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Barak Cancels French Visit for Fear of Arrest Involving Gaza Flotilla Attack

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9 Responses to “Barak Cancels French Visit for Fear of Arrest Involving Gaza Flotilla Attack”

ben says:

June 13, 2010 at 8:19 AM

Israel’s PIETA

http://www.propheticimagery.com/Gaza%20Poem/The%20Cleansing%20of%20CoExistence.htm

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duck says:

June 13, 2010 at 9:16 AM

Israel wants to be ostracised. People here think
the whole world is antisemitic, that israel is so powerful it doesn’t need anyone. This is now the majority, not the lunatic fringe. The day of the massacere people were saying its time we start a ‘gog and magog’ war vs the whole world. Its a nation with paranoid schizophrneia. sad thing is, this country is still standing only because our leaders have chosen responsibility over democracy.

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medawar says:

June 13, 2010 at 11:56 AM

See:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1286220/Mossad-agent-arrested-Hamas-Dubai-murder.html

He is alleged to have abused a procedure allowing relatives of holocaust victims fast-track access to German passports.

Mossad may think this appropriate, not many others will.

Barak, meanwhile, may find that any EU state is equally risky, due to the new European Arrest Warrant. A legal instrument by which someone can be suddenly arrested in England or Denmark, say, and conveyed to Greece to serve a sentence after a second trial which they were never told about. (You can be acquitted, but the prosecution can appeal and the appeal court can convict you, without your own lawyer being told about the appeal hearing until afterwards, let alone being allowed to represent you or challenge whatever “evidence” is put up at the secret retrial. Medawar fears that Israeli government lawyers may drool with envy at this. Until it’s used on someone from their side. And the Greeks were significant contributors to the relief flotilla, so it might be. Medawar doesn’t wish the Greek legal system on anybody, not even Barak, but there’s a sort of natural justice where people reap what they sow…)

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mary says:

June 13, 2010 at 5:44 PM

I would dearly love to see him arrested, convicted and sentenced.

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Syed says:

June 13, 2010 at 8:14 PM

i really want him behind bars
even if this is for 1 day

the shame and humiliation will be worth it

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Medawar says:

June 14, 2010 at 1:42 AM

The Israeli government is trying to bully the Polish government (have you ever tried to bully Poles? it does not work) into sending the arrested man to Israel and not Germany.

The EU arrest warrant system simply does not have a clause in it which allows a government not to extradite the subject to the country which raised the warrant.

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Israel’s Continuing Isolation « بنسبة لنا says:

June 14, 2010 at 6:51 AM

[...] Turkey – Israel’s most strategically important ally in the Middle East. In Europe, Ehud Barak was forced to cancel a trip to France due to the possibility of arrest and in South America, Nicaragua broke diplomatic ties with the Jewish [...]

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PSC Weekly update June 18th 2010 | Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign says:

June 18, 2010 at 11:23 AM

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