Comments on: British judges being dangled like marionettes by Hamas: Group admits it was accomplice to UK court warrant against Tzipi Livni

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:00:14 +0000

If Israel’s opposition leader had been arrested, these would have been, I believe, some of the possible consequences:

1) An almost immediate economic boycott of Britain by millions of American citizens. Could this have been the event that pushed Britain’s economy off the cliff edge and into the abyss? I think so.

2) Mass protests in Israel leading to rioting and attacks on British property including the embassy. This would have led to an increase in attacks on British Jews and their institutions in Britain.

3) Similar mass protests in the United States but probably without the rioting and attacks.

4) A temporary breach in relations between Washington and London.

5) A permanent rupture in the good relations Britain has enjoyed with very many of her Jewish citizens.

6) A permanent exclusion of Britain from the “peace process” in the Middle East.

By: J. Isaacs

J. Isaacs — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:44:38 +0000

“I will not believe they are doing something until I see it.” Jonathan Hoffman is spot on.

Tony Blair, when PM, promised to ban Hisb ut Tahrir as well and nothing has come of it. There is little chance of any action until after a May election. Even after May, because Cameron and Hague are a pair of political infants of whom only child’s play can be expected, resolute change is unlikely. Hague, of course, is already a failed infant leader.

“And thus”, as Hamlet says, “the native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.” Something is rotten in the state of Britain.

By: Joel G.

Joel G. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:16:09 +0000

What an Orwellian world we live in! Hamas which is a murderous, criminal organisation seeks to utilise British courts in order to pursue their genocidal agenda?

By: Another Joshua

Another Joshua — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:53:35 +0000

From a legal position there isn’t a cats chance in hell that a full prosecution would follow such an arrest if it succeeded, and the campaigners know this all too well.And if they don’t they ought to read Lord Pannick’s advice to the Jewish Leadership Council:

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/25186/full-legal-opinion-sent-government-jlc

Clearly it is an abuse of process, all but for the lacuna in the law that allows anyone including Adolf Hitler, if he were alive, to have Roosevelt, if he were alive, arrested on “suspected” war crimes.

By: AKUS

AKUS — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:04:49 +0000

“This is a bigotry gone wild. And, I repeat, it is not just the Jews who are now paying the price.”

What starts with the Jews ends with those who stand by and watch. Always has, always will, because it represents a surrender to those who undermine the decent side of societies.

By: AKUS

AKUS — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:03:10 +0000

So Hamas, via Machover, is setting Britain’s foreign policy in the ME.

Interesting. Essentially a coup d’etat conducted on behalf of a terrorist organization.

By the way – has there been a Dispatches program recently on the “Palestinian lobby”?

By: chairwoman

chairwoman — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:46:18 +0000

Has an official of any other country had a warrant issued against them?

Robert Mugabe for example, or the anything of China? Or anybody not Jewish?

Just wondering.

By: Gábor Fränkl

Gábor Fränkl — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:17:24 +0000

One more though: I think Miliband (what kind of a name is that, Miliband) is not just an Israel-hater (like his mother, mind you), but remarkably stupid as well (no wonder they promoted Ashton, the laughing stock of the EU). What does he want and realistically hope to achieve by it? Even Kadima now is up in arms against his Foreign Orifice. Does he not think that IL will dug in its heels two hundred percent in response to his policy? And a personal remark now: Miliband when for the 1st time I saw him on TV (Sky News) 5-6 years ago was very offputting and deeply unsymphatetic. I also think that his very appearance is non-statesmanlike. He is a boy-king. And rather a joke than a proper Minister.

By: EdwardT

EdwardT — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:53:25 +0000

This is the government that agreed to talk to Hizbolla: “As ye sow so shall ye reap”

By: Jonathan Hoffman

Jonathan Hoffman — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:13:15 +0000

The government – which is the most anti-Israel UK government in history – has been saying for five years it will act to stop the absurdity that private citizens can obtain an arrest warrant under Universal Jurisdiction. There has been an outcry over the Livni case but even so I will not believe they are doing something until I see it.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364458203&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

41 MKs have now signed a petition for a boycott of British goods.