[Craic] FW: Our parliamentary petition, our letter to the pope, & F-35s are bombing Gaza

Thu May 20 15:17:48 PDT 2021

So cowardly using this bully boy technology on these impoverished
subjugated people. Have they no pride or sense of fair play?

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 17:05 David Walsh via craic <
craic at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> *Please consider supporting the actions below. *
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> *Israeli Forces’ spokesman Zilberman announced the start of the bombing on
> Gaza, specifying that "80 fighters are taking part in the operation,
> including the advanced F-35s" (The Times of Israel, May 11, 2021).*
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> *David *
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> *From:* nonewfighterjets at googlegroups.com <
> nonewfighterjets at googlegroups.com> *On Behalf Of *Tamara Lorincz
> *Sent:* May 20, 2021 12:47 AM
> *To:* nonewfighterjets at googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* Our parliamentary petition, our letter to the pope, new
> graphic & F-35s are bombing Gaza
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> Hello everyone,
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> Pitasanna, Bianca and I worked on the parliamentary petition “No New
> Fighter Jets” that Paul Manly will present in the House of Commons after
> the petition closes on June 18. The House of Commons rises for the summer
> recess on June 23: https://www.ourcommons.ca/en/sitting-calendar
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> *We need your help to get 1,000 signatures on the petition in 30 days when
> it ends on June 18. Please share it widely with all your friends and family
> and please sign the petition now: https://bit.ly/3f1GHnK
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> Please make your own tweet or please forward this one:
> https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1395064209558364165
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> If you are on Facebook, please share the Canadian Voice of Women for
> Peace’s post:
> https://www.facebook.com/VOWPeace/photos/a.10150542296111936/10159012457071936/
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> Don’t forget to SIGN OUR OPEN LETTER TO POPE FRANCIS TO PRAY AGAINST
> FIGHTER JETS (DEADLINE May 31)
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> We invite you to add your name to our open letter Pope Francis to pray
> with us that the Government of Canada led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
> who is Catholic will not buy new fighter jets and instead will invest in
> the “care for our common home”. You don’t have to be Catholic to sign on,
> everyone is welcome.
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> Sign the Open Letter here:
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwl1Cflxldx993tbjCqMR1hIY-LSDcDqEy3nfMuHawITzTMw/viewform
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> We will also send a copy of a Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue’s book  “I
> Keep the Land Alive” – she talks about the Catholic priests who helped and
> didn’t help the Innu in their struggle against the fighter jet testing.
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> *Israeli F-35s (that are made in the US and Italy) are bombing Gaza. This
> report below the Italian peace group that is very opposed to militarism and
> NATO.  CNGNN Italy tried to stop the Italian government from buying and
> building F-35s and sadly they failed. Israel is bombing Gaza with these
> stealth fighters – it was also reported by Al-Jazeera:
> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/16/gaza-suffers-most-intense-bombing-as-rescuers-dig-for-survivors
> and The Times of Israel:
> https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-may-11-2021/ (so, so sad and
> tragic what is going on in Gaza and throughout the West Bank, Canada’s
> response is pathetic and shameful)
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> Finally, a big thanks to Rachel for making the “corrected” Lockheed Martin
> graphic – please see this new attached that has “Merchant of Death” crossed
> over Lockheed Martin’s name. Please use this one as well.
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> Thanks everyone for your help,
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> Tamara
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> *From:* no-to-nato-request at lists.riseup.net <
> no-to-nato-request at lists.riseup.net> *On Behalf Of *Jeannie Toschi
> Marazzani Visconti
> *Sent:* May 19, 2021 5:56 AM
> *To:* NO-TO.NATO <no-to-nato at lists.riseup.net>
> *Subject:* [no-to-nato] From CNGNN Italy
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> *CAUTION:* The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie.
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> The art of war
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> F-35s bombing Gaza
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> Manlio Dinucci
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> Israeli Forces’ spokesman Zilberman announced the start of the bombing on
> Gaza, specifying that "*80 fighters are taking part in the operation,
> including the advanced F-35s*" (*The Times of Israel*, May 11, 2021). It
> is officially the baptism of fire for the US Lockheed Martin’s
> fifth-generation fighter,  whose production Italy also participates in as a
> second-level partner. Israel has already received twenty-seven F-35s from
> the US, and last February decided to buy no longer fifty F-35s but
> seventy-five. To this end the government has decreed a further allocation
> of 9 billion dollars: 7 were granted by a US to Israel free military "
> *aid*" of 28 billion, 2 were granted by the US Citibank as a loan. While
> Israeli F-35 pilots were being trained by the U.S. Air Force in Arizona and
> Israel, the US Army Engineers built in Israel special hardened hangars for
> the F-35s, suitable for both fighters’ maximum protection on the ground,
> and their rapid take-off on the 0000000000attack. At the same time, the
> Israeli military industries (Israel Aerospace and Elbit Systems) in close
> coordination with Lockheed Martin enhanced the fighter renamed "Adir"
> (Powerful): its ability to penetrate enemy defenses above all, and its
> range of action which was nearly doubled. These capabilities are certainly
> not necessary to attack Gaza. Why then are the most advanced
> fifth-generation fighters used against Palestinians? Because it serves to
> test F-35 fighters and their pilots in real war action using Gaza homes as
> targets on a firing range. It does not matter if in the target houses there
> are entire families. , Added to the hundreds of fighter-bombers already
> supplied by the US to Israel, the F-35s are designed for nuclear attack
> particularly with the new B61-12 bomb. The United States will shortly
> deploy these nuclear bombs in Italy and other European countries, and will
> also provide them to Israel, the only nuclear power in the Middle East with
> an arsenal estimated at 100-400 nuclear weapons. If Israel doubles the
> range of F-35 fighters and is about to receive eight Boeing Pegasus tankers
> from the US for refueling the F-35 in flight, it is because it is preparing
> to launch an attack, even nuclear, against Iran. The Israeli nuclear forces
> are integrated into the NATO electronic system within the "*Individual
> cooperation program*" framework with Israel. Although not a member of the
> Alliance, Israel is integrated with a permanent mission in the NATO
> headquarters in Brussels. In the same framework, Germany supplied Israel
> with six Dolphin submarines. modified for launching nuclear missiles (as *Der
> Spiegel* documented in 2012).
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> Italy’s military cooperation with Israel has become a law of the Republic
> (Law No. 94 of May 17, 2005). This law established comprehensive
> cooperation between both armed forces and military industries, including
> activities that remain secret because they are subject to the "*Security
> Agreement*" between the two parties. Israel has supplied Italy with the
> Opsat-3000 satellite, which transmits very high-resolution images for
> military operations in distant war theaters. The satellite is connected to
> three centers in Italy and, at the same time, to a fourth center in Israel,
> as proof of the increasingly close strategic collaboration between the two
> countries.
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> Italy supplied00000 Israel with thirty Leonardo Aermacchi fighters for
> pilot training. Now it can provide Israel with a new version of the M-346
> FA (Fighter Attack), which - Leonardo Industry specified - serves at the
> same time for training and for “*ground attack missions with 500-pound
> drop ammunition, and0000 precision-guided ammunitions capable of increasing
> the num0000ber of targets to hit at the same time”*. The new version of
> the fighter - Leonardo Industry underlined - is particularly suitable for "*missions
> in urban areas*", where heavy fighters "*are often used in low-paying
> missions with high operating costs*". The ideal for the next Israeli
> bombing of Gaza, which can be carried out with "*a cost per flight hour
> that is reduced by up to 80%", and will be very cost-effective* ", that
> is, they will kill many more Palestinians.
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> (il manifesto, May 18, 2021)
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