The BBC seems to be against wowing the readers on this occasion, as you can’t read about the Elbit part here, oddly.
Two Palestine Action hunger strikers end protest after 73 days
The BBC would have you believe the hunger strikers just called off their silly strike.
Look how close the BBC come to mentioning Elbit by name
“During the protest the group had made five demands including that the UK government lifts the ban on Palestine Action, closes down an Israeli-owned defence firm and addresses complaints about their prison conditions and treatment.”
Seems they don’t want people googling Elbit!
“An Israeli defence firm” lol - is this a news report or what?
One that (along with the Israeli government) was influential in getting Palestine Action proscribed in the first place!
Also, in this report just 7 hours ago - the BBC seem also to have deliberately misreported yesterdays news, which was that the number of saved hunger strikers was three, not two.
On Instagram, pasted by TLN helpfully After Elbit loses British military training contract, 3 of 4 Filton hunger strikes have paused
Papers trying to give Trump the credit for not attacking Iran.
Word from reliable US sources yesterday was that Iran had stopped the uprisings, Trump was still threatening Iran then.
Glory be to Donald.
Didn’t he say rise up and the US will protect you? They did and he didn’t.
Shades of 1991 and Iraq/Kuwait…
Merandi told us that the uprisings stopped when the internet was cut off and the real protestors went home, leaving only the CIA and Mossad representatives rioting and shooting police in Iran.
Guess DT didn’t want them killed lol
Here’s my 2 penn’orth for what its worth - its not necessarily a victory for the strikers that Elbit didn’t get the contract; Raytheon was preferred and that could have been for any of a multitude of reasons. The other little wins are good though and I’m just very very thankful (as no doubt are we all!) that 3 of the worthiest lives on the planet have been saved.
And the poor sods will be in the hands of the NHS God help them.
I want to know this, overlooked as it is everywhere: why does ‘our’ UK government offer any private arms company, let alone a foreign one, a fortune to train ‘our’ UK army? Wtf?
. . . and I don’t see Raytheon as being much, if any, improvement on Elbit anyway.
‘The Killing Has Stopped’: Iran Avoids Wrath Of US