How sad for them.
"UK sends welcome to ex-Israeli official; Pro-Palestinian activists pushed for Livni’s arrest" by Ian Deitch, Associated Press | December 17, 2009
JERUSALEM - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown phoned former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni yesterday to say she is still welcome in Britain, despite a recent attempt by pro-Palestinian activists to have her arrested during a planned visit to London.
Livni’s office said the British premier called yesterday afternoon to say he objects to the arrest warrant and that he intends to act to change the law that allowed it to be issued.
A Downing Street spokesman confirmed the phone call. Brown “said it was a disappointment she couldn’t visit, and that she would be welcome in the UK at any time,’’ the spokesman said.
The gesture did little to calm an uproar in Israel over the attempt to arrest Livni - the latest Israeli leader to be threatened with legal action in Britain.
Livni told reporters in Jerusalem that the warrant put other world leaders and countries at risk.
Ominous.
Related: Netanyahu Threatens West With Terror Attack
And, yeah, unless you are an African or poor white you can forget about war crimes charges. Tony Bliar still walking around, right? Bush and Cheney?
Yeah, "the West’s practice of shipping Serbian and African leaders off to the War Crimes Tribunal, while exempting itself, is wearing thin."
“This isn’t just a warrant against me or the state of Israel, this is against every democratic country that is fighting terrorism,’’ Livni said.
“The terrorists should be charged, not those fighting against them,’’ Livni said. “This is a challenge to the whole free world and not just Israel or Britain.’’
Yes, it is: Is the world FINALLY GOING to come to grips with the fact that 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB and that GOVERNMENTS are responsible for MOST of the "terror attacks?"
Several Israeli officials have recently canceled visits to Britain because of efforts by Palestinians to bring Israelis before British courts under a law that allows trial for noncitizens accused of crimes committed elsewhere.
You should be happy they are not coming. I don't like it when they come to my country.
Livni apparently was targeted because she was foreign minister during Israel’s war against militants in the Gaza Strip in January....
Yeah, you know, when they dumped WMD on the strip and targeted civilians!
The military campaign has drawn strong international condemnation because hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed, and a UN investigation has said that both Israel and Hamas militants committed war crimes.
Related: A Quiet War Crimes Debate
Israel denies wrongdoing, saying it did its best to avoid civilian casualties and that Hamas used civilians as human shields.
Related: War Criminals' Whine
Yes, after a while you get tired of the endless lies of mass-murdering Zionists.
Livni’s office said she was supposed to appear at a Jewish National Fund convention in Britain on Sunday, but canceled her visit two weeks ago for reasons unconnected with any legal action against her. Israel’s Foreign Ministry says the warrant has since been canceled.
Israel’s president, Shimon Peres, denounced the arrest attempt against Livni as “one of the greatest political mistakes’’ that could be done and urged Britain to quickly change its laws.
“Basically you could put any world leader on trial,’’ he said in a statement. “Everything is based on unilateral informants, on a hostile majority public opinion. The British promised they would fix this and it is time that they do so. Britain has to decide where it stands on our matter.’’
Almost sounds like blackmail, doesn't it?
British lawyers working with Palestinian activists have in recent years sought the arrest of senior Israeli civilian and military figures under terms of “universal jurisdiction.’’ This ill-defined legal concept empowers judges to issue arrest warrants for visiting officials accused of war crimes in a foreign conflict.
The threat of arrest has forced several former security officials to call off trips to London, including a former general who remained holed up on an airplane at Heathrow Airport in order to avoid arrest. Earlier this year, Defense Minister Ehud Barak fended off an arrest attempt by successfully arguing he enjoyed diplomatic immunity.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Tuesday announced that Britain would no longer tolerate legal harassment of Israeli officials in this fashion.
That settles that, doesn't it?
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"Court says Jewish school discriminated" by Associated Press | December 17, 2009
LONDON - A Jewish school discriminated against a child when it refused to admit him because it did not recognize his mother as Jewish, Britain’s highest court ruled yesterday.
Critics said the decision interfered with longstanding Jewish tradition and imposed secular standards on who belonged to the faith.
London’s prestigious JFS, formerly known as the Jews’ Free School, gave preference to children who were Jewish according to principles defined by Britain’s chief rabbi.
Yeah, SOMEHOW JEWISH EXCLUSION and SUPREMACISM is OKAY!
The 12-year-old boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was not given priority because although his father is Jewish by birth, his mother converted at a progressive synagogue not recognized by Orthodox Judaism. The chief rabbi did not recognize her conversion, and the boy therefore was not recognized as Jewish.
Honestly, WHO CARES?!
I'm SO SICK of READING ABOUT JEWS and THEIR PROBLEMS in my Boston Globe!!
Especially when the RACISM of the ZIONIST is obfuscated!!
Five judges of the nine-member Supreme Court ruled that the school’s policy amounted to racial discrimination, upholding an earlier ruling by the Court of Appeal.
The lower court decided that because Jews are defined as an ethnic group in British law, denying a child admission because his mother is not Jewish constituted racial discrimination.
The school appealed that ruling.
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And the Brits play along with all the Zionist war lies, too:
"Obama says he’ll know by 2011 if war plan a success; Dec. 1 speech on Afghan strategy ‘hit me in the gut’" by Steve R. Hurst, Associated Press | December 14, 2009
WASHINGTON - In Afghanistan yesterday, Britain’s prime minister tried to smooth relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and renew Britain’s commitment to the war despite its unpopularity back home.
