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Israeli War-Crimes Punishable by U.K. Laws

kl | 30.01.2009 13:22 | Palestine | World

Several countries (Britain is another) have assumed the right of universal jurisdiction. The general rule is that a country's laws apply only to that country, but international law does not forbid a country to assert its authority over acts committed outside its borders

Though the (Israel) government has promised to provide Israel Defense Forces soldiers with legal defense, practically speaking this does nothing to solve the problem.

The moment an Israeli soldier whose identity is known finds himself on the soil of a country that claims universal jurisdiction, (i.e. the UK) a writ can be issued that would lead to his arrest and perhaps even his trial.





 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1060132.html

kl
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The US and the UK did even worse in Iraq

30.01.2009 17:55

so they should be targetted as well.

Brown and Miliband have more arab blood on their hands than the israelis, as they voted for it and subsequently proclaimed when in office that they would have gone themselves at Iraq even if they had known he had no WMDs. (They knew he hadn't any of course)

Sort of problematic in many ways isnt'it ?

Bubblegum

Not a Defense !

04.02.2009 22:16

Sort of problematic ? Not really, try them all! You commit a war-crime, you pay. That other countries commited war-crimes doesn't make you innocent; ........it just means you're as guilty as they are.

(and as it was the Israel lobby which pushed for the invasion of Iraq, I guess, they should be implicated in those war-crimes too).

j