Israeli forces deploy explosive robots at ‘unprecedented pace’, obliterating homes and displacing families.

Since Israel announced last month that it was expanding its assault on the city, home to nearly one million people, massive explosions have rocked the area almost nightly.

At the centre of this new wave of violence is Israel’s latest battlefield tactic: remotely controlled, explosive-packed vehicles.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/genocide-remote-control-israeli-explosive-robots-devastate-gaza
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  • Farhad@freefree.psOP
    3·
    16 days ago

    @xxce2AAb
    Denmark has been providing Israel with all sorts of weapons, maybe not these but they have been actively helping Israel commit genocide

    • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
      1·
      16 days ago

      I was just looking into it myself, but I’m having a hard time finding anything outlining what - if any - material military assistance Denmark has given to Israel. Most of the coverage is about Denmark’s official stance, which while not uncritical I agree is far, far too mild.

      Edit: Apparently Denmark has sent a frigate as a patrol ship? That’s all I’ve been able to find so far.

      • Farhad@freefree.psOP
        1·
        16 days ago

        @xxce2AAb
        For several years, Danish authorities have allowed Danish companies to export components for F-35 fighter jets through a US-led defence cooperation without conducting specific assessments of the risk of contributing to war crimes. The US sells the finished fighter jets to Israel.

        Israel is the first country – besides the US – to deploy the fighter jets.

        • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
          1·
          16 days ago

          That’d make sense unfortunately. I know Denmark was part of the JSF program. I seem to recall something about Danish companies being involved with the avionics, but looking now, I can’t find anything but financial participation, so maybe I’m remembering that wrong. Regardless, if components of the F-35 are produced in Denmark, do you think we’d be allowed to pick and choose at our own discretion? Buddy, please. We’re a country of five million people, I can see Russia from here on a clear day and Trump is a cunt who’s threatening to annex Greenland every other week (the other weeks are taken up by Russia threatening to literally nuke us). We’ve already experienced serious issues with the US stalling us from handing out old F-16’s of to Ukraine using ITAR as it is. Denmark fucking with the F-35 program? No, I don’t think so.

          You’re barking up the wrong tree here, I think.

            • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
              2·
              16 days ago

              While I can understand both the anger and the bitterness - lord knows there’s plenty of reason to feel both - I still think you’re driving away potential allies by being angry at everyone, including the people who are otherwise inclined to have your back. Let me just be crystal clear about a couple of things: 1) I’m in no way a supporter of what Israel is currently doing (and / or a good chunk of things they’ve previously done for that matter), 2) While I think you meant ‘nationalist’ not ‘patriot’, I’m precisely none of the former and frankly very little of the latter. If I thought Denmark was inherently beyond reproach or above criticism, we wouldn’t be having a conversation at all, nor would I have made any attempt to further inform myself, 3) I personally argued for basing our modernized air force on SAAB Gripen, for a number of reasons, this sort of situation being just one of them. Fact of the matter is: Denmark doesn’t sell F-35’s to anybody. The US does. However, for batter or worse, our own much needed air force is now based around them, and being active stakeholders in the program sadly makes perfect sense - though I would have much preferred to be an active stakeholder in a completely different fighter jet with considerably less American entanglements (but not none, we’d still have had to replace the engine of the Gripen to be ‘US-free’). I have no idea why you’d think we get even the slightest say in who the US sells F-35’s to (we absolutely don’t) or could have any impact on what those buyers get to do with them. Maybe in a different political climate, allies could have exerted some pressure on the US, but with Trump and his Russia-loving circus running the show? It’s not like those people even have the capacity to feel shame.

              At least - and I realize how cold comfort that is - Israel’s genocide seems to be seriously undermining their support among the American electorate. Not that that’s much help to the people on the receiving end. Not in time for it to matter, anyway.

              Look, let me put it another way: Suppose I had the power to make you Autocrat of Denmark for a day. You’d get to make whatever changes to Danish policies and behavior you’d like, care nothing for the will, desires or other priorities of any citizen here or have to pay the political or economic price of any backlash or other consequences of such changes. What would you have us do, exactly? I’m not baiting you here, I’m sincerely asking for suggestions.