Monday, October 5, 2009

Vice Premier (Moshe Alon) and ex-IDF chief cancels U.K. visit over arrest fears

"When Ya'alon consulted the Foreign Ministry's legal team, they warned that the groups might ask a British court to order his arrest should he visit Britain. They also opined that despite being a minister, he would not enjoy diplomatic immunity, and therefore, the court might accede.

As a result, Ya'alon informed JNF Britain that he would not be able to attend the dinner."

6 comments:

  1. Her Majesty's Government regrets to announce that, owing to a surfeit of war criminals in its own ranks, it is compelled to refuse entry to war criminals of non-UK citizenship.

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  2. I love how Ha'aretz explains why these guys may be put on trial:

    <span>As chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces in 2002-5, Ya'alon is one of several current and former senior officers whom pro-Palestinian groups have sought to put on trial over the assassination of senior Hamas terrorist Salah Shehadeh in July 2002. The attack also killed 14 civilians. </span>

    The way it is phrased, it says that Palestinian advocates are chiefly concerned with the death of a "terrorist" and that the 14 dead civilians is just some side trivia about the attack...and it is curious one of the victims of the attack is labeled a terrorist with no explaination-but the guys who killed all the civilians in the incident aren't given that label. I wonder why that is.

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  3. Good observation Joe..Clever :)

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  4. They need to be brought to justice -

    THE BOYS FROM ISRAEL AND HARVARD

    http://notinhisname.blogdrive.com/archive/cm-05_cy-2007_m-05_d-17_y-2007_o-0.html

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  5. Loved it Jemmy :)

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