woensdag 27 oktober 2010

Israel as a Rogue State 137

New York Times

October 26, 2010


Israeli Official Cancels Spain Trip, Fears Arrest


Filed at 12:16 p.m. ET

JERUSALEM (AP) - An aide to Israel's former internal security chief says
his boss has canceled a trip to Spain for fear he could be arrested for
alleged war crimes.

Avi Dichter, now a parliament member, was supposed to head an Israeli
delegation to a peace conference in Spain beginning Thursday.

Dichter faced charges of crimes against humanity in Spain for his role
in a 2002 airstrike that killed a Hamas
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as/index.html?inline=nyt-org
>  commander and 14 civilians in the Gaza
Strip.

The court dropped the suit, but Dichter spokesman Nisan Zeevi said
Tuesday that Spain could not guarantee Dichter would not be arrested.

Pro-Palestinian
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ians/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier
>  lawyers have filed a number of
war crimes charges against Israeli officials in European courts. No
cases have gone ahead, but officials have canceled trips for fear of
arrest.

1 opmerking:

Sonja zei

Het 'persbureau' Novum/AP is zo achterlijk dat het meent dat Kahane nog leeft.

"De extremisten zijn aanhangers van Meir Kahane, een in de Verenigde Staten geboren rabbijn die preekt dat de Palestijnen uit Israël en de Westelijke Jordaanoever moeten worden gezet."

Peter Flik en Chuck Berry-Promised Land

mijn unieke collega Peter Flik, die de vrijzinnig protestantse radio omroep de VPRO maakte is niet meer. ik koester duizenden herinneringen ...