Saturday November 6, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

There are changes taking place in the very important strategic summit scheduled to be held between Israel and the United Kingdom.

First, the summit was postponed. Now the location has been changed. The summit was supposed to take place in England and it will now take place in Israel.

The reason is that British law has incorporated the "universal jurisdiction law" that permits British courts to arrest, charge and place on trial human rights violatorswho can then be tried in England.

Most recently, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor was forced to change plans regarding a trip to England after being warned that once there, he was going to be arrested. Earlier in the year, Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak scoffed at the threats and made his official trip anyway.

There have been cases when retired Israeli generals were advised to remain on their ELAL plane because arrest warrants were in the hands of British police waiting in the airport them to disembark.

England has promised to rescind this law in parliament ... but they have not. If the law is not rescinded and rescinded soon diplomatic tensions will boil over. The diplomatic pot is bubbling.

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