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‘No weapons for Israel!’ Protest group pours fake blood in Belgium airport

RT.com | Published time: August 30, 2014 15:34 Get short URL AFP Photo / Nicolas Lambert A Belgian feminist activist group LilithS literally painted Liege Airport red with a hundred liters of fake blood at the facility’s role in arming Israel. The red pool of ‘blood’ symbolized their perceived ‘slaughter’ of Palestinians in Gaza by […]

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Palestinian campaign for Israel arms boycott takes aim at Italy – In Photos

Published today (updated) 23/08/2014 11:15 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have launched a campaign to pressure Italy to pull out of joint military exercises with the Israeli military in September, as a global movement for an arms boycott of Israel gained strength in the wake of the recent assault.Dozens of Gazans took […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | UK continues arms sales to Israel

 Palestinians try to put out a fire amid the rubble of a house, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, August 20, 2014.   PressTV | Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:12AM GMT The British government has refused to halt arms exports to the Israeli regime despite […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Amnesty International Calls for UN Investigation, Arms Embargo

Al Qassam Website | July 13, 2014   13-07-2014,08:49 Al Qassam website (Agencies) – Amnesty International has called for a UN-mandated investigation into international violations committed during the ongoing Israeli air strikes across Gaza, including the continuing volley of “indiscriminate rocket fire” from Palestinian armed groups into Israel. It also called on the UN to […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Call For An End To Military Aid To Israel

Kawther Salam | July 11, 2014 Petition by: James Harris – Berkeley, CA – Congressperson Barbara Lee, who calls herself a “renegade for peace and justice” is on this issue actually a “conformist for war and occupation”, a vocal supporter of “robust” US military aid to Israel, as she has received campaign funding from an […]

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Jonathan Cook: Israel’s thriving arms trade is a setback to peace agreement

By Jonathan Cook | The National – 23 July 2013  Jonathan Cook Over the past decade, Israel has surged up the arms trade’s international rankings. Despite having a population smaller than New York City, Israel has emerged as one of the world’s largest exporters of armaments. Last month, defence analysts Jane’s put Israel in sixth […]

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Israel to Sign Guns for Refugees Deal With African States ~ by Richard Silverstein (@Richards1052)

Richard Silverstein | Global Research | July 22, 2013 Writing this blog as long as I have, I’ve seen some pretty low blows from the Israeli government. But this one ranks right up there. Those of you old enough remember Ronald Reagan’s arms for hostages deal with the Iranians–now, Israel proposes an arms for refugees […]

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Israel: A Theater of Horrors: In Israel’s trade catalog, arms and asylum seekers are equal commodities

More at http://bit.ly/arms4africans In Israel’s trade catalog, arms and asylum seekers are equal commodities With arbitrary arrest and detention, forcible transfer, withholding of basic human rights, the imposition of birth control measures and now an arms-for-asylum-seekers deal which amounts to little more than human trafficking, Israel has become a theater of horrors for Africans. By […]

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Report: Israeli regime sells $400mn of drones annually

An Israeli spy drone (file photo) PressTV | Sun May 19, 2013 6:19AM GMT On May 11, the Israeli regime shot down one of its Shoval-type drones over the Mediterranean Sea due to a ‘technical malfunction.’ The Israeli regime exports about $400 million worth of drones per year, an Israeli daily reports. The Ynet daily […]

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Pentagon chief Check Hagel hails arms deal on Israel trip

Maan News Agency | Apr 22, 2013 TEL AVIV, Israel (AFP) — Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel and his Israeli counterpart on Monday hailed a major arms deal as a sign of “ironclad” US support for Israel after talks on Iran’s nuclear drive and Syria’s war. The US defense secretary, who has been accused of being […]

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After a series of failures, Mossad campaign to recruit new agents

MEMO | April, 19, 2013 Yediot Aharonot newspaper said today that Israel’s national intelligence service Mossad has launched an extensive recruitment campaign on the Internet that urges Israelis “to join its ranks.” The campaign comes in the wake of the scandal of prisoner X, Ben Zygier, who was Jewish, of Australian origin; the media exposed […]

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US unveils major arms deal with Israel, Saudi, UAE

By Dan de Luce | Maan News Agency | April 19, 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States unveiled plans Friday to sell $10 billion worth of advanced missiles and aircraft to Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in a bid to counter the threat posed by Iran. It was highly unusual for […]

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Israeli general welcomes Obama with call to share Iron Dome production

Maan News Agency | March 20, 2013 By Dan Williams TEL AVIV (Reuters) — The United States should be allowed to co-produce Israel’s Iron Dome rocket interceptor so it can benefit from the money it has poured into Israel’s defense programs, a senior Israeli military officer said on Wednesday. Israel developed Iron Dome to shoot […]

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EU, UN concerned by Israeli live fire against Palestinians

Maan News Agency | (updated) 30/01/2013 21:36 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The European Union and the United Nations expressed concern on Wednesday about Israel’s use of lethal forces against Palestinians following a rise in fatal shootings. The EU missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah said in a statement that they were “deeply concerned by the number of […]

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US to supply Israel with weapons worth of $650 million

A US Air Force officer inspects a weapons carriage with GBU-39/B small diameter bombs. (File photo) PressTV | Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:50PM GMT The US is planning to sell USD 650 million worth of weapons to Israel after the regime’s arsenals were depleted following its eight-day war on the besieged Gaza Strip, reports say. […]

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