Summary

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defense minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza and during the October 2023 attacks.

The court alleges actions like depriving Gaza civilians of essential resources.

Israel and the U.S., non-members of the ICC, reject the warrants, with Netanyahu calling them antisemitic.

Hamas also criticized the decision.

The practical enforcement of these warrants remains uncertain, as the ICC lacks authority to compel arrests.

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    Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have condemned ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan’s request for warrants as disgraceful and antisemitic.

    Antisemitism does manifest itself in both casual and systematic forms. The region-specific component is also important.

    However, claims regarding antisemitism from the Israeli government are increasingly becoming a “reverse confirmation” of sorts. One could almost argue that if they call something antisemitic, chances are it’s actually not and may even be the correct course of action (clear cut cases notwithstanding).

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      Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have condemned request for warrants as disgraceful and antisemitic.

      I wasn’t aware he was a stand up comedian. I mean, I always knew he was a clown.

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      What region-specific component are you referring to? I’m genuinely asking, not being argumentative. I completely agree that holding Netanyahu accountable for war crimes is not antisemitism, let alone the ICC charging leaders on both sides of the conflict.

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        I am looking at it from a more abstract, generic perspective.

        When you lose the right to freely travel, work, live in your country. There is going to be a lot of animosity around this. I don’t think it is fair to purely attribute this to a discriminatory attitude.

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    Cue “ICC is antisemitic”, just like the ICJ, the UN, every human rights organisation, the Special Rapporteur, independent journalists, protestors etc etc.

    Antisemitism and victimhood are the only cards left for Zio fascists to play with.

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      The original Nazis would always claim that they represented the Arian Race and that any criticism of them was “against the Arian Race” and the Zionists, a Neue Nazi group, do the same only using a different ethnicity.

      This is far from the only way in which these Neue Nazis are the same as the original Nazis.

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        Lmao thanks for pointing out the typo. Or perhaps it’s the zionists that keep making a mistake and are trying to tell us that ending the genocide in Gaza helps them throw up less?

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    ‘‘How are you today?’’ ‘‘That’s an antisemitic question.’’

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    They’ve been preparing for this for a while. Months ago already I remember reading accusations of the ICC being antisemitic by Israelis and various sympathisers. The old fiddle that never stops playing.

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      This has happened already, it’s now the 2nd time they’ve issued the warrent.

      This is just the first time the story was allowed through the US media wall

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      I remember saying this should be done at the start of the conflict and I was called a genocide loving Nazi for saying Hamas was just as bad. Hamas leaders are wealthy old men who live in luxury outside of Gaza

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        Sinwar and the others listed in the warrant were inside Gaza. Pretending otherwise was part of Israeli propaganda

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            That’s not what I said, I said that it’s propaganda to pretend Hamas’ leaders are not in Gaza.

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              So the reports saying they’re not there, fake news. The reports saying they are, Believe it without question?

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                What country was Sinwar found in again? A spokesman or negotiator in Qatar is not the same as the leadership. Try again.

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    Those warrants aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, but it’s still nice to see official bodies outside the US calling Netanyahu what he is.

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      These warrants absolutely matter in terms of being a trumo card in several legal issues relating to EU-Israel relations.

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        It’s a nice thought. I won’t hold my breath expecting any real consequences for Israel, though.

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          The saddest thing is that if they do take action, it will be the lowest bar possible of accountability. They’ll for example ban products from illegal settlements and then let Israel redurect them anyways.

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      Not exactly. The ratifying countries are bound by contract to arrest them. Plus It’s a serious issue not to do it, because this would delegitimize the ICC as an institution, which is not in the interest of most ratifying countries. So it essentially boils down to a choice between losing the court as a valuable weapon against war criminals or bad relations with Israel.

      What happens after an arrest is another matter and I think that is where the real pressure would happen

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    The US and others were fine with it when they issued a warrant for Putin, I’m sure they’ll be on board for this as well, right?

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      He first needs to come out of Israel to visit a country that recognizes the ICC…

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    I doubt any country will have the stones to arrest him in the face of US pressure.

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      At least with America going full mask off as a force of evil, the rest of the world can stop waiting on us to do the right thing.

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        Seriously if anything good can come from this the U.S. needs to stop fucking around with other countries sovereignty and handle it’s own affairs for a few decades.

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      There is number of countries already said they would.

      “The Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Italy, and Spain all said they would meet their commitments and obligations regarding the Rome Statute and International Law.”

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      If Trump plans on doing everything he says he’s going to do he’s going to expend his political capital rather quickly, and likely meet more resistance than he may be able to handle, domestically and internationally.

      International war crimes, mass deportations, curtailing the rights of queer people and women, deleting entire government departments, introducing tariffs. Also being in Russia’s pocket, then adding pressure from other big actors like China, Ukraine, and Iran into the mix. That’s a lot to juggle and many of America’s long-standing allies may no longer be willing to fully back the new mask off fascist regime.

      Netanyahu may just become a liability.

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        Does anyone know how the dimwit lawn torch carrying maga bros square hatred of jews with backing of zionists? Do they just never speak of it? I have a hard time pictruring them sitting in a circle in front of a fire drinking bad domestic beer, talking about the nuances of politics or any sort of long term strategy. Maybe they just push it down and ignore it? Or maybe they hate brown and black skin more than white jewish skin?

        For the maga leadership its obviously about money, but the voters?? Anyone have experience here?

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    He’s really fucking up the antisemitic thing for the rest of us. The wolf crier isn’t a monolith and he’s diluting an important communication tool.

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    It’s funny how the criminal immediatelly implied that it’s a Jewish characteristic to be a criminal like him, just like he and his minions (which includes the American Administration) have been continuously implying that commiting all manner of horrid crimes, from theft and rape all the way to Genocide and purposeful child mass murder, is a Jewish chacteristic.

    Like the last bunch of Nazis, these people aren’t merelly immoral, they’re so depraved, disgusting and devoid of even the most basic humanity that they’ll slander millions of those they claim to defend in order to avoid the consequences of acting like the most extreme and out of control psychopath (far beyond mere Serial Murderer and well into Hitler-level).