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By JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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sakurasuki
Functioning court maybe how it practicing apartheid system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_apartheid
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Now they can learn how to Palestine travel with multiple checkpoint, it's not that easy right.
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Check it, who really try to threat ICC judges and prosecutors, giving protection to occupier.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4646527-gop-conservatives-threaten-icc-sanctions-israel/
Mr Kipling
Benjamin Netanyahu is a product of the racist ideology of Zionism. The belief that one group is superior and deserving special treatment over others. Zionism should be in court then outlawed.
Mr Goodman
Sure Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas but that's not what happened is it !
Is stopping aid to innocent civilians defense against Hamas ?
Is killing humanitarian workers defense against Hamas ?
Is slaughtering innocent civilians defense against Hamas ?
Is actively killing everything in site and turning Gaza into rubble defense against Hamas ?
Joe Biden needs to resign
WoodyLee
""The court's prosecutor, Karim Khan, accused Netanyahu, Gallant, and three Hamas leaders — Yehia Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh — of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.""
YES,
Put these THUGS in jail for they have done to Gaza and it's people.
Congratulation Justice.
Yrral
Biden hellbent on legitimizing Israel,he speaks for himself,not for the majority of American,
Tdawg
Why did my comment get deleted when I’m literally quoting from the article and talking about its contents?
I’ve been hearing this “brink of starvation” rhetoric since November, but according to Al Jazeera only 27 people have died due to malnutrition so far:
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/3/27/starvation-anatomy-of-a-very-cruel-slow-death
Here’s an article from November 7th stating Gaza was on the “brink of starvation”
https://actionaid.org/news/2023/northern-gaza-residents-struggle-brink-starvation-and-disease-food-and-water-supplies
WoodyLee
""Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders condemned the move as disgraceful and antisemitic.""
Antisemitic??
This card is worn out and getting too old to play, the world know exactly what it means and now rejects it, better start looking for a new card.
bass4funk
Will never happen. Antisemitism at its fundamental core.
ian
How many should have died by now?
WoodyLee
""Netanyahu and Gallant do not face any immediate risk of prosecution. But the threat of arrest could make it difficult for the Israeli leaders to travel abroad.""
Just like when Palestinians travel in their own nation of Palestine where Israeli army and settlers check points are on every street corner and road. Never knowing when you going to get shot at or arrested just for being a Palestinian.
TokyoLiving
Excellent..
Get them all..
Tdawg
Without any food, humans usually die in around 2 months. If half a million people have been on the brink of starvation since 11/7/2023 then I’d suspect more than 27 should have died by now assuming those starvation conditions have existed since the beginning of November
sakurasuki
It's getting old and only being used by Senators.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/01/antisemitism-awarness-act-campus-protests/
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2024-05-15/after-pro-palestine-campus-protests-state-senators-call-hearing-on-antisemitism/
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It's not hard to check where their funding come from.
https://readsludge.com/2024/04/19/aipac-funded-senator-pushes-antisemitism-definition-that-could-silence-critics-of-israel/
Tdawg
There hasn’t been an Israeli presence in the Gaza Strip since like 2005
GuruMick
when the ICJ issues warrants of arrest for Black African leaders /dictators, or for Putin , is the ICJ being anti Semitic there as well ?
And Biden barks about International Rules Based Order and patrols various sea ways trying to enforce it, yet when a non US and Independent body like the UN or ICJ makes a decision the US doesnt like , Biden whines like a child.
Maybe someone could google what Biden''s reaction to the ICJ action on Putin was ?
But I bet the pro Israeli posters here will call this decision by the ICJ "anti semitic "
It like a magic phrase in which all wrongdoing is absolved.
Sanjinosebleed
Absolute best news I've heard all year!
Finally someone with the courage to call out war crimes on all sides!
GuruMick
Tdawg...there has been a TOTAL BLOCKADE OF GAZA SINCE HAMAS WON ELECTIONS
I call this an Israeli presence.
Aly Rustom
War crimes prosecutor seeks arrest of Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu
excellent
Tdawg
Yes, when you elect a terrorist government that vows to destroy Israel and kill all Jews it kind of makes sense for them to blockade you. They didn’t have the blockade prior to Hamas’ election, did they?
Chabbawanga
Let me guess, The ICC is the legal wing of Hamas?
Sanjinosebleed
The only sad thing about this news is that it took so long!
40000 dead
70000 maimed and severely wounded
70-80% of habitable buildings destroyed in all of Gaza
Forced starvation of a population of 2.4 million
Collective punishment on a colossal scale
And these war criminals have the audacity to cry foul!?
