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Monday, August 10, 2009

IDF official visiting S. Africa targeted for prosecution

JTA
A former South African Cabinet minister and two NGOs are calling for the war crimes prosecution of an Israeli soldier visiting the country.

David Benjamin, a former South African who is a lieutenant colonel in the Israel Defense Forces, came to South Africa to speak at three Limmud events on the subject of legal issues of warfare.

Activist Zackie Achmat called the invitation of Benjamin, who was the IDF’s legal adviser on Gaza from 2001 to 2005, “the equivalent of inviting Sudanese President Ali Bashir to a conference on genocide.”...

... a former South African intelligence minister, Communist Party leader Ronnie Kasrils, who is Jewish, submitted a 3,500-page “Gaza docket” to a variety of government bodies calling for the prosecution of Benjamin and 70 other former South Africans living in Israel who hold dual citizenship... Full story

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