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Arms Export Controls

There are occasions when democracies are in conflict, and arms embargoes are applied. The Government's position is that Israel is in unlawful occupation of the Palestine territories. Moreover, there are countless views of the Government on the wall and so on. If the Government called, as they did, for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and if they called, as they rightly did, for efforts to stop arms going into Gaza that could have ended up in the hands of Hamas, why on earth did they not, at the same time, call for an arms embargo on Israel, which has weaponry that far exceeds anything that Hamas could ever dream of? Why use such double standards? This is a conflict that the Government say should cease, being fought in a territory that the Government say is illegally occupied by the state of Israel.