Since 2015, the UK has licensed £487 million ($617 million) worth of weapons to Israel. However, this does not include equipment exported via open licences. In particular, 15 per cent of the value of every US-made F-35 combat aircraft, which Israel uses to bomb Gaza, is made in the UK, exports for which are covered by an open licence with no limit on the quantity or value of exports. CAAT estimates conservatively that the work on the 36 F-35s exported to Israel up to 2023 has been worth at least £368 million ($466 million) to the UK arms industry.
Sandi, ‘UK is ‘complicit’ in Israel's killing of British aid workers in Gaza, says CAAT’, Middle East Monitor
Buddy just sent this clip of me from Kuwait, on the way home from Fallujah - roughly a year or so after my picking fingers were mangled and damn near blown off in Afghanistan.
It changed the way I played. For the better, in hindsight. I'm light years better than I was back then. I couldn't play chords anymore, well not the way I used to with the limited mobility in my ring and middle fingers and the missing tip of my pinky made certain posturings more painful.
I had to learn how to trace my way through progressions with my fingers which wasn't entirely radical to my style and in conjunction I dropped the pic altogether as a result to fill in the gaps and play in sync or create dissonance or feedback loops in odd time signatures.
Never looked back, and I've became sort of a snob about it looking down on anything other than finger picking aside from technical metal necessities.
This government is complicit in the murder of UK aid workers in Gaza. It has had every opportunity to impose an arms embargo and has refused to do so. Not only is our government complicit in genocide, but it also knows that it is. Time and again Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) ministers have refused to answer direct questions on the legal advice they’ve received. They have misled parliament and made a mockery of both our democracy and international law.