Israhell's drone factory shut down by pro-Palestinian Brits

[yankeedoodle]

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Activists occupy and shut down Israeli weapons factory in UK
"We're taking direct action because the UK is complicit in the colonization and ongoing occupation of Palestine."
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/activists-occupy-and-shut-down-israeli-weapons-factory-in-uk/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-mailpoet

Activists in the United Kingdom have been occupying a drone factory in Leicester for the last six days. The factory produces weapons that have been used by Israel to attack Gaza.

On May 18 members of the group Palestine Action scaled Elbit Systems, an Israeli-owned company and a subsidiary UAV Tactical Systems. Activists say that the drones were removed from the factory after they entered and are currently being protected by the police.

"We're taking direct action because the UK is complicit in the colonization and ongoing occupation of Palestine," an activist named Ethan said in a video posted to the group's Twitter account.

Dozens of supporters have shown up outside the factory to protest the recent attack on Gaza and show solidarity. Today a local resident was arrested for trying to provide water to activists on the roof. Last Thursday two individuals were also arrested for trying to provide food and water. They were later released.

In addition to providing Israel's military with drones, the defense company also developed surveillance technology that's used at the West bank barrier, often referred to as the "Apartheid Wall." This is the first time the factory has been occupied, but Elbit has been a target of Palestine Action, and the broader BDS movement, for years. The movement has successfully pressured multiple institutions into severing their relationship with the company. In 2016 Elbit CEO Bezhalel Machlis admitted that BDS was having an impact on business. "I'm not saying [BDS ] not a threat, but I think that altogether we can handle it," he said.

This weekend Palestine Action will hold a protest at Elbit headquarters in London. "[Elbit's] lethal munitions and dodgy deals are being made across the UK – 'hidden in plain' site," reads the group's website. "If we work together, it's within our power to stop them and expose their murderous conveyor-belt business. Let's drown the business of war in the guilt of the civilian blood it spills."

   LEICESTER, UNITED KINGDOM, MAY 19, 2021: PEOPLE HOLD RED FLARES AS THEY GATHERED TO SUPPORT UK BASED PRO-PALESTINIAN ACTIVISTS GROUP "PALESTINE ACTION" WHO SEIZED CONTROL OF THE LEICESTER BASED FACTORY OF ELBIT SUBSIDIARY UAV TACTICAL SYSTEMS ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2021. ACTIVISTS SAY THAT "THE OCCUPATION IS AIMING TO BE AS DISRUPTIVE AS POSSIBLE; THESE ACTIVISTS ARE DETERMINED TO PREVENT ELBIT FROM RESUMING ITS BUSINESS OF BLOODSHED." (PHOTO BY VUDI XHYMSHITI/VXP)   

[abduLMaria]

If you're an engineer in Silicon Valley and you need a job, it's hard to avoid the Elbit's of the world.

I worked at Northrop Grumman in R&D for a few years.

It was wierd working with people who were so smart analytically, with math etc., and so 0.00 clueless when it came to world affairs.

Lots of Jews working at military contractors, being as obnoxious as pro-military Jews can be.

The division that I worked at had the Israeli Heron drone at their facility in San Diego, where most of the people worked on airplane electronics.

They had another facility at Fort Huachaca in Arizona, where drone development occurred.


It was funny seeing the response to the suggestion that the airplane that struck the WTC - the one that followed a very difficult flight path - was remote controlled.

"oh that can't happen".

"so how long have you guys had Fly by Wire designed in on the airplane electronics ?"

"since 1985."

[yankeedoodle]

It was funny seeing the response to the suggestion that the airplane that struck the WTC - the one that followed a very difficult flight path - was remote controlled.

"oh that can't happen".

"so how long have you guys had Fly by Wire designed in on the airplane electronics ?"

"since 1985."

Somewhere around 35 years ago, I made a few one-or-two-day trips to New York, and I actually looked up at those very tall side-by-side buildings - and this was about the time that Loizeaux was becoming a famous household name, with the TV giving us regular reports about their amazing implosions https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-07-me-62373-story.html - and I thought to myself "I wonder if they can bring one of those very tall buildings down."

Absolutely true.

So, on 911, when the towers came down, I actually flashed back to that pondering from years before, and I thought "well, I guess it's possible."

What angers me to this day is that, when it happened, I immediately knew it was all about the jews - blowback, I thought - and, intuitively, I recognized it as controlled demolition, but I didn't make the connection.  I just thought fire had weakened the steel and a pancake collapse resulted.

Of course, had I allowed myself to think about the situation, I'm sure that, on that day, I would have realized that the towers were imploded.  But, rather than think through what was happening, I allowed myself to be absorbed by what the TV was showing, and, thinking back, I think part of the plot was to give center stage to the stylish and then-attractive Ashleigh Banfield.  Certainly, I couldn't take my eyes off of her, and suspended analytical thinking to think more about her.

Like the lovely female assistant in the magic show that takes your eyes off of what the magician is doing. 

A few years later, when I began exploring alternative news sources, I heard my first discussion of 911, and I immediately understood what they were talking about.  Subconsciously, on 911, I had known what happened, but I had never allowed this knowledge to fully emerge into my consciousness, until I heard other people discussing 911, and, instantly, I was fully aware and involved.

But, really, what good would it do to know the truth on 911?  Who could tell?  Might drive you crazy.  Even now, you can't tell too many people.

"On 9/11 those of us who were lucky enough not to be in Manhattan sat glued to our television sets and watched a star being born. Here's how the Wikipedia described it:

On September 11, 2001, Ashleigh Banfield was reporting from the streets of Manhattan, where she was nearly suffocated from the debris cloud from the collapsing World Trade Center. Banfield continued reporting, even as she rescued a NYPD officer, and with him, fled to safety into a street side shop. After the initial reporting of the tragedy had ended, Banfield received a promotion, as MSNBC sent her around the world as the producer of a new program, A Region in Conflict.

