Israeli human rights activists: Arrest Olmert, Livni, and Barak for war crimes

[Scurrilous]

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"Anonymous self-described Israeli human rights activists have set up an Internet site detailing alleged war crimes committed by senior government officials and Israel Defense Forces officers. No known human rights organization is behind the site, whose founders refuse to give their names.

The site, www.wanted.org.il, includes "arrest orders," complete with pictures and personal details, for Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and his two predecessors, Dan Halutz and Moshe Ya'alon, former air force commander Eliezer Shkedy and others. It also explains how to inform the International Criminal Court in The Hague of when the "suspects" are outside Israel, and hence vulnerable to arrest.

The "arrest order" for Barak, for instance, states: "On December 27, 2008, the suspect ordered an aerial assault on all of Gaza's population centers. The assault included hundreds of sorties by fighter jets that dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on residential areas of Gaza, which led to the deaths of 1,200 people - men, women and children. Some 5,300 people were wounded and hundreds of thousands became refugees. On December 10, 2008, a formal complaint was filed against Ehud Barak to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Holland ... on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity because of the siege of Gaza."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057351.html


Link: http://www.wanted.org.il/

[bdamomma]

1. our past criminals should be arrested to for their war crimes too

[Christa]

2. I doubt if it will go anywhere

but it is a great gesture, as they are indeed guilty of war crimes.

If it was any other nation, but Israel ...

[Marrah_G]

3. I wouldn't hold your breath

Just like Bush and Cheney.........there will be no justice.

[Scurrilous]

4. Report: Belgian court petitioned to arrest Livni upon arrival in Brussels

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"European attorneys have reportedly petitioned a Belgian court to arrest Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni upon her arrival in Brussels later Wednesday, according to the Jawalan.com Web Site.

The complaints was apparently lodged on behalf of Belgian and French nationals with relatives who were either wounded or killed in Gaza, and calls for Livni to be arrested for war crimes.

The Foreign Ministry is looking into the report and the Israeli embassy in Brussels has not yet been involved in the matter, sources said.

Belgian law does not actually allow the arrest of a foreign official with high standing, but the matter could bring embarrassment to Israel and may represent the first in a string of lawsuits now being prepared by pro-Palestinian elements around the world."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057485.html

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. This was tried after Lebanon and nothing happened

It fizzled out due to diplomatic immunity and lack of standing. Same will happen here.

*IF* there were some major structural changes to international law, then it could be different