Israeli PM’s Military Adviser Avoids UK Visit Fearing Islamo-Left Lawfare Arrest
Israeli PM's military adviser Yohanan Locker, who did not accompany Netanyahu on his recent YK visit for fear of arrest by 'Universal Jurisdiction' Lawfare loons
Why has the no-longer new British coalition government not acted sooner to fulfil its promise to end the lawfare loophole which allows assorted Islamo-Left subversives to arrest Israeli officials on Britsh soil?
Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu’s military adviser, Maj.-Gen. Yohanan Locker, avoids UK for fear of arrest over Operation Cast Lead war crimes allegations.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s military secretary, Maj.-Gen. Yohanan Locker, did not accompany the prime minister on his trip to London for fear he might be arrested, Channel 1 reported on Wednesday evening.
Locker is a permanent member of Netanyahu’s entourage, but he was warned that since the British law on universal jurisdiction had not yet been changed, he might be detained upon landing in the UK over allegations of war crimes that human rights groups have accused Israel of committing during Operation Cast Lead.
Locker was deputy head of the Israel Air Force during the Gaza offensive two years ago.
In the past, several Israeli officials canceled visits to the UK after being advised by the Foreign Ministry that pro-Palestinian NGOs planned to take advantage of British law to arrest them when they set foot in the country.
In December 2009, an arrest warrant was issued for opposition leader Tzipi Livni. She served as foreign minister in the Kadima-led government that initiated the operation.
At the time, British foreign secretary David Miliband called her and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and according to a statement put out by Livni’s office, expressed “shock” at the warrant, and promised to work immediately to ensure that a similar occurrence would not happen in the future against any Israeli official.
“The procedure by which arrest warrants can be sought and issued – without any prior knowledge or advice by a prosecutor – is an unusual feature of the system in England and Wales,” Miliband said in a statement.
“The government is looking urgently at ways in which the UK system might be changed in order to avoid this sort of situation arising again.”
The Labor government, in which Miliband served, did not change the law. In July last year, two months after the current British government took power, Israeli diplomatic officials lauded its announcement of plans to amend it.
UK officials said the government of Prime Minister David Cameron was moving on the issue, whereas the previous Labor government provided empty rhetoric.
The British government said the planned change to the law was designed to stop “possible abuse by people trying to obtain arrest warrants for grave crimes, on the basis of flimsy evidence to make a political statement, or to cause embarrassment.”
As of Wednesday – a full 10 months after the Conservatives’ proclamations – Locker, an integral member in Netanyahu’s circle of advisers, still preferred to remain in Israel rather than risk arrest in London.
To to be fair, the UK Government is at last beginning to dismantle this absurd and onerous legal loophole, which, as we reported in 2009, this isn’t the first time Israeli officials have been forced to stay away from official visits to Britain due to the lunatic politico-legal concept of Universal Jurisdiction – whereby states claim criminal jurisdiction over people whose alleged crimes were committed outside the prosecuting state regardless of nationality, country of residence, or any other relationship with it.
But they’re taking their time about it.
And once again, it is the ‘usual suspects’ of the Islamo-Left ‘Boycott Israel’ brigade are making trouble for the Israelis.
The Left has a long and undistinguished history of Jew hatred –and UJ is providing them with another tool with which to promote their intolerance and hate.
David Cameron and William Hague, the Foreign Minister have already made appallingly ignorant statements and veiled threats against Israel vis-a-vis the ‘Palestinians’ – and now they appear to be dragging their feet on the abuse of the law by anti-semitic lefties and Islamists.
Israel, the only democratic state in the Middle East (and the only one that applies western standards to the principles of equality and human rights) should wash her hands of the Britain that has been created by the LibLabCon political élite.
Shameful.
[Source: Jerusalem Post]
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England is a terrible place now, thanks to the suicidal islamocoddling the English engage in. It seems that the only English in that whole country who have any guts or brains are the EDL. But with Obama in office, there’s a good chance this idiocy will become an American phenomenon too.
Hey, didn’t some lunatic in the UK try to use that stupid law to have President Bush arrested too? I think he actually ended up canceling a planned visit.
Zilla – you are absolutely correct in stating that the EDL are the only Brits left with guts or brains. Far too much appeasement – too much Chamberlain and not enough Churchill.
‘Appeasement reflect the hope that the crocodile will eat you last.’ – Winston Churchill
Not enough UK citizens support Israel. Too many read the Israeli-bashing Guardian.
Not me, though! I’ve seen the error of my lefty ways. Israel all the way!
Welcome to reality, Scampi, every person who wakes from leftist induced slumber is welcome & needed!
It’s time to stand up for national sovereignty, If the British try and arrest a member of an Israeli diplomatic delegation that is an act of WAR . It’s time to make it clear to the British that Israeli diplomats have armed protection and such a terrorist actions will be answered in kind, that is Israeli diplomats have diplomatic immunity and any attack on their person , will be met with force. It is Britain not Israel that is a 3rd world country and the UK should be treat as such
The world is mad and becoming proudly madder. Future generations will scratch their heads in disbelief.