After spending most of the months of March and April trying to convince the European Union to abandon an arms embargo on Syria and allow them to start throwing weapons at the rebellion, officials familiar with the situation say that the Cameron government is growing averse to the idea, with al-Qaeda’s cozy relationship with the rebels apparently a big factor.
Experts describe Britain as “less gung-ho” than before, and there is growing consensus that the wholesale armament once advocated would lead to those arms being used against Israel and other nations across the region.
Britain seems to be following a similar aversion from US officials about the plan, with Jabhat al-Nusra’s public merger with al-Qaeda likely a big part of forcing that rethink and ending the claim that the rebels are uniformly pro-West.
France so far hasn’t shown any indication of a similar rethink, and cautioned against using the Nusra merger as an excuse to stop backing the rebels. Still and all, the diplomatic momentum the rebels once had may be slipping away as the reality of their fighters on the ground gets more apparent.
So in England it's also all about israel all the time. Well, whatever the "reason" to not arm terrorists in Syria. This has to be a rare event in recent history where some poodle of the neocons is actually showing signs of brain cell activity.
This is another nonsense by Jason Ditz.., Look: it was the British government who proposed arming these bandits and their own terrorists breathed in London, Manchester, Liverpool and other cities in England traveling daily to fight the Syrian people.., now all of the sudden they have changed their mind…? for the British government is a blessing to see these thieves are killed in Syria so by arming them it will do the original favor for the british to have more of their militarism stationed in middle east and for this war to continue.., the Syrian war is war crime committed primarily by USA and EU militarism regimes.., after this war there need to be a tribunal prosecuting these regimes.
It would be correct to say security officials are dancing on the desk of our vainglorious foreign secretary.
They are terrified returning young Jihadists returning to Britain and perpetrating further major terrorist incidents like 7/7, the blowing up of Underground trains in London.
A trial of some young Jihadists to make a terrorist attack on a demonstration, complete with the Declaration of Jihad letter addressed to the queen.
It has now occurred to our politicians the public will react very badly if this occurs and it is found they were arming them in the first place.