Come on mate, you were really keen on this one.
How much of the UK’s annual total of £18.2m in arms exports to Israel comes from this factory?
Advocating for the defeat of Hamas is 'calling for genocide'?
lmao
Yes, in the same sense that I deny the existence of unicorns. I'm also a unicorn-denier.
He's said a lot since October 7th and before it.
A selection of more recent ones by running a search for his tweets using the word 'Hamas'
https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1802965814053670956
Hamas' Qassam Brigades are guerilla fighters engaged in armed struggle against an occupying power, which is their right under international law.
https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1795133769172623378
The only men on this planet willing to do something about children being murdered in Gaza are to be found in Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Resistance Axis. So obviously the Western Zionist media have no answer but to frame these Resistance fighters as "terrorists"
https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1794489366276194554
Hamas have just captured a group of Israeli soldiers
LOL
https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1792472920029012293
Iran’s president and foreign minister have died.
If it is an act of God, there is naught we can say. If it was an act of treachery, this will not deter or hinder the Resistance.
Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah have always become stronger after losses like this.
The struggle continues.
https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1785809457194188820
Why do you denounce Hamas and Hezbollah?
Do you also denounce the French resistance when you condemn the Nazis?
I'm so bored of Westerners comparing the only armed front that Palestinians/Arabs have to their oppressors, and acting like this is some kind of nuanced comment
https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1781613656238620939
They hate Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. because they fight back. Because they refuse to roll over when the Israelis and Americans snap their fingers.
That is the only reason, and nothing else.
He also regularly writes for and appears on Al Mayadeen (Hezbollah affiliates), the Iranian Regime's Press TV, and Russia Today.
And yes, you would be correct if you guessed his views on Syria's Bashar al-Assad based on this information.
So it's not an Elbit Systems factory, it's a separate French-owned company which owner company has a separate contract with Elbit Systems, and the article doesn't actually say what this particular factory produces, who it sells to, or what the financial value of it is.
Great. Really cleared that up.
How much of the UK's annual total of £18.2m in arms exports to Israel comes from this factory?
Also if committing massacres made the PLO a terror group
No, it's when you commit terrorist acts that you become a terrorist group. Like the PLO did, repeatedly, over many many years, and bragged about.
Terrorists are by definition non-state actors.
And yes I've seen the Pallywood stuff coming out of Gaza just like everyone else has. It's the same bullshit they pull every time they cross a line and find their shit getting pushed in by Israel like in Lebanon in 1982.
receives billions in funding and weapons from the US and UK
In 2023 total UK arms exports to Israel totalled £18.2 million. We do not provide them with foreign financial assistance.
So you were only off by a little bit.
In 2023 Israel received approx. £3.3 bn in foreign assistance from the USA, the large majority loaned to purchase US supplies of both defensive and offensive munitions. That same year, Egypt also received about £1.5 bn in foreign assistance from the USA, Jordan £1.7 bn, etc.
As I said it is a form of political repression.
Yes, that's why it's good
Taking his day job seriously, I see
No. I want the IDF to be given the weapons to finish off Hamas. The Palestinians have no future while Hamas rules in Gaza, and the IDF are the only military force in the world with both the capacity and motivation to destroy Hamas - it certainly won't come from Palestinians themselves. Israel can't plausibly be expected to allow Gaza or the West Bank to become a state if that means Hamas coming to power.
The PLO was a terror group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma'alot_massacre
Two examples off the top of my head of a terrorist group engaging in terrorist violence.
I don't agree with their methods or their objectives, so I don't see anything to praise here as 'brave'.
Only a handful of countries consider Hamas a terror group. Funnily enough these are the same countries that are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Those are also more or less the only countries I'd trust to be able to correctly identify a terrorist group.
This is a “leopards ate my face” law. It’s fine until you get caught up in it however unlikely that appears now.
I simply don't support terrorist organisations. It isn't difficult.
I don't have a problem with any element of that law.
I'm profoundly comfortable with people being arrested and imprisoned for substantial sentences for expressing support for Hamas and similar Jihadi terror groups.
Well, bit of good news for you there – included in Labour's Kings Speech was a bill to make CEOs of water companies individually criminally liable in egregious cases of sewage pollution etc.
IIRC, since privatisation the total amount of water company debt is roughly equivalent to the total amount paid out in shareholder dividends in the same timeframe
Good, for months now he's openly expressed his support and encouragement for a proscribed terrorist organisation, i.e. Hamas. He's not ambiguous about this: he thinks October 7th was great and that Hamas should do it again. He literally travelled to Iran and posted photos next to IRGC rockets and missiles with the caption "Long live the resistance".
He's not a journalist. He's a vicious antisemite who takes pleasure in attacking Jews and is a proud and unrepentant promoter and supporter of terrorism.
Throw away the key. I don't know why he's allowed into the country at all.
Tends to happen when you knowingly break the law
You realise that cartoon came from a far-right Neo-Nazi forum, right?
And you realise what that does to this conversation?
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