First offer them alternate, comparable jobs. Begin the transition from climate destruction and war-mongering manufacturing to something productive and beneficial to the planet.
Offer them? Arms workers knew - and still know - exactly what their daily labour produces when they took the jobs: decapitated children. Are they so callous as to place their salaries above stopping that horrific abuse? Obviously, arms companies must be transformed into peaceful production (see lucasplan.co.uk) but is it really fine to just say "Well, they need those well-paid jobs in removing children's heads so let's be nice to them"?
That includes everyone who works for BAE Systems. Everyone who works as a civil servant in this country. Everyone in the armed forces. Everyone in the police who have to arrest protestors.
If only it were that easy - you know it’s way more nuanced than that. By the same logic (which I agree with actually) every nuclear sub crew should stand down and get new jobs that don’t threaten the mass destruction of civilians and cause the environmental collapse of our planet.
I agree they likely know, and have known for a while, what is happening in Palestine. However, I'd guess that when they initially took those jobs they anticipated (if they thought about it) they would be making weapons for the defence of their country and not to facilitate genocide. I'm absolutely guessing here because I don't know any of them so have had no chance to inquire. In thinking about it though, is a worker providing weapons any different than the soldier who is ordered to use those weapons in defiance of international law? If following orders is no excuse, can making a living be an excuse? You have a point.
I have a buddy who uses the same argument about “I work at a munitions factory, it’s for defense.” That’s drilled into them when these people work there. The weapons manufacturers must keep their employees docile and obedient; they only hire the ones who will buy into the lies and illusions. Soon, they will be replaced by robots as most of the world will be replaced by this new reset.
Yes Rebecca, this is exactly the line of enquiry that needs to be expanded. They are no longer respectable people - they will certainly be well paid in the paramount effort of the company keeping them corrupt.
They need to be made to understand absolutely that they are at the forefront of enabling the Genocide of the Palestine nation.
Their morals are absent and a very bright light needs to be shone on that empty space in their being.
I have rarely seen interviews with arms workers. One highly revealing such piece was published on Middle East Eye while Saudi Arabia was slaughtering the Yemeni people with the enthusiastic assistance of the RAF. An extract:
PRESTON, UK - Jack sits down with his pint in the Fielden Arms in Mellor and contemplates his latest shift making Typhoon warplanes for the Saudi air force. Tucking into steak and chips, the 25-year-old talks of moving in with his girlfriend, his good pay at the nearby BAE factory - £40,000, almost twice the local average - and the security it brings. And then he thinks of the people those planes will be sent to kill. "You see the children in Yemen starving on the 10 o’clock news," he tells Middle East Eye. "But you try to not pay attention and just get on with it."
His friend, Harry, interjects: "It's really weird and there is no way to describe it, because you are in essence building a weapon of mass destruction."
So why don't they quit? "Good pay and job security," Jack responds, taking another sip of his beer. "If the military contracts go, 7,000 people go with them."
Jack is like thousands of others who work at the BAE Systems factory in nearby Samlesbury, outside Preston in Lancashire, making parts that will be assembled in nearby Warton to create Typhoons, the most advanced jet fighters operated by the Saudis over Yemen.
('Made in Britain, tested on Yemenis: The reality of working for the bombmakers', Middle East Eye 25 July 2017)
It is appalling that BBC 'fact checking' is never applied to statements made by Israel. They appear to be accepted with presenters mouthing "But Israel would say ...." and repeat Israeli Hasbara/Todah as if it is undisputed fact.
BBC were doing "fact checking", but stopped doing it on Oct 6th. Do you think they were complicit on the Oct 7th operation carried out by the Devil IsRael?
The Israelis will stop at nothing to justify their vile actions. They lie and they lie and it just astounds me that the main stream media quote their lies. They are clearly clutching at straws but still half the world's leaders are throwing them a lifeline. FFS why???
The Geneva convention does not protect journalists as it should.
The additional protocol article 79 considers journalists in a war zone as “civilians”, which can loose such a status if they are found to be involved with combatants, which in turn is an oxymoron since it is the job of a journalist the one of interviewing and maintain relations with all sides involved in a conflict.
Thinking about it is in fact absurd, as all UN staff members are actually “supposedly” protected with full diplomatic immunity.
Than again, Geneva is Switzerland and Switzerland is the real israel.
You know, they are supposed to be neutral and they have been financing both sides of all wars ever since the first world war.
