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'Miliband: "... arrest warrant is insufferable ... & Britain would no longer tolerate legal harassment of Israeli officials.."
In the WSJ, here "Israel reacted angrily Tuesday to an arrest warrant issued by a local British court for opposition leader Tzipi Livni, threatening to reduce London's role in Mideast peace talks...
Israel called for "immediate" action from the U.K. to block plaintiffs from using the British legal system to put its leaders on trial for actions in the Palestinian territories. Ms. Livni is the fourth senior Israeli official since 2004 that pro-Palestinian activists have sought to detain using British courts.....
Israeli officials threatened to boycott any further British role in that dialogue. "If Israeli leaders cannot visit Britain in a proper, dignified fashion, this will, quite naturally, seriously compromise Britain's ability to play the active role in the Middle East peace process that it desires,'' the Foreign Ministry said in its statement..........Livni was part of the troika of Israeli ministers who oversaw Operation "Cast Lead," the military offensive in Gaza. Israel said the action was in response to repeated militant rocket fire against southern Israel. More than 1,000 Palestinians died in the operation..."
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WANTED: Israeli war crime ministers
Posted on December 16, 2009 by Antievil
FIGHT ISRAHELL!
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