U.K.: We revoked Israel arms licenses, but it's no embargo
Submitted by legalizeliberty on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 12:14
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1099701.html
The British Embassy in Tel Aviv confirmed Monday that the United Kingdom has revoked a number of arms export licenses to Israel following the Gaza war, but insisted that the move did not constitute a partial embargo.
"There is no partial U.K. arms embargo on Israel," the embassy said in a statement to Haaretz. "U.K. policy remains to assess all export licenses to Israel against the consolidated EU and national arms export licensing criteria."
The statement came in response to a Haaretz report that Britain had indeed slapped a partial arms embargo on Israel, refusing to supply replacement parts and other equipment for Sa'ar 4.5 gunships because they participated in Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip earlier this year.
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...Good for the U.K.
And don't explain any of your reasoning for it. Israel violated the law let them be punished.
Now please, for the love of almighty stop the weapon exports to Honduras, North Korea, Egypt and Yugoslavia as well!!
Give the USA some kind of "example" they could get behind.....None of those regimes deserve more weapon exports, NONE of them. And all of them waste in the billions & billions of dollars on military Foreign Aid welfare.
Honduras
"The people of Honduras are pleading for media fairness and understanding of how they saved their democratic system of government from an international conspiracy based in Venezuela and Cuba. In desperate messages to the outside world, Hondurans want America to know they do not want former President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya returned to power through the intervention of the United States and the United Nations."
Please read Cliff Kincaid's article at http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff328.htm
and this one: http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff331.htm
Zelaya broke the law, and under their Constitution, their legislature voted to replace him, and their supreme court agreed and issued warrants for his arrest. The Honduran military did not do a coup. They remain subordinate to the civil authority there which acted to save their Constitution. Our MSM coverage of this is totally skewed.
I agree it was a setup....
I always felt that Zelaya was no good. But politics aside, UK (or the US, for what it matters) should suspend export weapons to Honduras, Cuba, and Madagascar/Darfur due to the anti-democratic regimes they constantly establish to police their own people.
These weapons of war do not have any place over there, period. The U.K. at least may do it with enough pressure. As for the USA, we only seem to do it when it makes "business" sense since we don't give a damn about the human rights in other countries.
http://www.madcowprod.com
PS: I vouch for cutting off arms to Honduras since Michalletti is no better than Zelaya.....But I never want to see Zelaya return to power, don't understand why the media went crazy over a large scale cocaine dealer..