The Deputy Prime Minister made it clear that the UK would always encourage Israel to investigate any allegations of misconduct, but backed David Cameron in his decision to continue to allow arms exports to the nation.In an article on the UK’s arms exports system for Global Policy, international relations professor Anna Stavrianakis explains that decisions on licences are made in a manner which “treats each episode of violence as disconnected from the past and from any future development”.
“Consequently British practices allow recipients to replenish their armouries for use in later assaults and rounds of violence.”Speaking to The National, Stavrianakis explains this then has implications on the ultimate decision which is made about the licence. Stavrianakis continued: “The UK will say that ‘on this date, this branch of the Israeli military used these weapons to do this sort of violence against this sub-set of people’.
Putting this into practice, the professor explains that, in 2009 during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death of more than 1000 Palestinians, it was known that British-supplied equipment was used by the Israeli military.“Five or six years later you have Operation Protective Edge – which resulted in the death of 200 Palestinians – but the Government had no assessment.
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