The author of this article is a silly and he should feel very silly.
Once more, with feeling:
British air-to-air refuelling tankers use the British drogue system. Israel uses the US fixed-boom system. The two are utterly incompatible. It is physically impossible for RAF tankers to refuel Israeli planes. And if they were somehow magically doing so, (Perhaps an airman hanging on for dear life with a hosepipe) they wouldn’t be based in Brize Norton, hundreds of miles away, when the RAF have a perfectly good base on Cyprus, which is - for those, like Craig Murray who evidently skived off Geography for a smoke behind the bike shed - closer to Iran than Oxfordshire.
And why they would need to is beyond me, given that Israel has its own fleet of air-to-air refuelling tankers. They even hook up with Israeli planes. Which British planes don’t. In case you missed that.
Besides this, the private ownership of the Voyager tankers was known to anyone who [checks notes] paid attention to the RAF’s own press releases when they procured the contract. And indeed any other time when they became newsworthy, such as in British media reporting about Air Force Boris a few years ago.
This article has a premise based on a rookie falsehood that would have been extremely easy to fact-check, and delivers no new information into the public domain.
There is plenty to criticise without descending to this attention-seeking hackery which merely muddies the waters and drains away credibility from those who have legitimate concerns.
Thanks for debunking this. The article also mentions “the active RAF involvement in the Genocide in Gaza”, do you think the RAF isn’t involved at all? Or just not with air-to-air refuelling tankers?
Palestine Action’s excellent act of resistance in vandalising this Hedge Fund Air Force has brought all of this to our attention. Which is yet a further reason to be grateful to Palestine Action.
Do you think the people behind that organization wrongly picked their target?
The RAF has two Shadow R1 planes that conduct daily sorties near Gaza, but not in its airspace. These are surveillance planes and the British government claims they are solely tasked with gathering intelligence around Hamas-held hostages. They are flown from RAF Akrotiri, a base in Cyprus.
There are questions as to what sort of intelligence is being shared with Israel, and the use to which that intelligence is being put. There is also the suspicion that the RAF flights are being used to circumvent bilateral ceasefire provisions around reducing Israeli surveillance flights during hostage release periods, and that the intelligence is being used to identify targets for assassination and spree shootings. Some see this intelligence sharing as collusion with genocide or war crimes. There were two British hostages, one being killed in an Israeli operation and the other being released. The British presence is therefore, some feel, unwarranted.
The organisation very much picked the wrong target and methodology in my opinion. Nothing at Brize Norton is being used in connection with Gaza, and not only did they cause significant damage to military assets, they humiliated the defence establishment by publicly showing how easy it was to gain access to those planes. The government has no choice really but to throw the book at them, lest any group or foreign power with a score to settle decide they want to copy them. There is also the background of increased military threat from Russia and China, and the pressure from the US that NATO members pull their weight. They kind of overachieved and underachieved at the same time.
Thanks for giving an extensive answer, wish I could give you more than one upvote in return. I feel there is so much misinformation it gets harder to trust media. But also activist aren’t always trustworthy, this seeming to prove that once more.
Any dystopian fiction we could possibly imagine is utopian in comparison with the things actually happening. Please bring on some real life hunger games and 1984 for people to relax a little from what is going down!
