ZGram - 11/13/2002 - "The Guardian: Israelis fear war crimes arrests"

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Novewmber 13, 2002

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An item that speaks for itself:

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Israelis Fear War Crimes Arrests

By Chris McGreal In Jerusalem

The Guardian - UK

11-12-2

The Israeli government has ordered an urgent assessment of whether 
its politicians and soldiers could face arrest and trial for war 
crimes while travelling abroad.
 
The move follows a report by the justice ministry that singled out 
Britain, Spain and Belgium as the most likely to prosecute Israeli 
officials who breach international law. But the government fears 
there is a growing trend towards global justice that could see 
Israelis effectively barred from visiting a host of states.
 
"We are building a map of all those countries that might give us a 
headache," said Ra'anan Gissin, spokesman for the Israeli prime 
minister, Ariel Sharon. "They want to arrest Israelis who are 
enforcing the law while the real war criminals, like Saddam Hussein 
and Yasser Arafat, get away scot free."
 
The report was ordered after lawyers presented the cabinet with a 
report commissioned in the wake of a failed legal action in the 
Belgian courts last year accusing Mr Sharon of war crimes over the 
massacres of Palestinians in refugee camps 20 years ago.
 
Last month, Scotland Yard launched an investigation of Israel's new 
defence minister, Lieutenant General Shaul Mofaz, during his short 
visit to Britain.
 
Amnesty International has called on signatories to the Geneva 
conventions to put on trial Israeli soldiers "responsible for war 
crimes" as defined in the Geneva conventions, such as unlawful 
killings, torture and the use of Palestinians as human shields in 
Jenin and Nablus earlier this year.
 
=B7 Binyamin Netanyahu, the new Israeli foreign minister, yesterday 
called for Mr Arafat's removal after a gunman killed five Israelis, 
including a mother and two children, in a kibbutz on Sunday.
 
Guardian Unlimited =A9 Guardian Newspapers Limited 2002

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( Source:  =1Fhttp://www.rense.com/general31/fear.htm )