Last night in Senate Estimates, it was revealed that the Albanese Government ‘lapsed or amended’ 16 military permits to Israel from Australia due in part to the “very high number of civilian casualties” in the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was also revealed that 59 of the 65 military export permits that were active with Israel as of June 2024 were for \u201cgoods and technologies designed or adapted for use by armed forces or goods that are inherently lethal.\u201d The remaining 6 permits are for \u201cdual-use goods\u201d that are used by both civilians and militaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the past year, there has been persistent misinformation and gaslighting from the Albanese Government on the two-way arms trade with Israel. Minister Marles falsely claimed that Australia\u2019s exports were all \u201cdual use\u201d and that Australia has not exported \u201ca piece of military equipment\u201d to Israel. Minister Wong’s statement that we have only exported \u201cnon-lethal\u201d parts to Israel has now also been proven untrue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Albanese Government\u2019s review is still not finalised, and more export permits may be cancelled. In the meantime, Australia is continuing to provide military exports to Israel, some of them part of the two-way arms trade with Israel, where Australia receives the weapons back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator David Shoebridge, Greens Spokesperson from Defence, said:<\/strong> \u201cThis is a victory for the millions of Australians who, for a year, have been calling on the Albanese Government to take steps to end the arms trade with Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOver the past year, tens of thousands of innocent people have been killed across the Middle East, with an ongoing genocide in Gaza. In the face of this horror, we now have confirmed that the Albanese government has been permitting the export of military and inherently lethal equipment to Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter a year of gaslighting and denying that there is a two-way arms trade with Israel, the Albanese Government, under the clouds of a US election, has finally cancelled 16 military permits to Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Albanese Government has no credibility in claiming there is no arms trade with Israel while also permitting Australia to export military and inherently lethal goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government\u2019s position doesn\u2019t make sense because it is not supposed to, it is designed to silence critics and hide Labor\u2019s complicity in a genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCancelling 16 military permits to Israel is a much-needed first step, but why has it come a year late?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s time to end the two-way arms trade with Israel in full.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night in Senate Estimates, it was revealed that the Albanese Government ‘lapsed or amended’ 16 military permits to Israel from Australia due in part to the “very high number of civilian casualties” in the ongoing conflict. It was also revealed that 59 of the 65 military export permits that were active with Israel as … Continue reading “Albanese finally cancels 16 military exports to Israel after a year of misinformation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29992,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29991\/revisions\/29992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}