Legal Affairs
Two-year-old Alta Fixler is unable to eat, drink or breathe unassisted; in May, a British court ruled that she be taken off life support, against the wishes of her Orthodox Jewish parents.
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Richard F. Natonski: Israel did everything it could to minimize civilian casualties, despite the fact that Hamas put tunnels, rocket-launchers, mortar facilities and headquarters in civilian-occupied buildings. But another battle at play is the war of public opinion.
“This anti-Semitism comes from the far-right, from the far-left, from our working-class districts, from the Arab-Muslim world under the guise of hatred for Israel and for Jews. We must eradicate anti-Semitism from our society,” said France’s former Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
Families who lost loved ones could be allocated up to 130,000 shekels ($40,000) per casualty; in a letter to the Knesset Finance Committee head, National Insurance Institute director cites the Versailles wedding venue accident as precedent.
The release in 2018 of suspect Hassan Diab, faced opposition by civil-society groups in France, including pro-Israel organizations.
Andrew Dymock, 23, of Bath, is accused of being part of the now-banned extremist groups System Resistance Network (SRN) and Sonnenkrieg Division.
“We’re seeing incredible support from Eastern Europe, but some of the Western European countries have really taken a harsh stance,” said Josh Reinstein, head of the Israel Allies Foundation and the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus. “We’re not going to let the Jewish state be singled out.”
Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, lauded the decision, saying “Jews returning to producing wine in their indigenous homeland is something to be celebrated, not stigmatized.”
“In short, this report is tantamount to an anti-Semitic ‘blood libel’ against the Jewish state,” said Arsen Ostrovsky, an international human-rights lawyer and CEO of the International Legal Forum, of the 217-page 2021 Human Rights Watch report.
Eric Dupond-Moretti said the bill will fill the “juridical void,” making it impossible to “take account of the voluntary intake of toxic substances” that leads to delirium during a crime.
The Minneapolis police officer was found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
“We do not accept that the ICC has jurisdiction in this instance, given that Israel is not a party to the Statute of Rome and Palestine is not a sovereign state,” wrote British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
