Wednesday, December 18, 2013

13-12-18 China, US, Israel - Bank of China case - beginning of the end of US hegemony in Israel and beyond?

UPDATE: 13-12-18 Chinese triangulation successful, causing Israel-US rift again 
Regardless of Israel's awkward position in this case, the US initiative to claim jurisdiction over actions of Bank of China in China is so 1990s... The US is trying to assert hegemony on world banking, while its own banking regulation is notoriously corrupt, inflicting worldwide economic depression, and while China is promoting de-Americanization of the world economy.


1) Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.564076

Bank of China affair || U.S. family accuses Israel of bowing to Chinese pressure in anti-terrorism case

Lawyers for family of teen killed in 2006 bombing in Tel Aviv ask U.S. court to order Israeli testimony on China’s role in facilitating terrorist funding.

By  Dec. 17, 2013 | 11:00 PM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech during a gala dinner in Shanghai, May 6, 2013.
2) YNet News

 

US court urged to reject Israeli attempt to silence witness

After Israel back tracks from support of anti-terror funding case against Chinese bank citing security concerns, parents of US teenager killed in suicide bombing file motion claiming Netanyahu buckling to pressure from China despite past support, revealing Israel has secret anti-terror funding Mossad unit
Nahum Barnea
Published: 12.18.13, 09:02 / Israel News
Lawyers for the family of an American teenager killed in a 2006 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv urged a US court on Tuesday to reject an attempt by Israel to muzzle a witness in an anti-terrorism case, court documents showed.

The lawsuit revolves around allegations that Bank of China knowingly allowed Palestinian terrorists to use its accounts to finance their operations, including the suicide attack that killed 16-year-old Daniel Wultz, and 10 others. Bank of China denies the allegations.

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3) J-Post

'Netanyahu broke personal promise to let gov't agent testify against Bank of China'

LAST UPDATED: 12/17/2013 17:45

Official in PM's office promised terror victim's family that Netanyahu would let gov't agent testify, family's lawyers tell court.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gives a speech during a gala dinner in Shanghai , May 6
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gives a speech during a gala dinner in Shanghai , May 6 Photo: REUTERS
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised a terror victim’s family, through a telephone call from a member of his office, that he would allow former government agent Uzi Shaya to testify against the Bank of China in a major US terror financing case, according to a response filed by the family’s lawyers on Tuesday.
The response, obtained by The Jerusalem Post and filed in a US federal court for the District of Columbia, said Jordana Cutler of the Prime Minister’s Office made the call on April 1, 2012 to the parents of terror victim Daniel Wultz.
Then, on May 14, 2012, then-Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren called US Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida) to confirm Shaya would testify, the lawyers said.
This all occurred after Ros-Lehtinen had personally delivered a letter to Netanyahu from the Wultz family in March 2012, according to the response.
































4) Time

Netanyahu Accused of Favoring China Over Plaintiffs in U.S. Terrorism Case

Israeli government says a former official can't testify for reasons of national security
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu built his political career as a tireless battler of terrorism. His first foray into public life was creating the Jonathan Netanyahu Anti-Terror Institute, named for the older brother killed in the 1976 commando raid that freed 100 Israeli hostages in Uganda. Of the five books Netanyahu has written without co-authors, three have Terrorismin the title.
In light of Netanyahu’s history, the families who lost children in a suicide bombing and a terrorist-shooting rampage say they were surprised at Netanyahu’s government blocking crucial testimony in a U.S. court case aimed at punishing a Chinese bank alleged to have knowingly funneled the funds that paid for the attacks. The situation is all the more upsetting, they say, because they brought the lawsuits at the suggestion of the Israeli government in the first place.
“I’m just hurt and surprised by the sudden turnaround,” says Naftali Moses, whose 16-year-old son was killed in a mass shooting at a Jerusalem yeshiva carried out by the Palestinian militant group Hamas in March 2008. “On the surface it seems that there’s some kind of deal that has been cut with China to stifle this court case in exchange for some kind of quid pro quo.”

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