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        11/5/2009, Cheshvan 18, 5770

      Netanyahu: Weapons Ship a War Crime


      Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the ship Israel seized with a weapons shipment from Iran to Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon constituted a war crime.

      Speaking at a news conference at the Defense Ministry's headquarters in Tel Aviv, the prime minister said, "This is the war crime that the United Nations General Assembly - which is meeting today to discuss the Goldstone report - should have investigated, discussed and condemned. The Security Council should have convened a special session because of it. It's a serious violation of Security Council decisions."

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