(Shimon) Peres Slams Belgian Decision

Israel National News ^ | 12 February 2003

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Peres Slams Belgian Decision

(IsraelNN.com) MK (Labor) Shimon Peres, a former prime minister and foreign minister, slammed the Belgian High Court decision that once out of office, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may be tried for war crimes.

Peres stated that Belgium has not endured what Israel has endured and it may not place itself as the judge of history.

Arabs are using the Belgian international jurisdiction law to have Sharon held accountable for war crimes related to the 1982 massacre in Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon.

[Cicero]

Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost
Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host.
Hear how the demons chuckle and yell
Cutting his hands off, down in Hell.

--Vachel Lindsay, "The Congo"

[The Electrician]

Under the cockeyed theory employed by the court, there's an even stronger case that the court should indict Boutros Boutros-Ghali for war crimes based on the massacre of civilians in Srebrenica during 1995 under the noses and "protection" of the UN blue helmets.

These people always seem to want to shift the blame from the actual perpetrators of a crime to someone else who was not responsible for it.

[Beck_isright]

Agreed. And the french (lower case intentional) who stood and watched as the slaughter commenced in Rwanda.

[Oztrich Boy]

The Axis of Evil: N Korea, Iraq, Libya, Belgium.

Yeah that sounds right.

[MarkL]

Or, of course, Arafat, for his terrorist attacks, since the 1970s!

Mark

[WOSG]

Axis of Weasels: Belguim, France, Germany.
or
Axis of Egos.