Declassified UK: Important questions far Admiral Sir Tony Radakin

Posted: 3rd May 2025

The slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated and now, the total blockade of aid – with both the UNRWA refugee agency & the World Food Programme reporting that food stocks are exhausted. The suffering and torturous conditions are unimaginable.

The political and economic system relies on the mental decoupling of decisions by policy-makers from the consequences they yield through a complex web of systemic obfuscation and through control of what we get to know about the system. Why? To control levels of anger and disdain at their decisions. A deliberate separating of cause and effect.

Take for example the issue of the surveillance flights over Gaza. Shouldn’t we know what the Royal Air Force has done, and is doing with the surveillance footage? Considering Israel faces allegations of genocide at the International Court of Justice and that arrest warrants have been issued by the ICC for Netanyahu and former defence minister Gallant, isn’t there a responsibility on the government and the military to explain how the footage is being used? We think you should know.

That’s why this week our Editor Phil Miller put a series of important questions to Admiral Sir Tony Radakin on this very issue. As Chief of the Defence Staff he is the professional head of the British Armed Forces and according to the government’s website is ‘principal military adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence and the government’. So he should have the answers to questions on the surveillance flights.

Watch the viral interaction here, and you can also watch an extended version on our Youtube channel here.

To my mind, one of the scariest military developments is remote controlled weaponry with the capacity to injure and kill. John McEvoy reports here on how a British firm is supplying engines for Israel’s newest generation of killer drones.

When trying to change the political tide in Britain on the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, it would be reasonable to assume an organisation like Labour Friends of Palestine would be in a prime position to contribute to that effort. Insiders have told Declassified the organisation was allowed to ‘wither and die’ under Lisa Nandy’s stewardship. Read about what happened here.

You would think that the British Government would want to distance themselves from the Israeli military, and yet, Mark Curtis, our Co-Director, explains here how the RAF has a secretive but special relationship with its Israeli counterpart, which has been devastating Gaza.

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Lawyers accuse British Israelis of Gaza war crimes. Top barrister Michael Mansfield and a legal research team have lodged an extensive report to London’s Metropolitan Police accusing 10 British citizens of war crimes in Gaza.Watch the press conference here.

Watch this fascinating extra interview with Raji Sourani, eminent Palestinian lawyer, who sat down with our Editor shortly after the press conference.

So, UK government, we do have all the reasons to say, they are not complicit only, but they are partners in the genocide and what is going on unfortunately”. Raji Sourani.

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