Europe’s air forces help celebrate Israel’s destruction of Palestine
Palestinian mourners carry the body of boy at his funeral in Gaza City, whom medics said was killed in an Israeli air strike on 25 August 2014, during Israel’s 51-day assault that killed one in every 1,000 Gaza residents.APA images
The European Union’s financial support for Israel’s war industry is a well-established fact. But it may not be visible to the average citizen – unless they go digging through the databases documenting the millions channeled to companies making weapons that rain death on Palestinians.
But as Israel marks what it calls its “independence,” several European states are openly celebrating their military alliances with an entity founded through the ethnic cleansing and destruction of Palestine and which only continues to exist through the brutal occupation and dispossession of millions of Palestinians.
European and NATO countries, including Austria’s neo-Nazi government, sent their air forces to take part in a show over Tel Aviv on Thursday, Israel’s official “independence” holiday according to the Jewish calendar.
That’s just a few miles up the coast from Gaza, where the buzz of drones and the roar of jet engines from Israeli warplanes has for years been used to deliberately inflict terror on Palestinians – that is when the planes are not dropping bombs, as during Israel’s 2014 assault that killed one in every 1,000 of the two million people confined in the besieged territory.
Other countries dispatching their warplanes included Greece, Poland, Canada, Italy and the United Kingdom.
The Austrian Air Force will be participating in Israel's Independence Day Flyby, operating C-130 aircraft. In preparation for their arrival, Maj. Gen. Karl Gruber, Commander of the Austrian Air Force, has a special message pic.twitter.com/JHKYKZM3x4— Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) 17 April 2018
Canada is proud to fly alongside the Israeli Air Force on April 19th in celebration of Israel ’s #70th birthday with our Royal #Canadian Air Force CC-177 Globemaster III!
Come on down to the beach on Thursday to see it! #Canada #Israel #YomHaatzmaut #Israelindependenceday
Western air forces do not limit themselves only to display flying alongside Israel.
Some Arab governments also appear willing to step up their cooperation with Israel.
This year, the United Arab Emirates again took part in exercises with the Israeli air force, a sign of Israel’s ongoing rapprochement with the Saudi-led bloc of Arab regimes.
Emirati military leaders see the United States as a “big brother” both to their country and to Israel.
