(Jerusalem Post Jan 5, 2010 ) Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon met with Britain's Attorney-General Baroness Scotland of Asthal in Jerusalem on Tuesday, to discuss the issue of changing UK law to prevent the arrest of Israeli officials and officers.

During the meeting, Baroness Scotland said that she is aware of the importance that Israel attributes to finding an urgent solution to this problem, and that the British are currently considering different courses of action aimed at solving the problem.

Ayalon called the current situation "insufferable," and said, "This will make it difficult for the two countries to maintain a normal relationship."

The deputy foreign minister also bewailed the manipulation that organizations hostile to Israel were making of British law to carry out their goals. He stressed that most Israeli citizens - not just political figures and high-ranking officers - serve in the IDF. It goes against Britain's best interests, he said, to deter Israelis from visiting the country.

Shortly before the meeting it was revealed that a delegation of IDF officers canceled a planned visit to the UK last week, after the British hosts failed to guarantee that arrest warrants would not be issued against the invitees.  Read full story at source

29 December 2009 UN News Center – The United Nations independent expert on Palestinian rights has again called for a threat of economic sanctions against Israel to force it to lift its blockade of Gaza, which is preventing the return to a normal life for 1.5 million residents after the devastating Israeli offensive a year ago.

“Obviously Israel does not respond to language of diplomacy, which has encouraged the lifting of the blockade and so what I am suggesting is that it has to be reinforced by a threat of adverse economic consequences for Israel,” Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, told UN Radio.

The commander in chief of the United States armed forces recieved today the Nobel peace medal and man-of-peace certficiate in Oslo. Must be a joke, you would say.

Well, it does sound like a joke, or at least, sounds like a bizarr news item in ight of last weeks news: The man just sent 30,000 more US soldiers to Afghanistan, bringing total number of the occupation force there to 100,000 man and woman. The winnr also managed to persuade other countries to send troops there, raising another 10,000 soldeirs in a week. He could easily qualify for getting the prize of best worrior:

He is the commander in chief of yet another war, down in Iraq, waged and perpetrated based on lies and propoganda about weapons of "mass destruction" that were never found until this day. That other war has resulted so far in the destruction en mass of the lives of millions of people.

With the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by all members of the European Union, Europe is moving one big step ahead along its integration path, or what could better be called the  process of "European sneaky federalism". 

Europe has a president for the Council, and has  a high representative for foreign and security policy. Congratulations!

There might be lots of debate about what these labels actually cover, as well as to the cons and pros of such new positions, and JungleLaw intends to survey this debate soon. However, before one gets to evaluating the posts themselves, we have to pause a bit and notice the way these figures were put in place, because it is  indeed very distrubing, to say the least.

You may observe that they were not elected by the peoples of Europe. Neither was the president of the EU comission, nor any of the judges sitting on the all powerful European Court of Justice. Same goes for the president of the European Central Bank. That is to say, non of the officials of new Europe were ever elected by the citizenship. They were all selected.