The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Israel’s minister must now face ICC war crimes charges re flotilla killings

    The United Nations official enquiry has now reported that there is clear evidence that Israel committed crimes within article 147 of the fourth Geneva Convention: wilful killing; torture or inhuman treatment; wilfully causing great suffering and serious injury to body or health.

     

    There should now be no doubt that the minister who authorised the killings, Ehud Barak, must be brought before the International Criminal Court to face justice, if he should set foot in any European state, including the UK, where it has been proposed to modify the law on Universal Jurisdiction.