Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 3:12PM Gilad AtzmonIn response to the inevitable question about the universal jurisdiction law which has prevented various Israeli dignitaries from visiting the UK for fear of arrest, Gould said: "We got ourselves into a bit of a mess because of a legal anomaly that needs to be fixed. A legal amendment to the law has been introduced, he said, and is working its way through the parliamentary process. "All three major political parties support the change." Gould was confident that the amendment would pass into law "in months not years."
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/37963/interview-matthew-gould-ambassador-israel
to Israel refers of course to our Geneva Conventions Act 1957. He confirms, if we did not knowit, that an amendment is being pressed in the Mother of Parliaments in response to requests from Tel Aviv. He did not have the courage to say that the threatened arrests of Israeli leaders came directly out of their criminal actions. It is normal and principled is it not for nations to uphold their laws rather than finding ways of accomodating the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes? But we see that Mr Gould is consistent in bending his knee before criminals.
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