{"id":22707,"date":"2017-11-08T16:34:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/?p=22707"},"modified":"2023-12-29T14:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T14:30:02","slug":"priti-patels-shady-deals-are-business-as-usual-the-uk-has-been-funding-war-crimes-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/global-politics\/palestine-middle-east\/priti-patels-shady-deals-are-business-as-usual-the-uk-has-been-funding-war-crimes-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK has been supporting Israeli war crimes for years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At this stage, the best that can reasonably be said of Priti Patel is that she has a woefully dismal idea of what constitutes a family holiday. A recent trip to the Levant, initially touted as a personal holiday, involved twelve meetings with Israeli officials \u2013 not necessarily the fun-in-the-sun you\u2019d want from a private vacation. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It quickly emerged that (presumably inbetween pina coladas) she offered to siphon off funds from the UK Aid budget, pouring them straight into the coffers of the Israeli Army. An army which is far from cash-strapped, after just last year signing a $38 Billion military funding deal<\/span><\/a> with the USA. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK Aid policy has never entirely covered itself in glory \u2013 it\u2019s bound up with some profoundly shady dealings, and often used as a bargaining chip in international trade agreements<\/span><\/a> \u2013 putting countries which depend on aid money for vital services firmly on the back foot. This could well aggravate situations of economic uncertainty which render them dependentent on aid money in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this is no diplomatic sleight-of-hand to secure trade deals which trip up the global economic south. Nothing so subtle as that \u2013 it’s an outright promise to plough public funds into an institution responsible for a violent, ongoing illegal occupation<\/span><\/a> of Palestinian and Syrian territory \u2013 an institution which has been accused of war crimes<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budgeting for conflict<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s think about that for a second: a budget which is bracketed off under the auspices of feeding the starving and providing vital health and education services around the world, was offered to an army responsible for the deaths of countless innocent Palestinians.\u00a0A budget which is nominally supposed to provide sticking plasters for the fallout of the UK\u2019s disastrously violent foreign policy \u2013 which has destabilised former colonies and stripped them of their resources \u2013 was promised to fuel further conflict and violence. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only this, but Patel’s trip to the Syrian territory of the Golan Heights has broken form with previous UK diplomacy, as her presence in the illegally occupied zones courtesy of Israeli forces zone is taken as tacit assent to their presence there. International voices have long condemned the occupation of the Golan Heights, occupied since the 1967, and used ever since as a way for Israel to control vital access to water in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It smacks of some kind of macabre sight-seeing visit of complicity; in deference to our generous support for their occupation, one of our top politicians is given a nice little whistle-stop tour of what our money can buy. Like some sort of sponsor-a-tiger package deal \u2013 except instead of photos of exotic animals, you get blueprints of the ghosts of former Palestinian or Syrian villages, now razed to the ground. According to War on Want, this weapons-grade misstep \u2018undermines attempts to hold Israel to account\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re supposed to be shocked and appalled. Appalled should be easy, after a catalogue of war crimes committed by the army is available at our fingertips; only three years ago in the most recent Israel-Gaza war, \u2018Operation Protective Edge\u2019 saw an onslaught that killed an estimated 2,205 <\/span><\/a>Palestinians. They couldn\u2019t run \u2013 they were hemmed in at all sides by Israeli forces which turned Gaza into an \u2018open air prison\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was no where to hide. But then, this steady stream of atrocities makes shock a little more difficult to conjure up. The truth is that Patel\u2019s dodgy dealings with Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s administration is only the latest in a long history of UK complicity in the crimes of the Israeli army. One hundred years ago the Balfour Declaration laid the groundwork for turning British colonial territory into the state of Israel, – and ever since, Britain has been lending its support \u2013 or at least its tactical silence \u2013 to Israeli land-grabs. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The past is now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In November 1947, the Assembly \u2018endorsed the UN Special Committee\u2019s Partition Plan<\/span><\/a>,\u2019 kick-starting the slow dispossession of Palestinians. In 1948, 700 000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes after British-backed Israeli forces took the land \u2013 an event referred to as \u2018Al-Nakba\u2019 or \u2018the catastrophe\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six months before the most recent Gaza war, the UK approved \u00a37 million of arms<\/span><\/a> sales to Israel. Just a year after Operation Protective edge ended, the government lifted all remaining restrictions on the sale of arms and military equipment to Israel. As a nation, we are officially assenting to trade deals which put weapons targeting systems, armoured vehicles and drones in the hands of an organisation which Amnesty International has accused of war crimes<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much for Theresa May\u2019s recent statement that she wants to work \u2018towards a genuine two-state solution of the Israel-Palestine conflict\u2019. A two-state solution is tricky if one \u2018state\u2019 has been reduced to a smouldering heap of rubble.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, whilst other sectors of the economy are floundering or sclerotic, recent years have been a boom time for the arms industry. Politicians have happily put profit before people \u2013 while the \u2018dead bodies in the streets of Libya<\/span><\/a>\u2019 are an embarrassment, falling profit margins are an outrage. When they\u2019re not busy buttering up our MPs<\/span><\/a>, UK-based arms companies have cut billion-pound deals with dictatorships such as those of Yemen and Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/a>. Who then turn the weapons we sell them back on their own populations.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Fallon recently urged fellow MPs<\/span><\/a> to stop criticising Saudi Arabia\u2019s flagrant human right abuses for fear that such criticisms might endanger a lucrative upcoming arms deal. Hours afterwards, he and fellow MPs were ‘wined-and-dined by the arms trade at a \u00a3450-a-head banquet<\/a><\/span>‘ by arms manufacturers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, banks which were bailed out with billions of bounds of public money have then gone on to invest in and support companies known to supply the Israeli military and government with weapons and technology ‘used in the militarised repression of Palestinians, including war crimes<\/a><\/span>‘. This is our hard-grafted taxes underwriting deals which support a multi-billion dollar industry of death. Our elected representatives facilitating backroom deals between accused war criminals and arms industry moguls.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Against this ignoble background of grand indifference and personal avarice, Patel\u2019s underhand dealings with Netanyahu\u2019s cronies seems not like a shocking deviation, but more like a telling slip-up. If we\u2019re outraged over this, we cannot be content with her being fired. Her empty shoes will simply be filled by another sycophant happy to trade the lives of those in the Middle East for the health of UK arms industry \u2013 and the health of their careers. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to address Britain\u2019s wider complicity in supporting destructive wars and occupations, supplying the funds and weapons for war crimes. We don\u2019t need a ritual public sacking to ease the government\u2019s conscience and smooth over a diplomatic furore. We need concrete action to stop these deals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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