{"id":33395,"date":"2011-05-08T18:59:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=33395"},"modified":"2014-01-06T01:39:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:39:25","slug":"netanyahus-military-adviser-skips-visit-to-u-k-over-fears-hed-be-arrested-on-war-crimes-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/05\/08\/netanyahus-military-adviser-skips-visit-to-u-k-over-fears-hed-be-arrested-on-war-crimes-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu\u2019s Military Adviser Skips Visit to U.K. Over Fears He\u2019d Be Arrested on \u201cWar Crimes\u201d Charges\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33396\" title=\"LockerLockedOut\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LockerLockedOut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LockerLockedOut.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LockerLockedOut-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/>Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu\u2019s military secretary, Maj.-Gen. Yohanan Locker, did not accompany Netanyahu on his trip to London last week, out of concern he might be arrested there, Channel 1 reported.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Locker is a permanent member of Netanyahu\u2019s entourage, but he was warned that since the British law on universal jurisdiction had not yet been changed, he <strong>might be detained upon landing in the UK over alleged war crimes that human rights groups have accused Israel of committing during Operation Cast Lead.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Locker &#8211; who accompanies Netanyahu everywhere he goes, inside Israel and out &#8211; opted out of the Prime Minister&#8217;s entourage after he received a recommendation to do so. Locker was the chief of staff of the Israel Air Force in operation Cast Lead and would therefore be a prime target for\u00a0anti-Israeli &#8220;lawfare&#8221; abroad.<\/div>\n<div><strong>In 2009, Tzipi Livni reportedly canceled a trip to England out of similar concerns. Livni was foreign minister during Cast Lead.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>British law allows private citizens to secure arrest warrants for visiting foreign officials whom they accuse of war crimes or crimes against humanity.<\/strong> Pro-Hamas activists have been trying to use this law to harass Israeli officials who travel to London.<\/div>\n<div><strong>The British government under Prime Minister David Cameron has begun to enact legislation to curb\u00a0British magistrates\u2019 powers of \u201cuniversal jurisdiction,&#8221; making it impossible for a private British citizen to have a foreign official arrested without government cooperation.<\/strong> An amendment to this effect was approved by the House of Commons in April and has been sent to the House of Lords for final approval.<br \/>\n(IsraelNationalNews.com)<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu\u2019s military secretary, Maj.-Gen. Yohanan Locker, did not accompany Netanyahu on his trip to London last week, out of concern he might be arrested there, Channel 1 reported. Locker is a permanent member of Netanyahu\u2019s entourage, but he was warned that since the British law on universal jurisdiction had not yet been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":33396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,94],"tags":[5467,3803,657,5466],"class_list":["post-33395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","category-uk","tag-british-law","tag-netanyahu","tag-tzipi-livni","tag-yohanan-locker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}