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    UK gave Israeli army chief special immunity on secret trip where he met attorney general

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    3. dannydrama on

      Israel doing what it wants with support and head turning by the West because they’re doing our job for us? No way mate.

    7. qquckl42 on

      Ah the Middle East Eye, a non-biased newspaper with the UK’s interests at heart I’m sure.

      Read as: general from allied country comes to UK. We think he should be in trouble so we’re falsifying drama out of it.

    8. techbear72 on

      I mean, the headline seems slightly misleading.

      The guy did not have an arrest warrant out on him, still does not as far as I can see, and needed to be in the UK for some reason that the government felt was valid, so they assured him that if a warrant was issued after he was already here, during the one trip, they wouldn’t enforce it.

      I see this as analogous to when the thatcher government was secretly meeting with the IRA during the troubles while denying it.

      You can’t always do all diplomacy wide out in the open.

    10. test_test_1_2_3 on

      Everyone seems to be under the misapprehension that international law is some infallible institution and that it works in any way similar to the UK justice system. It doesn’t and it never will.

      The ICC is not nearly as serious of an institution as the name suggests. It’s power only in extends as far as the individual nations who participate choose to enforce it, as soon as things become inconvenient they aren’t going to shoot themselves in the foot in the name of upholding ‘international law’.

      Israel is a UK ally, Bibi could land here tomorrow and we’d secretly whisk him around and get him out again with no arrests.

    11. Rulweylan on

      Ah yes, a Qatari funded (allegedly, they refuse to disclose ownership) media company founded by a former employee of Hamas’ media wing.

      I’m sure they’ve got an unbiased take on Israel-UK relations.

    12. Tricky_Peace on

      I mean this asks more questions than it answers. If a general was here to see military or intelligence people, it would make sense, but attorney general?

    13. appletinicyclone on

      I just came from a thread just now of a boy very adorable voice and he’s burned all over his body from Israeli airstrike and he has no family anymore. And even with his skin burned hes still so sweet and polite

      And it’s absolutely gutting we trivialize it

      People are more upset at the protests then at the horrorism occuring

      And that doesn’t in anyway minimize the suffering of people in Israel last year from a bad group doing bad things. They had a moral right to go after the architects.

      But if a government gets heated and out for blood and goes so hard as a motherfucker on its neighbouring countries that it ends up going from justice to vengeance

      It’s awful

      We wouldn’t have done this free pass for immunity for Russian diplomats at the top of the chain of command would we

      And they’re supposedly democratic too

      People are upset about how people are talking more than what people are doing.

      And when you undermine the Democratic and civil instruments of how to address war crimes and such

      Then it makes it easier for more undemocratic countries to flout the same rules.

      Which is what we don’t want

      British values are about democracy, rule of law, tolerance, mutual respect and individual liberty.

      Rule of law in spirit as well. They used a lot of technical work around to break the spirit of laws but keep within the lines I think the obvious callousness of that should be pointed out too.