{"id":1002,"date":"2010-11-24T12:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T12:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2010-11-24T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T12:46:31","slug":"uk-criticised-for-arming-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/11\/24\/1002\/","title":{"rendered":"UK criticised for arming Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"israel_uk\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/israel_uk.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"182\" \/>London: British arms companies have faced heavy criticism at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes and human rights abuses.<br \/>The three-day international tribunal in London, investigating corporate complicity in Israel\u2019s violations of international law, heard evidence about the unethical dealings of major multinational companies, including British-Danish security company G4S.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Hilary, executive director of War on Want charity called for the British government to launch a two-way arms embargo on Israel. He also told the jury that Israeli company Verint has supplied CCTV cameras for the London Underground.<br \/>The tribunal was also told that Hermes 450 drones produced by Israeli arms company Elbit were used during the brutal Israeli attacks on Gaza last year, yet the UK army awarded the Israeli firm and its partner, Thales UK, a deal worth over $1 billion to develop the Watchkeeper, the next generation of drone (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).<br \/>Hilary said the British government had conceded that components licensed for export from Britain were \u201calmost certainly\u201d used by the Israeli armed forces in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.<br \/>The tribunal, which started on Saturday, is the second and comes after the first session of the RTP, held in Barcelona in March this year, exposed both passive and proactive EU complicity in supporting Israel, including by way of its trading agreement.<br \/>In a letter to the tribunal, G4S security company said that it had \u201cdecided not to engage\u201d in the London hearings although it insisted its policy is \u201calways to comply with national law\u201d in relevant jurisdictions.<br \/>But giving evidence on Sunday, Israeli academic Dalit Baum from the Who Profits? research project testified that the complicity of British-Danish firm involved human rights abuses at the notorious Ofer prison in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.<br \/>Israeli group Who Profits? were a major source of evidence to the tribunal, while being currently threatened by prospective new laws which would outlaw any organisation that promotes boycotts.<br \/>In a detailed statement, Dutch company PFZW also claimed that they \u201cno longer invest in any of the Israeli companies mentioned\u201d by the tribunal\u2019s witness, but witness Saskia M\u00fcller testified that it had since then invested in two new Israeli companies involved in the occupation of the West Bank.<br \/>Other evidence came from Josh Reubener, national advocacy director for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, who told the jury that the Obama administration was shortly due to request a record budget of $3.75 billion from the US congress.<br \/>On the first day of the London session, Pulitzer prize-winning writer Alice Walker compared Israel\u2019s treatment of the Palestinians with the historical racism of the British Empire and said the Zionist regime was no different from historical US and UK colonialism.<br \/>The jury, which was due to give its verdict on corporate complicity, includes UK barristers Lord Anthony Gifford, Michael Mansfield QC and John Dugard, former special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: The Muslim News<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: British arms companies have faced heavy criticism at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes and human rights abuses.The three-day international tribunal in London, investigating corporate complicity in Israel\u2019s violations of international law, heard evidence about the unethical dealings of major multinational companies, including British-Danish security company G4S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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