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🎬European Union foreign policy chief, Joseph Borrell, urges the United States and Europe to refrain from relying on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as if they lack agency, and instead take decisive action as they have done in the past, including ceasing the provision of arms that contribute to these acts of violence.

It’s a shame that a statement expressing such basic logic is rare in mainstream media, deserving of commendation 👏

In a four-page letter, ex-UN official Craig Mokhiber criticised the international community for failing to stop a “genocide unfolding before our eyes” in Gaza.

The US human rights lawyer accused the US, UK and much of Europe of being “wholly complicit in the horrific assault” on the Palestinian enclave by Israeli forces.

The United States is by far the biggest exporter of arms to Israel. More than 70% of the arms Israel bought came from the US, (2022), according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) Arms Transfers database, which only includes major conventional weapons.

According to Sipri numbers, the US has exported arms to Israel every year since 1961.

It’s harder to track arms that have actually been delivered, but the United States has given Israel more aid than any other nation since World War II, granting it more than $260 billion in combined military and economic aid.

SIPRI provided data on arms sales from Europe to Israel between 2013 to 2022, showing Italy and Germany had supplied Israel’s military with crucial weapons and equipment it was now using on the ground in Gaza.

The UK, meanwhile, has lucrative deals supplying the Israeli Air Force, according to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT).

CAAT pointed to several “concerning” open licences that “could easily involve” military items that might be used in Gaza, such as equipment, software and technology for combat aircraft and helicopters, plus components for artillery, naval guns and combat vessels, missile and munitions equipment and military radars.

“Arms sales to Israel need to be halted immediately,” said Emily Apple, CAAT’s Media Coordinator

Amnesty International said it had long called for a “comprehensive arms embargo on Israel.” #ArmsEmbargo

“How many is too many?”

“They’re going to evacuate, where to, the moon”

28,064 Palestinians massacred, 67,611 injured since Oct. 7 🍉🕊

🇳🇱 Dank je wel Nederland

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