From: "SNN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Israel's foes want war crimes tribunal, boycott of US TEHRAN, April 26 (AFP) - The Tehran conference in support of the Palestinian uprising closed here late Wednesday with a final statement calling for the creation of an international court to try Israeli "war crimes." The document, signed by more than 30 nations, also condemns the United States for its political, military and economic support of Israel and calls for an Arab and Muslim boycott of US products. More than 30 countries as well as Islamic militant movements opposed to the Middle East peace process attended the two-day conference, which featured fiery calls to step up the armed campaign against the Jewish state. The final statement, hammered out after intense negotiations between Iranian officials and the visiting delegations, called on Islamic nations to "break all ties, especially political and economic" with Israel. It denounced "organised crimes by Israel against the Palestinian people, the attacks against leaders of Palestinian movements, the destruction or the seizure of houses and land, as well as the development of Jewish sites." The statement said an Arab and Islamic boycott of US goods was a "natural and necessary reaction to Washington's support for Israel" and warned of a "total and global embargo" if the United States goes ahead with plans to move its embassy in Israel into the disputed holy city of Jerusalem. It also condemned what it called Israel's efforts to Judaise the city, which it said must be the capital of a future Palestinian state, and said Israel's nuclear weapons stockpile was "a threat to peace and stability in the region." The conference was attended by Khaled Meshaal, political director of the radical Hamas movement, as well as the chief of the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. Washington said their attendance, and statements by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei alleging the Holocaust had been exaggerated to drum up sympathy for the 1948 creation of the state of Israel, showed Tehran was backing international terrorism. Iran shrugged off the criticism and vowed to continue its "moral and humanitarian support of the Islamic resistance in Lebanon and of the Palestinians." Iran has not recognized Israel since its 1979 Islamic revolution and has long denounced the US-brokered peace process between the Jewish state and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who was not represented at the conference. Miroslav Antic, http://www.antic.org/SNN/ _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
