On his recent visit to the United Kingdom the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu; better known to Israelis as ‘Bibi’, had something of a problem as his chosen military attaché; Yochanan Locker, is part of the alleged war criminals of the ‘Cast Lead 200’. (1) Under British law there is an unusual statute (2) which provides for the prosecution of those accused of any war crime; relating to or by British subjects or not, and as Locker is under suspicion of being responsible for the numerous alleged war crimes committed by the IDF. It was not outside of the realms of possibility that he could arrested; regardless of his diplomatic immunity, and tried before the world as the jewish war criminal that he could well be.

As it turned out Netanyahu decided to solve the problem by simply not bring Locker with him (3) and thus circumventing any embarrassment to both Tel Aviv and Westminster if pro-Palestinian activists had brought public charges against him as an alleged war criminal under British law thus forcing his detention; however temporary, by the police. This would have caused severe repercussions for both parties and probably leading to Prime Minister Cameron doing a lot of grovelling at the feet of Prime Minister Netanyahu with only tangible economic, political, military and/or diplomatic concessions to the bandit state of Israel.

It is worth remembering that according to the latest research; a huge proportion of Conservative (David Cameron’s party) members of parliament, are also members of the British Israel lobby (as are many of their Labour colleagues) (4) and that Cameron himself has gone on record numerous times to the effect that he is pretty much ready to betray Britain’s strategic interests for the sake of being friends with Israel. (5)

For example Cameron said the following in 2010 at the annual Conservative Friends of Israel ‘Business Lunch’:

‘The friendship we celebrate today has thrived in the long years of Opposition and I know in government, it will deepen, because the ties between this party and Israel are unbreakable. And in me, you have a Prime Minister whose belief in Israel is indestructible.’ (6)

Here Cameron tells us that his belief in Israel is ‘indestructible’ (apparently his belief in the country he allegedly governs; the United Kingdom, is destructible by implication) and that the Israel Lobby in the UK dominates the Conservative party when he refers to the ‘deep’ bonds between Israel’s adjunct foreign network of influence and his party.

He then goes onto to implicitly tell us just how much he buys into the massive; official and unofficial, Israeli propaganda effort by parroting the kind of rubbish put out by unabashed apologists for Israel and the Israeli government themselves when he states:

‘When biased elements in the media paint Israel’s defence of its people as unwarranted aggression, we need to make it clear: when rockets are being launched at Israeli citizens, when children are in danger, Israel is within its rights to protect its people.’ (7)

Woah… hang on there Davy: did you just tell us that an opinion is only biased when it is ‘anti-Israel’ and not when it ‘pro-Israel’ (as that is the necessary consequence of your statement)?

Are you trying to seriously convince others that if facts; and I mean the evidence against Israel is not only considerable but beyond unreasonable doubt, (8) are anti-Israel and/or anti-Semitic they are just plain old biased in the first place and require a liberal dose of interpretative gloss (or plain denial) from Israel’s official and/or unofficial propagandists to make them ‘factual’?

That is by any standard an absurd position for you to take Davy, but never-the-less you take it and you take it with all the gusto of a polite diplomatic bribe or two. Not to say that you are corrupt, but rather that modern politics; British and otherwise, is a general sink of corruption, self-aggrandisement and lack of principle.

Cameron then goes on to address the issue at hand when he states:

‘When we see the abuse of the UK’s laws to try and detain Israeli politicians who visit these shores, we need to act: changing the law so people don’t fear coming to our country. That’s what we are doing on Universal Jurisdiction.’ (9)

So basically Davy is telling us here that if an Israeli commits a war crime anywhere in the world; against British subjects or not, then the law regarding the commission of war crimes should not apply to them because they are jews. Although presumably it still applies to everyone else: as after all jews are just special aren’t they?

Let us be honest shall we Davy: that’s hardly ‘universal jurisdiction’ now is it?

Perhaps you should rename it as a ‘selective jurisdiction’: then it would say what it does on tin now wouldn’t it?

This isn’t helped by David Cameron’s Foreign Secretary; and former leader of the Conservative party, William Hague who has been a devoted fan of Israel since he was very young who has also spoken out consistently in Israel’s favour.

In 2010 he also told the British Israel Lobby the following on the issue of ‘universal jurisdiction’:

‘We have had good discussions with Israeli ministers…on universal jurisdiction where the last government left us with an appalling situation where a politician like Mrs Livni could be threatened with arrest on coming to the UK.’ (10)

Oh dear Silly Billy Hague seems to be as trollied (11) on Israeli propaganda as Davy is (12): as he is again effectively giving a blank cheque exception to Israeli politicians that they aren’t included in the ‘universal jurisdiction’ law and he intends to ‘qualify it’ into ‘selective jurisdiction’.

Now if the two top figures in the British government and the British Conservative party are anxious to prostrate themselves in front of their Chosen masters then you are hardly likely to get the prosecution of alleged Israeli war criminals that pro-Palestinian activists seem to be hoping for and even trying seems relatively pointless other than as a show of defiance to the jewish giant with feet of clay. But then I am sure it makes the leftists feel good to try and do something, but if it isn’t going to have any impact then is there a point in expanding finite resources in the process?

Not really, but their doing it does happen to conveniently expose that Israel is the daddy, while Britain; that was formerly great, is the proverbial bitch of the relationship.

(1) A list of these individuals can be found at the following address: http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2010/11/17/idf-cast-lead-dirty-200/ [Last Accessed: 07/05/2011]
(2) The only two other countries who have similar laws that I know of are ironically Israel and occupied Germany both of whom use this law only to try and prosecute that supposed embodiment of all evil: members of the SS who supposedly did all sorts of horrible things to jews in the war (or at least so ‘holocaust survivors’ assure us).
(3) http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014964260_apmlisraelbritain.html [Last Accessed: 07/05/2011]
(4) On this see David Cronin, 2011, ‘Europe’s Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation’, 1st Edition, Verso: New York
(5) For example David Cameron wishes to aggressively isolate Iran and ensure ‘regime change’, which is rather stupid considering that Iran would actually be a fairly useful country for Britain to have good strategic relations with considering the new bellicose Russia and the emergent ‘Arab spring’ that is occurring (and of which the prolific critic of Israel; James Petras, has sagely noted there is; predictably, a substantial Islamist component). Instead Cameron places Israeli interests first and demands that Iran lick kosher boots, eat pork and do whatever Tel Aviv commands before any ‘understanding’ can be reached.
(6) http://www2.cfoi.co.uk/Events/PastEvents/ [Last Accessed: 07/05/2011]
(7) Ibid.
(8) David Cameron should try reading some of the considerable literature that has been produced by Arab, Israeli, European and American historians, researchers and scholars which has documented the conduct of Israel and its habit of doing whatever it likes while leaving its propaganda network to justify and explain it to the world who just don’t seem to understand the implicit idea behind much jewish political thought that they are allowed to do whatever they please because they are the Chosen of Hashem.
(9) http://www2.cfoi.co.uk/Events/PastEvents/ [Last Accessed: 07/05/2011]
(10) Ibid.
(11) For those unacquainted with British slang: this means very, very drunk and usually unable to stand up.
(12) David Cameron actually said the following and meant it (which I find beyond simply hilarious for someone complaining about supposed ‘media bias against Israel’): ‘I know, and you know, that one of its biggest threats comes from those directly on its borders. Hezbollah, Hamas – terrorist organisations that are determined to use violence against Israel. We must confront their ideology – and help Israel achieve the security she deserves.’ (Ibid.)

This was originally published at the following address: http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com/2011/05/would-david-cameron-prosecute-israeli.html