If you see this man at the Labour Party conference.
Pete Dunne | 29.09.2009 08:12
Ehud Barak
A group of Palestinian families is attempting to have Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, prosecuted in Britain for alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip, lawyers have told Al Jazeera.
A lawyer working for the families will present their case at a magistrates court in London on Tuesday before British officials decide if it has the jurisdiction to decide the case.
Barak is due in Britain on Tuesday to address a meeting of the Labour Friends of Israel on the sidelines of the ruling party's annual conference. The families hope that an arrest warrant will be issued during his visit.
Michel Massih, the UK-based lawyer taking the case to court, said that he believed that the British government was obliged "to actively pursue people who are alleged to be involved in war crimes".
"One does not need, at this stage, to provide more than a basic prima face case and the suggestion would be that Barak certainly was in a position where he has to answer some of the allegations made about the commission of crimes by Israeli troops," he told Al Jazeera from London.
More than 1,400 Palestinians, at least one-third of them women and children, were killed in Israel's December-January offensive in the Gaza Strip.
A lawyer working for the families will present their case at a magistrates court in London on Tuesday before British officials decide if it has the jurisdiction to decide the case.
Barak is due in Britain on Tuesday to address a meeting of the Labour Friends of Israel on the sidelines of the ruling party's annual conference. The families hope that an arrest warrant will be issued during his visit.
Michel Massih, the UK-based lawyer taking the case to court, said that he believed that the British government was obliged "to actively pursue people who are alleged to be involved in war crimes".
"One does not need, at this stage, to provide more than a basic prima face case and the suggestion would be that Barak certainly was in a position where he has to answer some of the allegations made about the commission of crimes by Israeli troops," he told Al Jazeera from London.
More than 1,400 Palestinians, at least one-third of them women and children, were killed in Israel's December-January offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Pete Dunne
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VIDEO: Israel's Nuclear Weapons Factory
29.09.2009 10:34
(VIDEO) Israel's Nuclear Weapons Factory
The Revelations of Mordechai Vanunu
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Obama: I don't think the Israelis needed to convince me about their ultimatum to Iran
BBC website, 2 June 2009
BBC: What the Israelis say is that they have managed to persuade you at least to concentrate on Iran and to give what’s — behind the scenes they’re calling it a bit of an ultimatum to the Iranians: By the end of this year there must be some real progress.
OBAMA: Well, the only thing I’d correct on that is I don’t think the Israelis needed to convince me of that, since I’ve been talking about it for the last two years.
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Israeli President Peres: Threaten Iran with nukes
Press TV, 29 April 2009
Israeli President Shimon Peres says the best way to deter Iran from continuing its nuclear program is to threaten it with a 'nuclear response'.
He accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons, saying that a conventional military attack could not halt Tehran's nuclear program.
"Simply attacking the nuclear facilities is not the be-all and end-all," Peres told Israel's Channel Ten on Wednesday.
"There are other options for the West, or the coalition that arises. The first thing is to tell the Iranians ... 'If you use a nuclear weapon -- no matter against whom -- you'll get a nuclear response," Reuters quoted Peres as saying.
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Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran
A military strike by Israel against Iranian Nuclear Facilities is possible and the optimum route would be along the Syrian-Turkish border then over a small portion of Iraq then into Iran, and back the same route. […]
If the Israeli aircraft do actually fly over Turkey that would constitute a clear Turkish – Israel and even U.S. conspiracy to attack Iran, so the Political risks could be high with Turkey.
Operationally, the risk from Syria would be low, whereas the risk from Turkey could be of medium level if Turkey deems it necessary to react militarily. […]
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dandelion salad
Keep doing what you're doing
29.09.2009 12:33
interested
Oh flower of Isreal!
29.09.2009 12:44
O flower of Isreal
When will we see
Your sh*te again
They fought and died for
Your wee bit hill and glen
...And stood against him
Proud Tony's army
And sent him homeward
Tae think again
The homes are bare now
And the dead lie thick and still
O'er land that is lost now
Which those so dearly held
...And stood against him
Proud Gordon's's army
And sent him homeward
Tae think again
Those days are shrill now
And still they must remain
But we'll still rise now
And be our nation again
...And stand against him
Proud Barak's army
And send him homeward
Tae think again
Apologies to : Roy Williamson. (c) The Corries (Music) Ltd.
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songbird
Aye ay Songbird
30.09.2009 00:39
Fareweel to a' our Jewish fame,
Fareweel our ancient glory;
Fareweel ev'n to the Hebrew name,
Sae fam'd in martial story.
Now Hasbani rins over Jordans sands,
An' Taninim Stream rins to the ocean,
To mark where America's province stands-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro' many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor's wages.
The US stell we could disdain,
Secure in valour's station;
But US gold has been our bane-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
O would, or I had seen the day
That Treason thus could sell us,
My auld grey head had lien in clay,
Wi' Saul and loyal David!
But pith and power, till my last hour,
I'll mak this declaration;
We're bought and sold for US gold-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
Danny
Maybe more appropriate scots verse
30.09.2009 02:34
Cos otherwise I’d find it hard
In among the crossfire,
Great arrows simply pierce my heart
And puncture my desire
To put aside the previous hearth
Analysing dialogue
And also known so lightly thrown
If anything's so stupid,
So turn around and walk away
Declare that this is over,
Then run, run, run, run
Remember that these arrows
Are only sticks and sharpened stones
They can be collected
As far from here as they can go
Please put down your guns
Lower your weapons
Oh, I declare a change of heart
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