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Wed 12 Dec 2009Israeli-British tensions rise as Livni arrest warrant issued
ISRAEL EMBARKED on a diplomatic offensive against Britain yesterday after it was revealed former foreign minister Tzipi Livni cancelled a trip to London when a British court issued an arrest warrant over her role in alleged war crimes during Israel’s war in Gaza last year.
Britain’s ambassador to Israel Tom Phillips was summoned to the foreign ministry in Jerusalem and reprimanded. Israeli officials told him Britain should amend its laws to stop such warrants.
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