On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged that he would protect Israeli war criminals from international justice. Since then, the Israeli government has been frantically trying to prevent charges from being laid, forbidding its Ministers and military officers from travelling overseas and censoring the media to remove all identifying information about military personnel who participated in or were responsible for the attack on Gaza. But its not just the international community who wants to see justice for Gaza; a group of anonymous Israeli human rights activists have launched a site outing the responsible parties and documenting their crimes. You can read it here.
Hopefully none of these people will ever darken New Zealand's shores. But if they do, NZ does claim universal jurisdiction over grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and we should exercise it.
