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| Spain Seeks to Arrest Israeli Minister and IDF Officers |
| 2008-07-23 |
| Ah, yes. Spain... IsraelNN.com) The National Court in Spain has accepted a Palestinian Authority courtsuit that was filed less than a month ago, and orders the arrest of Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. The explanation: He oversaw the killing of arch-Palestinian terrorist Salah Shehada. The Spanish court has also ordered the arrest of former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon and other IDF officials, both past and present, for the same reason. The arrest orders are to be executed immediately upon the officials' setting foot on Spanish soil. Shehada was killed in an Israel Air Force strike in July 2002, shortly before his plans to send a truck loaded with 600 kilograms of explosives to a Jewish celebration in Gush Katif were to be implemented. Slated to succeed Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as leader of Hamas, Shehada was responsible for hundreds of attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, and the deaths of dozens of Israelis. Geez, there's a real loss for humanity... More important to Ben-Eliezer of the Labor Party, currently Minister of Infrastructures, was Minister of Defense at the time of the successful liquidation of Shehada. Spain also seeks to arrest then-IDF chief Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Yaalon, then-IAF chief Lt.-Gen. (res.) Dan Halutz (also a former Chief of Staff), then-Southern District Commander Gen. (res.) Doron Almog, then-National Security Council head Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, and Ben-Eliezer's military advisor Mike Herzog. The PA suit was filed in Spain by the Palestinian Committee for Human Rights (PCHR), which claimed that the one-ton bomb was too powerful to be dropped on a residential neighborhood. He was gonna use a 600kg. bomb, so I'd say they were a little light. But it did the job... Arutz-7's Shimon Cohen notes, however, that it had been widely known during the period of the attack that Shehada and other terrorist leaders often took refuge behind children and other civilians in order to avoid being targeted by Israel. The IDF made it clear afterwards that the bombing of the building in which Shehada was hiding was done only after it was ascertained that no civilians - except possibly the terrorist's wife and daughter - were in his vicinity. The mission had been postponed numerous prior times when it was feared that civilians would be hurt. In the event, however, 14 civilians were killed, and Israel was widely criticized from all quarters. Gen. Halutz's statement at the time, that all he felt when dropping a bomb was "a small bump in the side of the plane" - designed to express support for his pilots - added to the poor international perception of Israel's humanitarian image at the time. The PCHR often works in tandem with left-wing organizations in Israel, and refers to the IDF (Israel Defense Force) as the Israel Occupation Force. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #6 If Spain gets too obnoxious, the Jews will press charges in the International Criminal Court for all the torture the Spanish Jews suffered during the Inquisition. They may even decide that it wouldn't hurt Madrid much to be placed on Israel's long list of possible nuclear targets. The Spanish are fools, doing the bidding of fools. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-07-23 22:07 |
| #5 I don't think there are any civilians on the paleo side. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2008-07-23 21:09 |
| #4 Israel was widely criticized from all quarters Actually, it was mostly the hind quarters. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-07-23 14:50 |
| #3 Maybe longing for the days of Andalusia and dhimmitude. |
| Posted by: RWV 2008-07-23 14:10 |
| #2 Jim, at one time, Spain had this really big empire. True, most of it was in South America, but anyway... So, they are just acting like the empire they used to be. The only thing more ridiculous is Belgium. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-07-23 12:19 |
| #1 What nexus could there possibly be to give Spanish courts jurisdiction over what happens in the Paleo territories? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-23 11:27 |