ER Editor: Some tweets on this. If readers can stand it, spend 4 minutes of your life listening to Netanyahu’s mock outrage as he runs out infamous lines like ‘the Israeli army is one of the most moral militaries in the world’, &etc. It’s them, not us —
As soon as the ICC issues an arrest warrant against Netanyahu for war crimes the US Govt has to end all arms deliveries to Israel based on US law. The US Govt is now urgently trying to delay or prevent the ICC arrest warrant. That’s what a ‘rules-based International order’ does.
Netanyahu says the International Criminal Court is garbage. He has a point. They issued an arrest warrant against Putin for relocating children to safety, away from Zelenskyy’s bombardments of Eastern Ukraine. But the Netanyahu case is clear. He and his enablers are war criminals https://t.co/aTTpofNaT6
Netanyahu has responded to his potential upcoming arrest warrant by invoking the Holocaust, and suggesting the action by the ICC to hold Israel accountable for war crimes is “anti-Semitic.” pic.twitter.com/cMcnMXL8xn
CELEBRATION IN ORDER?? 1. ICC Chief Prosecutor Who Hasn’t Yet Been Bought; 2. Genocidaires, architects of genocide, get their due in Court; 3. Finally, the killing stops. WHEN IT HAPPENS? BEST NEWS OF THE MILLENNIUM!! https://t.co/6AhsuwvDOU
— Cynthia McKinney PhD (@cynthiamckinney) April 29, 2024
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US lawmakers have indeed responded as we would expect. See —
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has threatened the International Criminal Court (ICC) with “retaliation” if international arrest warrants are issued against senior Israeli officials for war crimes committed in Gaza.
According to officials who spoke with Axios, “legislation to that effect is already in the works.”
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul told the US publication that the legislation would call for sanctions against ICC officials “involved in investigating the US and its allies.“
Representative Brad Sherman is quoted as saying that Washington should “think of whether we stay a signatory“ to the Rome Statute — the treaty that established the ICC and established four core international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
Of course US and UK officials are lobbying hard to stop the ICC issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his ministers.
They are accomplices to the crime. They should be next. We must ensure they are.
We are still of the belief that this is all theater being played out, to bring Zionism and “Israel” fully down in the public eye, as well as the US govt. or what remains of it. Rock bottom has to be reached. We’re not quite there yet.
Proof of nothing, but these sorts of images have been doing the rounds on social media for a while —
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The International Criminal Court in Hague is expected to bring Charges against Benjamin Netanyahu for Starvation of Palestinians.
Israel is making a concerted effort to head off feared plans by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials, an Israeli government source told The Times of Israel on Sunday.
The first source said the major focus of the feared ICC allegations will be that Israel “deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza.”
That same day, Israel struck a food distribution center in Gaza, killing one member of UNWRA and injuring 23 others.
AMMAN, 13 March 2024 – At least one UNRWA staff member was killed and another 22 were injured when Israeli Forces hit a food distribution centre in the eastern part of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
“Today’s attack on one of the very few remaining UNRWA distribution centres in the Gaza Strip comes as food supplies are running out, hunger is widespread and, in some areas, turning into famine. Every day, we share the coordinates of all our facilities across the Gaza Strip with parties to the conflict. The Israeli Army received the coordinates including of this facility yesterday,” said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.
The International Criminal Court was established in Hague, Netherlands in 1998. The vote was 120-7, with 21 Abstentions. Israel and the United States both voted Against (ER: Against the court’s establishment).
The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
Israel voted Against the establishment of the Court because of the inclusion of language regarding the transference of population into an occupied territory.
July 20, 1998. Israel has reluctantly cast a negative vote. It fails to comprehend why it has been considered necessary to insert into the list of the most heinous and grievous war crimes the action of transferring population into occupied territory. The exigencies of lack of time and intense political and public pressure have obliged the Conference to by-pass very basic sovereign prerogatives to which we are entitled…
The United States voted Against because they did not want to submit to an International Court, and acts of aggression usually involve two parties. (A closer review of the military actions of the United States reveals that the basis for our Wars are often due to “false flag” attacks against the United States, which Israel has often participated in, including September 11, 2001 and the attack on the USS Liberty).
The United States does not accept the concept of jurisdiction in the Statute and its application over non-States parties. It voted against the Statute. Any attempt to elaborate a definition of the crime of aggression must take into account the fact that most of the time it was not an individual act, instead wars of aggression existed.
Although the United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court, Benjamin Netanyahu has been lobbying the Biden Adminstration anyway according to the Times of Israel on April 28.
Netanyahu was leading a “nonstop push over the telephone” to prevent an arrest warrant, focused especially on the administration of US President Joe Biden, Caspit reported.
Haaretz analyst Amos Harel reported that the Israeli government was working under the assumption that the ICC’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, may this week issue warrants for the arrest of Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.
According to Haaretz on April 30, Netanyahu said that if the ICC issued an arrest warrant against him, it would be an “Antisemitic Hate Crime.”
It is unclear if the ICC will also include charges of Genocide by Israel against Palestinians. The ICC’s Description of Genocide is as follows:
First, the crime of genocide is characterised by the specific intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group by killing its members or by other means: causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The ICC has also investigated allegations against Hamas. Prosecutor Karim Khan visited Israel in December 2023, and issued a statement reported by Times of Israel:
Khan said in a written statement issued after his visit that he witnessed “scenes of calculated cruelty” at locations of the October 7 attacks. During the visit, he spoke to family members of Israeli victims and called for the immediate and unconditional release of hostages taken by Hamas and other terror groups.
It is my opinion that the United States should not interfere with the functioning of the International Criminal Court. The United States should cooperate with the Court and provide to them any intelligence requested by the Court.
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