Israeli Official Won’t Risk U.K. Visit, Fearing Arrest

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Israeli Official Won’t Risk U.K. Visit, Fearing Arrest

The Guardian:

An Israeli cabinet minister has turned down an invitation to visit Britain next month after he was warned he might face arrest on suspicion of war crimes.

Moshe Ya’alon, vice-prime minister and strategic affairs minister, was invited by the Jewish National Fund to an event in London to raise money for a group that supports Israeli lone soldiers – troops who have no family in Israel.

Ya’alon has not visited Britain for several years and turned to the foreign ministry’s legal department for advice. They warned him not to travel for fear he might be arrested over an incident dating back to July 2002, when he was chief of staff of the Israeli military. At that time an Israeli jet bombed a house in Gaza, killing Salah Shehadeh, the then leader of the Hamas military wing. A further 14 civilians, including Shehadeh’s wife and several children, died in the attack.

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By Sodium, December 18, 2009 at 6:06 am Link to this comment
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Bringing all who had murdered innocent Palestinian and Lebanees civilans en mass is the right thing to do. That means all the Zionist leaders since the destructive ideology of Zionism arrived to the shore of Arab Palistine. If some Arabs reciprocated in killing civilan Jews,they also must be brought to justice. No difference. Justice must be respected,no matter who was involved in committing the abhorrent atrocities.

There is NO status of limitations for war crimes and crime against humanity.

If they were still alive,my late mentors,Rabbi Elmer Burger and Rabbi Alfred Lilianthal would be pleased to see the Zionist murderers brought to justic. I am certain of that. They were the most Anti-Zionist ideology I had ever known in my younger years. Period.

More power to the British Justice…..

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By tman, December 16, 2009 at 3:09 pm Link to this comment

Arrest all the war criminal and hang them.

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By DieDaily, December 15, 2009 at 7:13 pm Link to this comment

Wow, if this keeps up, we might be able to bring the remaining 99% of Israeli war criminals to some sort of justice. Fantastic. Then the largely blameless Jews at large can clear up the guilt-by-association damage that their reputations have unfairly sustained.

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