• Alex@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Do we know the RAF are spying for Israel or just keeping a close eye on what’s going on in Gaza? I would suspect Israel has better on the ground intelligence available to it anyway.

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      4 days ago

      The UK is extremely secretive about it but since they are flying US weapons to Israel from the same airbase it’s safe to assume these are not a neutral party.

      These planes are generally used to designate bombing targets. They were also in the air during releases of captivity when there was supposed to be no spying.

      https://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/23391/

      Israeli Intel is actually worse. They have their drones but these do not produce the same quality mapping data which these hyper expensive spy planes can.

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        3 days ago

        That’s certainly an assertion but even the MP who’s comment they got didn’t go that far. I’m not sure STW are the most neutral party to report this either.

        Sure they can designate targets, it’s one of its many roles which also include surveillance. If anywhere is deserving of keeping a close eye on its what’s currently going on in Gaza.

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          3 days ago

          Yeah and flying US weapons to Israel from there right?

          Good Guy Kid Starver using “there is no genocide in Gaza” as a legal argument to secretly keep sending weapons to Israel after promising not to.