Where's Gideon P? Have his tranqs kicked in?

Jehudah Ben-Israel

The Israeli tell us they have a god given right to the land that they live in... that seems to be the crux of the reasoning behind occupation.

You realise that most clear thinking people(without having a direct line to the divine) will be sceptical of your motives...?

I mean do you really think in the 21st century its acceptable to occupy, displace and ethnicly clense all because 'god' said so?

The extent to which this government will bend over to facilitate being shafted by Israeli military commercial and political interests, is without parallel. That such covert collusion damages British security by allowing a foreign state to collaborate at the highest levels in British military systems is to have abdicated the prime responsibility of government. Who gains from such arrangements is impossible to quantify.

You're full of it, Tom. Moronic, ill-informed crap. Go on, tell me how many Israelis donate to the Tory party. While you're at it, tell me how many donate to Labour.
You dimwit.

It is absolutely shocking and disgusting to see Livni viist the UK under special mission status. Surely, this cannot be right. Correct me if I am wrong you legal buffs but special mission status can only be accorded to governments not to individuals. I fail to understand why both Labour and the Tories continue to attach so much importance to the human rights of Israelis which seem to be valued above all others.

I doubt whether Ed Miliband would have acted differently. How is it that most politicians have a blind spot when it comes to Israel. He has yet to come out strongly on the issue of Palestine. Let us not forget too that under the Labour Party the position of the Palestinians worsened. We now have close to 500.000 Israelis living in illegal settlements.

An American, you're completely loopy-or a thirteen year old having a laugh.

The behavior of Ken Clarke and Edward Garnier does not pass a stinky-test: “Ken Clarke and Edward Garnier met with Livni in Israel and pledged to change the law once in government; they are now the Secretary of State for Justice and Solicitor-General respectively.”
For what exactly reason the UK needs to abrogate the law? – To please the bully?
Western civilization has had enough already with the ideas of the “obsolete” Geneva Conventions and “unnecessary” habeas corpus. (Lord Goldsmith has justly earned his infamy by being servile to the pious Tony). Somebody needs to remind Israel that “never again” is related to humanity at large and not just to the “chosen.”

Its always unwise to shoot 'the messenger' whoever it is. More intrguing is: what was the message that Livni was delivering?
Hess was I believe also on a 'special mission' in 1940. But he ended up in prison.
And what is the difference between say an Israeli citizen persona non grata and Robert Mugabe? We need answers.

Why is it that one reads between the lines a sense of resentment of the fact that officials of the liberal democratic nation-state of the Jewish people, Israel, and members of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) will renew their regular visits to the United Kingdom...??

Jehuda
A war criminal is a war criminal, Israeli or not.
Ben's article is opinion based on fact,not resentment.
We will not be gagged from expressing our views on any nation.

Keep up the good work Ben. I salute your couragre in addressing some of the wrongs of international Mafia Governments.

Ben White is consumed by his own bias. That being the case, he wouldn't know a fact in this case if it poked him in the eye.

If one takes White seriously every Hamas, Hezbollah and PLO leader in the UK should be arrested too.

But that's hardly likely, is it with White shilling for them.

Well done Ben, for revealing all the twists and turns that the UK Government and its co-players in Israel and over here (BICOM, The Israeli Embassy etc) will go through to ensure that its close ally Israel will side- step international law and universal jurisdiction, to continue with their impunity and daily war crimes.This dangerous alteration of a hard-won law to suit a foreign country's illegal behaviour will have repercussions when the need to arrest war criminals of other countries arise. If those arrests are made and approved by the DPS, it will highlight the special status afforded to Israel, so one can really ask then "Why is Israel always singled out, when other states' human rights are just as bad if not worse?"

"It is bloody disgusting that the evil witch Livni...".

Does the poster hold in as much contempt the mass murderers of the Muslim-Arab independent region of Gaza?

Indeed, does the poster hold in as much in contempt the Head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and of the Palestinian Authority (PA, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas for retain the law that prohibit Arabs from selling real estate to Jews, only because they are Jewish, a racist law whose violation is punishable by death? So far a number of Arabs have been killed for the "crime" of selling their private real property to Jews!!

And, incidentally, this is the same Mahmoud Abbas who, in 2008, rejected a peace offer negotiated by Ms. Livni and her boss at the time, Mr. Olmert and handed over to Mr. Abbas, never to even receive a yes or a no answer.

Thus, "the evil witch" is actually involved in a futile attempt to reach an accommodation of peaceful coexistence between Arab and Jew, between the Muslim-Arab world and the nation-state of the Jewish people, Israel. But the person facing her continues to kill Arabs who sell real property to Jews, a racist and inhumane way of governance, wouldn't the poster agree...??

She will "co-operate"! The daughter of the rnowned Irgun Supremo, a trusted operative of Menhaem Begin, produced a dayghter that could make her parents crawl in their grave. Her lust for power, is demonic. She got a useless party of local defectors, the second rate politcos, the crumbs that fell of the politcal table of Israel around her, not a single person with any vision, and she took the leadership, once Ehood Olmert blew it during the Lebanon War. The Euro Socialists and the "Conservative in name only", like to mingle with weak opportunitst like her. She does not make demands, does not make them feel uncomfortable and will not stand for anything, like them. She is no different to hague, Baroso or Cameron. A person who has no vision, no platform and no loyalty. Israelis can only hope that sh will implode, like her buddy new Socialist Part "Leader", Ms. Shelly Yachimovitch, a fomer Voice of Israel Radio "reporter", much like the infamous BBC operatives with declared agenda. Let the cat fight begin.