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Amnesty in Salisbury & South Wiltshire

High Court to decide on arms to Israel

The appeal is to be heard on May 13

May 2025

The appeal against the government’s decision to continue to supplying Israel with arms – and in particular, components for the F-35 – will be heard in the High Court starting on May 13th. The government is in something of a bind. The actions by Israel in Gaza are widely deplored and many contend amount to a war crime and genocide. But to offend the Americans by curtailing supplies of components for the F-35 used in Gaza is almost unthinkable for the government desperate as it is to curry favour with the Americans.

The action is being brought by Al Haq a human rights organisation based in Ramallah, and Global Legal Action Network consisting of lawyers and investigators which identifies and pursues legal actions against those involved in human rights violations. They have been joined by Amnesty, Oxfam GB and Human Rights Watch.

The latest edition of Campaign Against the Arms Trade (Issue 272, Spring 2025) discusses the issue of continuing military aid to Israel. It notes that ‘even our government has been forced to admit that is assesses Israel is not committed to complying with International Humanitarian Law‘. The case will be the biggest legal test of UK exports to Israel to date. They highlight an article in the Guardian by a former Foreign Office diplomat who described continued attempts by ministers to stonewall or play down evidence of what is happening in Gaza.

Over 52,000 have now been killed in the conflict. There are now reports of 57 deaths due to malnutrition mainly of children, the sick or the elderly. No aid is allowed in including food and necessary medical supplies. This has been the case now for over 60 days. Aid agencies stocks are depleted. A gloomy picture is painted on the situation in Haaretz.

We will follow the court case with great interest.

In addition to the supply of arms, there is the question of involvement of the RAF which has carried out over 250 overflights of Gaza (Declassified says 500). The chief of defence staff, Sir Tony Radakin was asked by a reporter from Declassified whether the RAF’s activities meant they were participating in Israel’s operations in Gaza? Answer came there none. They are not alone and the article reports that backbench MPs have sought answers without success. It is disturbing that the RAF are seemingly deeply involved in what is happening.

#Gaza#armsSales#CAAT
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Manc AvGeek

Photo of the Day 30th April 2025.

Z5722/G-BPIV, Bristol 149 Bolingbroke (a version of the Bristol 142 Blenheim built by Fairchild Canada), in Foyal Air Force colours, taxiing along the runway at the annual Woodford Airshow, some time in the 1990s.

3 photos behind the link.
mancavgeek.co.uk/blog/photo-of

#Manchester #Woodford #EGCD #AirShow #Bristol #B149 #Bolingbroke #B142 #Blenheim #FairchildCanada #RAF #RoyalAirForce
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

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DB 🌱💦

Do you routinely share intelligence with countries whose leaders are wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, Admiral?
Are you a participant in Israel's genocide Admiral?
Do you have blood on your hands, Admiral?

@declassifieduk's Phil Miller giving a master class in journalism that discomforts the powerful. Make sure you watch this!

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tagesschau

Attentat 1975 in Stockholm - Als der RAF-Terror den Vater nahm

Viveka Hillegaart war 17 Jahre alt, als RAF-Terroristen in der deutschen Botschaft in Stockholm Geiseln nahmen. Ihr Vater zählt zu den Opfern. Auch 50 Jahre nach dem Attentat sind die Erinnerungen schmerzhaft. Von Sofie Donges.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/r

tagesschau.de · Attentat 1975 in Stockholm - Als der RAF-Terror den Vater nahmBy Sofie Donges
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Ciara

@baoigheallain Sounds like an interesting book. Everyone in those planes was unthinkably brave. It's understandable that their battles and their successful raid on the local Gestapo HQ led local people to adopt the RAF colours as a symbol of resistance.

At the risk of RAF-splaining something you already know: the artist who painted the walls of flowers in the registry office at Rådhuset (city hall) in 1941 went back in 1945 to add one wee liberation bouquet in the RAF colours.

