Israel to consider war crimes case

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Nazareth, Israel - For the first time Israel's Supreme Court is set to consider evidence on April 2 that senior Israeli political and military officials committed war crimes in relation to major military operations in Gaza and Lebanon.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, the current justice minister, are among the high-level figures accused of breaking the laws of war when they launched attacks on Lebanon in 2006, and on Gaza in the winter of 2008-09.

The allegations have been levelled by Marwan Dalal, the only Israeli lawyer to have served as a senior prosecutor in one of the international criminal courts at The Hague in the Netherlands.

Dalal, who spent three years as a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, belongs to Israel's Palestinian minority, which comprises a fifth of the country's population.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/03/israel-high-court-consider-war-crimes-case-201432864717613233.html

[Jefferson23]

1. Very interesting.

K&R

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2. Marwan Dalal is with Adalah, an NGO for BDS & against the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. nt

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3. Yeah, he sounds unsympathetic, but then he filed the complaint, so that's what you would expect. nt