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armoured vehicles. In answer to questions from George Galloway MP, Ben Bradshaw, the Foreign Office minister, said there was ‘no evidence’ that British arms and equipment had been used against Palestinians.8;> There is abundant evidence, such as Amnesty’s report that the Apache helicopters used to attack the Palestinians are kept flving with British parts.86 The Blair Government has also supported the Israeli militaryindustrial complex by buying bullets, bombs, grenades and anti-tank missiles. The Metropolitan Police and South Wales Police buy Israeli ammunition. An Israeli combat aircraft training system was bought by the RAF. In 1999, a joint UK—Israeli high technol ogy investment fund was established to underwrite joint research and development. With no objections raised by the Blair Government, Israel hopes to open an army recruiting office in London — even though it would be recruiting for a war that stems from the occupation of Palestinian territories which the British government says is illegal. This will be a direct violation of the government’s new anti terrorism legislation; Israel’s attacks on the Occupied Territories are, by any definition, terrorism, with their victims overwhelm ingly civilians. Blair's support for the Sharon regime goes even deeper. In May and Julv 2001, the authoritative Ja n e’s Foreign Report dis closed that Britain and France had given ‘the green light’ to Sharon to attack Arafat if the Palestinian resistance did not stop. The British government was shown a plan for an all-out Israeli invasion and re-occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, ‘using the latest F-16 and F-15 jets against all the main installations of the Palestinian Authority [and] 30,000 men or the equivalent of a full