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    President raises ICC arrest warrant for Israeli PM

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    1. ArysOakheart on

      Straight up facts:

      – Israel and US have both openly engaged in piracy this year

      – Netanyahu is a war criminal who needs to be arrested and stood on trial

    2. phageon on

      I agree with all the points, and think Netanyahu is an almost exceptional type of lowlife scumbag, but I do wonder if this is in interests of ROK as a country. I really hope he’s worked through the political and security calculus.

      Israel’s proven time and time again fully willing to fund and manipulate to destabilize other countries they don’t like.

    3. Sea_City1813 on

      I am sure that the “Yoon Again” nutjobs with with their MAGA hats and Israeli flags will take issue with this. Israel’s propaganda hand is strong.

    4. cool_lemons on

      While I understand Netanyahu is guilty of plenty of crimes, it’s weird that the media doesn’t really talk about the fact that Iran massacred tens of thousands of its own citizens a few months ago and is currently torturing and executing dissidents every few days. There are horrific stories of them systematically raping virgin prisoners before executing them so “they don’t go to heaven”. (And sending footage of the act to their families to torture the parents too) We CAN condemn both countries’ governments, you know.

    5. Best_Stand3471 on

      The U.S. government has now issued executive sanctions against ICC officials and judges who dared to issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. In the end, the message is simple: before judging Israel, one must first be prepared to confront the United States itself.

      I cannot help but wonder how long Lee Jae-myung — a politician who has always bent with the winds of power — will be able to endure American pressure.

      Netanyahu is widely condemned as an immoral and anti-democratic leader who prolonged war while entangled in his own legal troubles. Yet Lee Jae-myung, too, appears to be walking a disturbingly similar road, one paved with accusations of manipulating and pressuring the judiciary in order to escape his own trials.

      Perhaps that is why President Lee Jae-myung feels uneasy whenever he looks into the mirror: staring back at him is not merely himself, but a Korean reflection of Netanyahu.

      Israel and Netanyahu may very well have violated international law and humanitarian principles, but the international order has never truly been governed by morality. It is, at its core, an anarchic arena ruled by power.

      And behind Israel stands the United States.

      There is an old Chinese proverb: “The fox borrows the tiger’s authority to terrify the beasts of the forest.”

      Israel is the fox. The United States is the tiger.

      Korea does not truly fear Israel itself; rather, it fears the United States, which shields Israel with almost maternal devotion regardless of what it does.

      Even the Korean government today struggles to properly investigate Coupang founder Kim Beom-su while he enjoys political protection from influential Republican circles in Washington.

      So how exactly do they imagine they can punish Netanyahu — a man whose influence within American politics is not merely greater, but dozens, perhaps hundreds of times more powerful than Kim Beom-su’s?