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Israel is right to be concerned
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star by Rami Khouri - (Opinion) November 6, 2010 - 12:00am We can learn much from the Israeli government’s decision this week to suspend a special strategic dialog with the United Kingdom because of concerns that Israeli officials could be arrested and indicted with crimes against humanity in the UK, according to a British law that provides for “universal jurisdiction” in such cases, i.e., a suspect of any country can be charged, detained and tried in a British court even if the alleged crimes occurred in a third country and did not include British citizens among the victims. |
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For Family of Slain Activist, No End in Sight for Case
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Ethan Bronner - November 7, 2010 - 12:00am HAIFA, Israel — Seven years after an American student, Rachel Corrie, was killed in Gaza by an Israeli military bulldozer she tried to block, becoming a global symbol of the Palestinian struggle, her parents and her older sister sit in an Israeli court in this northern city with two hopes: to confront the men who ran over her and to prove that the army investigation into her death was flawed. |