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February 23, 2004
Netanyahu: Palestinian terrorism should be on trial

JERUSALEM POST: Netanyahu: Palestinian terrorism should be on trial

Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday delivered a sharp message to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, currently debating Israel's security fence.

"It is not the killers and their dispatchers who are put on trial, it is the victims. We shouldn't be in The Hague on trial. It's the Palestinian terror regime and terrorist organizations that should be there. That's the right order of things," Netanyahu said.

Speaking at a tourism conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said he had a message for those sitting on the court. "You have no right to serve as the moral conscience of the Jewish people. We have our own conscience. Now our conscience tells us that saving our own lives is more important than preserving somebody else's quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent," he said.

Netanyahu said Israel was working to save the lives of Jewish people. "However, respected judges in Europe are claiming that that the Jewish state has no right to defend itself from murderers."

Posted by Laurence Simon at February 23, 2004 01:18 PM | TrackBack
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