The trial against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Belgium on charges of \"crimes against humanity\" continues, despite all. The Belgian Ambassador to Israel will give Sharon a summons to a court hearing scheduled for the 28th of November. Sharon is not expected to respond. The Belgian court will deliver on that date its ruling as to whether the complaint against him, submitted by 21 relatives of Arabs who were slaughtered in Lebanese refugee neighborhoods by Christian Phalangists in 1982, is admissible.
A Belgian law from 1993 allows foreign citizens to be brought to trial for \"crimes against humanity.\" Some 900 Arabs were murdered in Sabra and Shatila in area that was under the control of the Israeli army; Sharon was Israel\'s Defense Minister at the time. Israeli citizens reacted with fury to news of the impending summons, and many called for a full consumers\' boycott of Belgian products. It was noted that just yesterday, Sharon hosted Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, the current rotating president of the European Union.
A Belgian law from 1993 allows foreign citizens to be brought to trial for \"crimes against humanity.\" Some 900 Arabs were murdered in Sabra and Shatila in area that was under the control of the Israeli army; Sharon was Israel\'s Defense Minister at the time. Israeli citizens reacted with fury to news of the impending summons, and many called for a full consumers\' boycott of Belgian products. It was noted that just yesterday, Sharon hosted Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, the current rotating president of the European Union.