One way or the other, israel has shot it self in the testis again.
238 journalist murdered is actually once again an undercount, as many more of their staff members have been killed and anyhow according to the Geneva convention, they also count as Journalists.
"...there is no clear evidence to show Al Sharif was a Hamas member, ".
Who needs evidence??
Hamas is just politer than saying Amalek.
Hamas broke out of their concentration camp and into occupied Palestine on Oct 7th.
The IDF was made up from the vicious Zionist thugs in the Stern gang and its offshoots when they c£aim-jumped the land and ran up their fa£$€ flag in 1948. A swastiKKKa would have given their game away. Even the triple-cross Union JacKKK had become too transparent.
They've inverted the crimina£ity for so long and so repetitively they've hijacKKKed the high moral ground along with everything else.
If I were in Gaza I'd be queuing for a weapon to defend the starving kids and die on my fucking feet, not my fucking knees.
It seems the pathetic Zio’s are really threatened by this murdered Journalist - they can sense what a hero he was, and how admired by everybody. They can sense his noble qualities, how he was a real man, with true courage - as contrasted with baby killing bed wetting weasels the IGF. So they try desperately to smear him.
Just like the Pisraeli “athlete” making throat cutting gestures, and the IGF wearing ladies underwear pilfered from women they have murdered, I think we get the picture about Pisraeli “men”…
Obviously Netanyahu is a deranged psychopath. Not sure how so many of the population have become deranged psychopaths too, but normally psychopaths make up a tiny percentage of the population. I can't work out how so many became so deranged.
Israelis are cowards, liars, and thieves!
And so are the supporters of Israel and Zionism.
How about the British workers in arms companies supplying Israel, who enjoy respectable, well-paid careers?
Them too...
First offer them alternate, comparable jobs. Begin the transition from climate destruction and war-mongering manufacturing to something productive and beneficial to the planet.
Offer them? Arms workers knew - and still know - exactly what their daily labour produces when they took the jobs: decapitated children. Are they so callous as to place their salaries above stopping that horrific abuse? Obviously, arms companies must be transformed into peaceful production (see lucasplan.co.uk) but is it really fine to just say "Well, they need those well-paid jobs in removing children's heads so let's be nice to them"?
That includes everyone who works for BAE Systems. Everyone who works as a civil servant in this country. Everyone in the armed forces. Everyone in the police who have to arrest protestors.
If only it were that easy - you know it’s way more nuanced than that. By the same logic (which I agree with actually) every nuclear sub crew should stand down and get new jobs that don’t threaten the mass destruction of civilians and cause the environmental collapse of our planet.
I agree they likely know, and have known for a while, what is happening in Palestine. However, I'd guess that when they initially took those jobs they anticipated (if they thought about it) they would be making weapons for the defence of their country and not to facilitate genocide. I'm absolutely guessing here because I don't know any of them so have had no chance to inquire. In thinking about it though, is a worker providing weapons any different than the soldier who is ordered to use those weapons in defiance of international law? If following orders is no excuse, can making a living be an excuse? You have a point.
I have a buddy who uses the same argument about “I work at a munitions factory, it’s for defense.” That’s drilled into them when these people work there. The weapons manufacturers must keep their employees docile and obedient; they only hire the ones who will buy into the lies and illusions. Soon, they will be replaced by robots as most of the world will be replaced by this new reset.
Yes Rebecca, this is exactly the line of enquiry that needs to be expanded. They are no longer respectable people - they will certainly be well paid in the paramount effort of the company keeping them corrupt.
They need to be made to understand absolutely that they are at the forefront of enabling the Genocide of the Palestine nation.
Their morals are absent and a very bright light needs to be shone on that empty space in their being.
I have rarely seen interviews with arms workers. One highly revealing such piece was published on Middle East Eye while Saudi Arabia was slaughtering the Yemeni people with the enthusiastic assistance of the RAF. An extract:
PRESTON, UK - Jack sits down with his pint in the Fielden Arms in Mellor and contemplates his latest shift making Typhoon warplanes for the Saudi air force. Tucking into steak and chips, the 25-year-old talks of moving in with his girlfriend, his good pay at the nearby BAE factory - £40,000, almost twice the local average - and the security it brings. And then he thinks of the people those planes will be sent to kill. "You see the children in Yemen starving on the 10 o’clock news," he tells Middle East Eye. "But you try to not pay attention and just get on with it."