If khan doesn't deserve a Nobel peace prize then no-one does!
桜川雪
Not really. Diplomatic immunity. US and Russian leaders, among others, can freely travel. They know it will be a titfortat if they don't allow
TaiwanIsNotChina
Seems like a fairly measured ruling.
Alfie Noakes
Hopefully the ICC will also be charging every American and British politician who took money to support the Gaza Genocide:
https://x.com/TrackAIPAC
Imagine being so corrupt, so morally bankrupt that you'd abuse your position to take money from a genocidal, child-murdering apartheid state dedicated to destroying freedom of speech in your country.
TaiwanIsNotChina
That would make you excited, wouldn't it? Makes us wonder whether you are about supporting Gaza at all.
Tdawg
Good luck
The United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Act (American Service-Members' Protection Act) authorizes the president of the United States to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court". This authorization led to the act being colloquially nicknamed "The Hague Invasion Act", as the act allows the president to order U.S. military action, such as an invasionof the Netherlands, where The Hague is located, to protect American officials and military personnel from prosecution or rescue them from custody.
GuruMick
Tdawg, you dont get to make a statement, get proven wrong then change the goal posts.
Israel has always controlled Gaza.
And ,to split hairs, the blockade following Hamas' win in the election happened , the day after the election win .
Did Israel have a panic attack and decide to pre emptively blockade Gaza 244 hours after Hamas won ?
Israel has problem without a plan.
What to do with millions of displaced refugees that followed the Nakba.
Tdawg
My statement wasn’t proven wrong. Please tell me what presence Israel has had IN Gaza since 2005 prior to 10/7. And no, a blockade isn’t “in Gaza”
Look who’s changing goalposts now. And no, they haven’t always “controlled” Gaza. How is leaving in 2005 and allowing them to elect their own (terrorist) government “controlling” them?
How can they pre-emptively blockade them after the election of Hamas? That sentence makes no sense. And again, if you don’t want to get blockaded don’t elect a government that vows to destroy Israel and all Jews
Dont forget, Egypt also has a blockade on Gaza due to Hamas’ terror connections in Egypt
diobrando
FI NA LLY!!!!
A little step but at least one against this genocide and zionist!
And this is thanks to South-Africa, rhe only country which has enough courage to go to ICC!
Next, the settle of Palestine state!
Concerned Citizen
Thank God! Now get the job done and arrest them!
Antiquesaving
Then what about a country that elects multiple killer/terrorist as members of their parliament and even PM?
Short memory by Israeli supporters!
Israel was founded by terrorism!
The British left because of Zionist terrorist groups like:
Irgun, Lehi, Haganah and Palmach etc..
Let me remind you and others.
Irgun members (you know the guys that killed 90 by blowing up the hotel
Yitzhak Shamir:became Israel's 7th PM
Uri Avnery: Became a member of the Knesset.
Nathan Yellin-Mor: served in the Knesset after he planned the assignation of "Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne the British minister of state in the Middle East"
Mordechai Olmert: another Knesset membre.
The other groups had just as many of their leaders as members of the Israeli government.
Menachem Begin was a wanted terrorist and was the 6th PM
these leaders were responsible for killing women and children in "raids" on Palestinian villages, Druze and even Christian towns and villages.
And suddenly they were acceptable by western governments as leaders of Israel!
The double standard and the constant crying anti-Semitism if anyone mentions this has gotten old!
zibala
War crimes prosecutor seeks arrest of Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu
I guess the chief prosecutor ran out of ways to expose himself as an antisemitic fool.
Tdawg
I don’t support terrorism from any side.
So now it’s your turn. Do you support Hamas terrorism?
Antiquesaving
If you want to nit pick OK.
Israel has launched raid, kidnapped people in Gaza on multiple occasions and taken them to blackhole prisons, not 250 not 1200 but multiple thousands and not just from Gaza but also the West Bank!
It has sent hit squads into both Gaza and the West Bank, etc...
The constant "Israel hasn't been there since 2005" cry but Israel has regularly attacked, raided and kidnapped people in Gaza is getting old!
What is the difference when Israel raids Gaza and the West Bank, kills civilians, kidnappes people, holds them without charges or trial for years and what Hamas did on October 7th?
Nothing! They are both terrorist and finally the ICJ is making that clear!
Antiquesaving
Try again! All you can ever say is "anti-Semitic" because you have nothing and zero factual reply.
