Once again, IDF officers are victimized by the perversion of justice of the European community, this time in Britain. A delegation of officers which was supposed to travel to the UK last week was canceled after diplomatic officials were unable to determine with absolute certainty that they would not be arrested after landing.
Recently, opposition leader Tzipi Livni, who served as foreign minister during Operation Cast Lead, was compelled to cancel her state visit after a court in London issued an arrest warrant for her, as was reported by YWN-Israel.
Once again, diplomatic officials in Jerusalem responded harshly, seeking to label IDF officers as war criminals, and despite recent assurances from high-level UK diplomats following the Livni affair, Israel is now addressing a repeat of the same distasteful and unacceptable situation.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon warned that the inability of Israeli officials to travel to Britain would negatively impact the good relations that exist between the countries today.
In a related matter, Britain’s Attorney General, Baroness Patricia Janet Scotland is visiting Jerusalem and she is planning to meet with Justice Minister Prof. Yaakov Neeman. They will discuss the need to amend British law to prevent such occurrences from occurring in the future.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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I have never yet heard of Palestinian terrorists being arrested anywhere in the world.As Rashi says just a few parshios ago: Halachah hi biyedu’ah she’Aisav soneh liYaakov.
I don’t think the British will amend the law. Anti-Semitism in Great Britain goes all the way back to Richard the Lionhearted. The law won’t be changed until Moshiach comes.
Britain is on the verge of a general election and in the grip of deep recession, I live here, this has nothing to do with British antisemitism and everything to do with Palestinian proactivism and manipulating the law of the land to attack Israel. this has now been coined as “lawfare” the only response is to organise in kind against palestinians and israels detractors using the same tools, this will stop this action
Israel shall inform the UK that it will arrest Two of its hight levels for each Israeli arrested,
and will see how they like that.