London – More Than 107,000 Sign UK Petition For Arrest Of Netanyahu

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    FILE - Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (L) greets Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street in London May 4, 2011. REUTERS/Suzanne London – More than 107,000 people have signed a British petition calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to arrested for war crimes when he visits London this week for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron.

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    Britain said visiting heads of state have immunity from legal process and thus cannot be arrested, though the petition indicates the strength of feeling among some about last year’s war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

    “Under international law he should be arrested for war crimes upon arrival in the UK for the massacre of over 2,000 civilians in 2014,” the petition reads.

    Parliament considers all petitions that get more than 100,000 signatures for a debate.

    “We recognize that the conflict in Gaza last year took a terrible toll. As the prime minister said, we were all deeply saddened by the violence and the UK has been at the forefront of international reconstruction efforts,” the British government said.

    “However the prime minister was clear on the UK’s recognition of Israel’s right to take proportionate action to defend itself, within the boundaries of international humanitarian law.”

    More than 500 children were among the 2,100 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians, who were killed. Seventy-three Israelis, almost all soldiers, were killed.

    Two months after the Gaza war, Britain’s parliament voted to recognize Palestine as a state – a non-binding move but a symbolic message of support for Palestinians.

    A British court in 2009 issued an arrest warrant for former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni on war crimes charges but withdrew it on finding she had canceled a planned trip to Britain.


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    54321
    54321
    8 years ago

    This is beyond pathetic to air this article. Who cares what a bunch of anti-semites think? Chances are 99% of themy ate muslims.

    albroker
    albroker
    8 years ago

    Bibi has allowed 60,000 African Muslims to illegally move to Israel and destroy south tel aviv and all he preaches about is a nucleau bomb that is as dangerous to Saudi Arabia as it is to Israel.

    bennyt
    bennyt
    8 years ago

    So now we have the names of 107,000 anti-Semites. Did they also get a petition signed for Bashar al-Assad for murdering thousands of his citizens? I didn’t hear of any. These losers should find a job to keep them busy instead of being the losers that they are.

    lazerx
    lazerx
    8 years ago

    I did not know that there were at least 107,000 anti-Semites living in England, sounds bad to me.

    Yitzi1
    Yitzi1
    8 years ago

    You mean to tell me that there are 107,000 anti Semites in England… shocking…

    albroker
    albroker
    8 years ago

    he should be tried for sending 67 Jewish boys to die for nothing in Gaza, alas the real judge up in heaven will judge him after 120. Jewish lives matter.

    MarkTwain2
    MarkTwain2
    8 years ago

    That means millions of Brits are not against Bibi

    Boochie
    Boochie
    8 years ago

    100k out of the millions that live there is not so bad