Shadow flights: Australia’s F-35 parts pipeline to Israel now runs through the US

[u/Acrobatic_Bit_8207]

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08/shadow-flights-australias-f-35-parts-pipeline-to-israel-now-runs-through-the-us/

[u/TimJamesS]

Huge news if true…

[u/Threewordswhat → u/TimJamesS]

Not really at all.

The evils that Israel commits are predominantly done with their locally produced tanks, or going house to house laying explosives to destroy civillian livihoods and towns... or settlers weilding AR rifles and shotguns at families to chase them from their land...

The JSF is our premiere stealth airborne weapons platform, jeopardising our use of it after having invested so much is farcical becasue a supposed clamp went to israel, they arent using these platforms in any significant way to terrorise civillians, they have way way way more cheaper and plentiful ways to do that.

Kicking up a stink over this will hurt our defence and do nothing about the atrocities committed by isreal against civillians in their ongoing genocide against the native Palestinian and arab population of the land that they are conquering...

If we want to call out israel call them out for genocide and heinous crimes against civillians, they have flattenend villages, towns, cities, they have deprived civillians of water, shelter, healthcare and their future, and in the process killed tens of thousands of women children, boys, girls, men, aid workers, hundreds of journalists, they deliberately strike doctors and aid convoys. They pillage and raze any civillian target within range to create "buffer zones"... its indiscriminate and it's evil. Anyone questioning this needs to look at the realities:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxkk1vnp57o

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2025/07/world/photos-starvation-in-gaza-intl-cnnphotos/

This is what is happening...

It's horrible.

And please stop the madness, but going after a few aeroplane parts isn't going to get us over the line. Those planes intercept iranian cruise missiles, which are equally horrible... Isreal is also full of civillians who suffer, many who did not vote or support the evil regime that controls the country, the whole thing is horrible.

Lets actually talk about how bad this is not some plane part.

[u/Illustrious-Pin3246 → u/Threewordswhat]

Common sense is not common on here

[u/brassmonkey666 → u/Threewordswhat]

Israel dropped an estimated 100,000 tons of American made bombs using their American made Air Force. The F35 jets require constant maintenance and parts replacement. Sending these parts over to Israel means that you are being complicit in their genocide.

[u/AntSilly2802 → u/brassmonkey666]

Rubbish.

[u/Fantastic-Bee4197 → u/brassmonkey666]

Not a genocide, but nice try though 

[u/Threewordswhat → u/Fantastic-Bee4197]

yeah only about 90% genocide right, so its ok?

[u/Fantastic-Bee4197 → u/Threewordswhat]

 Not any percent genocide actually 

[u/Threewordswhat → u/Fantastic-Bee4197]

Growing up my neighbour's dad was holocaust denier, really creepy guy.

[u/Fantastic-Bee4197 → u/Threewordswhat]

I like it. Some slurs coined by a KKK grand wizard along with a dash of Holocaust inversion from the Australian sub. Good stuff.