UK spreads red carpet for Tzipi Livni
Press TV – October 4, 2011
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is to visit Britain, after the British government, motivated by Israel, made reforms in a law on issuing arrest warrants for war criminals.
Livni, who cancelled a visit to Britain in 2009 fearing arrest over crimes committed during Gaza war, will travel to the UK on Thursday, and will meet Foreign Secretary William Hague to discuss bilateral relations between UK and Israel.
A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed the news, saying, “We can confirm Tzipi Livni intends to visit the UK this week. As leader of the Israeli opposition she will have a number of meetings, including with the Foreign Secretary to discuss UK Israel relations and recent events in the region.”
Since 2001, UK’s universal jurisdiction law has given the power to British courts to prosecute suspected war criminals and torturers, even if their crimes took place in another country. The principle of the law goes back to the belief that some crimes including genocide, torture and hostage-taking must be fought wherever the criminal can be arrested.
Last month, the British government that was under constant pressure from Israel, announced a legal reform to make it harder for anti-war campaigners to get arrest warrants against those who are suspected of committing human rights abuses in other countries.
Human rights activists have condemned the government for turning a blind eye to the tyrants and torturers and their human rights violations. Amnesty International accused the government of giving war criminals a “free ticket to escape the law.”
Several other Israeli officials were affected by the former British law, including Israeli Minister for Military Affairs Ehud Barak, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor and Brigadier-General Avi Benayahu, who came to Britain under a fake identity this year.
In 2007, Israeli public security minister Avi Dichter was forced to refuse an invitation from British officials after being informed he would be detained for his part in the assassination of a Hamas leader, killing 14 people, including nine children.
Speaking at a Conservative Friends of Israel meeting, director Stuart Polak insisted that Livni always wanted to come to Britain once the British officials provided change to the law and prevent her from being arrested by pro-Palestinian activists.
He added that she could now visit Britain under the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act, which was assented last month.
“It has been a blot on the landscape of the relations of the UK and Israel which is why David Cameron and William Hague said in opposition that it should be rectified, which is what they have done,” Polak said.
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The red carpet should lead right into a prison cell where she belongs for the rest of her stinking rotten life.
This Zionist scumbag is given the royal treatment while Palestinians are getting slaughtered….Shame on the British Zionist infested Government.
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Why no mention of the Queen? She was an integral part of this, no doubt on Evil-Lyn Rothschild’s orders. Clearly shows how deep the infestation runs in ZATO countries. People are dying by the minute for the sake of this entity of Zionism and the global banking structure it fronts for… UK government grants more rights to foreigners, while removing them from their own citizens. The people will not be returned to serfdom, which is clearly Cameron and Hague’s agreement with their masters.
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I like that ZATO stuff. pretty appropriate. Zioturd Asshattic Traitors Oligarchy?
of course The inbred skank queen is going to do the ball swirl on Evil Lyn RotznazeChild’s fetid khazar sack, that’s how these frankfurt ghetto scum Bauer got so powerful. if Nathan R. hadn’t been sucking George III’s dick for months, he wouldn’t have been able to hijack the Bank of England so easily.
ZATO has a nice, uh, ring to it! good deal, Rick!
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English subtitles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTS2JOUWMpk&feature=related
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If you had any doubts about WHO controls the govt. in the US and UK, then this article should show you once and for all. These parasites now control all aspects of “mainstream” media and govt. They DO NOT control the internet however. Their media and govt. influence is DECREASING because they are DISGRACED and DISCREDITED.
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yep, they are discredited. they fell on their own sword, none of us had to impale them. Fully 60 or more percent of the populations of the world now ignore altogether the wholly co-opted shill message the MSM outlets are selling.
Net Neutrality stuff is bout to pop in the U.S. soon. It’s my estimate that between DHS and dept of JUST THEM shutting down websites that they don’t like, and the F.C.C. letting the major internet providers censor material, that as the other zionist owned and operated satellites of Rothschilds get on board with this, that in a few short months, the
internet will have been so filtered and roped in that only some form of unusual circumvention of these censorship methods will save it. my guess is that internet commerce is so important to the money grubbers that they are loathe to turn the web off altogether as it makes money for them. but in time, the WWW will just more or less be the Worldwide Shoppers Network and not much more.
but the damage to their credibility has been done. these scum know that globally, nobody believes their lies any longer, except maybe a small percentage of idiots who are just unreachable to reason and logic and critical thinking kinds of
issues.
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