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Israel slams general arrest bid

BBC | 15.09.2005 17:26

This sounds like a veiled threat by Israel against British troops. If Israel does not want its leaders tried for war crimes, they should stop committing war crimes.

Recently, Zionist hardliners have issued similar warnings to Americans because of the pressure they've been applying for further "disengagement".

I find the Zionists' decades-long War against the Palestinian People "an outrage", and take a very grave view of these war crimes.

Israel slams general arrest bid

Silvan Shalom said the attempted arrest was an "outrage"
Israeli foreign minister Silvan Shalom has condemned a UK attempt to arrest a former Gaza Strip military commander for alleged war crimes as an "outrage".

Major General Doron Almog escaped detention at Heathrow airport on Sunday after an Israeli official warned him he was facing arrest and should fly home.

Lawyers said an arrest warrant had been issued over allegations he ordered the destruction of civilian homes in Gaza.

Mr Shalom said his government would raise the matter with UK PM Tony Blair.

Britain is one of several European countries which allows investigations of alleged war crimes involving foreign nationals if the suspect's own country is unwilling or unable to act.

Mr Shalom said: "The fact that Israeli soldiers and high-ranking officials are prevented from entering European countries is an outrage.

"We take a grave view of this. Don't forget that Britain has troops in Iraq. What will it do if other countries decide that British officers and soldiers committed war crimes in Iraq?

"Will they consent to having them arrested in other countries? I think it should change at once."

Bulldozers

Maj Gen Almog said he had arrived at Heathrow with his wife for a three-day visit to raise money for a centre in Israel for brain-damaged children.

He said the attempted arrest showed any Israeli officer could now be arrested in Britain simply for having performed their duty.

"They could do this tomorrow to any officer who has served in the Israeli army over the past five years and has fought the hard fight against terror."

The warrant related to the bulldozing of more than 50 houses in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, when Maj Gen Almog was head of Israel's Southern Command.

It was seen as retaliation for an assault by Islamic militants on an Israeli Army post that left four soldiers dead.

BBC correspondent Chris Morris says his attempted arrest has caused shock and dismay in Israel.

But he says human rights groups and London-based lawyers representing the alleged Palestinian victims are also angry and have called for an investigation into how information about plans to arrest the general were leaked to Israeli officials.

Maj Gen Almog says Israel's military attaché in London boarded the plane at Heathrow to tip him off and advise him to return home.

Lawyers involved in the case say this action went beyond the acceptable limits of diplomatic activity.

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are the jails of the world big enough for all the Israeli war-criminals?

15.09.2005 21:48

Can you imagine how many people in the UK government, police force, and CPS rushed to be the first to warn this jewish terrorist of his impending arrest? If you stood them on the streets of London, there'd be enough to run a marathon.

Question, how many jewish terrorists or suspected jewish terrorists are in the prisons of Europe, the UK, or the US? Try round about ZERO. In Israel, the racist policies of the state define a terrorist as ALWAYS non-jewish. Thus, the recent butcherings of Palestinians on their bus, and after being transported from work, were counted as insignificant crimes, because RACIST Israel says that jews CAN NEVER be terrorists (don't believe me- go google it)!

Of course we've seen this idea of the state using 'race' to define criminality before, and that state was NAZI GERMANY. Know the pupil by their willing choice of tutor!

Anyway, this knife can cut the other way too. A very recent story has the racist leaders of Canada proudly declaring that they won't allow Muslims that agree, to use Islamic religious law to settle SOME family disputes, in special courts. Ah, I feel the fools at my throat round about now- for what I didn't yet say is that CHRISTIANS, and especially JEWS have been allowed to do precisely this for years in Canada (using their own traditions). It was only when the muslims asked for the same privilege that the racist leaders of Canada screamed abuse at the muslims, and promised to amend the law to make this impossible! Now personally I'm all for religion being kept out of EVERYTHING except the CONSENTING minds of individual adults. However, the action of Canada was not secular, but racist.

Anyway, back to the terrorists of Israel. They threatened in return to have members of the British Army arrested for war-crimes. Damn, if this is not the perfect definition of an EMPTY THREAT. After all, Sharon could not be happier with the progress made by his best buddy Blair, and must wonder how anybody in Israel could be stupid enough to not understand why Blair is currently paying lip service to his (very temporary) 'what is good for the goose...' policy.

However, if anti-Blair forces were on the ball, they would draw up a comprehensive list of people worthy of arrest for crimes against humanity. It would only be a thorn in his side, but publicising each named war-criminal would hurt the reputation of Blair's friends, and by association, him.



twilight


How is this guy our problem?

16.09.2005 00:54

I don't particularly care about the Israel-Palestine conflict so I don't see why we should get involved in all this. Arresting this guy would just have resulted in an expensive show trail, appeals, ect. I think we should just be neutral in the whole thing. Their struggle, their problem.

