Britain rolls out red carpet for Zionist war crimes suspect

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LONDON, Oct 7: Just weeks after Britain changed the British Universal Jurisdiction Act to protect the Israeli officials and keeping them away from fear of being arrested as war criminals , the Zionist official set foot on British soil . Britain's foreign minister William Hague (right) with Livni, Oct 6 Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni was welcomed by British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Thursday as a special guest. Ignoring the growing calls by the British activists , Hague slammed the attempts to prosecute the Zionist opposition leader as war criminal , labeling it as appalling. "It was an appalling situation when political abuse of our legal procedures prevented people like [her] from travelling legitimately to the UK," he said. "Today's meeting showed the warmth and strength of our bilateral relations." This came as Pro Palestinian campaign groups, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Friends of Al-Aqsa had called rallies outside the Downing Street to “tell the government that they must arrest war criminals, not invite them to London.” The British media consider Livni's visit a test to the recent amendments to the Universal Jurisdiction law that require the judiciary to issue arrest warrants based on individual lawsuits for the prosecution of war criminals only after the approval of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Westminster Crown Court issued an arrest warrant for Livni on a request from human rights lawyers two years ago which forced her to cancel his British visit over fears of facing detention. Critics of the Universal Jurisdiction law amendment say the British government has changed the regulations under pressure from the Israeli officials.