Godfrey Bloom: The State is an Institution of Theft – Tax Evasion (Video)

 European Parliament, Brussels, 21 November 2013.

EU source: Gaza reconstruction aid is ‘made in Israel’

A Palestinian school damaged during Operation Protective Edge. 7 August, Gaza City. [Jordi Bernabeu Farrús/Flickr]

Source: euractiv.com

SPECIAL REPORT: A row is brewing over claims that Israel is earning millions of euros from a de facto policy of preventing non-Israeli reconstruction aid from entering the Gaza Strip.

British arms sales to Israel face high court challenge

Leading UK law firm claims government’s failure to suspend existing export licences is illegal

A Palestinian man carries a child killed in the blast outside a UN run school in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, earlier this month. Photograph: Hatem Ali/AP

By: Jamie Doward

Source: http://www.theguardian.com

The government faces being dragged into the high court over the sale of military hardware to Israel in an unprecedented legal move that puts the UK’s controversial export policy on a potential collision course with the EU.

Law firm Leigh Day, representing the Campaign Against Arms Trade(CAAT), has written to the business secretary, Vince Cable, claiming that the failure by the British government to suspend existing licences for the export of military components to Israel is unlawful as there is a risk that they may have been used in Gaza. It says that it has been instructed to seek a judicial review of the government’s reluctance to suspend licences unless it agrees to stop the export of the components.

RT News: No quick energy-fix if EU plugs Russian gas pipelines (Video)

 America and the EU’s top diplomats met today to brainstorm over how to break Europe’s dependence on Russian energy. There were few concrete solutions, though the US again offered to ship US gas across the Atlantic. But as RT’s Peter Oliver reports, that’s easier said than done.