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Arab League chief calls for special court to try Israel
2016-04-22
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
chief Nabil al-Arabi called Thursday for a special criminal court to be set up for Israel, at a meeting to condemn an announcement that it will never return the Golan Heights.

Delegates to the 22-member Arab bloc based in Cairo are expected to pass a resolution denouncing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge Sunday that the occupied Golan Heights would remain Israeli "forever."

Israel occupied the Golan during the 1967 Middle East war with Syria, Egypt and Jordan, and annexed it in 1981, in a move never recognized by the international community.

Israeli media have reported that Netanyahu organized a cabinet meeting in the Golan -- where he made the pledge -- amid fears Israel could come under pressure to return the area as part of a future peace deal for its war-torn neighbor.

Israel was acting like "a country that is above the law and accountability," Arabi told delegates at the start of the vaporous Arab League meeting.

He demanded "a special criminal court for the Paleostinian cause," along the lines of international tribunals set up to try ex-officials of "the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Cambodia and Sierra Leone."

Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
’s ambassador in Cairo and delegate to the Arab League, Ahmed Qattan, accused Israel of trying to profit from the conflict in Syria.

"The Zionist entity is exploiting the years of crisis in Syria," he said.

With Syria suspended from the League, its 21 other members on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution condemning Israel and asking the UN Security Council to force Israel to submit to international law and UN resolutions.

The text of the resolution referred to Netanyahu’s "aggressive statements" on Sunday and "Israel’s repeated attempts to impose the status quo in order to annex" the Golan.
Posted by:Fred

#2  A Sharia Court, no doubt
Posted by: Frank G   2016-04-22 11:31  

#1  Having given up on the Five Triumphant Arab Armies thingy after losing all those wars, and seeing that the nations of the world find Israel's products for the most part too useful to shun, they are now trying for a trial over the Golan? Oh dear.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-04-22 10:21  

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