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Spain cancelled multimillion ammunition deal with Israel following media leak
2024-11-01
More on this story from two days ago.
[Euractiv via Gates of Vienna] Spain is cancelling a €6.5 million contract with an Israeli military company to buy ammunition for the country’s militarised police, the Interior Ministry said after the case was revealed in the media.
So the Spanish deep state is perfectly happy to buy from Israel, it’s just the prime minister and his coterie. Good to know
Sources in the ministry, led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska (PSOE/S&D), said on Tuesday that other Israeli arms companies would also be excluded from future contracts with Madrid as long as the conflict in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
continues.

"The Spanish government maintains its commitment not to sell or buy arms to the Israeli state since the outbreak of the armed conflict in the territory of Gaza," a statement issued by the Interior Ministry reads.

The Interior Ministry's reaction comes after partners of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) asked the progressive executive to shed light on a contract to purchase ammunition for the Guardia Civil after the case was revealed by Cadena SER.

The controversial contract was awarded on 21 October by Madrid to Guardian Homeland Security SA for more than 15 million 9 x 19-millimetre Parabellum-NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
bullets.

As soon as the executive became aware of the award to the Israeli company, a process was quickly initiated to "terminate the contract with this company", government spokeswoman Pilar Alegría stressed on Tuesday.

"The Spanish government's commitment not to buy or sell arms to Israel remains intact," said Alegría, as reported by Spanish public broadcaster RTVE.

Both the left-wing Sumar platform, a junior partner in Sánchez's government, and its former ally Podemos, as well as other far-left parties, including Izquierda Unida, have urged the government to suspend arms sales to Israel, and some want Madrid to break diplomatic and trade relations with Tel Aviv.

Last weekend, Podemos Death Eaters voted internally to stop supporting Sánchez unless Madrid cuts ties with Israel.
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