Victims’ families sue Livni in terror funding case
The American court’s request for “the assistance… necessary in the interests of justice, in conformity with Article 2 of the Hague Convention,” was delivered to the Justice Ministry on June 26, 2013, according to Shurat HaDin, the organization that filed the lawsuit against Livni.
The 22 families of terror victims, represented by Shurat HaDin director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, are accusing the Bank of China of serving, through its US branches, as a key conduit in transfers of money to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Palestinian groups that have killed hundreds of Israelis.
The families are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in US courts. With claims based in part on US anti-terrorism laws, a verdict against the bank could also potentially affect its ability to do business in the United States.
Critics have said that after initially encouraging the claims against the bank, Israel performed an about-face, fearing it could jeopardize valuable, rapidly warming trade ties with China if it allowed the former official, who is sworn to secrecy, to testify.
Read more: Victims' families sue Livni in terror funding case | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/victims-families-sue-livni-in-terror-funding-case/#ixzz2qPbYxcAn
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more about Shurat HaDin apparently this organization works at the behest of the Israeli government-they have also a suit against Jimmy Carter- which was thrown out of court
The Israeli government's official 'lawfare' contractor (Shurat HaDin)
Did Darshan-Leitner and her organization, Shurat HaDin, indeed stop receiving instructions from the Israeli government? In 2007, Shurat HaDin filed a lawsuit against the Bank of China, claiming the bank transfers funds to terror organizations. Shurat HaDin told Yediot Ahronot last July that the lawsuit was initiated following an Israeli government request. The Wultz family as well, in whose name Shurat HaDin is acting in court, said that they initiated legal steps after a request by the Israeli government. Recently, after Netanyahu’s visit to China, the Chinese exerted considerable pressure on Netanyahu, and the man that enters every crisis like a weightlifter and finishes like a crumbled candy bar, as Nahum Barnea once said, crumbled this time as well, and forbade Shurat HaDin’s expert witness, Uzi Shaya, from testifying in court. Uzi Shaya, as mentioned, is one of the men Darshan-Leitner named as her contacts within the Israeli government.
http://972mag.com/the-israeli-governments-official-lawfare-contractor/80659/
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