Current Events > US defied Spanish embargo on arms being sent to Israel

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https://theintercept.com/2024/12/17/israel-weapons-spain-embargo-shipping/

The U.S. Department of Defense sent over a thousand tons of ammunition to Israel on a ship that stopped at a U.S. naval base in Spain a violation of Spains embargo on ships carrying military cargo bound for Israel, according to researchers from the Palestinian Youth Movement and Progressive International.

The ship, owned by Sealift Inc., was also used for delivering aid to Gaza last spring, when the U.S. carried out its disastrous and short-lived floating pier aid mission.

While partly operated by the U.S. Navy, Naval Station Rota is Spanish territory technically beholden to Spanish law. Moving ammunition bound for Israel through a U.S. Navy base on Spanish soil makes enforcement of the embargo trickier.

Shipments through American military bases in Spain of military materials, which may be used in the commission of international crimes, are harder to detect, Enrique Santiago, a lawyer and Spanish legislator whose party is in the government coalition, told The Intercept. He said that, though Spanish oversight should apply, in practice, American bases are beyond the reach of Spanish sovereignty.

Santiago added, If shipments of military material used in international crimes are made through American bases in Spain, and this fact can be evidenced, the people taking part in them would equally have criminal liability.

The revelation that deadly ammunition is being shipped by the U.S. to Israel through Spanish ports is the latest chapter of a spiraling international row between the two allies, both members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (Neither Sealift nor the U.S. military responded to requests for comment.)

The U.S. recently lodged a case with the Federal Maritime Commission, an independent U.S. government agency that regulates international shipping and can levy astronomical fines potentially hitting Spain with costs that run well into the millions.

Last month, The Intercept reported that Maersk, one of the worlds largest shippers, is among the companies that delivered millions of pounds of materiel, including armored vehicles, from commercial American ports to Israel for use in the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. A number of those shipments, which stopped in Spain, violated Spanish policy that blocked ships carrying Israeli war materiel from docking at its ports.

Following reporting in The Intercept and Spanish newspaper El Diario, Spain in recent weeks blocked two vessels from docking, forcing Maersk to reroute some of its transatlantic shipping of government and military cargo from the U.S. through Morocco. (Maersk did not respond to a question about the shipments routed through Morocco.)

Spanish officials put the embargo in place last May to end Spanish involvement in arms sales to Israel. Since then, Spain has prevented more than five vessels from docking at its ports under the policy.

Anything for Israel

Any source from somewhere that Israel isn't at war with?

Patriotwolf posted...

Any source from somewhere that Israel isn't at war with?

...that is an American newspaper.

What is Spain gonna do about it? We're the motherfucking US

Yemen was able to send US carriers running with drones, lol

Spain is a US vassal state and will do as it's told

this is what the US actually thinks

DrizztLink posted...

...that is an American newspaper.

You'll have to forgive him. He's been carrying water for Israel's genocide for a year now. He's a true believer.

That is sad. Just sad.

NeonPhoenix posted...

What is Spain gonna do about it? We're the motherfucking US

Secretly fund their own pirates?

Iran Contra 2: Palestinian Boogaloo

NeonPhoenix posted...

What is Spain gonna do about it? We're the motherfucking US

This kind of attitude is what is wrong with this country, but I wouldn't expect better from someone as immature as you are. It really fucking sucks you were let back into CE.

Lonestar2000 posted...

This kind of attitude is what is wrong with this country, but I wouldn't expect better from someone as immature as you are. It really fucking sucks you were let back into CE.

He's partially correct, though. The US government aren't just world police. They're also bullies. Why did I say partially? Because of their one flaw. There's a reason they have trouble with the ME as a whole, and why they lost the Vietnam war. If Spain wanted to, they could give the US trouble that doesn't involve direct conflict.

nocturnal_traveler posted...

The US government aren't just world police. They're also bullies.

Kinda redundant, isn't it?

Ricemills posted...

Kinda redundant, isn't it?

Ha !

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