According to Herb Keinon in the Jerusalem Post:
Former OC Southern Command and IDF Gaza chief, Maj.-Gen. (Res.) Doron Almog, decided not to disembark from an El-Al plane that landed in London on Sunday afternoon after information that reached the Israeli Foreign Ministry indicated that a Palestinian from Birmingham had filed a lawsuit against Almog for crimes against humanity, allegedly committed while Almog served as IDF Gaza chief.
The basis for the charge apparently comes from Amnesty International, which claims that:
"Certain abuses committed by the Israeli army constituted crimes against humanity and war crimes, including unlawful killings, extensive and wanton destruction of property, obstruction of medical assistance and targeting of medical personnel, torture and the use of Palestinians as 'human shields,'' the Amnesty International (AI) report, which covered 2004, charged.
I wonder how AI feels about the summary execution of Palestinian Arabs accused of collaborating with Israel--would those qualify as unlawful killings?
Would the burning of the synagogues in Gaza qualify as wanton destruction of property?
Does the hiding of Palestinian terrorists behind and among their fellow Palestinians qualify as the use of Palestinians as human shields?
Maybe it's time for Israel to make their own list of PA officials who are guilty of crimes against humanity.
Maybe after having started the ball rolling by suing the PA in court for damages, the next step is to have someone in the US--or in England--file a lawsuit the next time Abbas or his friends come to town.
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