A Region in Conflict was broadcast mainly from Pakistan and Afghanistan, generally considered locations unfriendly to Westerners. To report day-to-day local stories in that area of the world, she sometimes used her Canadian citizenship to provide access where Americans might not be welcome. She would read viewer e-mails on-air, sometimes without reviewing them beforehand, to avoid bias.

During the conflict in Afghanistan, Banfield interviewed Taliban prisoners, and visited a hospital in Kabul. Later entries covered her travels from Jalalabad to Kabul, as well as other experiences in Afghanistan. In Pakistan, she interviewed Father Gregory Rice, a Catholic priest in Pakistan, and an Iraqi woman aiding refugees. While in Afghanistan, Banfield darkened her blond hair in order to be less obviously a foreigner.

I made terrible fun of Banfield. She seemed to me to be the personification of the infotainment industrial complex, a reporter better known for her stylish spectacles and blond highlights than her journalistic skills. She was their girl hero, a Jessica Lynch of TV news, constructed out of whole cloth in the marketing department of MSNBC. But I was wrong about her. It's true that she was a cable news star who was created out of the rubble of 9/11, but her reporting that day really was pretty riveting. Her stories from Afghanistan were often shallow, but no more than any of the other blow dried hunks they dispatched over there, and they were sometimes better. Still, she symbolized for me the media exploitation of 9/11 and the War on Terror Show and I was unforgiving.
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[abduLMaria]

Like the lovely female assistant in the magic show that takes your eyes off of what the magician is doing. 

On 9-11, the mis-direct was the airplane crashes.

Bunch of smoke, during the controlled demolition.


On 8-4-20, the explosion in Beirut, the mis-direct was the alleged "fire in the fireworks factory".

Then detonators set by Israel-supporters caused a 100% textbook detonation of NH4 NO3  (Ammonium Nitrate).


I have access to land where I can do related experiments.

e.g. using Tannerite as a detonator for Ammonium Nitrate.

It is very difficult to detonate Ammonium Nitrate that is not in a pressure vessel.

Enormous pressures build up - enough to create a "free space" (unobstructed) brisance (velocity) of 10,000 feet per second (2 miles per second - 7200 miles per hour).

That is AIR moving.  It tends to knock things out of the way.  Like when you stick your hand out the window of a car going 60 miles per hour.  Except with approx. 120^2 (14,400) times more force.

Lebanon very unwisely allowed these huge (approx 1 ton) bags of Ammonium Nitrate to be stored where Israel could get to them.


If I was in charge of the 8-4-20 detonation, I would have a detonator in every single bag (speaking technically, just saying this is what you need to do for a "clean" detonation where all the solid explosive is converted to a gas).


I am SICK of the United States of Israel.  Though I live in the US, I would cheer if Russia or China bombed Washington DC.

[yankeedoodle]

ACTIVISTS FROM PALESTINE ACTION HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP SPRAYED RED PAINT AND USED RED FLARES TO SCALE THE ROOF OF ELBIT SYSTEM HQ AT 77 KINGSWAY IN CENTRAL LONDON ON FRIDAY MORNING, AUG 6, 2021. ACTIVISTS ARGUE THAT THE WEAPONS BEING MANUFACTURED FROM ELBIT SYSTEMS ARE BEING USED IN INDISCRIMINATE ATTACKS AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS IN GAZA STRIP. TWO ACTIVISTS REMAIN TO OCCUPY THE BUILDING'S ENTRY. (VX PHOTO/ VUDI XHYMSHITI)

Activists occupy London headquarters of Israel's largest arms company
Palestine Action has occupied Elbit System's London HQ as part of their effort to end the supply of UK made arms, drones, munitions and military technology to Israel.
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/08/activists-occupy-london-headquarters-of-israels-largest-arms-company/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-mailpoet

The press release was issued by Palestine Action on August 6, 2021.
At 10:00 on the morning of Friday 6th August, protestors scaled the entrance of Elbit System's London HQ, and are currently occupying the site and preventing operations. Activists are disrupting Elbit's ability to coordinate their business of bloodshed. The facade of the building has been covered in spray-painted calls to 'evict Elbit', 'Shut Elbit Down' and 'Free Palestine'. The site premises have been sprayed completely red to signify the bloodshed from which Elbit profits, with their UK-made drones and military tech being used to commit war crimes and repression in Palestine and across the globe.

Despite Elbit massive increasing their spending on security since the launch of Palestine Action, including the hiring of permanent 24/7 security at 77 Kingsway, Palestine Action have shut Elbit down once again. Alongside those currently occupying the site, a group of protestors have turned up to demand Elbit are evicted from their Holborn offices – with a drum regiment also showing up in solidarity.

The London HQ has been targetted several times by Palestine Action since they launched 1 year ago. In that year, Palestine Action has disrupted Elbit for 105 days of 365, across their 10 UK sites plus those of their drone parts supplier APPH, as well as costing further massive costs through in increased spending on security – which has still done nothing to stop activists from shutting them down.

The action taken today, as with all actions by Palestine Action, has been taken in order to end the supply of UK made arms, drones, munitions and military technology to Israel. This tech, manufactured at Elbit's 10 sites across the UK, is sold to Israel for the express purpose of repressing, brutalising, and killing Palestinian people. After being "battle-tested" (in Elbit's words) on Palestinian civilians, it is then sold on the global market to some of the world's most repressive regimes.