Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Britain Shows What Side Its On

If ever there was any evidence needed of which way the wind is blowing in the UK then surely it was the fact that a UK court issued an arrest warrant against the Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.

Pro-Palestinian campaigners have attempted in the past to have Israeli officials arrested under the principle of universal jurisdiction which allows 'war criminals' to be arrested anywhere.
  • October 2009: Former military chief Moshe Yaalon cancelled a UK visit because of the threat of arrest.
  • October 2009: Filed attempt to raise warrant against Defence Minister Ehud Barak. Court ruled he had diplomatic immunity (strangely this reasoning apparently doesn't apply to Foreign Minister Livni?).
  • September 2005: Arrest warrant issued for a former head of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip Gen Doron Almog. He got warning before disembarking from an aircraft at Heathrow Airport, and he never left the plane and flew back to Israel.
Obviously the activities of Hamas or the PLO, or the Sudanese President don't count as criminals in the same sense.

Allegedly many Senior Israeli figures are warning of what they see as an increasing anti-Israeli (or Pro Islamic) bent in the British establishment.

This follows a similar decision earlier in the year when the UK government tried to block a Dutch MP entering the country because of his views on the dangers of radical Islam, which didn't match those of the UK government i.e. such as Lord Ahmed, a Labour Peer who was the main complainant.

Geert Wilders was eventually let in to the UK, but with much ill grace from the Government, and hounded by protesters who would surely have been arrested if they had been from a different background.

However there appears to be something of a trend developing despite a history of Pro Israeli support from British Politicians in the past, but according to Dr. Zvi Shtauber (Israeli ambassador in London 2001-2004) this support is changing.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous5 January 2022 at 17:37

    Lord Ahmed has been convicted of rape and sexual assault committed in the 1970's. He finally resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020, before he could be expelled/stripped of his title. His older brothers Mohammed Farouq, 71, and Mohammed Tariq, 65, managed to convince the courts that they were unfit to stand trial, despite facing charges of indecent assault against the same boy abused by Lord Ahmed. However despite not facing a criminal trial, the jurors concluded that they did commit the alleged acts after hearing evidence in the case.

    This paedophile has managed to influence policies in the UK to favour Muslim sensibilities over those of European culture. Are we going to review all those earler interferences he made? Are the Labour party going to apologise for promoting him to the lords despite the fact that his behaviours should have set off alarm bells well before he was elevated to the lords?

    As has been said by you on a number of posts - we reap what we sow.

    The BBC story here

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    1. No PC6 January 2022 at 08:13

      Thanks for the post(s) on this story. Saved me some work updating those posts! Actually this story was pretty well buried under regional news by the BBC which is strange considering that his numerous claims of racism /anti-Islam /Islamophobia etc always were main news for the BBC in the past.

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