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/
3) J-Post
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
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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 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 Terrori
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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