Israel Cuts Off Special Dialogue With Britain

Israel delays strategic dialogue with Britain, demands immunity from arrest for leaders
Jerusalem — Israel has suspended a special strategic dialogue with London as long as Israeli officials visiting Britain face possible Arrest for suspected War Crimes against Palestinians, officials said Wednesday. The announcement came as British Foreign Secretary William Hague met with senior Israeli officials Wednesday in Jerusalem. Officials from both countries said the matter would be high on the agenda of Hague's visit, and the British Foreign Office said it was working to resolve ...

Israel cuts off special dialogue with Britain
JERUSALEM — Israel has suspended a special strategic dialogue with London as long as Israeli officials visiting Britain face possible Arrest for suspected War Crimes against Palestinians, officials said Wednesday. The announcement came as British Foreign Secretary William Hague met with senior Israeli officials Wednesday in Jerusalem. Officials from both countries said the matter would be high on the agenda of Hague’s visit, and the British Foreign Office said it was working to resol...

Britain and universal jurisdiction
This entry was posted in Media Analysis: Regular briefings on trends in the news. Bookmark the permalink. On Thursday it was widely reported that British Foreign Secretary William Hague, currently on his first state visit to Israel, had been blindsided by the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s decision to cancel a series of ‘strategic dialogue’ meetings pertinent to Anglo-Israeli relations. According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the surprise move came as a result of the Home Office...

Hague: We will change universal jurisdiction
Foreign Secretary William Hague says he is committed to changing the law on universal jurisdiction, and that the Government was planning a timetable to be announced soon. Mr Hague had pledged during the election campaign that his Party would change the law, which allows Arrest Warrants to be granted against war criminals, even if they are not British. The law has meant an Arrest Warrant was briefly issued against Kadima Party Leader Tzipi Livni when she came to speak at a JNF conference in Lond...

Hague: We will change universal jurisdiction
Foreign Secretary William Hague says he is committed to changing the law on universal jurisdiction, and that the Government was planning a timetable to be announced soon. Mr Hague had pledged during the election campaign that his Party would change the law, which allows Arrest Warrants to be granted against war criminals, even if they are not British. The law has meant an Arrest Warrant was briefly issued against Kadima Party Leader Tzipi Livni when she came to speak at a JNF conference in Lond...

Israel halts strategic dialogue with Britain over 'universal jurisdiction'
On Tuesday, I reported that Minister Dan Meridor had canceled a trip to London out of fear of Arrest under Britain's 'universal jurisdiction' law. The law remains unchanged despite promises from Prime Minister David Cameron's government that it would be changed immediately upon their taking office. Finally, the Israeli government has decided to fight back: It has halted its 'strategic dialogue' with Britain until the law is changed. Israel has canceled its special strategic dialogue with Londo...

Israel halts 'dialogue' with UK over war crime law
Source: BBC News Israel is postponing "strategic dialogue" with Britain over defence and security issues, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said. The move is a Protest over attempts to use British law to prosecute visiting Israeli officials for alleged War Crimes, the spokesman added. The news comes on the first day of an official visit to Israel by the UK's Foreign Secretary William Hague. > An Arrest Warrant was issued through UK courts for Israeli former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in...

Israel ambushes Hague over arrest warrants
Israel and Britain moved last night to limit the damage of an Israeli diplomatic ambush that threatened to overshadow the first official visit to the Middle East by William Hague, the Foreign Secretary. British officials were infuriated yesterday when Mr Hague arrived in the region to be confronted with the news that Israel had unilaterally cancelled a series of high-level "strategic dialogue" meetings between the two countries. The move was a Protest against the UK's failure to block Arrest War...

Israel halts 'special strategic dialogue' with Britain to protest arrest warrants
British universal jurisdiction empowers judges to issue Arrest Warrants for nearly any visitor accused of War Crimes anywhere in the world; visiting Foreign Secretary William Hague wants law changed, Embassy says. ...

Israel sparks legal row during William Hague visit
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 November 2010 18.16 GMT William Hague met his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman during his first official visit to the country. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA Israel sparked a diplomatic row today on William Hague's first visit as Foreign Secretary by linking the postponement of a high-level meeting between the two countries to Israeli fears that officials and politicians could be Arrested in the UK over War Crimes claims. British officials were dismayed after b...

Israel halts 'dialogue' with UK
Israel is postponing "strategic dialogue" with Britain over defence and security issues, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said. The move is a Protest over attempts to use British law to prosecute visiting Israeli officials for alleged War Crimes, the spokesman added. The news comes on the first day of an official visit to Israel by the UK's Foreign Secretary William Hague. He will also be visiting the Occupied Palestinian Territories. An Arrest Warrant was issued through UK...

Arrest fears prompt Israel to relocate strategic forum with U.K.
U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague says Britain will soon change a law that has threatened Israeli officials with arrest for War Crimes if they visit Britain....

