This might possibly have been the first time the BBC had dipped a toe into the murky waters of UK arms sales to Israel since Netanyahu launched his genocide. Dymond added that the MoD had stressed fewer than five Israeli Defence Force personnel were enrolled here in ‘non-combat military courses’ which, they insisted, underlines the UK’s critical compliance with international humanitarian law. That is a very significant part of Israeli defence exports. Why would they let our planes fly over the country unless they were getting something from it?’Quid pro quo indeed. ‘We have a thing in the UK called the foreign enlistment act which is designed to inhibit British citizens taking part in foreign wars.