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Britain Hangs Out Welcome Sign to Israeli War
Criminals
By Stuart Littlewood
Redress, Al-Jazeerah, CCUN, October 25, 2010
Stuart Littlewood
views the efforts of Israel’s stooges at the heart of the British
government, William Hague and the Conservative Friends of Israel, to amend
UK law so that Israeli officials accused of serious war crimes could visit
Britain without fear of prosecution.
”[UK Foreign Secretary William]
Hague's Zionist sympathies visibly ooze from every pore. [Tzipi] Livni
appears to have him eating out of her hand. If Parliament passes his
measures to weaken powers of arrest in order to harbour those wanted for
crimes against humanity, doesn’t that make the whole British nation an
accessory to those crimes?” (Stuart Littlewood)
The UK is to become a safe haven for
Israeli
psychopaths while they continue their brutal military occupation,
colonization and ethnic cleansing of the Holy Land, and carry on bombarding
blockaded Gaza and executing or abducting anyone bringing humanitarian help
That’s the British government’s latest contribution to Middle East
peace.
The Zionist entity's Trojan Horse at the heart of our
government – otherwise known as the Conservative Friends of Israel (FCI) –
held a reception recently attended by our foreign secretary, William Hague.
Hague told the 400 guests:
We have had good
discussions with Israeli ministers on
universal
jurisdiction where the last government left us with an
appalling situation where a politician like Mrs
Livni could be threatened with arrest on coming to the UK...
We have agreed in the coalition about putting it right; we will put
it right through legislation that will be introduced... The justice
secretary will bring into the House of Commons adding to legislation
going through the House of Commons later this year and I phoned Mrs
Livni amongst others to tell her about that and received a very warm
welcome for our proposals.
“Who can forget that Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former foreign
minister, was largely responsible for the terror that
brought unspeakable death and destruction to Gaza's
civilians nearly two years ago?”
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Who can forget that
Tzipi
Livni, Israel’s former foreign minister, was largely responsible for the
terror that brought unspeakable death and destruction to Gaza's civilians
nearly two years ago?
And who’d have believed a British government
minister would undermine our justice system in order to make the UK a safe
haven for the likes of her?
Showing no remorse and with the blood of
1,400 dead Gazans (including 320 children and 109 women) on her hands, and
thousands more horribly maimed, Livni’s office issued a statement saying she
was proud of Operation Cast Lead (the murderous blitz she had unleashed).
And speaking later at a conference at Tel Aviv's Institute for Security
Studies, she said: "I would today take the same decisions."
Few of us
would want to touch such a person with a barge-pole. But Hague is so smitten
that he said it was "completely unacceptable" that someone like
Tzipi
Livni felt she couldn't visit the UK. "We cannot have a position
where Israeli politicians feel they cannot visit this country. The situation
is unsatisfactory [and] indefensible. It is absolutely my intention to act
speedily," Hague said.
He even tried to make
Livni's monstrous crime look good by claiming, as reported on the CFI
website, that "the immediate trigger for this crisis [the war on Gaza] was
the barrage of hundreds of rocket attacks against Israel on the expiry of
the ceasefire or truce". It is well known that the ceasefire didn't expire.
It was deliberately breached by an Israeli raid into Gaza that killed
several Palestinians with the intention of deliberately provoking a response
that would re-ignite the violence and provide an excuse to launch Operation
Cast Lead, which the Israelis had been preparing for months.
The
foreign secretary concluded his talk to the CFI by encouraging stronger
business links between Israel and Britain and saying he intended to visit
Israel in coming weeks.
“No doubt the media will soon be sprouting propaganda
photos of Hague and Lieberman triumphantly shaking hands,
smirking, embracing and doing whatever else two crazies do
when they get together.”
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One of the delights awaiting Hague is a meeting with his opposite number,
Avigdor Lieberman, who lives in an illegal squat on stolen Palestinian
land and is a wanted criminal on that score alone. He is also pushing for
1.3 million Arabs currently living in Israel to be stripped of citizenship
and forcibly transferred outside Israel's future borders.
To that end Israel's military and civil authorities have just finished an
exercise rehearsing a crushing response to the riots this latest “ethnic
cleansing” programme will inevitably cause.
Few individuals are more
obnoxious than former club bouncer Lieberman, who is a convicted
child-beater and described even in Israel as "a virulent racist" and "a
certified gangster". He is also reported to be under investigation for
corruption. All the same, Hague wants him freely walking the streets of
London with
Livni.
No doubt the media will soon be sprouting propaganda photos of Hague and
Lieberman triumphantly shaking hands, smirking, embracing and doing whatever
else two crazies do when they get together.
