Israeli General

Real History sees that What Goes around Comes Around The Posted Tuesday, September 13, 2005 Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) [images added by this website] YNet News Monday, September 12, 2005 Israeli general flees London Former Southern Command chief abandons plans to visit Britain after Muslim groups try to get arrest warrant for ‘crimes against humanity’ FORMER IDF Southern Commander Maj. Gen. (res.)

Doron Almog was forced Sunday to abandon plans to visit Britain at the last minute, after Muslim groups charged him with crimes against humanity for “his military role against the Palestinian people.”

David Irving comments: WELCOME though this news is — that even Israeli generals can be prosecuted by the British for alleged war crimes — this story does raise one or two important queries in my mind: First, who tipped off Herr General and his ambassador that it would be, ahem, better if he did not descend the steps of the plane into the waiting arms and handcuffs of the no doubt hidden Scotland Yard officers?

Is it yet another case case of dual loyalties – some civil servant putting his concealed loyalty toward a foreign power above his debt of gratitude and loyalty toward the country which gave him, or his recent ancestors, shelter? Second, can we now expect American and other generals to think twice before flying into Heathrow, in the light of revelations about their methods in Guantánamo and the Middle East?

All of these things are directly linked, and also indirectly related to those explosions in London during July. Third, passengers on a plane that has landed on British soil are not beyond the jurisdiction of our courts; why did the Scotland Yard officers not board the El Al Flight and take him off? Whatever the background, here is another case of an Israeli accused of crimes including murder and terrorism scarpering