Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Progetto legge del governo Israeliano: La collaborazione con la corte penale Internazionale punibile con 20 anni di galera

Pannella che dice?
E quella troiona della Del Ponte che farebbe, se la Yugoslavia
passasse una
legge simile?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=655&e=1&cid=655&u=/oneworld/20021030/wl_oneworld/1032_1035991549
War Crimes Debate in Israel Heats Up Again
Wed Oct 30,10:39 AM ET
Jim Lobe,OneWorld US
A three-month-old controversy in Israel over a peace group's efforts
to
collect evidence of alleged war crimes committed by the Israel Defense
Forces (IDF) against Palestinians intensified Tuesday when a senior
member
of the ruling Likud Party submitted a bill in Israel's parliament that
would make it a crime for any Israeli citizen to provide assistance,
documents or information to the new International Criminal Court (ICC)
at
the Hague (news - web sites).
The bill, which was presented by Zeev Boim, chairman of the governing
coalition, attaches a 10-year prison sentence to the proposed crime,
and
would ban any group found to be engaged in the activities it covers.
The coalition government, which may collapse before the bill can be
voted
on by all members of Israel's parliament, or Knesset, has not yet
decided
whether it will support it, although its provisions appear consistent
with
recent demands by the Minister of Justice, Me'ir Sheetrit, that a new
law
proscribing such activities be enacted, according to Israeli analysts.
But submission of the bill itself raises the controversy, which has
become
a major topic of talk shows and newspaper columns in Israel, to a new
level.
"This bill betrays the memory of six million Holocaust victims,"
declared
former Knesset member and peace activist Uri Avnery. "After the
Holocaust,
the Jewish people fought with all its strength for the creation of an
International War Crimes Court, and now the Sharon Government tries to
destroy it. This is tantamount to an admission that they have
something to
hide."
Israel is a signatory to the Rome Protocol that establishes the
ICC--the
world's first permanent international court to try war crimes, crimes
against humanity, and genocide--but has not yet ratified it. The
Protocol
took effect after its ratification by 60 nations last spring, and the
ICC
is expected to begin its work early next year.
The United States, which signed it in the last days of Bill Clinton's
presidency, renounced its signature last May and has sought a blanket
exemption from the ICC's scope. In addition, Washington is now
actively
seeking bilateral commitments from countries around the world not to
turn
over U.S. troops or officials to the ICC. Israel was among the first
of a
dozen nations that have signed such an agreement with Washington which
pledged in return not to turn over any Israeli soldiers to the new
court.
The proposed law is believed to be directed mainly against Gush
Shalom,
the Israeli Peace Bloc, which last summer warned 15 senior IDF
officers in
writing that certain operations they conducted against Palestinians as
reported by the Israeli media could be considered war crimes and that
Gush
Shalom was gathering information about those incidents.
The reported incidents included summary executions, dropping bombs on
residential areas, indiscriminate destruction of houses, and punishing
families for the acts of one of their members. They also included
incidents--many of which were detailed in a major new report released
by
the Israeli chapter of Physicians for Human Rights in Jerusalem
Tuesday--when the IDF prevented medical help from reaching those
injured
or shot at.
"The primary purpose of the letters was to make clear to the
commanders
the severity of such actions, in terms of Israeli and international
laws,
and to persuade them to desist from these actions," according to Gush
Shalom whose letters also warned that the Israeli government's failure
to
prosecute such cases in the future left open the possibility that they
might be referred to the ICC.
The letters set off a furious debate, with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
demanding that criminal action be pursued against Gush
Shalom members engaged in the project. An investigation by Attorney
General Elyakim Rubinstein, however, concluded that the group's
actions
did not violate any existing law. Sheetrit then called for a new law.
Gush Shalom has also been widely denounced as Israel's equivalent of
Kapos, the special Jewish police who helped the Nazis keep order in
concentration camps, and traitors guilty of "stabbing the army in the
back."
The Boim bill was denounced Tuesday by Gush Shalom as "despicable" and
dangerous. If passed in its current form, the group said, it could be
used
to prosecute human rights organizations for collecting evidence of
abuses
on the pretext that their reports might be taken up by the ICC.
"It would turn Israel into an international outcast - a country which
first signed the Rome Treaty and would now forbid its own citizens on
pain
of dire punishment from helping the same court," said spokesman Adam
Keller, who appealed to the Labour Party, which is considering leaving
the
governing coalition, to oppose the bill.
Pannella che direbbe?

A volte mi chiedo,ma gli ebrei a che secolo si sono fermati,anzi a che
millennio?io credo almeno un paio!!!!!

pain of dire punishment from helping the same court,
Esatto.  E questo perche' mai dovrebbe rendere Israele un "outcast"? :)
Moltissimi stati hanno segnato il trattato e non l'hanno poi ratificato
:)
-Stefano