His friend, Harry, interjects: "It's really weird and there is no way to describe it, because you are in essence building a weapon of mass destruction."
So why don't they quit? "Good pay and job security," Jack responds, taking another sip of his beer. "If the military contracts go, 7,000 people go with them."
Jack is like thousands of others who work at the BAE Systems factory in nearby Samlesbury, outside Preston in Lancashire, making parts that will be assembled in nearby Warton to create Typhoons, the most advanced jet fighters operated by the Saudis over Yemen.
('Made in Britain, tested on Yemenis: The reality of working for the bombmakers', Middle East Eye 25 July 2017)
They are soulless bastards
Dehumanising those they genocide. Nazism
Worse...it's total psychopathy which values human life at zero...
{...which values human life at zero...}
The Goy's life ONLY !!! not theirs !!!
It is appalling that BBC 'fact checking' is never applied to statements made by Israel. They appear to be accepted with presenters mouthing "But Israel would say ...." and repeat Israeli Hasbara/Todah as if it is undisputed fact.
BBC were doing "fact checking", but stopped doing it on Oct 6th. Do you think they were complicit on the Oct 7th operation carried out by the Devil IsRael?
Complicit in the fact they propagate Israeli lies.
But as it is a State broadcaster is it more complicit than that as the United Kingdom of IsRael is a servant of the Antichrist IsRael?
I would put them on the same level of complicity as the people in the government that aid and abet the genocide.
Killing those who reveal the truth merely confirms the truth about those who do the killing.
The Israelis will stop at nothing to justify their vile actions. They lie and they lie and it just astounds me that the main stream media quote their lies. They are clearly clutching at straws but still half the world's leaders are throwing them a lifeline. FFS why???
The Devil IsRael states of america is pure evil and we have to defeat it with BDS.
BBC stands for Bi Bi's Cronies.
The Geneva convention does not protect journalists as it should.
The additional protocol article 79 considers journalists in a war zone as “civilians”, which can loose such a status if they are found to be involved with combatants, which in turn is an oxymoron since it is the job of a journalist the one of interviewing and maintain relations with all sides involved in a conflict.
Thinking about it is in fact absurd, as all UN staff members are actually “supposedly” protected with full diplomatic immunity.
Than again, Geneva is Switzerland and Switzerland is the real israel.
You know, they are supposed to be neutral and they have been financing both sides of all wars ever since the first world war.
One way or the other, israel has shot it self in the testis again.
238 journalist murdered is actually once again an undercount, as many more of their staff members have been killed and anyhow according to the Geneva convention, they also count as Journalists.
Thank you for sharing ,
Every soldier in every army should identify as a journalist.
Instant world peace
Thanks for another compelling piece on this distressing subject. I’m sorry you have to deal with backlash.
"...there is no clear evidence to show Al Sharif was a Hamas member, ".
Who needs evidence??
Hamas is just politer than saying Amalek.
Hamas broke out of their concentration camp and into occupied Palestine on Oct 7th.
The IDF was made up from the vicious Zionist thugs in the Stern gang and its offshoots when they c£aim-jumped the land and ran up their fa£$€ flag in 1948. A swastiKKKa would have given their game away. Even the triple-cross Union JacKKK had become too transparent.
They've inverted the crimina£ity for so long and so repetitively they've hijacKKKed the high moral ground along with everything else.
If I were in Gaza I'd be queuing for a weapon to defend the starving kids and die on my fucking feet, not my fucking knees.
It seems the pathetic Zio’s are really threatened by this murdered Journalist - they can sense what a hero he was, and how admired by everybody. They can sense his noble qualities, how he was a real man, with true courage - as contrasted with baby killing bed wetting weasels the IGF. So they try desperately to smear him.
Just like the Pisraeli “athlete” making throat cutting gestures, and the IGF wearing ladies underwear pilfered from women they have murdered, I think we get the picture about Pisraeli “men”…
Obviously Netanyahu is a deranged psychopath. Not sure how so many of the population have become deranged psychopaths too, but normally psychopaths make up a tiny percentage of the population. I can't work out how so many became so deranged.
Two excellent posts on these killings in two days.
News Flash!
BBC condones cold blooded murder of journalists reporting the truth!
Imagine a licensed public broadcaster not even knowing how far they have sunk into moral depravity ……
Cancel your subscription !
'In Hamas'? HAMAS is the ruling party. It's like saying someone once worked for the Tory party. Or was once a civil servant.
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