According to this source, this is not a joke:
An Iraqi parliament member said Tuesday that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki plans to sue Israel for damages done to his country following its destruction of the Tammuz nuclear reactor.
Moreover, the move seems to be inspired by the Unbelievable Nimrods:
Al-Maliki’s appeal follows an answer received from the UN Secretariat by the government of Iraq on November 25, which says Iraq has a right to demand compensation for the damage Israel did to it with the attack on the reactor, through a neutral committee which will assess the extent of the damage.
It figures: what else do we have the nimrods for, if not to inspire new anti-Israeli ideas? Anyway, the expected amount of the claim is not specified yet. To help Mr Al-Maliki and his accounting department with the calculations, we’ll designate the future claim amount as X, with the following breakdown to use for the final calculations:
- Removal of the reactor: X
- Less Y for the cost of operation Opera to IDF (to be presented when appropriate)
- Less X for being in state of war with Israel
- Less 100*X (a rough figure) for avoidance of nuclear conflict with said Israel and conversion of vast surfaces of Iraq into glassified parking lot
- Less Z*X for the property of Iraq’s Jews that flew Iraq (Z to be calculated based on this and other data)
- Less 10*X for damages incurred by Israel thanks to Iraqi Scuds during the first Gulf war, while not being a side to the whole shebang
- Less 3*X for the chutzpa and moral turpitude
- Less 5*X for the Jewish lawyers to take care of the court proceedings
- Less W – whatever else the above mentioned lawyers will decide
I think we have an interesting deal here. Don’t you?
Meanwhile, as a sign of good will for Mr Al-Maliki, two (free of charge) clips on the subject of operation Opera (the second one could be actually classified as a musical):
Enjoy!
Cross-posted on SimplyJews.
Why isn’t there some statute of limitations involved here, even granting that this is so-called “international law”? The reactor was destroyed in 1981. The Iraqi government knew it had been destroyed at the time and which country had destroyed it. If they were going to sue Israel, shouldn’t they have done so a long time ago? What were they waiting for?
Status of limitations re Israel? Come on, Joshua, some people still want to take us to task for dinosaurs’ extinction, not to mention Jesus, crusades, the black plague etc.
No problem. Israel will file a countersuit for damages, as well as pain and suffering, from the 1991 scud missile attacks.
Ah, but international courts will deny Israel’s standing to countersue, since it is an “Apartheid State” dontcherknow, and thus has no rights at all, at all (for example, everybody denies Israel Article 51 rights of self-defense under the UN Charter). In actual fact the mere demonstration that Iraq was at war with Israel should put this silly suit to rest. Civil legal cases have no authority over the combatant states during a war. And in a court of equity Israel would win hands down. I do not think there is any such court in international affairs but you never know what the academic nitwits are trying to invent nowadays.
This reminds me of the silly assertion the Egyptian government made that they were going to sue Israel for the stuff taken by the Children of Israel before they left Egypt during the Exodus. Whereupon some Israelis said they’d countersue for reparations for 400 years of slavery in Egypt. If I recall correctly, that shut up the Egyptians good and proper.