"A Modern 'Dreyfus' Trial" Israel vs the ICC
"[The International Criminal Court] issued warrants of arrest for two individuals, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr. Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest.""Each bear criminal responsibility for the following crimes as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.""[There were also] reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant bear responsibility for the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population."ICC Pre-Trial Chamber 1"It's a geopolitical bombshell.""It's the first time the court has issued arrest warrants against a western country and also the first time that they are issuing arrest warrants when there's no jurisdiction in the case, but they've invented it for themselves.""Outrageous."NGO Monitor legal adviser Anne Herzberg
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The
ICC tribunal in The Hague announced its decision to issue warrants for
the arrest of Israel's prime minister and its then-minister of defence,
citing its finding of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In
so doing, it echoes the accusations of Muslim governments as well as
the belief of many of Israel's so-called allies, Western democracies.
The ruling has brought great joy and celebration to the very terrorist
groups that conspired to launch a savage attack on Israeli civilians
that resulted in the mass murder of over 1,200 Israelis, the wounding of
far greater numbers, the rape of girls and women, sadistic torture and
mutilation, and the hostage-taking of 250 children, elderly, women and
men.
From
its very modern foundation, the Jewish State, like no other on Earth,
has been attacked ceaselessly, first by its neighbouring nations, and
more latterly by terrorist groups funded, formed and patronized by those
neighbours. The relentless attacks culminated in the October 7, 2023
incursion of thousands of Palestinian terrorists, led by Hamas with a
deliberate plan to commit unthinkable atrocities. There is no country in
this world that would not respond with force and determination to end,
once and for all, the unendurable attacks targeting its people.
Yet
because the terrorist groups in their psychotic hatred have no
compunction in sacrificing their own citizens in what they view as the
greater goal of destroying Israel and its people, the construct of a
nation in its own defence committing a counter-attack that results in
mass collateral damage, despite care taken to avoid victimizing innocent
civilians during a theatre of war, elicits condemnation by the
international community which has never suffered constant, unstoppable
violent threats to their security, holding Israel to an impossible
standard no other nation could or would endure.
ICC
Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan whose forceful prosecution of the Jewish
State as having overstepped the boundaries permitted it by international
consensus in reacting to terrorism directed toward it, with the very
same terrorist groups vowing never to stop, to continue assaulting the
state and its people with the same intensity and savagery until their
goal of utter destruction has been completed, reached a decision that
was predictable, given the animus directed toward Israel. Telling enough
that Khan is himself Muslim, and a committed proselytizer for Islam.
97 hostages kidnapped in Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack are still being held in Gaza Reuters |
Israel, like other countries such as the United States (China and Russia as well; the 3 of 5 members of the UN Security Council that have never signed on to the ICC),
nor did India -- sign on to the ICC. The ICC has no jurisdiction in
those countries, unless a country that did sign on files against them,
as well as the fact that if a country has the means and determination
with an independent judiciary to conduct its own investigation and come
to a conclusion, that would negate the ICC's move to investigate' a
condition that Israel fulfills. In this instance, it was 'Palestine'
which is not a state and therefore ineligible, that the ICC cited,
giving them the 'authority' to investigate. A complete and utter sham.
The
Hague chose to reject Jerusalem's challenges with respect to
jurisdiction with the claim that the court exercises its authority based
on the Palestinian Authority's membership. A membership in and of
itself absurd, absent sovereign country status. Allowing the PA
membership in the body represents an absurdity, but one with an illegal,
immoral and defined purpose. Israel chose not to be a signatory to the
Rome Statute which established the court. Yet "Palestine" was inducted
as a signatory though no such state exists under international law.
It
is not Benjamin Netayahu and Yoav Gallant that have been singled out
for international censure; their names merely symbolic to the greater
target of satanizing Israel itself, and by extension Jews, wherever they
live; in Israel or throughout the diaspora. The situation is a
deliberate diminishment of Jews having the right to self-defence, either
as a nation, or as a people. This is a malign, institutionalized
assault demanding respect for a corrupted UN body that purports to
dispense justice.
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously
issued two decisions rejecting challenges by the State of Israel
(‘Israel’) brought under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome Statute (the
‘Statute’). It also issued warrants of arrest for Mr Benjamin Netanyahu
and Mr Yoav Gallant. ICC |
"Israel utterly rejects the false and absurd charges of the International Criminal Court, a biased and discriminatory political body.""The decision to issue an arrest warrant against the prime minister was made by a corrupt chief prosecutor who is trying to save himself from sexual harassment accusations and biased judges who are motivated by antisemitic hatred of Israel."Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Office
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