“A Watershed Event”: ICC Charges Against Netanyahu First Time Court Has Gone After Western Leader
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Published 2024-05-21
Israel and the United States have both strongly condemned the International Criminal Court’s decision to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on war crimes charges, calling it “outrageous” and seeking support from other allies in opposing the court’s moves. On Monday, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan outlined specific charges against Netanyahu and Gallant, including “starvation of civilians as a method of warfare” and “extermination.” The ICC also sought arrest warrants for three leaders of Hamas — Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif — for war crimes including extermination and murder, the taking of captives, torture, rape and other acts of sexual violence. The warrants for Israel’s top leaders, which must still be approved by a panel of ICC judges, is “a watershed event in the history of international justice,” says war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody. “This is the first time that a Western or pro-Western leader is [the] subject of an indictment request.” We also speak with Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, who says Israel’s strident response to the ICC prosecutor is no surprise. “This is the kind of Israel we have in 2024. It doesn’t care about international law. It doesn’t care about international opinion,” says Pappé.
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All Comments (21)
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Threatening the ICC judges and their families like the mafia is beyond disgusting!
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Biden is so embarrassing
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Nobody is above the law
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The ICC should not give a FCUK about US threats and do what's right for humanity!
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Anti israel criticism IS NOT Antisemitism
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should be arrest warrant for Biden as well
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Arrest them !!! Include Biden and Blinken
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Protecting civilians by killing 35.000 + civilians, disgusting!
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Netanyahu abusing anti-Semitic card against ICC. What a misuse of the phrase.
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“Most Zionists don't believe that God exists but they do believe that he promised them Palestine”- Illan Pappe
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But Russia is not a member and America had no issues when an arrest warrant was issued for Putin.
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What's the point to arrest warrants without any arrests?! Outrageous!
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I am getting really fed up of hearing "antisemitism", "antisemitism", "anti bloody semitism". Israel really isn't doing itself any favours with this antisemitism call, no matter what it is they are accused of doing.
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The US should stop embarrassing itself for Israel's sake
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He is not above the law, the ICC IS DOING RIGHT!
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A war crime is a war crime, no matter who does it. It's that simple. The U.S.A. leadership seems to think if a person is rich and/or powerful and is one of "our" guys, they should be above the law. That is just plain wrong thinking. Whether it's a rogue soldier on the ground, a rogue general or a rogue leader of a country, if that person commits a war crime, or orders those under him or her to commit a war crime, those individuals need to be held accountable. Period. End of story. Simple.
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"The nazis made me afraid of being Jewish and the zionists made me ashamed of being Jewish." - Israel Shahak
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Double standard of genocide Joe ! Were it Poutine ?
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"It's NOT genocide! It's only MASS MURDER! Get your facts straight!"
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It breaks my heart as an American to see how evil and corrupt we’ve become. 💔💔💔 We cannot support the continued massacre of the innocent civilians, women, and children of Gaza. Free Palestine.
