 AM PDT by unread
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They could have really created havoc with flight endangering damage. They should have been room temp.


7 posted on 06/20/2025 5:58:16 AM PDT by healy61
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To: Apparatchik

Every single one of them should spend a minimum of five years in prison to “rethink their life”.


8 posted on 06/20/2025 6:00:50 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Apparatchik

What’s more concerning is the apparent piss poor security at RAF bases. I would hope that our military bases are better guarded, whether here or abroad and any idiot Israel haters who might try this will end up justifiably shot.

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I think we have some very serious security problems in the US, thanks to the open borders policy of the Biden Administration.


9 posted on 06/20/2025 6:09:38 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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“”””putting paint into the engines of the Voyager aircraft and further damaging them with crowbars.”””””

Who needs drones and sleeper cell commandos when civilians can just walk up at night and work it over with a crowbar?


10 posted on 06/20/2025 6:18:17 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Pretty amazing stuff. The saboteurs (not vandals) were able to enter the base, damage two military aircraft, and then leave.

No arrests so far. Perhaps Prime Minister Starmer will appoint a commission to investigate the matter. Their findings will be released in a decade or so.


11 posted on 06/20/2025 6:21:27 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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If these unwashed Communists can dip in and out of a supposedly secure military base, then one can only imagine how many times the Chinese have already done so.


12 posted on 06/20/2025 6:24:47 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Apparatchik

They used to hang saboteurs.


13 posted on 06/20/2025 6:30:26 AM PDT by Westbrook (democRATs are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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To: cuban leaf

105 years...minimum


14 posted on 06/20/2025 6:32:19 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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How convenient when Britain might want to use them in an Iranian campaign


15 posted on 06/20/2025 8:20:57 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff )
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Inside job??


16 posted on 06/20/2025 8:42:13 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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"What’s more concerning is the apparent piss poor security at RAF bases."

They should have been shot as soon as they tried to gain access.

17 posted on 06/20/2025 11:56:36 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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