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Four pro-Palestine activists arrested after ‘car smashes through gates of F35 manufacturer’ (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 3 weeks ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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A group named online as Palestinian Martyrs appear to have broken into the Moog Aircraft Group factory in Pendeford, Wolverhampton at 3:50am on Tuesday.

Dramatic footage shows a black four-wheel drive car smashing through two white barriers, before the activists set off red flares and climb a ladder onto the roof of a building.

The manufacturer was targeted because it builds parts for the F-35 fighter jets which the UK sells to Israel via a global pool, the group claimed. F-35 fighter jets have been used in Israel’s destructive bombing campaign in Gaza for nearly two years.

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[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

when soldiers hide, fight and store weapons there yes

but i guess you're fighting a total war where anything associated with something you don't like is a valid target for destruction

when are you going to bomb a government building?

[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

when soldiers hide, fight and store weapons there yes

There's a saying: two war crimes don't make a right.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world -4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

particularly when one of them is not a war crime

when soldiers victimize their own people by using them as shields they make them a valid target

in this case tho i think the appropriate word is martyr