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European countries to similarly
change their laws.
"One of the tactics is to point
out that a law used against Israel
can be used against everybody
else he said, such as Tibetan sym-
pathizers suing China.
Steinberg added that Israel
Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman has already said he
would urge European countries to
stop funding Palestinian NGOs that
have been pressing these lawsuits.
When Israeli Defense Minister
Ehud Barak was in Britain three
weeks ago, two of those groups, Al
Hag and Al Mezan, sought to file
war crimes charges against him.
British authorities refused, howev-
er, saying he was there on official
business and thus had diplomatic
immunity.
Steinberg said European govern-
ments fund both of those groups.
"There have been at least a dozen
such cases around the world
involving Israelis:' he said.
"All of the cases were dismissed.
The whole purpose of this is to
present Israelis as war criminals.
Nobody expects that Israelis will
actually be brought to trial, but
what they want is to have that
label. The Goldstone Report is just
another aspect of that."
Yuval Shany, a visiting professor
of law at Columbia University Law
School, doesn't believe European
countries will change their laws in
"the foreseeable future
David Rivkin, a partner at Baker
Hostetler in Washington, D.C., said
the cases that were brought against
Israeli officials in Europe "under-
score the extent to which foreign
prosecutions are undertaken with-
out a full appreciation of the rel-
evant facts and circumstances:'
Those can be best ascertained,
he said, "by the military com-
manders operating within the con-
text of the military justice system."
But Rivkin said such prosecu-
tions "even if not politically driven
... can impact adversely the ability
of officials from a sovereign state
to do such basic things as travel.
That is a bad thing.
"Critics often argue that this is
a way to bolster compliance with
humanitarian norms. I happen
to think that this is a specious
argument, because in law-abiding
states like the U.S. and Israel there
are more than enough deterrent"
factors. "

Congressman Sander Levin • CountyTreasurer Andy Meisner • State Senator Gilda
Jacobs • State Representative Vicki Barnett • State Representative Lisa Brown •
State Representative Ellen Cogen Lipton • County Commissioner Helaine Zack

• Mayor of Southfield (200 I -present)
• Southfield City Council (1997-2001)
Served as Council President
• Southfield School Board (1992-1996)
Served as Board President
• Trustee, U.S. Conference of Mayors
• Board Member, Michigan Association
of Mayors
• Board Member, Providence Hospital
• BA in Public Administration, CMU

Southfield Mayor Brenda Lawrence was proud to be inducted by the Mayor
offerusalem into the Order of Mayors United in Friendship for Jerusalem
following an International Mayors Mission to Israel in 2005.

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