The ICC wants to arrest Netanyahu for defending Israel
Israel is the only nation in the world forbidden to defend itself against murderous predators out to destroy it, and punished for doing so. Merely repeating the words “Israel has a right to defend itself” means nothing, while acting to stop it and condemning it for actually doing so in the most humane way possible for an army fighting against terrorists who hide among civilians.
And it’s not as though the murderous predators are subtle, nor do they limit themselves to mere words. They invaded Israel and committed a series of barbaric and sadistic war crimes against its citizens, during a ceasefire. They documented those crimes, bragged about them, broadcast them, and vowed to commit them over and over till Israel and Israelis are destroyed. And this was not some outlaw terrorist group, it was the elected government of Gaza.
But here’s the latest from the ICC prosecutor. He is requesting a series of arrest warrants. The first group is for Sinwar and other Hamas leaders who masterminded the vicious crimes of 10/7. The second group is this:
I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin NETANYAHU, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav GALLANT, the Minister of Defence of Israel, bear criminal responsibility for the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 8 October 2023:
– Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Statute;
– Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
– Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or Murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i) …
And so forth.
The leaders of Israel are fighting a terrorist group dedicated to its destruction, right on its borders, who purposely hide among the civilian population in order to effect results of this very sort. It is doing so with more care to protect civilians than in any other urban warfare conflict on earth, against a force that wishes its own civilians to die, the better to spread anti-Israel propaganda. So congratulations, Hamas! The ICC is playing right into your hands. It is ironic that rules of war supposedly designed to prevent or discourage outrages such as the genocide against the Jews in World War II have ended up being tools for further genocide. But there’s a lot of irony in history.
To the Biden administration’s credit, they have condemned this in no uncertain terms – even though, by much of their previous rhetoric, they have encouraged it in a cynical double game:
“The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous. And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security,” Biden said.
The US State Department also condemned the move, saying, “The United States fundamentally rejects the announcement today from the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that he is applying for arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials, together with warrants for Hamas terrorists.”
“We reject the Prosecutor’s equivalence of Israel with Hamas. It is shameful. Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization that carried out the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and is still holding dozens of innocent people hostage, including Americans,” the State Department added.
The statement continued, “Moreover, the United States has been clear since well before the current conflict that that ICC has no jurisdiction over this matter.
The ICC has no jurisdiction, but it has influence. This gives ammunition to the Israel-haters and Jew-haters who say there is an equivalence between Netanyahu and the Sinwars of the world, or even that Netanyhu is worse. It could subject Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders to arrest if traveling internationally.
More:
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik called for Congress to impose sanctions on the ICC following Khan’s statements.
“The ICC is an illegitimate court that equivocates a peaceful nation protecting its right to exist with radical terror groups that commit genocide,” Stefanik (R-NY) told the New York Post.
The “international community” has long imposed standards on Israel it would not and does not impose on any other country. The goal is to isolate Israel from the rest of the world. “Shameful” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
NOTE: The ICC prosecutor, Karim Ahmad Khan, is a British-born lawyer of Pakistani descent, a Muslim who is a member of the Ahmadiyya branch of Islam. The latter is a sect that does not believe in terrorism but wants Islam to take over the entire world by peaceful means. However, this all doesn’t really matter; if not by Khan or another Muslim, the request would have been issued by some other non-Muslim Westerner devoted to “international law” and Israel-hatred. There are plenty of candidates.
Yeah, a no-win situation for Israel – whatever they do. Looking back now, Israel would’ve probably been better off just steamrolling in—killing everything in its path.
Leave a corridor open from southern Gaza right on into Lebanon. Kill everyone not on that corridor headed north into Lebanon.
Then move to the West Bank and do the same thing there…
“Leave a corridor open from southern Gaza right on into Lebanon.”
That’s geophically incoherent, since any such “corridor” would have to traverse Israel from south to north and letting any Gazans whatsoever into Israel won’t be in the cards for years if not decades to come.
Not to mention that Israel’s already had experience going into Lebanon to rid that of the PLO, an altogether rancid endeavor.
Well, if no one wants a corridor from southern Gaza—thru some Israeli areas on into Lebanon, then kill all the Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank, or just wait until they kill all the Israelis.
Hamas is in Lebanon. Once all the Palestinians have moved to Lebanon, then kill any Hezo or Hamas in southern Lebanon, or wait until they kill all the Israelis.
Is that also too harsh for you sdferr?
Yes, Israel is such a vast country that surely a “corridor” going right through Tel Aviv, Gaza being on the Mediterranean Sea, would be “super easy, barely an inconvenience” to get Gazamites into Hezbollaland.
And Shirley the Shiite Hezbollah will just love the Sunni Hamashites (Gazamites). Could they put aside their internal blood lust long enough to focus on killing all the Jews? Questionable.
Totally impractical on all counts, Karmi.
If the Israelis had actually intended to commit genocide against the residents of Gaza, they had plenty of ammunition with which to reduce the entire area to rubble. They had moral boundaries which put this off the table.
You’re right Kate, the Israelis just ain’t smart enough to figure out how to get the Gazans safely into Lebanon thru a prearranged corridor, without them killing all the Israelis in Tel Aviv.
Perhaps it would be best if the Israelis just surrendered to Hamas, and beg for mercy…Jeez.
