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British Capitulation:

UK Apologizes to Tzipi Livni, Seeks Law Changes, As Brown Welcomes the Israeli War Criminal

Editor's Note:

Once again, we see how NATO governments one after the other capitulate before their Zionist Israeli masters. Like Spanish and Belgian governments before, the British government not only apologized to the Israeli war criminal, Tzipi Livni but it also announced its intent to change its laws in order to prevent future prosecution of Israelis who commit crimes against humanity.

This is the era of the Zionist Empire par excellence, in which corrupt politicians seem as if they govern their nations while in fact they are nothing more than puppets operated and handled by their Zionist masters, who enabled them to reach to their positions.

This is the British Province of the Zionist Empire, which was called one day "Great Britain"!!!

 

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UK Apologizes To Livni

Thursday December 17, 2009 08:41 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Less than 48 hours after the Zionist British Foreign Minister, David Miliband, apologized for the former Israeli Foreign Minister, and the current head of the opposition in Israel, Tzipi Livni, British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, phoned Livni to apologize and promised to act on changing laws regarding allowing the arrest and prosecution of Israeli officials accused of committing war crimes against the Palestinian people.

Brown told Livni that he opposes the British Court order to apprehend her should she travel to the UK, and slammed the judge who issued the order.

Israeli sources reported that Brown promised Livni that he will personally get involved in changing British laws that allow apprehending and persecuting Israeli officials accused of committing war crimes.

He told Livni that she is always welcome in Britain, and that she will be honored and dignified whenever she decides to visit the country.

Livni told Brown that he must act fast on changing British laws and to exclude all possibilities of arresting her and other Israeli officials.

She claimed that Israel is countering terrorism and terrorist organizations, therefore its officials should not be subject to arrest and prosecution.

There are several Israeli military, security and government officials who are facing arrest in Europe as pro-Palestinian organizations and human rights groups filed lawsuits against them for committing war crimes against the Palestinians.

UK Seeks Law Changes As Brown Welcomes Livni In Britain

Wednesday December 16, 2009 17:16 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News & Agencies

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told on Wednesday Israel's opposition leader Tzipi Livni that she is always welcome in UK.

During a phone call Brown voiced his rejection of an arrest warrant issued in Britain against Livni earlier this week.

Arab and Israeli media sources reported Monday that a British court has issued an arrest warrant against former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for her role in orchestrating last winter's offensive against Gaza.

The Israeli war on Gaza which started on December 27th 2008 and lasted till January 17th 2009 claimed the lives of around 1500 Palestinians, and wounded 5000 others, in addition to causing extensive damage to the infrastructure of the coastal region. 16 Israelis were killed, 14 soldiers and 2 civilians, during the war.

On Sunday Livni canceled her participation in a Jewish function in the UK, after receiving information from Scotland Yard that a warrant for her arrest had been issued.

On Tuesday Britain pledged to make changes in the legal powers that allow judges to order the arrest of visiting politicians and generals under terms of universal jurisdiction. This legal concept empowers judges in the UK to issue arrest warrants for visiting officials accused of war crimes in a foreign conflict.

Livni's office dismissed reports that the trip was cancelled over this warrant, adding that Livni spoke to the conference through the video conferencing technology as planned.

Following the January assault on Gaza Palestinian solidarity groups in the UK have been filing lawsuit against Israeli leaders accusing them of war crimes, which would subject any Israeli senior official for arrest in certain European countries.

“Let’s Boycott Britain”, MK's Say

Thursday December 17, 2009 12:31 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

39 Zionist fundamentalist members of Knesset signed a petition calling for boycotting goods and services from the United Kingdom as a response to a recent non-binding decision asking merchants and importers in the county to place a clear mark on products made in Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.


The MK’s said that the petition emerged as “the Israelis want to express their disgust” over the recent UK decision.

Israeli Ynet news was the first to report on the British decision last week, and said that the government issued recommendations to all retail chains to place a clear label marking Jewish settlements products.

The decision includes all products made in West Bank settlement and the Golan Heights as is it a Syrian region occupied by Israel during the 1967 war.

The petition calls on the UK to void its decision without any delays, and that this decision will have a negative impact on the economic cooperation between Israel and the UK.

The MK’s who signed the document claim that boycotting settlement products is a cover-up for a larger boycott of all Israeli goods, not only settlement products.

The Ynet said that the petition was initiated by Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh. She also said that should Britain fail to void its decision, Israel would draft a bill to label all UK products.

She said that the public must counter what she called “the hostile atmosphere in Britain”, and to mobilize for encouraging Israeli products.

Tirosh further contacted the accountant general of Israel’s Finance Ministry requesting Israel not to recognize British public figures who fly to Israel via British Airways.

Political analysts in Israel believe that this petition will further escalate the relations between the country and Britain.



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