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Israel would use their own drones. Why use the RAF? Seems more likely it's the UK gathering intel on what Israel is doing.
RAF bases in the UK are used to load up US B2 bombers which bomb Iran. The UK is lockstep with Israel.
Why wouldn't Israel have a free spy plane fly for them?
I'm sure Israel can spare a single drone to fly over Lebanon, they don't need to use anyone else to do that for them.
Maybe they're "Trauma Bo~~nd~~mbing"
israel and the uk are the same side
they wouldn't be flying over gaza/lebanon without coordination with israel, so it's obvious reconnaissance for israel/nato
The UK has been criticising Israel for attacking Lebanon though.
Like I said, if Israel wanted recon they can just use their own drones. Seems like people are jumping to the conclusion that we're gathering intel for Israel rather than collecting our own Intel to get an idea of what's going on.
Might be both. Tell Israel it's to help, but make records to make the case to exit the war. That or blackmail Isreal to moderate themselves, but they have no shame so I don't think it's that.
Critisizing israel but still sell wespons, share intel and impose no sanctions on the state of israel itself. That's called hypocrisy
They literally arrest you for supporting Palestine in the UK.
They'll arrest you for supporting Palestine Action which has been designated a terrorist group by the government. You wouldn't be arrested for peacefully protesting and supporting the Palistinian cause.
Why was it designated a terrorist group. Who have they killed and what crimes against civilians have they committed?
I am being rhetorical of course and besides it has already been determined unlawful.
It is clear they attempted to illegally suppress human rights in support of Isreal.
Palestine Action beat a police officer on their back with a sledge hammer, fracturing their back. It was pure luck this wasn’t deadly.
Not sure if true, since you're an hasbara cunt but if if he wasn't killed it's definitely BAD luck.
Fuck those nazi bootlickers.
Still spreading propaganda zionazi?
There’s video of this incident.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wxlv99xrjo
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/13/uk-decision-to-ban-palestine-action-as-terror-group-unlawful-court-says
You are a know Israel defender. The ultimate form of terrorism is supporting a genocidal settler colonial power
Do you support beating people with sledgehammers as a form of peaceful protest?
If you can be convinced that anyone is evil then you'll happily commit evil against anyone. You're no different to the Zionists
now there's some BS pulled out of your ass.
Not 'anyone' is genociding a whole country are they?
They can die, and so can their bootlickers and hasbara agents.
No but you zionazi support a settler colonial power so get lsot
JTAC based their assessment largely on the Filton incident where a police officer suffered possibly life-changing injuries after a PA member attacked them repeatedly with a sledgehammer.
The underlying basis was the definition used in the Terrorism Act, of a group that commits serious damage to property in order to influence government policy. The UK is one of the few places to have such a broad definition.
Of course when the video was released to the courts it showed it was the police officer doing the brutalising on the protester. Not surprising the police would lie.
Oh gosh one person severely injured, that is horrible. I am truly sorry for their suffering as no one deserves treatment like that.
On the other hand there have been a verifiable 172,000 Palestinian injuries with over 72,000 estimated deaths.
The government knew full well what they were doing and anyone defending it should be ashamed to defend this abuse of human rights. There is no doubt in my mind about this because it is a verifiable pattern.
Just like UKs support of Israel.
That and breaking into a military base and damaing hardware.
they should be rewarded for that.
A military base involved in support genocide thr ultimate form of terrorism
As they falsely claimed. The planes they damaged had nothing at all to do with israel.
Flying over Palestine and helping the israelis target missles at children sounds like a lot to do with israel.
The planes they damaged did not do any of that.
Just because you want to offload the blame for the genocide entirely on the israelis, doesn't change the reality that the UK has been complicit every step of the way for the eradication of 1000s of Palestinians families
Doesn’t change the reality that the other commenter’s claim that that air base was involved was false.
Raf bases use elbit system tech so israeli tech
That incident doesn’t seem to be in the JTAC assessment.
I'm not arguing about the designation, that's up to the government. However the people that been arrested for holding up the signs knew exactly what they where doing and had been warned before their arrests. They were protesting the proscription of Palistine Action rather than generally supporting Palistine.
We will find out how it all plays out once the appeals process is completed.
Yeah I am not sure that is accurate to say people were only protesting the act of it being banned. I am sure the majority also supports ending the genocide that the UK refuses to designate as such.
When you can excuse human rights abuses it is all pretty much moot anyways.
I didn't say that they were only protesting the ban. That is what they were arrested for through.
Oh, I thought you were implying that. Sorry for misinterpreting it.
Iranians who protested the regime knew what would happen to them with your dumb logic I get it was fine what the Iranisn regime did
Designed as a terrorist orgsnization because it support palestine and oppose settler colonialism
No, designated as a terrorist group because they broke into an RAF base and damaged aircraft.
Criticising Israel and opposing genocide is perfectly valid, attacking a country that's stuck in the middle of it because you don't like that they're embroiled in a 100 year old mess they've been trying to mediate the whole time, is a different thing entirely.
If Palestinian action wanted to make a difference they'd target the Israeli embassy but they didn't, because they're not protestors they're saboteurs.
Uk leadership should rot in jail for selling arms for a settler colonial power called Israel . The united kingdom is sponsoring Israeli terrorism . Yes those who infiltrated it are saboteurs sabotaging military targets complicit with genocide . Palestine action is just like antifa a decentralized group each member is responsible for it's own actions. The High Court recently ruled that this proscription was unlawful too but because the uk support genocide they still want to arrest people.
You may need a refresher course on use of “literally”.
Thanks grammar Nazi!