05-10-2009, 05:15 PM
Probably the best place for this.
There's no doubt that the Israeli top brass are nervous about foreign travel. They appear to have managed to get the UN to delay a vote on the Goldstone report but, in spite of furious damage-limitation manoeuvrings by their allies at the UN, the writing IS on the wall. They ARE a bunch of bloody war criminals and time is NOT on their side.
This from Al-Jazeera:
There's no doubt that the Israeli top brass are nervous about foreign travel. They appear to have managed to get the UN to delay a vote on the Goldstone report but, in spite of furious damage-limitation manoeuvrings by their allies at the UN, the writing IS on the wall. They ARE a bunch of bloody war criminals and time is NOT on their side.
This from Al-Jazeera:
Quote: Israel's vice-prime minister has cancelled a planned trip to London over fears that he could be arrested for alleged war crimes, his spokesman has said.Yaalon has form quite apart from his role in the recent Gaza massacre. He has been indicted by both New Zealand and Spanish courts for earlier alleged crimes. Both courts succumbed to the usual pressure - details on my 'Wanted for War Crimes' blog here
Moshe Yaalon called off the trip fearing that pro-Palestinian groups in London might seek his trial for his role in the 2002 deaths of 15 people, including a Hamas leader and eight children.
Yaalon was the military chief-of-staff when an Israeli fighter jet dropped a one-tonne bomb in Gaza City, killing Salah Shehadeh, the head of the armed wing of Hamas, along with his wife.
Israel's foreign ministry advised against the planned trip after it emerged that Yaalon, who is also strategic affairs minister, had been invited to attend a fund-raising dinner hosted by the British branch of the Jewish National Fund.
Last Tuesday Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, dismissed a bid to have him arrested in Britain as "absurd" while attending the governing Labour party's annual conference.
British activists had sought his arrest over Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip in December-January, where more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.
The request was denied on the grounds of diplomatic immunity.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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