SHOCKING AND SICK: Corrupt ICC Seeks Arrest Warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Galant, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

This goes beyond moral equivocation. This is analogous to charging the rapist and his  victim for the same crime, murderer and his dead victim for murder. This vicious antisemitic move by a bigoted, compromised institution that has lost all legitimacy. “It operates as a political body rather than a judicial one.”( FM Ashkenaz)

Instead of investing real war crimes in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and Syria, the ICC is relentlessly attacking Israel. The only democracy in the Middle East. Since President Trump left office, the anti-Semitic ICC has been on a warpath against Israel. All for defending its citizens against mass murder, mass rape, sexual torture rocket fire and terror tunnels from Hamas.

No other military in the world goes to greater lengths to defend the civilian population of its enemy than the IDF.

The Holocaust was the impetus for international instruments like the ICC. Now it is the very tool that annihilationists use to insure a second: “It has been 50 years since the United Nations first recognized the need to establish an international criminal court, to prosecute crimes such as genocide. In resolution 260 of 9 December 1948, the General Assembly, “Recognizing that at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity; and being convinced that, in order to liberate mankind from such an odious scourge, international co-operation is required”, adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Article I of that convention characterizes genocide as “a crime under international law”, and article VI provides that persons charged with genocide “shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction . . .” In the same resolution, the General Assembly also invited the International Law Commission “to study the desirability and possibility of establishing an international judicial organ for the trial of persons charged with genocide . . .”

The ICC’s issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu but not for Bashar al-Assad (½ million Syrians dead) or Xi Jinping (1.8m Uyghurs in death camps). Today the EU also mourned the loss of the Butcher of Tehran.

Democracy needs public trust & our global institutions are wrecking it. https://t.co/e6hNjinVyf

— Ike Ijeh (@ikeijeh) May 20, 2024

Today’s decision by #ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC to issue arrest warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu & Defense Minister Gallant, is an unconscionable and unprecedented misuse of the law, and an unimaginable reward to the murderers and rapists of Hamas.

— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) May 20, 2024

ICC Prosecutor Seeks Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Hamas Leader Sinwar

International court prosecutor says there were grounds to believe the men bore responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity

By Laurence Norman, Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2024:

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, a move that Israeli officials have warned could scuttle efforts to end the conflict in the enclave.

An ICC court would need to decide whether to issue a warrant for their arrests.

The court’s prosecutor said there were “reasonable grounds to believe that” Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant “bear criminal responsibility” for a series of “war crimes and crimes against humanity,” committed since at least Oct. 8, the day after the Hamas-led attack on Israel.

Among the alleged crimes the court listed against the Israeli leaders was the willful killing of civilians, starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and persecution as a crime against humanity. More than 35,000 people have died in Gaza since the outbreak of fighting last year, most of them civilians, according to Palestinian officials. The figure doesn’t specify how many were combatants.

The Biden administration has opposed an ICC move against Israeli leaders, saying it doesn’t believe the court has jurisdiction to rule on the case. A number of U.S. lawmakers have warned that if the court goes for Israeli officials, they would seek to sanction the court’s senior officials.

The Israeli prime minister’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The country’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment.

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