Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act
Streamwave@feddit.uk 4 weeks agoOnly 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.
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Many of those countries also thought Nelson Mandela was a terrorist.
Streamwave@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
The PLO was a terror group.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma'alot_massacre
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Yes that’s my point. They were a terror group and then weren’t when the US decided. In the same way that Sudan was a state sponsor of terror until the US decided otherwise.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55300252
In both cases it was recognising the occupation of Palestine.
Also if committing massacres made the PLO a terror group then surely the IDF should be a terror group many times over since October 7th but instead it receives billions in funding and weapons from the US and UK
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_massacre
…wikipedia.org/…/Nuseirat_refugee_camp_massacre
As I said it is a form of political repression.
Streamwave@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
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.
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.
Yes, that’s why it’s good