A masterclass in grovelling
The " universal
jurisdiction" fuss flared up again last year after Israeli top
brass, including
Ehud Barak,
Livni and retired general
Doron Almog, cancelled engagements in London for fear of being arrested.
Israel complained bitterly. The then British foreign secretary,
David Miliband, apologized and, according to a press report, “promised
Lieberman to begin working immediately to change the UK laws that enable the
issue of arrest warrants against Israeli officials accused of war crimes”.
Outraged members of the public were immediately asking who
Miliband thought he was, grovelling in their name to Israeli thugs who had
the temerity to whinge about the perfectly proper operation of British law,
especially when the warrants were issued to answer well-founded charges.
Under universal jurisdiction all states that are party to the
Geneva
Conventions are under a binding obligation to seek out those
suspected of having committed grave breaches of the Conventions and bring
them, regardless of nationality, to justice. There should be no hiding place
for those suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Applications
can be made to a court for private arrest warrants, and this has been
happening because the government itself shirks its duty under the 1949
Fourth
Geneva Convention and drags its feet until the bird has flown.
Livni bleated: "It's about the entire State of Israel and our ability to
go on working together against common threats."
The
threats Israel faces are caused by its racist expansion, land theft, general
lawlessness and hateful attitude towards its neighbours, and by the
nuclear threat Israel itself poses to others in the region and the
Islamic world generally. To suggest we have anything in common is an insult.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's office butted in with this
arrogant statement: "We will not agree to a situation in which [former Prime
Minister]
Ehud Olmert, [Defense Minister]
Ehud Barak and [opposition leader and former Foreign Minister]
Tzipi Livni will be summoned to the bench. We utterly reject the
absurdity that is happening in Britain."
And the
Israeli ambassador in London,
Ron Prosor, had the cheek to chastise the British foreign secretary,
telling him it was time the British government took action.
Miliband obligingly called the warrants intolerable and said he
had asked Prime Minister
Gordon Brown and Justice Minister Jack Straw to find an urgent solution.
Dancing to Tel Aviv’s tune
“If Israel wants talks in London they send people with
clean hands. There should be no concessions, anyway, to a
regime that shows such contempt for international law and
normal codes of conduct.”
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The solution is simple enough. If Israel wants talks in London they send
people with clean hands. There should be no concessions, anyway, to a regime
that shows such contempt for international law and normal codes of conduct.
Instead Brown, a
patron of the Jewish National Fund, said
Livni
was "most welcome in Britain any time", and our Ministers of the Crown are
dancing to Tel Aviv’s tune. No moves were made by Labour in their last days
in office, but it seems the incoming Conservatives and their
Liberal-Democrat partners are planning to put the director of public
prosecutions in charge of issuing arrest warrants. This turns what should be
a strictly judicial process into a political one that keeps any warmongering
child-killer our ministers happen to admire out of the clutches of the UK’s
courts.
William Hague was recruited into the Conservative Friends of
Israel at the worryingly tender age of 15.
In 2007, while shadow
foreign secretary, he said: "We will always have strong economic and
political ties with Israel. We will always be a friend of Israel."
In
2008 he declared:
The unbroken thread of Conservative Party support for Israel that has
run for nearly a century from the Balfour Declaration to the present day
will continue. Although it will no doubt often be tested in the years
ahead, it will remain constant, unbroken, and undiminished by the
passage of time.
Hague told the
Jewish Chronicle in an interview: "We don't approve of
expanding settlements on the West Bank and East Jerusalem because it makes
the two-state solution more difficult." Not because it’s a barbaric crime to
dispossess Arabs of their lands, homes and livelihoods – he doesn’t approve
because it's a bit awkward politically.
"I've travelled across the
country,” he continued. “I've stood on the Golan Heights and swam in the Sea
of Galilee. I've stood on the part of the West Bank where you can see the
Mediterranean, where you really understand Israel's strategic fragility."
If he had stood in the rubble of Gaza and seen the devastation to homes
and infrastructure and visited the shattered schools and hospitals there –
if he had stood in Bethlehem, imprisoned on all sides by the evil separation
wall, and made his way on foot with Palestinian workers (those with permits)
through the sinister steel barriers and holding pens of the Israeli
checkpoint – a process that can take hours – before beginning the journey to
Jerusalem, he might have understood how the Israeli jackboot chokes the life
out of the Palestinian people.
Hague's Zionist sympathies visibly
ooze from every pore.
Livni
appears to have him eating out of her hand. If Parliament passes his
measures to weaken powers of arrest in order to harbour those wanted for
crimes against humanity, doesn’t that make the whole British nation an
accessory to those crimes?
And before MPs approve such measures they
should reflect on how it would be the lowest thing they could do.
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