Sunday, October 25, 2009

Israel Pushes to change law of war

The prime minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, recently ordered his government to start up plans for a world wide compaign in order to lobby for changes in the international law in regards to war. This order came after a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday to discuss Israel's responce to the UN's report that condemned Israeli action in the Gaza War. There was also a special group formed specifically to deal with possible legal actions against Israeli officials and war crime trials abroad. According to the Israeli government, international law should be amended in order to fight global terrorism. Israel's defense minister also agrees and says that the amendment of international law would be of interest to anyone wanting to fight terroism and that the government wanted to give the Israeli militar"full backing to have the freedom of action"

By: Aminat Odunewu

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