{"id":5741,"date":"2015-08-15T12:31:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T11:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5741"},"modified":"2015-08-15T12:31:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T11:31:22","slug":"45000-sign-online-petition-to-arrest-netanyahu-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/45000-sign-online-petition-to-arrest-netanyahu-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"45,000 sign online petition to arrest Netanyahu in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Neta\"<\/a>A petition calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for \u2018war crimes\u2019 when he arrives in London next month has been signed by over 45,000 people in a report in RT today.
\nNetanyahu will visit London as part of a state visit in September and meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron.
\nAccording to Jewish News, the Iranian nuclear deal and the deadlocked\u00a0 Israel-Palestine peace process will be key issues on the agenda during the visit.
\nThe petition which is\u00a0 on the UK Parliament website, demands Netanyahu\u2019s arrest upon arrival for \u201cthe massacre of over 2,000 civilians in 2014.\u201d
\nIn the summer of 2014, Israel launched a bloody attack against Gaza that massacred nearly 2,300 Palestinians, the majority of which were civilians, 500 of them children.
\nThe attack crippled Gaza\u2019s infrastructure and left over 500,000 people homeless or displaced.
\nThe government will be forced to respond since the petition has received over 10,000 signatures. If it surpasses 100,000, Parliament could debate the issue.
\nDespite the petition however, under diplomatic immunity laws, Netanyahu is protected from arrest in Britain for crimes committed in foreign countries.
\nA Foreign Ministry spokesperson has dismissed the petition, calling it a \u201cmeaningless\u201d publicity stunt that has \u201cno practical significance.\u201d and that, “bilateral ties between Britain and Israel are closer than ever before.\u201d
\nAccording to the Jerusalem Post, some former Israeli officials have been at risk of arrest in Britain as pro-Palestinian activists in the UK \u201ctake advantage of legal loopholes.\u201d
\nPreviously, the law allowed complaints of alleged war crimes committed elsewhere to be lodged against military personnel even if they were not British citizens however the law was changed in 2011,\u00a0 making it more difficult to obtain arrest warrants against Israeli figures by requiring the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
\nPrevious targets have included the former Defense Minister Ehud Barak and former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\r\n