Yeah, another great example of western "democracy."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would ship helicopters, equipment, and roadside-bomb-surveillance devices, along with 500 reinforcements he recently announced will join 9,500 British troops deployed mostly in southern Afghanistan. Regions of Afghanistan are at the “epicenter’’ of the global terrorist threat, Brown said, defending his decision to sent more British forces to war.
F*** that fat hunk of s***!
Related: Gordon Brown's Bluster on Afghanistan
Yup, a GASBAG FULL of DECEPTIONS is old Gordo!!!!
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Btw, whatever happened with that IRAQ WAR INQUIRY, huh, MSM?
Related:
“Adam Khatib may not have known the full extent of the plan being hatched by his co-conspirators, but he certainly knew that they had murder in mind."
Does he know Mr. Aswat or Mr. Khan?
Also see: May Day Memories: British Patsies
May Day Memories: The U.S. Connection
Terror Expert: London Bomber Was Working For MI5
Israeli Connections to the London Tube Bombs
Kinda a kick in the head, huh?Now a fart in the face:
"EU panel chides London’s air quality" by Bloomberg News | December 12, 2009
LONDON - The EU decision “is a damning and long-overdue indictment of the UK’s attitude to air pollution, complying with environmental deadlines, and protecting public health,’’ Simon Birkett, head of the Campaign for Clean Air London, said in an e-mail.
Yeah, POLLUTION is a PROBLEM; global warming is NOT!
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Glad you voted for it, Englander?
Oh, they did raise one fart-bleat fooley of a protest:
"New UK tax targets bank bonuses" by Gregory Katz and Jane Wardell, Associated Press | December 10, 2009
LONDON - That grinding sound in London’s pricier precincts? Bankers gnashing their teeth.
The British government hit them where it hurts yesterday by announcing a steep tax on bonus pay, just in time to douse the holiday mood in the financial district.
Yeah, those POOR BANKSTERS and their BONUSES!!
Treasury chief Alistair Darling pulled populist strings in his pre-budget report to Parliament, urging bank directors to rebuild their financial strength and resume lending rather than spend money on bonus payments - which will now be subject to a one-time 50 percent tax.
Is it just me, or does this article have an INSULTING, PRO-BANKER TONE?
Funny how OUR TAXES are INFINITE, 'eh, reader?
“If they insist on paying substantial rewards, I am determined to claw money back for the taxpayer,’’ Darling said.
Then they should NEVER HAVE GOTTEN IT in the FIRST PLACE!!
The tax will be paid by the banks, not the employees, reducing the pot of money available for performance-based bonuses. Financial experts said the impact of the bonus tax on government revenue will be slight, and bankers warned that London would become less attractive to the financial services sector. The country’s banking association said business might go elsewhere under such conditions.
Fine, GO!!!!!! GET OUT!!!!!
I don't know about you, Englander, but I AM TIRED of being EXTORTED with such THREATS!!
FUCK 'EM!!!
Let 'em leave and START PRINTING YOUR OWN SCRIPT!!!
But the move still seemed shrewd to political analysts and pollsters, and it pleased some Britons who said they were happy to see bankers punished.
“This will be extremely popular with the British public,’’ said Robert Worcester, senior adviser to the Ipsos MORI polling firm. “They are mad, angry, at the banks. They feel the bankers have taken the taxpayers’ money and stuffed it into their own pockets.’’
That is because THAT IS EXACTLY what they have done!!!
Bankers find themselves pawns in a political passion play as the fading Labour Party government seeks to revive its fortune ahead of a general election by capitalizing on public anger at people getting six or seven figure bonuses from shaky institutions that received taxpayer bailouts.
Awww, the POOR BANKSTERS in a political passion play in which THEY PULL the STRINGS!!! Who wrote this insulting piece of elitist garbage?
The bonus plan announcement came as Darling acknowledged that the economy will shrink more this year than previously predicted and also hiked government borrowing forecasts.
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
The decision may be popular, but it marks the end of the successful “New Labour’’ political project that saw the Labour Party end its longstanding feud with the monied classes when it won a landslide election in 1997, said Andrew Russell, a University of Manchester professor.
Yeah, the BEGINNING of the END was the IRAQ WAR LIES told by Bliar!!!!!
The new tax sets Britain on a different road than the United States, where early attempts to impose a similar tax have fallen by the wayside....
Yeah, our bank looters get away with all the stolen loot.
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"Go ahead, tax these bonuses
IN A BLATANTLY political move this month, the Labor government of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown imposed a one-time, 50 percent tax on bankers’ bonuses. Yet even though it may spring from Brown’s fear of losing an election next year, the tax is justified on economic grounds and as a matter of social justice. And after France followed suit with its own 50 percent tax on banker bonuses, arguments against a similar tax in the United States lost a key rationale.
In the past, US banking executives warned that any such taxes would make them less competitive than London or Paris in attracting and keeping “talent.’’ Now they have to pretend their traders and merger makers will abscond to Zurich, Hong Kong, or Singapore. But there would be little reason to fear a mass exodus of uniquely gifted bankers. Financially sophisticated asset managers do not pick up stakes and relocate because of a windfall tax on a bank’s bonuses from one exceptional year.
Translation: The competition excuse for looting is a crap lie.
The profits of US banks during the past year are exceptional because they owe so much to taxpayer bailouts and the government’s interest rate policy. Treasury backing saved banks that would otherwise have ruined themselves with recklessly leveraged bets on risky financial products. And with banks able to borrow from the Federal Reserve at near-zero interest rates and lend those borrowed funds out at higher rates, the banks raked in money like a poker player in league with a dealer who is dealing him four aces off the bottom of the deck.
Oh, so the BANKS PROFITED of the BAILOUT -- if they even bothered to make loans!!
Ummmm, American people, DONATIONS are NOT REPAID!!!
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