Tdawg
Yes, people accused of terrorism. Enemy combatants are subject to the same laws that citizens are
Good. That’s what you should do with terrorists. Are you saying they should be left alone?
Yes, terrorists. Terrorists should be dealt with accordingly
Tdawg
Enemy combatants aren’t subject to the same laws that citizens are
zibala
It's antisemitic by definition.
Regardless, it won't stop Israel from defending its lands from the Arab occupiers. Israel will keep up the pressure and won't let this silly game slow them down.
And there is nothing Hamas and its supporters can do to stop the IDF.
Antiquesaving
Read my comments, the answer is there in multiple cases!
But I guess you support terrorism, right? Unless you don't support Israel's governments!
So do you support Israel's governments, past and present?
Let me remind you!
Israel was founded by terrorists, since then every Israeli government has violated multiple international laws, from political assignations in other countries, including using neutral countries fake passports to carry out those assassinations, bombing schools, hospitals, refugee camps in other countries, kidnapping and indefinite detention without trial, illegal occupation, illegal annexation of territory, violation of 28 UN resolutions, torture, etc...
So again do you support Israel's governments past and present?
And just so you don't try and dodge the question.
No I don't support Hamas, but if Israel can do it why not Hamas?
I don't support either they are both terrorists and a problem for the world!
Antiquesaving
Arabs? Occupiers?
You again don't like facts.
Facts:
Technically Palestinians and Druze are not "Arabs" différents DNA!
They are the legitimate indigenous people of the area as proven by DNA.
Druze DNA is 80% , Palestinians 70% native to the area going back thousands of years.
While Ashkenazi has 58% European DNA and less than 20% from the region.
Mitzvah have less than 50% DNA from the region and the majority from Persia, And the caucuses.
Sephardic Jews are less than 40% DNA from the region the rest Arab north African Sub-Saharan African.
The only "occupiers" come from outside the region and those are the people that came after the 1930s and 40s!
Antiquesaving
Only one problem with that. A large portion of those taken and kidnapped by Israel, especially in the West Bank. Our professors intellectuals none having done anything remotely linking them to terrorism, they're only crying. Was saying things that Israel didn't like others are lawyers who have tried to defend these people again. The only crime was trying to defend these people and find out what happened to them
Tdawg
So you don’t support terrorism, don’t support Hamas, and don’t support 10/7. Got it
I don’t support terrorism but I don’t believe the current government of Israel is a terrorist regime
I support some of their decisions and don’t support some others. Do you think you have to support every action of a government and can’t condemn some?
Because they’re actions are not comparable
Antiquesaving
I noticed you avoided any reply on the fact Israel was founded by terrorists, and that every Israeli government has acted with terrorism in violation of international laws since it's founding!
So do you support state terrorism?
If you support what Israel has done in other countries in violation of multiple international laws and UN resolutions then you support state terrorism!
Tdawg
I didn’t ignore this, I said I condemn all terrorism.
No they haven’t. Israel isn’t considered a terrorist state. Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by numerous countries. You can’t compare the two
Antiquesaving
Really? Not the same?
So what do you call bombing schools, hospitals and refugee camps in Lebanon?
Especially after international investigation into Israel's claims about attacks from these places found zero evidence to support Israel's claims.
Israel's claims about UNRWA in Gaza were investigated by an independent investigator, he asked Israel to provide the "evidence" they claimed to have and as usual Israel couldn't and didn't provide any supporting information it claimed it had!
The investigation like all the previous ones going all the way back to the 1980s showed Israel had no evidence not facts and not justification!
So you support those acts present and past by Israel?
Tdawg
You’re going to need to give me specific examples. You have a tendency to speak in generalities way too much
What does this have to do with anything? Why are you bringing up random stuff?
Which ones? You’re speaking in generalities again without giving any examples
zibala
Israel is not a member of the court, so even if the arrest warrants are issued, Netanyahu and Gallant do not face any immediate risk of prosecution.
Prosecute leaders of the only democratic country in the Middle East for defending their country against terrorists? Yeaaahhhh. Right.
Negative Nancy
A victory for common sense! Hopefully now that someone had the sense to speak the truth of the matter, others will follow.
Antiquesaving
Democratic?
Lest see!
21% of the population is non Jewish, they have less than 3% representation in the knesset!
Israel has and had an " Arabs affaires committee" for decades but oddly until 2023 not a single "Arab" was ever permitted to be a member and in 2023 under USA pressure they put a single "token Arab" on the committee making sure he had no voting rights!
Doesn't sound very much like a democracy, does sound a lot like The apartheid South African government.
