Om_Mohammed
07-09-2002, 14:03
SUCCESS
BRITISH GOVERMENT REFUSES TO SELL WEAPONS TO ISRAEL AFTER PRESSURE FROM MPAC AND OTHER PRO PALESTINIAN GROUPS
To all the Muslims who responded to the MPAC ALERT to contact their MP's asking for the banning of military equipment to Israel all we can say is well done!
As Muslims become more politically active, joining political parties and lobbying their MP's we can only see a brighter future where the Goverment of this country is forced to listen to us. Superb Work to all those who wrote to their MPs and the many who lobbied from within by joining the party. May Allah bless you all !!!!!
Allah is Great and Victory is in His Hands. Thankyou Allah for letting us take part in your Great Work. Ameen.
UK bails out of ejector-seat deal as pressure grows for embargo
Bernard Josephs
Whitehall is refusing export licences for the sale of arms and other weapons-related equipment to Israel, prompting fears that it is tightening its controls on arms deals with Israel.
The latest British-made equipment to be refused an export licence are parts of ejector seats to be installed in Israel’s ageing F-4 Phantom fighters.
The move came as the government faced mounting calls from pro-Palestinian Labour MPs to halt defence sales to Jerusalem and also to abandon plans to purchase an Israeli helicopter-carried anti-tank missile system, Spike, for the British Army.
One prominent backbench MP, Alice Mahon, said that there was a “deep well of anger” over such trade and forecast there would be calls for a total embargo on arms for Israel at next month’s Labour Party conference.
A Foreign Office spokesman told the JC this week that all such arms deals were now being considered on a case-by-case basis according to European Union criteria.
In addition, he said, Whitehall would “no longer take into account” an Israeli pledge that UK-supplied defence equipment would not be used against the Palestinians.
Such assurances, given to the British government in writing two years ago, “have proved to be unsound,” he declared.
Further signs of a tightening of export controls came in a leaked letter from Jeremy Clayton, the director of export controls at the Department of Trade and Industry. In a note addressed to the British embassy in Tel Aviv — and reported in the Israeli media — he wrote that since the “eruption of violence in the occupied territories… we have taken Israeli military tactics into account in our licensing decision, and we have the situation under close review.” As a result of this review, he continued, “we have not approved licences for equipment that we have licensed before.”
Among companies which have been affected is Berkshire-based Martin Baker Aircraft Company, whose joint managing director, James Martin, said it had been selling ejector-seat parts and other equipment to the IAF for 40 years. He confirmed that the company had now been been refused an export licence for spare parts for ejector seats to be fitted into IAF Phantoms.
An Israeli spokesman in London told the JC that there were “difficulties” with export licences, but added that there were ongoing discussions between British and Israeli defence officials in an attempt to “settle these problems.”
MPAC POLITICAL DEPARTMENT THE ONLY TEAM IN THE COUNTRY TEACHING MUSLIMS THE POWER OF POLITICS
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BRITISH GOVERMENT REFUSES TO SELL WEAPONS TO ISRAEL AFTER PRESSURE FROM MPAC AND OTHER PRO PALESTINIAN GROUPS
To all the Muslims who responded to the MPAC ALERT to contact their MP's asking for the banning of military equipment to Israel all we can say is well done!
As Muslims become more politically active, joining political parties and lobbying their MP's we can only see a brighter future where the Goverment of this country is forced to listen to us. Superb Work to all those who wrote to their MPs and the many who lobbied from within by joining the party. May Allah bless you all !!!!!
Allah is Great and Victory is in His Hands. Thankyou Allah for letting us take part in your Great Work. Ameen.
UK bails out of ejector-seat deal as pressure grows for embargo
Bernard Josephs
Whitehall is refusing export licences for the sale of arms and other weapons-related equipment to Israel, prompting fears that it is tightening its controls on arms deals with Israel.
The latest British-made equipment to be refused an export licence are parts of ejector seats to be installed in Israel’s ageing F-4 Phantom fighters.
The move came as the government faced mounting calls from pro-Palestinian Labour MPs to halt defence sales to Jerusalem and also to abandon plans to purchase an Israeli helicopter-carried anti-tank missile system, Spike, for the British Army.
One prominent backbench MP, Alice Mahon, said that there was a “deep well of anger” over such trade and forecast there would be calls for a total embargo on arms for Israel at next month’s Labour Party conference.
A Foreign Office spokesman told the JC this week that all such arms deals were now being considered on a case-by-case basis according to European Union criteria.
In addition, he said, Whitehall would “no longer take into account” an Israeli pledge that UK-supplied defence equipment would not be used against the Palestinians.
Such assurances, given to the British government in writing two years ago, “have proved to be unsound,” he declared.
Further signs of a tightening of export controls came in a leaked letter from Jeremy Clayton, the director of export controls at the Department of Trade and Industry. In a note addressed to the British embassy in Tel Aviv — and reported in the Israeli media — he wrote that since the “eruption of violence in the occupied territories… we have taken Israeli military tactics into account in our licensing decision, and we have the situation under close review.” As a result of this review, he continued, “we have not approved licences for equipment that we have licensed before.”
Among companies which have been affected is Berkshire-based Martin Baker Aircraft Company, whose joint managing director, James Martin, said it had been selling ejector-seat parts and other equipment to the IAF for 40 years. He confirmed that the company had now been been refused an export licence for spare parts for ejector seats to be fitted into IAF Phantoms.
An Israeli spokesman in London told the JC that there were “difficulties” with export licences, but added that there were ongoing discussions between British and Israeli defence officials in an attempt to “settle these problems.”
MPAC POLITICAL DEPARTMENT THE ONLY TEAM IN THE COUNTRY TEACHING MUSLIMS THE POWER OF POLITICS
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