Haaretz: "AG scotches inquiry in Gush Shalom's 'extortion' of soldiers"

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A few days after a full-page advertisement appeared in Haaretz of
international supporters of Gush Shalom - among them a lot of Jewish
organizations and personalities -Gush Shalom was directly addressed (for the
first time!) in the case of the governmental campaign against Gush Shalom
because of the warning letters to soldiers about war crimes.

Here follows the Haaretz report from the English-language internet version

Thursday, September 19, 2002 Tishrei 13, 5763 Israel Time:  01:41  (GMT+3)  
  
    Last update - 00:27 19/09/2002 
 
 
AG scotches inquiry in Gush Shalom's 'extortion' of soldiers 
 
By Baruch Kra, Ha'aretz Correspondent 
 
 
 
 
Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein has notified peace movement Gush Shalom
that for the moment he will not order an inquiry against it, after the
movement sent letters to IDF officers warning that it is collecting evidence
about actions that took place under their command in the territories. 

The letters warned that the evidence was intended for submission to the
International Criminal Court in The Hague, on suspicion that the officers
committed war crimes. Rubinstein said however that the letters could be a
violation of extortion laws. 

Rubinstein's assistant, attorney Ran Nizri, recently sent a letter to Gush
Shalom stating that letters of the sort sent by the movement "could be in
violation of extortion laws as their aim is to coerce IDF officers into
refraining from legal acts... within the framework of their military roles." 

"However," Nizri continued, "after examining the legal and public aspects of
the issue, the prosecution has decided not to initiate legal procedures
against [the movement] for the moment and to warn that if further such letters
are sent to IDF officers they will be reviewed by the attorney general." 

Gush Shalom replied: "As Mr. Rubinstein hopes to be appointed in the near
future to the Supreme Court he did not dare disappoint [Prime Minister] Sharon
and [Justice Minister] Sheetrit. Therefore, after finding that there was no
legal basis to prosecute the Gush Shalom activists, he added an empty warning
that suggests that Gush Shalom is engaged in intimidation."

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=209679&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0


 
 
 




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