Universal jurisdiction alive and well in Belgium

A Belgian court has been asked to charge Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and former Israeli Foreign Minister and current opposition leader Tzipi Livni with war crimes arising out of Operation Cast Lead. Former Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert is also to be charged. The seventy page indictment was submitted by a group of 14 people, mostly Gazan Palestinians, and relates to events that took place