アーメド
It's funny that if even one finger is pointed towards Israel, the first thing that comes out of their mouth is antisemitic. It's a common trend nowadays to use the race card, victim card or holocaust card I guess.
Where was the ICC when the US and it's allies invaded Iraq and secretly overthrew Libya and several other countries?
Getting rid of Netanhayu or Hamas leaders will not get rid of the issue. They will be replaced by another zionist and terrorist. Rinse and repeat.
WoodyLee
""Menachem Begin was a wanted terrorist and was the 6th PM
these leaders were responsible for killing women and children in "raids" on Palestinian villages, Druze and even Christian towns and villages.
And suddenly they were acceptable by western governments as leaders of Israel!
The double standard and the constant crying anti-Semitism if anyone mentions this has gotten old!""
Not to mention the butcher of all Israeli Butchers A. Sharon when he ordered his savage IGF soldiers to open up the tummy's of pregnant Palestinian women to make sure the infant is dead too while destroying their refugee camps in Lebanon.
Tdawg
So? Does that 21% not have voting rights? If they do it’s a democracy
What rights do minority citizens in Israel not have? Apartheid is the denial of rights to citizens based on skin color. Israel doesn’t do that
zibala
No, only when what is being said is antisemitic.
Nah.
How about 5 Arab nations attacking Israel on its establishment and ever since then, continually trying to destroy Israel by waging war against it or committing continuous terrorist attacks?
So? Hmm--how many Jews are part of the government in Saudi Arabia? Yemen?
And the Arabs can leave Israel if they want, but for some reason they chose to willingly stay there.
Anyway, Hamas is a terrorist organization that Israel is eliminating in line with international law, and for all the Hamas terrorist supporters out there, it is driving them nuts seeing Israel dominate those Islamic extremist terrorists,
RichardPearce
It is pretty revealing to see those who fell all over themselves lining up to praise this Prosecutor for bypassing all the jurisdiction problems and the processes put in place to prevent politically motivated arrest warrants to issue one against the democratically elected President of Russia on the rather peculiar theory that evacuating wards of the state from a war zone is a crime, now screaming because he couldn't continue to block the process of issuing arrest warrants for the leaders of the undemocratic (when you are violating the ICSPCA, you, by definition, are not a democracy) Israeli regime any longer.
The ICC had established that it had jurisdiction over Crimes committed in Palestine before the US got Khan appointed the Prosecutor, and the ICJ established that there was a case to be made that the Israeli regime was committing the ULTIMATE Crime Against Humanity, Genocide.
Antiquesaving
No I don't! You like the rest keep asking the same thing, wasting time because I have posted replies with specifics multiple times and I noticed the pattern of constantly asking again and again by Israel supporters despite you having read it all previously!
Random? Did you read the article?
Why do you think Netanyahu is being charged? The attack on UNRWA facilities using the lies that members were with Hamas is not random but part of the war crimes charges!
Actually, again I have listed them way to many times to the same people here over and over again, I get the feeling it is done to waste my time!
Go back check my comments history you will find your answer possibly directly to you or one of the other Israel is innocent crowd!
RichardPearce
That Germany has been arresting JEWS for being 'antisemitic' shows how ridiculous the JSIP and its supporters definition of that word is.
Antiquesaving
More revealing is the fact that the ones praising warrant against Putin and upset about Netanyahu are the ones refusing to join the ICJ, the ones claiming moral high ground and claim to follow international laws, but refuse to be subject of those international laws.
If Israel and the USA were truly following international law, then they have nothing to fear from the ICJ.
But they fear it so that says it all!
Tdawg
So you don’t have any examples. I thought so.
He isn’t being charged yet. Try focusing. They’re currently applying for charges. There’s a difference
You realize you could have just answered my question with an example instead of that long winded excuse to dodge my question
Antiquesaving
Do these countries have 21% Jewish population?
Can anyone here imagine and western democracy having that low a percentage of minority representation with that high a percentage of minorities?
Arabs?
You mean Palestinians and Druze? They are not Arabs, you seem very confused!
Arabs come from the Arabian peninsula, people in the levant are not technically Arabs despite speaking Arabic (sort of like today's Israeli Jews whose ancestors never spoke Hebrew the language was forced on them)
Palestinians and Druze are native to the levant, far more than any of the 3 main Jewish groups in Israel especially the Ashkenazi whose DNA is primarily European!
But keep trying!
Aly Rustom
Antiquesaving- well said. Excellent posts. All of them
R B Quinn
Primer Minister Netanyahu, the Butcher of Gaza, does not believe any law he or Israel dislikes, applies to him or to the Jewish State of Israel.
