Why is HMG misrepresenting international law against Israel?

Melanie Phillips:

When it was revealed that the British government had revoked five export licences for the sale to Israel of warships’ gun parts on account of its ‘disproportionate’ behaviour in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, which I wrote about below, one aspect of what the Foreign Office was saying jumped out at me. It appeared that Israel’s crime was to fall foul of Criterion Two in the Consolidated Criteria for Licence Decision Making. Criterion Two invites consideration of whether the proposed item for export would be

used for internal repression.

But Gaza is not ‘internal’ to Israel. It is not part of Israel. Not does Israel even occupy Gaza any more. So how could this be ‘internal repression’? I called the Foreign Office and asked them.

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The U.K. will soon be the world’s backwater. Ask Jean Chretien.

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