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| Spanish court probes Halutz, Ben-Eliezer for 2002 Gaza attack | |
| 2009-01-29 | |
| A Spanish judge on Thursday launched a probe of seven current or former Israeli officials over a 2002 bombing in Gaza that killed a Hamas terrorist and 14 other people, including nine children. The people named in the suit include Dan Halutz, who commanded Israel's air force at the time, and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, then defense minister and currently national infrastructures minister. Judge Fernando Andreu said the attack against Salah Shehadeh in a densely populated civilian area might constitute a crime against humanity. The judge was acting under a doctrine that allows prosecution in Spain of such an offense or crimes like terrorism or genocide even if they are alleged to have been committed in another country.
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 Rough translation of JFM's linked article, with a little help from the dictionary: Fernando Andreu stated this decision in a writ concerning an accusation by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, namely a one-ton bomb dropped by an Israeli fighter plane on the home of Salah Shehade, a Hamas Terrorist, in the Daraj neighborhood. The Judge also (called?) on a Palestinian board of inquirey to take the depositions of witnesses of this attack; and also sent a writ to the Israeli Government to notify the accused, even though court records show that they had already asked an Israeli board of inquiry if they had investigated. (The Spanish court did not) receive a response. "In such a concrete case," Andreu indicated in his writ, "we find a directed armed attack following (other matters related to the dispute?) to end the life of a person presumably connected with a terrorist organization, known as Hamas." (The next paragraph lists the Israeli officials indicted). I couldn't piece out the comments very well, but one of them was something like, "These courts are part of the problem, not the solution." |
| Posted by: mom 2009-01-29 21:47 |
| #3 To the Spaniards who wiped out the Aztecs, Incans and Mayans? With the help of locals, who unbelievably were a bit resentful about tens of thousands of them having their heart torn off their chests. But I agree about the judge being just an antisemitic doubling as a media whore. Most of Spanish right agrees with me (If you can read Spanish take a look at what the readers of catholic church owned Libertad Digital are saying |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-01-29 14:44 |
| #2 To the Spaniards who wiped out the Aztecs, Incans and Mayans? With the help of locals, who unbelievably were a bit resentful about tens of thousands of them having their heart torn off their chests. But I agree about the judge being just an antisemitic doubling as a media whore. Most of Spanish right agrees with me (If you can read Spanish take a look at what the readers of catholic church owned Libertad Digital are saying |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-01-29 14:41 |
| #1 Methinks its time for a probe of the SPANISH INQUISITION! |
| Posted by: borgboy 2009-01-29 11:48 |