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Two members of a pro-Palestine group broke into RAF Brize Norton and damaged two aircraft, Palestine Action has claimed. In footage posted on social media, the group claims to have entered the base in Oxfordshire and to have escaped undetected overnight. It wrote on X: "Palestine Action break into RAF Brize Norton and damage two military aircrafts.

"Flights depart daily from the base to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. From Cyprus, British planes collect intelligence, refuel fighter jets and transport weapons to commit genocide in Gaza. Not only did actionists manage to break into Britain's largest air force base... they also escaped undetected. Ordinary people can take direct action to intervene in the genocide."

The Ministry of Defence has been approached for comment.

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[โ€“] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Daily express is a tabloid with a more than troubled history, including multiple accusations of xenophobia and hate speech. That's not a credible source I would say.

[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago

I agree. However i chose to post this article, because it was one of the first outlets reporting on it and they did embed the video.

[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 14 points 5 days ago

Regarding the involvement of the UK in Intelligence flights for Israels attacks, but also for facilitating US arms deliveries i can highly recommend the investigative work of declassifieduk. The UK while providing less military aid than the US or Germany in the shape of arms deliveries, is extensively involved in Israels attacks through logistical and intelligence support.

https://www.declassifieduk.org/britain-secretly-sent-500-extra-troops-to-cyprus-base-being-used-to-supply-weapons-to-israel/
https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-have-israeli-military-aircraft-been-landing-at-a-uk-air-base/
https://www.declassifieduk.org/britain-sent-over-500-spy-flights-to-gaza/

[โ€“] the_wiz@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

I bet my left nut that russia is really happy about this...

[โ€“] brot@feddit.org 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Doing military sabotage in european countries will not help the palestinian cause. That will cause a totally justified crackdown as no government in the world can and will tolerate radical militants who are sabotaging it's own military in times of global crisis. I'm also not sure if such acts really are helpful at disproving the popular resentment that all palestinians are radical islamists, terrorists or in bed with hamas.

[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What is Britain going to do in response that could harm Palestinians more? Start bombing themselves instead of telling Israel where a lot of people are sitting together in a tent and delivering the bombs for Israel to drop?

Iโ€™m also not sure if such acts really are helpful at disproving the popular resentment that all palestinians are radical islamists, terrorists or in bed with hamas.

If you glue yourself to the street in a climate protest, you are already labelled terrorist in countries like the UK and Germany. Meanwhile Germany is applauding Israels war of aggression against Iran and peddling lies about weapons of mass destructions like it is Iraq all over again, although this time around the IAEA and American intelligence agencies kept stating publicly that there is no evidence of such weapons in Iran.

So far the governments have been ignorant to legal protests. The governments instead often crack down with massive police violence and criminalization of freedom of speech against peaceful and fully legal protest. Just yesterday the Council of Europe has published a letter voicing its concerns over the massive repression in Germany. There is no indication that governments like the UK or Germany would stop their complicity without any pressure.

So the option people have are:

a) watch a genocide and only raise your voices in the small frame tolerated by the government, knowing that it will not lead to any change
b) interfere with the infrastructure used to facilitate genocide

Meanwhile Israel is using starvation and the promise of aid to lure starving people into places where Israel can massacre them more easily. But nonviolent actions are the real extremism here...

Doing military sabotage in european countries will not help the palestinian cause.

Yeah, because who ever heard of direct action against apartheid enablers achieving results where Liberals performatively frowning while upholding the status quo didn't? ๐Ÿ™„

That will cause a totally justified crackdown

Evidently, you have a fucked up definition of "totally justified"

no government in the world can and will tolerate radical militants who are sabotaging it's own military in times of global crisis

But the citizens of the world is supposed to meekly tolerate their governments participating in a fascist apartheid regime committing the worst campaign of genocide the world has seen for decades?

Sounds like you have some very authoritarian priorities of what's right and tolerable.

I'm also not sure if such acts really are helpful at disproving the popular resentment that all palestinians are radical islamists, terrorists or in bed with hamas.

Big "the protesters should be confined to a corner where they can't inconvenience anyone" concern trolling energy.

Nobody who's arguing in good faith and reachable by logic would think that "all palestinians are radical islamists, terrorists or in bed with hamas."

Only bigots, brainwashed victims of disinformation campaigns, and combinations of both think ANYTHING like that, and modeling your resistance on their potential opinions is a way to guarantee that nothing changes for the better.