An announcement that export licences were being blocked would send a much stronger message than words could
Rishi Sunak and Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in October 2023. The Israeli Prime Minister has promised a full investigation into ‘a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people’
But the second of these, albeit much more robust and angrier in the last 24 hours than before, has long exposed a yawning gap between rhetoric and action. Despite its largely unheeded calls on Israel to protect civilians, the US in particular has continued to siphon arms and funds to Israel, with another $2.5bn in weapons approved last week alone. This has enabledThe British Government now has a very modest but significant opportunity to begin narrowing that gap between words and action.
Nor would a halt on arms licences be without precedent – including one especially relevant to a Conservative government. At the time of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, an alarmed Margaret Thatcher cancelled Israeli invitations to the British Army Equipment Exhibition and revoked export licences., and their international WCK teammates . For it is part of a grim trend.
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