War Crimes Tribunal and Israeli war criminals
http://rehmat1.com/2013/06/21/war-crimes-tribunal-and-israeli-war-criminals/
On June 14, 2013, Marlise Simons reported in the pro-Israel New York Times that judge Frederik Harhoff, 64, of Denmark in a letter to 56 fellow judges and lawyers at the UN War Crime Tribunal in Hague has accused court’s current president Theodor Meron, for pressuring the fellow judges to acquit certain official accused of war crimes.“Judge Meron has led a push for raising the bar for conviction in such cases,” prosecutors say, “to the point where a conviction has become nearly impossible.” Critics say he misjudged the crucial roles played by the high-level accused and has set legal precedents that will protect military commanders in the future.International attorney and analyst John Whitbeck comments that both Israel and the United States are “world leaders in the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace,” and that their officials “would prefer to see the bar for criminal convictions raised to a level which offers them continued impunity.”Theodor Meron, 83, is a Jewish US-Israeli citizen. He took the presidency on March 1, 2012. His tenure will end in 2016. Before immigrating to the U.S., Meron was a member of the Israeli Foreign Service and served as Israeli Ambassador to Canada and to the United Nations in Geneva. He also served as Legal Counsel to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.In 1967 Meron wrote a secret memorandum of law to Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol stating that creating Israeli settlements on occupied territory would be a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, contrary to international law and, hence, a war crime. The memorandum was not made public either by the Zionist regime or Meron.According to Wickileaks cable dated July 27, 2003, judge Meron as president of the ICTY, asked a US diplomate not to extend term of US Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, because he disagreed with her.

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