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By Paul Woodward | March 4, 2010

To hear it from the Israeli press you’d think that the British
government can now makes changes to the law simply by having the prime
minister write an op-ed.

Last December an arrest warrant was issued for former Israeli
foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, when she was expected to arrive in
Britain. According to Haaretz, she no longer needs to fear getting
hand-cuffed for alleged war crimes — at least not on trips to the UK:

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced on Thursday plans
to stop politically-motivated campaign groups from securing arrest
warrants for visiting foreign officials. In a March 3 editorial in the
Daily Telegraph, Brown wrote, “Britain will continue to take action to
prosecute or extradite suspected war criminals – regardless of their
status or power… But the process by which we take action must guarantee
the best results. The only question for me is whether our purpose is
best served by a process where an arrest warrant for the gravest crimes
can be issued on the slighte... >>>