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<font size="1"><a href="https://palestineaction.org/smart-killing/">https://palestineaction.org/smart-killing/</a>
</font><h1 class="gmail-reader-title">The Dumb Art of Smart Killing<br></h1>
October 15, 2020
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<p>By Sarah Wilkinson </p>
<p>Elbit is Israel’s biggest publicly-traded weapons company. Simply
put, it manufactures repression and death from Palestine to Kashmir and
all the way round to the American-Mexican border. In fact, wherever
there is carnage, expendable civilian fatalities and the erasing of
entire families in one cluster blast, the dots most likely always lead
back to Elbit.</p>
<p>Elbit’s Hermes 900 drone, for instance, was first
experimentally-deployed during Israel’s attack on Gaza in the summer of
2014. It was, without question, this hideous piece of machinery that
facilitated the heinous slaughter of over 2,200 Palestinian civilians
and 551 children in just 51 days — 51 days of absolute carnage. </p>
<p>It’s believed, that roughly 164 of those children were blown apart by
drones actually built in the UK, and sadly, this is probably an
underestimated statistic. Allowing Israel to “build” on British soil is
one of this country’s most shameful acts of collusion and complicity,
and it’s nothing to build a values-based “friendship” on, although
Dominic Raab would have us believe otherwise.</p>
<p>If anyone is questioning why Palestine Action is targeting this
company so arduously, then the above information is probably all you
need to know. Of course, there’s lots more, from caliber bulletry to
SmartEye ballistic glasses, surveillance and spy equipment,
enhanced-vision-system cameras (for killing sprees on a foggy day),
unmanned aircraft, autonomous military jeeps, boats, helicopters,
suicide drones and well, to be honest, the devil’s list just goes on
until you run out of breath. So, lets just keep it simple: it’s
electronic warfare, tested on living people, and sold to regimes with
zero respect for human rights. Elbit is quite frankly, E for Evil.</p>
<p>A map published on Elbit’s own website reveals that it now has 10
production sites, or offices, in Britain, including a factory in
Shenstone, near Lichfield, which manufactures the engines for its killer
drones. And, our very own British armed forces are important customers,
purchasing £46-million worth of so-called military equipment from these
merchants of death in under two years. </p>
<p>Elbit doesn’t particularly hide its capabilities from the public — it
actually markets its weaponry as battle-tested, or field-proven; so
what does battle-tested even mean? It means how accurately can its
weaponry kill a single Palestinian child, or worse, how many unarmed
civilians can it kill in one strike to make the art of slaughter as
cost-efficient as possible. One shot, two kills; one strike, 100 kills;
and so it goes. </p>
<p>And there we have it: Elbit, busily designing its incremental
genocide on London’s streets in Holborn, creating its killing munitions
in the sleepy village of Shenstone, putting together its “smart” lethal
technology in Oldham’s historic Ferranti factory, while the British
people, and even some of the work force, unknowingly applaud its
contribution to the economy.</p>
<p>E is for Evil — evil contributes to nothing; it serves its own
interests; Elbit’s sole purpose is to kill, and kill it does. Period.</p>
<p>#ShutElbitDown</p>
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