Israel has been at it since May 14, 1948 since it was created by the United Nations. Palestine and the long suffering Palestinians have received the brunt of this travesty.
The United States of America, in order to satisfy a tiny, but ever powerful religious minority, has aided and abetted this travesty with dire consequences.
Antiquesaving
Which laws would those be?
The ones where Israel is in violation? The 28 resolutions Israel has violated, the ICJ warrant against Netanyahu?
You keep claiming Israel is following "international laws" but the evidence says otherwise!
If it was following the laws , then it wouldn't have 28 resolutions against it, the ICJ wouldn't be going after Netanyahu and the USA wouldn't have to constantly veto security council votes!
This victim stuff you keep trying to bring up is fake, this constant calling anything you disagree with anti-Semitic is getting old!
90% of the population of the world have no clue the difference between a Jew and a non Jew and they don't care! Indians don't care Jew or non Jew , nor do Chinese, Japanese, most of Africa, they don't care because they see everyone outside their groups as the same.
You seem to think that the whole world cares or knows about Jews or what it is to be Jewish.
99% Japanese haven't a clue and don't care they are just another foreigner.
Any Japan isn't alone in this!
TaiwanIsNotChina
The ICC doesn't adjudicate whether wars are legal. Otherwise Russia would have been in violation on Feb. 24th, 2022.
Raw Beer
I'm glad they included Hamas in this warrant. So now they will finally investigate and discuss what exactly happened on Oct 7, and the reasons behind that attack.
Raw Beer
They've been doing this kind of thing for decades. Some might remember the 2006 attack by the IDF that killed 4 UN observers. At the time, Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, said "I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces of a United Nations observer post in southern Lebanon that has killed two United Nations military observers, with two more feared dead."
Kofi Annan also said "This coordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long established and clearly marked U.N. post at Khiyam occurred despite personal assurances given to me by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that U.N. positions would be spared Israeli fire."
They got away with it, they always have, and I suspect they will again...
Chabbawanga
There was a case brought to the ICC against the UK. IMO Tony Blair should have been tried as a war criminal.
METATTOKYO
To some, antisemitism has come to mean any criticism of the Isreal period.
This is 'dismissive labelling': simplistically categorising any criticism as being against the entire group rather than recognising it as potentially constructive or specific feedback.
It's the same with the crowd who shout 'anti-Japanese' to any criticism of Japan.
gaijintraveller
Crticising Israel is antisemitic.
Criticising Netanyahu is antisemitic.
Criticising genocide is antisemitic.
According to the Zionists anything they don't like, anyone they don't like is antisemitic.
Bernie Sanders, a well-know American Jew, is antisemitic, The Jews who join pro-Palestine, anti-Zionist demonstrations are antisemitic.
In reality none of this is antisemitic. It is anti-Zionist.
Survivors, leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, such as Marek Edelman, were critical of Zionism. I mention Marek Edelman, a leader of that uprising, as an example as he supported the Palestinians in their fight against Zionism and he wrote an open letter to Palestinians in support of their cause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Edelman
Antiquesaving
You do realize that technically Palestinians and Druze are semitic people, right?
It is a language group from the levant and middle east, includes those that speak Hebrew today (not the common language of the Jews back 2,000 years ago.
But includes Aramaic more likely spoken by Jews back then, Maltese, Tigrinya, Amharic, and modern day Arabic!
So by using your constant "anti-Semitic" you are also calling yourself anti-Semitic by your comments against Palestinians.
GuruMick
Many foolish claims made by the shills.
I'll just ask some simple questions
Why destroy fishing fleets that provide needed protein source for Palestinians.
Why destroy orchards ?
Why destroy water infrastructure and wells and desalination plants ?
Why destroy Mosques and Churches.
Why destroy schools and Universities and then loot antiquities from those places ?
Why destroy hospitals even when no Hamas "command and control centres " were found.
Why stop aid trucks bringing in food and medicines ?
So much more has Israel done.
The question of war crimes is yet to be decided but clearly a form of ethnic cleansing and destruction of people and culture has occurred.
wallace
Palestinians are Arabs.
https://www.pcrf.net/information-you-should-know/who-are-the-palestinians.html#:~:text=The%20Palestinian%20people%20are%20Arabs,Jordan%20River%20in%20the%20west.
raincloud
@bass4funk
No. That's the false logic that Netanyahu and his thugs try to spin.
Being anti-Netanyahu doesn't make a person antisemite.