Arrest fears prompt Israel to relocate strategic forum with U.K.
U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague says Britain will soon change a law that has threatened Israeli officials with arrest for War Crimes if they visit Britain....

Hague breaks protocol to meet Palestinian activists
William Hague, the British Foreign Secretary, is to take the unusual step today of meeting Palestinian Activists involved in regular unarmed Protests and demonstrations against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Mr Hague, on his first visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories since becoming Foreign Secretary in May, is expected to hold talks with representatives from two West Bank villages whose residents hold regular Protests against the route of the Military's separatio...

Governor of Helmand Province in Afghanistan visits the UK
Gulabuddin Mangal, Governor of Helmand Province is taking part in a five day visit to the UK. Today, Governor Mangal met Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Foreign Secretary William Hague. Governor Mangal gave a first hand update on the campaign in Afghanistan, explaining how the Afghans are taking increasing responsibility for their own security. He also offered a sense of daily life in Helmand Province specifically, including progress and achievements. Later this week Governor Mangal will m...

Israel halts special dialogue with Britain to protest arrest warrants
Britain's universal jurisdiction empowers judges to issue Arrest Warrants for nearly any visitor accused of committing War Crimes anywhere in the world; visiting Foreign Secretary Hague wants law changed, says Embassy....

Israeli evades arrest at Heathrow over army war crime allegations
Scotland Yard was thwarted yesterday in its attempt to seize a former senior Israeli army officer at Heathrow Airport for alleged War Crimes in occupied Palestinian lands after a British Judge had issued a warrant for his arrest. British detectives were waiting for retired Major General Doron Almog who was aboard an El Al flight which arrived from Israel yesterday. It is believed he was tipped off about his impending arrest while in the air and stayed on the plane to avoid capture until it flew ...

Israel welcomes British promise to change controversial arrest law
U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague says Britain will soon change a law that has threatened Israeli officials with arrest for War Crimes if they visit Britain....

Iran says 'stoning woman' in good health
AFP Iran said on Wednesday that a woman sentenced to death by stoning is in perfect health and that her case is still being reviewed, amid fears her execution was imminent. Tehran also accused the West of "shamelessly" trying to pressure it over the case by turning it into a Human Rights issue. Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani is "currently in perfect health and is in Tabriz Prison. Her case is being reviewed in the Court of this province," said Malek Ajdar Sharifi, head of East Azarbaijan province...

Iran delays execution of 'stoning woman'
Farhad Pouladi, Agence France-Presse · Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 Tehran — Tehran accused the West of trying to pressurise it over the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, as a judiciary official said she was in “perfect health” and her case was still being reviewed. “They (Western nations) have become so shameless that they have turned the case of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, who has committed crime and Treason, into a Human Rights case against our na...

Israel cancels UK talks over arrest threat
Israel has suspended a special strategic dialogue with the UK as long as visiting Israeli officials face possible Arrest for suspected War Crimes against Palestinians, officials said yesterday. The announcement came as Foreign Secretary William Hague met senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem. Pro-Palestinian Activists have filed complaints against Israeli officials over Military operations. British courts have issued Arrest Warrants for Israeli officials, and though no-one has been arrested, a...

Israeli Officials Cancel High-Level Talks as British FM Arrives
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s office has sparked another international incident today as British officials condemn what it being called an “ambush” of Foreign Secretary William Hague during his official state visit. Just as Hague was arriving in Israel the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced that they were unilaterally canceling a number of high-level talks with Britain to punish the nation for continuing to claim the Right to prosecute Foreign war criminals. Th...

Israel to snub UNESCO in shrine dispute
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it will snub inspectors from the U.N. body that preserves world heritage sites during their upcoming visit to the West Bank. UNESCO has defined two sites there as Palestinian Mosques. Israel says they are Jewish holy sites as well. Israel’s deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, said on Thursday that Israel will not cooperate when the UNESCO delegation arrives. He says ties regarding other heritage sites have not changed. The most contentious of the sites...

Britain dismisses Iranian terror accusation
Tehran - Iran has arrested four people it alleges were paid by a Kurdish Militant based in Britain to carry out assassinations, state-run TV said on Thursday in a report that accused the U.K. of funding anti-Iranian “Terrorists”. The news coincided with the anniversary of the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran after the 1979 revolution — an event which has come to symbolise the Islamic Republic’s resistance to Western hostility to the Islamic Republic. Thousands of p...

British Targeted by al-Qaida Franchises
An associate of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was arrested earlier this year for allegedly planning a Terrorist Attack in Britain, UK Home Secretary Theresa May said on Wednesday in a Speech to the Royal United Services Institute in London. May spoke of the changing nature of the al-Qaida threat to Britain, explaining that al-Qaida is now weaker than any time since September 11, and "many other Terrorist groups now aspire to Attack us." AQAP has been "at the forefront" of those other...