}}} Israel is the only nation in the world forbidden to defend itself against murderous predators out to destroy it, and punished for doing so.
I think the USA qualifies in this regard, too, (consider the fact that we are the only nation which is not allowed to close our borders) but, for the most part, we are powerful enough to not give a shit.
Karmi . . . dude . . . maybe you should sit out the next few plays.
Hoping for an errant IDF missile to “misfire” and hit the ICC
Where did Karmi get the idea of Gazamites wanting to go to Lebanon or Lebanon accepting Gazamites?
call them hydra, they have the same international reach
the lebanese civil war began because the prime minister, franjieh, dubbed the squirrel, in agents of innocence, allowed fatah to carry weapons openly, after a decent interval, the other factions, falangists druze, et al got wise, and bob’s your uncle,
the jordanian black september, happened after the 67 war, at the battle of karameh, when Arafat sought to overthrow the Hashemites, the latter remembered his father, the grandfather of the current king, was killed by one of these palestinians in 1951, of course black september so called was arafats revenge, the roman a clef mentioned above, is about Ali Salameh the black Prince, who orchestrated the Munich Massacre, and the assasination of the Jordanian Interior Minister Wasfi Tal, and the Ambassador from same, and his CIA contact Robert Ames, (the father of the NBA player) did the later know what the former was planning now there was the regretable incident in the Shatila camp, which was payback for a similar injury done to the Maronites in 1976 at Damour, that was intramural, after the American pulled out in 1984, there was a fight between Hezbollah and Fatah, Arafats chief spy Abu Jihad, organized the intifada from Tunisia, the next place they did not manage to set on fire,
has an oblique reference to Haj Amin Hitler’s penpal, the orchestrator of the Nebi Musa, and Hebron massacre, 1920 and 1929, the uprising from 1936-39, which he orchestrated from Lebanon, the coups he organized in Baghdad, that led to the Farhud of 1941, under the Golden Square,
somewhere in the middle of this, the Kuwaitis welcome these troublesome folk, of course they stuck their pompoms out for Saddamm, and quite naturally, they were expelled for their troubles, (as to the value of saving their hides in the Gulf War well you know my view,)
the common element is none of their vaunted Arab brethren want anything to do with the socalled Palestinians, so the crocodile tears of any of these parties, including the Syrians who triggered the Shatila reaction well it leaves me cold,
Just read ( at the Daily Mail I think) that the present Mrs. Clooney, was one of the those pushing for this.
yes john solomon one of the last good reporters, so of course they savaged his reputation, yes the clooney inlaws are notorious jew haters,
https://honestreporting.com/palestinians-had-nothing-to-lose-new-york-times-op-ed-implies-oct-7-massacre-was-justified/
is he senile evil or both,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13440397/joe-biden-israel-genocide-gaza-hunter-jewish-melissa-cohen.html
dejavu
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1792708983960322474
The discretion of the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor, combined with the political nature of prosecuting war crimes, is the fundamental reason the ICC will always be seen as a political tool.
See this obscure article for details:
A predictive framework for the effectiveness of international criminal tribunals.
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 34 No. 2, March 2001
https://law-journals-books.vlex.com/
“…To the Biden administration’s credit, they have condemned this in no uncertain terms – even though, by much of their previous rhetoric, they have encouraged it in a cynical double game….” [emphasis mine; Barry M.]
THIS is the key:
EVERYTHING that emanates from “Biden” is a double game, is a game of coverup, is a game of optics, is a game of DECEPTION, is a game of lies. Is a game of BETRAYAL.
Every single thing…and in every single sphere.
And it’s not JUST their rhetoric, mind you.
(Unless one counts as “rhetoric” the tens—much more—of billions of dollars hearted to Iran and THEREFORE its friends and proxies; hearted to the Palestinians—Institution-Building(TM), anyone?—hearted, if indirectly, to Xi’s China…)
File under: “…and Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all honourable men…”
“…a double game…”
Make that “triple, quadruple, and quintuple game”…etc.
(Cf. the extraordinarily intricate, convoluted and complex multi-dimensionality—for “reinforcement”, “backup” and “plausible deniability”—of Obama’s Russia-gate. See, too, the same intensive planning and Modus Operandi of November 2020. Ditto for the circles within circles within circles involved in hatching January 6…the entirely contrived pit bull-like crippling of Michael Flynn and the multiple Stalinist prosecutions of Dreyfus Jew Trump and those who DARE support him.)
These guys are professional subversives, with the FBI and CIA, the DOJ and the IRS—and all the other government agencies they’ve managed to weaponize—at their beck and call.
Bibi has his work cut out for him with these monsters…even as they plan to cut his legs out from under him in best mafiosi style.
Related…from the inimitable, indomitable, indefatigable Brendan O’Neill…
“A judicial pogrom;
“The ICC’s threat of arrest warrants against Israel’s leaders is an affront to democracy and humanity.”—
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/05/20/a-judicial-pogrom/
H/T Powerline blog.
The problem being—in a nutshell—that Hamas are…THE GOOD GUYS.
‘UN Report Clearing UNRWA Of Terror Ties A “Whitewash”, Witnesses Tell Congress’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/un-report-clearing-unrwa-terror-ties-whitewash-witnesses-tell-congressity.