http://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2024/05/20/lol-icc-prosecutor-demands-criminal-charges-against-netanyahu-and-gallant-n2396416
It looks like the game is up for Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan has called for arrest warrants to be issued for both of them for the crime of ... defending Israel against terrorists who want to exterminate them.
If you're laughing right now, you are not alone. So are we, and we'll bet even Benji himself had a good chuckle at this news this morning. Watch:
Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) ~ NOW - The International Criminal Court's prosecutor asks for arrest warrants against Israel's PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant.
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1792515884579262806
We won't ask you to watch that whole video, it is a litany of false accusations against Israel, even blaming them for many things that are directly Hamas' fault. But here is the really interesting part. To his (very little) credit, Kahn also asked for arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, including Yahya Sinwar. Yet, somehow that first six minutes was cut out of this ICC video posted on Twitter. Why not put out the whole statement at once? That cannot be anything but deliberate.
The choice of language is curious as well. The 'state of Palestine'? There is no state of Palestine.
Oren Kessler (@OrenKessler) ~ Following the CNN broadcast, the ICC followed up with a statement on its site.
Among other oddities is it referring to the “territory of Israel and the State of Palestine,” as if the latter and not the former were the widely recognized UN member state.
http://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state
Those word choices DEFINITELY were deliberate.
Awww, the poor lil' pea-brains at the ICC got it all backasswards. The State of Israel IS a sovereign state recognized by the international community, and the "state" of Palestine DOES. NOT. EVEN. EXIST. And you wanna know why it doesn't exist? Because every time a so-called "two-state solution" is brought up, the Palestinian leaders reject it.
The biggest problem Khan has, though, is that the ICC is kind of an international joke.
Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) ~ Summary of ICC:
1) Its not really a world court (has secured final convictions for only a half-dozen people in 20yrs)
2) It has no jurisdiction, as Israel (like the US) didn't join
3) It has anti-Israel bias built into its founding treaty, and has taken a series of legal "firsts" to pursue this case
4) Created to prosecute mass atrocity crimes, it has for political reasons fallen back on trying Jews for their self-defense.
To paraphrase MLK, the moral arc of history is long, and bends towards blood libels.
Ben Shapiro said it more definitively:
en Shapiro (@benshapiro) ~ I'm tempted to say "who gives a shit" about the ICC, mainly because no one with half a brain should give a shit about the ICC. But some apparently do, because ... oh wow ... the magical morality of ::checks notes:: European bureaucrats.
So let me explain: this is an institution that doesn't include the US, Russia, India, China, Indonesia, Turkey, among others. It has attempted to investigate American soldiers for doing their jobs in Afghanistan. It's trash.
Israel, by the way, also does not recognize the ICC.
And Hamas ... well, they're not in a position to recognize anyone, but obviously, they do not either. Nor do their state sponsors in Iran.
In other words, this entire announcement this morning was just another piece of performative theater that no one takes seriously.
U.S. Ministry of Truth (@USMiniTru) ~ OH NO! NOT THE ICC?!?
They're known for ... uh ... They're seriously ... Ummm ... Who?
To add to the mockery, the Ministry of Truth went even further ...
U.S. Ministry of Truth (@USMiniTru) ~ 🚨🚨BREAKING: The International Criminal Court's prosecutor asks for arrest warrants against Vladimir Makarov, Kevin McCallister, Ross Geller, Ligma Johnson, Cher, Garfield the Cat, Ben Kenobi, the entire cast of Family Matters, and all four members of Hoobastank.
Well, we kind of support warrants against Hoobastank. They know what they did.
Deebs (@DeebsFLA) ~
Chad West (@Chad_WestReal) ~ All the production value of a cheap online comedy show.
Is the ICC anything BUT a cheap, online comedy show? Asking for a friend.
steebs (@Steebscav) ~ The who???
All of the well-deserved mocking aside though, the ICC and Khan are doing something here that is truly despicable. They are basically equating the events of October 7 with Israel's more-than-justified subsequent war to take out Hamas, which wants all Jews erased from existence.
Conrad Hannon (@ConradHannon) ~ What an effin joke. Israel has every right to retribution. EVERY bad thing that has happened in this war is ALL on Hamas, who could have ended it at any time.
Vivid (@VividProwess) ~ It is absolutely outrageous to even suggest that there is any equivalence between a terrorist organization like Hamas and the leaders of the democratic State of Israel who are simply protecting their citizens. Your actions demonstrate a complete disregard for justice.
They do love their false moral equivalencies, don't they?
Even worse, by promoting this false equivalency, they grant (either deliberately or not) greater legitimacy and support for anti-Semitic terrorists and their supporters.
Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) ~ There is no comparison between a terrorist group like Hamas, and leaders of the democratic State of Israel, defending its citizens. Your actions are an unconscionable misuse of the law, turning you into pawn of Palestinian lawfare and spelling the ICC's death knell.
Again, the ICC has a grand total of six convictions in 20 years and no major nation is a signatory to the Rome Statute that created it in 2002.
It's already dead. It just doesn't know it.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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