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#Aarhus

A section of Vielsessalen (the wedding room) showing a polished wooden wall with beautiful bouquets of flowers in various sizes painted directly onto it. The registrar's podium is in front - pretty white wood with two candles on it. This is the registry office at Rådhuset – city hall, Aarhus, Denmark. Artist Albert Naur decorated it in 1941, when the city was under Nazi occupation. He painted three walls with Spring, Summer and Autumn wildflowers. After liberation in 1945, he added a single bouquet of garden flowers in the colours of the British Royal Air Force. (RAF pilots bombed Gestapo HQ in Aarhus during the Nazi occupation and their colours had become a symbol of resistance in the city.
Close up of a small bouquet of flowers on a wall otherwise decorated with larger bunches of flowers. This little bouquet in a section of its own has red, white and blue flowers on thin green stems. (The colours are a bit distorted in my poor, quick snapshot). Context follows, same #AltText as the other photo, so skip if already heard. This is the registry office at Rådhuset – city hall, Aarhus, Denmark. Artist Albert Naur decorated it in 1941, when the city was under Nazi occupation. He painted three walls with Spring, Summer and Autumn wildflowers. After liberation in 1945, he added a single bouquet of garden flowers in the colours of the British Royal Air Force. (RAF pilots bombed Gestapo HQ in Aarhus during the Nazi occupation and their colours had become a symbol of resistance in the city.
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Ciara

The colours of resistance – the red, white and blue of the British Royal Air Force. To show support for the RAF and the Allied forces during the occupation of Denmark, young people started wearing red-white-and-blue hats and clothes. The campaign became so widespread that the Nazis banned the fashion because it 'mocked the Wehrmacht’.

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#Aarhus
#Denmark

One of the displays at Besættelsesmuseet – the Occupation Museum in Aarhus. It is in the old city police station that the Gestapo used as their HQ and prison cells during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. In a recreation of a typical local living room of the time, we are looking at a polished dark wood sideboard with books shelved in it. The carpet is dark muted red. The wallpaper is beige and lightly patterned. On the wall, a frame with three black-and-white family photos, everyone white and blond and happy and smiling: a young girl in a dark dress and white lace collar; a toddler holding a baby; a young man in a suit and tie. On top of the sideboard, a vivid splash of bright primary colour among the muted 1940s tones: a knitted hat like a beanie. It is knitted in three stripes – red, white and blue. The plaque by the display says (my loose translation from Danish): ‘A knitted hat in the British colours. It became the fashion for young people to display their sympathy for the Allied forces by decorating hats, headbands, clothes and toys in the red, white and blue of the British Royal Air Force. This fashion statement became so widespread that the Germans banned it because it was a mockery of the Wehrmacht.’
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tagesschau

Polizei veröffentlicht neue Fahndungsfotos von Ex-RAF-Terroristen Staub

Das Behörden in Niedersachsen haben bei der Fahndung nach den mutmaßlichen Ex-RAF-Terroristen Staub erneut Fotos und Hinweise veröffentlicht. Die Ermittler setzen auf die Hilfe von Beschäftigten in Arztpraxen.

➡️ tagesschau.de/inland/regional/

tagesschau.de · Polizei veröffentlicht neue Fahndungsfotos von Ex-RAF-Terroristen StaubBy tagesschau.de
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Ex-RAF-Terroristin Klette fordert Einstellung des Prozesses

Nach Jahrzehnten im Untergrund wurde die frühere RAF-Terroristin Klette vor gut einem Jahr verhaftet. Nun hat in Niedersachsen der Prozess gegen die 66-Jährige begonnen - "mit politischem Kalkül", behauptet die Angeklagte.

➡️ tagesschau.de/inland/regional/

tagesschau.de · Ex-RAF-Terroristin Klette fordert Einstellung des ProzessesBy tagesschau.de
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NDR

Unter besonderen Sicherheitsmaßnahmen hat heute der erste Prozess gegen die mutmaßliche Ex-RAF-Terroristin Daniela Klette begonnen. Alle Entwicklungen zum Start der Verhandlung in Celle könnt ihr unserem Liveticker nachlesen:

👉 ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachs

www.ndr.deProzess gegen Daniela Klette im Liveticker: Riesiges Sicherheitsaufgebot in Celle - kein faires Verfahren?Unter besonderen Sicherheitsmaßnahmen hat heute der erste Prozess gegen die mutmaßliche Ex-RAF-Terroristin Daniela Klette begonnen. Alle Entwicklungen zum Start der Verhandlung in Celle.
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MediaFaro News Digest

A member of a 1970s German left-wing terrorist group goes on trial after decades on the run.

The trial of Daniela Klette, a former member of Germany's far-left Baader-Meinhof gang who was arrested last year after more than 30 years on the run, started on Tuesday in Celle, northern Germany.

The 66-year-old is accused of a series of armed robberies.

mediafaro.org/article/20250325

RFi · A member of a 1970s German left-wing terrorist group goes on trial after decades on the run.By RFi
#Germany#BaaderMeinhof#RAF
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