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Livni threatens British Government.

Pete Shouldy | 15.02.2010 14:30

“Change British law on Israeli war criminals or I will come over there and change it for you”.

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Israeli war criminal Tzipi Livni reportedly indicated on Sunday that she would be willing to travel to the U.K. in order to provoke her own arrest, hoping thus to force the war criminals of the British Government into changing a British law enabling the arrest of visiting war criminals, the London Times reported on Monday.

"The British war criminals [Miliband, Straw and Brown] have obligated themselves to me personally that this war criminal law will be taken care of and fixed," she said. "Now is the time."

Livni reportedly added that getting herself arrested was the only way to "shame" her fellow war criminals in the British government into changing the law giving judges the power to arrest visiting Israeli war criminals.

Israel’s government confirmed late last year that Livni cancelled a planned London trip after her office received news of a secretly issued arrest warrant awaiting her arrival.

Sexual torturer David Miliband later announced that Britain would no longer tolerate legal harassment of Israeli war criminals in this fashion.

Pete Shouldy

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war crimes prosecution

15.02.2010 15:38


while there is currently still a legal means of arresting livni on suspicion of war crimes, the fact is she knows that any prosecution under the International Criminal Court Act requires consent from the politically appointed attorney general .

If the UK govt oppose the idea of such a prosecution, the AGs consent to prosecute livni would then lead to a constitutional crisis in the UK. Livni knows all this and thats why she is not being very brave when she proposes to test the law. She knows the Uk govt and AG can not stop arrests, but will not allow prosecution of an israeli politician. The US would also stop any UK legal action with threats of serious consequences.

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