MK (Machane Tzioni) Tzipi Livni traveled to London where she was attending the Haaretz Conference. Livni was summoned by local police in connection with ‘war crimes’ allegations against her by pro-Palestinians. However, following diplomatic intervention, she was not required to report to police.
It was Livni who served as Foreign Minister during Operation Cast Lead, an IDF counter-terrorism offensive in Gaza. It is reported in Israel that she flew to London without coordinating her diplomatic immunity with Knesset officials to test the system, and she received a harsh welcome result to that test.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry responded to the request by British Metropolitan Police saying it would have expected “different behavior from such a close ally as the UK”. The Foreign Ministry statement addressed the “abuse” of the legal system as well as “seeking to draw a moral equivalent between those who perpetrate terror and those who fight it”.
It is stressed the former Foreign Minister was summoned to a “voluntary interview” regarding her role in Cast Lead.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Kol hakovod to MK Livne for travelling to the UK without asserting her diplomatic immunity and showing the strength to stand up to these anti-Semitic, anti-Israel fanatics. She could have easily avoided this whole experience but the diplomatic immunity option is not available to thousands of Israeli soldiers, military etc. who could be subject to these “war-crimes” actions.