{"id":11497,"date":"2017-11-13T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11497"},"modified":"2017-11-13T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T09:27:01","slug":"orthodox-leaders-urge-probe-into-israeli-arms-for-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/orthodox-leaders-urge-probe-into-israeli-arms-for-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox leaders urge probe into Israeli arms for Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A group of prominent\u00a0Orthodox leaders has\u00a0asked the\u00a0Knesset to\u00a0investigate reports that Myanmar is using weapons sold by Israel to commit atrocities against Rohingya Muslims.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A dozen Orthodox rabbis submitted a letter to lawmaker Avi Dichter who chairs a Knesset committee tasked with overseeing Israel\u2019s arms exports,\u00a0Ha\u2019aretz\u00a0<\/em>reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHas Israel sold arms to Myanmar in recent years, as alleged in several foreign reports, and continued to do so even after the publication of several reports on severe human rights violations in the country?\u201d they asked. \u201cIf so, why was there no veto issued on the exports?\u201d read the letter.<\/p>\n

The letter reportedly contained reports and testimonies showing that Israel had sold weapons to Myanmar.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd is Israel still selling arms to Myanmar?\u201d it continued, and further asked if Tel Aviv had actually stopped the weapons\u2019 sales, why it had\u00a0not publicized it.<\/p>\n

The United Nations has accused the Myanmar\u00a0government of conducting systematic \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d against the Rohingya Muslims.<\/p>\n

On Sunday,\u00a0a UN special envoy said\u00a0Myanmar soldiers “systematically targeted” Rohingya women for gang-rape during violence against the minority Muslim community which triggered an exodus to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

Pramila Patten, a special representative of the UN Secretary-General on sexual violence in conflict, said many of the\u00a0atrocities “could be crimes against humanity.”<\/p>\n

“I heard horrific stories of rape and gang-rape, with many of the women and girls who died as a result of the rape,” Patten told reporters in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.<\/p>\n

Israel was one of the few parties selling weapons to South Africa during apartheid and only stopped selling weapons to Rwanda during the genocide there after the UN\u00a0Security Council passed a resolution that put an arms embargo on the country.<\/p>\n

Last month,\u00a0Haaretz\u00a0<\/em>said Israel\u00a0had\u00a0not said that it would\u00a0stop selling weapons to the military junta in Myanmar, despite UN data on massacres the country\u2019s military had\u00a0perpetrated against the Rohingya minority.<\/p>\n

The paper separately said Israel sold advanced weapons to Myanmar during an “ethnic-cleansing campaign” going against the Rohingya and that\u00a0the Myanmar naval commander had visited Israel in the past year, his\u00a0second in the past five years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a remote weapon station, made by Elbit Systems, which allows the firing of a heavy machine gun or cannon of up to 30 millimeters,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

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PressTV-Israel \u2018sold arms to Myanmar during violence on Rohingya\u2019<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

An Israeli report reveals that Tel Aviv continued to sell advanced weaponry to Myanmar even after a deadly military campaign against Rohingya civilians came to light.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Last month, 55 Israeli rabbis representing various denominations signed a petition calling on Israeli authorities to end arm sales to Myanmar but Tel Aviv\u00a0has kept mum on its military dealings with the regime.<\/p>\n

More than 350 rabbis from the United States subsequently signed a similar letter, which also called on the US government to end training Myanmar\u00a0troops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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