The way the world goes after Israelis for war crimes, you’d think no one is ever killed in conflicts anywhere else in the world.

The latest attempt to target Israelis for harassment is being carried out by a group of lawyers representing Palestinian groups in the UK who have asked a British court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli defense chief Ehud Barak, who is there meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other officials, the Associated Press reports.

This bunch filed papers accusing Barak of violating the Geneva conventions and committing war crimes while directing last year’s offensive against Gaza Strip.

No one, it seems, is calling for the arrest of the terrorists whose constant shelling of Israeli cities prompted the offensive. A shock, I know.

A spokesman for the group said “anybody suspected of war crimes should be brought to justice,” but fails to note that Hamas was also accused war crimes before and during that conflict.

If we’re going to start arresting every leader whose nation has ever killed people in war, police would have been awfully busy at last week’s U.N. General Assembly, it seems to me.

Barak is but the latest Israeli official threatened with arrest over war crimes charges abroad, AP reports.

In 2005 a retired general dodged arrest by staying aboard his plane at London’s Heathrow airport after being tipped off that police were outside to arrest him, AP reports. The allegations stemmed from his role as commander of the Israeli army in Gaza in 2002, when Israeli forces destroyed 59 houses that Israel said were used by militants.

The report also notes that in December 2007, Israel’s public security minister declined an invitation to visit Britain after being advised he could be arrested for his role in the 2002 assassination of a senior Hamas terrorist in Gaza.

AP also reports that earlier this year, a Spanish court dropped a judge’s investigation into the same airstrike, saying Spain lacked jurisdiction. Complaints also have also been filed in Britain against two former Israeli military chiefs in connection with the same airstrike.
In 2001, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was tried in absentia — though not convicted — in Belgium, in connection with a 1982 massacre in two Beirut Palestinian refugee camps that were actually carried out by Lebanese Christian militants.

Where are the war crimes arrest of Muammar Gaddafi for his role in blowing up a commercial airliner over Scotland or paying Palestinian families to send their children to kill Jewish civilians on suicide missions, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his role in funding and supplying known terrorist organizations the world over?

There are too many examples to cite of world leaders and military personnel who were responsible for civilian deaths everywhere, and yet only Israel’s are being publicly harassed in nations having no dog in the Middle East fight.

Despite the stupidity of the harassment, it gets on the news every time, adding ammunition to those inclined to believe that sort of tripe, and riling up the insane, anti-Semitic masses.

Why isn’t the other side responding in kind? There is no percentage in trying to take the high road here. This is war, make no mistake. People vote with their opinions.

It’s not as though there aren’t enough Jewish lawyers. I think Jews worldwide should be filing legal papers against any-and-everyone with even the slightest connection to civilian deaths anywhere. Suits should be filed for libel, slander or incitement by way of anti-Semitic or anti-Western rhetoric, and huge press conferences called.

I say we do it relentlessly until the other side agrees to lay off or the world at large gets the picture and makes it stop. Two can play that game.

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