Humpty Dumpty


UK will never arrest an Israeli general

16.09.2005 12:49

If the UK ever arrests an Israeli general they will open the door for their own generals to be arrested for fighting an illegal war and genocide.

All that is bollocks, this country does not have moral authority to put Israel on trial, clean your own backyard first.

Ross


Palestinian War criminals

16.09.2005 13:37

When will the leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Alaksa Murderers Brigade, Tanzim, Fatah, PFLP, PLP PLO PA etc ad nauseum go on trial for their crimes against humanity?
Answer: Never, they're the darlings of the left, and their moslem friends in the UK.

Ali ibn Sharmootah


Concerned

16.09.2005 13:45

Can the moderator kindly remove 'Twilight's posts, each one has been shockingly racist.

I notice that there has been no condemnation of the burning of synagogues.

If Twilight really wishes to arrest all Israelis, that would be 5 million jews arrested, putting him a close second to Hitler.

It is also strange that the Arab leaders of the Janjiweed malitia have not been subject to arrest warrants, nor have leaders of the Chinese military who have committed grave crimes in Tibet, Russian military leaders have not been threatened with arrest following bulldozing of homes in the Chechen region and no warrants were put out for Jordanian officers involved in the slaughter of 20,000 palestinians .

What do all these military leaders have in common which stopped them being arrested for henious crimes wheras the Israeli Maj. Gen. was to be arrested?

The duplicity of these actions is demonstrative of the special treatment given to Israeli people; criticism not received by others involved in far worse practices; there is only one reason for this.

It is an obsession with jews shared by the extreme left and right and one which is all to often put forward by vicious racists such as Twilight and FTP.

Jewish and Proud


condemnation.......

16.09.2005 14:54

"I notice that there has been no condemnation of the burning of synagogues."

Firstly, judging by Israel's response to condemnation - it would be pointless.

Secondly - they were no longer synagogues

"As the settlers left their homes last month, they took the Torah scrolls from the synagogues, as well as prayer books and other holy items, symbolizing the end of the use of the buildings as houses of prayer." ( http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=5388)

The Israeli Cabinet reversed its decision to destroy them itself - and however much you want to act aggrieved about it - they should not have been built on other peoples land against their will and without their permission - why should Palestinians live with these stark reminders of a racist and brutal military and civilian occupation of their lands. The Geneva Convention specifically forbids the transfer of the occupiers civiulians onto occupied land.

Feel free to condemn frequent attacks by the Israeli army on West Bank mosques anytime you feel like it though.

"If Twilight really wishes to arrest all Israelis, that would be 5 million jews arrested, putting him a close second to Hitler."

What Twilight actually said was: "However, if anti-Blair forces were on the ball, they would draw up a comprehensive list of people worthy of arrest for crimes against humanity."

Its your own interpretation that 5 million Israeli Jews meet that criteria. Its your racism that doesn't allow you to see that there are war criminals in Israel who never were, are not now and never will be Jewish.

So, when an IMC volunteer hides Twilights posts, in the interest of fairness they need to hide your rancid racist tosh at the same time.



What difference does it make?


So Don't Commit War Crimes

16.09.2005 20:05

There must be something substantive behind the charges if they were enough to send this man back to where he came from, without even exiting the plane.

Funny how Israelis always seem to receive warnings ...

Arrest Bliar For War Crimes


The destruction of Holy places

17.09.2005 12:24

"A few hours after my first request for information on the fate of abandoned mosques, Hilmi, a member of a non-profit group affiliated with the northern faction of the Islamic Movement which keeps track of abandoned mosques faxed over seven handwritten pages, which included two lists. One list, with 34 names, enumerates mosques that now serve a different purpose: most were turned into synagogues or museums, a few became residences or storerooms, at least two are cafes, and one became a cowshed.

The second list, 39 names, catalogs abandoned mosques to which access has been cut off. "A partial list," Hilmi wrote. He also noted that it did not take into account the mosques and Muslim houses of prayer destroyed since 1948.

How many were destroyed? Twelve hundred, Hilmi writes. Evidently, he is exaggerating the number, but clearly the real figure is in the hundreds, considering the fact that about 600 villages were expelled or chased off or abandoned in 1948."

"Sami Abu-Shehada, a political activist from Jaffa, disagrees with Jacobson. In his opinion, the mosques should have been preserved as is converting them into cafes or synagogues is the same thing. But whatever Israel did to mosques, says Abu Shehada, does not justify what the Palestinians did to the synagogues in Gush Katif. Sheikh Ahmed Abu Ajawa, another resident of Jaffa, voices the same sentiments. You have to look at what was done to mosques in Israel since 1948, you have to remember that the synagogues in Gush Katif "were built on occupied land," and nevertheless, it was forbidden to burn them."


 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/625854.html





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