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BEIRUT: A former Zio-Nazi defense minister left the U.K. over the weekend hours before British activists could serve him with an arrest warrant for war crimes committed during the 2006 war, Yedioth Ahronot daily reported Wednesday.
Under British legislation, local magistrates can issue arrest warrants for crimes that fall under universal jurisdiction, including war crimes, rather than having to seek approval from the state prosecutor.
In 2009, lawyers working for activists succesfully issued an warrant for Zio-Nazi Opposition leader Tzipi Livni.
Sources told Yedioth Ahronot that Amir Peretz had been advised to cancel his trip to London over the weekend over the arrest warrants. But Peretz rejected the request, claiming that “by doing so, he would admit defeat.”
According to reports, Zio-Nazi Peretz pretended to cancel a speech at London University in order to put off “anti-Nazi activists” he had been told planned to ambush him.
“Peretz then traveled to the U.K. and fulfilled his other engagements, keeping a low profile. He spoke before an Israeli business club, and met with representatives of London’s Jewish community,” the newspaper reported, adding that Peretz had pushed back his date of return in an attempt to escape the arrest warrant, which was issued after he had left.
Zio-Nazi Peretz told Yedioth Ahronot that he did not intent to run away from anyone, adding that he refused to be provoked by “extremist organizations.”
“But I also don’t intend to fall into the provocative traps of extremist organizations, whose unrestrained positions that even I, as a man of peace, refuse to accept,” Zio-Nazi Peretz said.
