{"id":142146,"date":"2024-10-21T10:09:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=142146"},"modified":"2024-10-21T10:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:14:24","slug":"defence-begins-secret-review-of-weapons-exports-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=142146","title":{"rendered":"Defence begins secret review of weapons exports to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Just to be clear &#8211; Labor has started a secret review of weapons export permits to Israel &#8211; and it\u2019s being done by Defence &#8211; the same people who have already falsely stated we are not sending weapons to Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are morally bankrupt and deceitful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Shoebridge<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The comments of David Shoebridge have some validity.  The Australian Defence Force has been poorly run for years with scandal after scandal with procurement disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new multi-billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=107024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Australia may never receive a submarine under the AUKUS Deal\">procurement disaster is currently unfolding<\/a> and it is called AUKUS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources said the Department of Defence was weighing up each permit on a case-by-case basis and considering how it fits with Australia\u2019s international obligations, including with respect to human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Defence spokesperson confirmed the review was progressing: \u201cAs circumstances in the Middle East evolve, Australia continues to scrutinise pre-existing export permits to Israel to ensure they align with our calibrated approach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are morally bankrupt and deceitful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":142147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35,858],"tags":[11714,8937],"class_list":["post-142146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","category-israel","tag-palestine","tag-war-in-palestine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142149,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142146\/revisions\/142149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}