Britain issues legal challenge to ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/28/britain-issues-legal-challenge-icc-arrest-warrant-netanyahu/
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Britain issues legal challenge to ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/28/britain-issues-legal-challenge-icc-arrest-warrant-netanyahu/
Posted by faconsandwich
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> UK claims the international court does not have jurisdiction over the Israeli PM and others it accuses of war crimes in Gaza
Interesting. I can’t say I’m surprised.
Good job too.
Clearly these charges are purely motivated by anti-semitism. ICC should be ashamed.
/s
Judging by the telegraph comments section it’s needed.
Wait, I thought the US was the lacky for Israel on this one?
Why are we defending on this one?
Just like how Putin isn’t within their jurisdiction either, right? Absolute clownery.
Fuck me as if it wasn’t already embarrassing enough to be governed by these clowns
The arguments seem to be that the Palestinian Authority has signed up to the ICC so Hamas is bound by their jurisdiction and while operating in PA area Israel is also bound as the PA is a signatory.
It seems that the British complaint to the court is that Israel is not bound (cant see this working), that Israel has an independent judiciary who can investigate thus the ICC is supposed to wait for that to not work before stepping in and that this is not how the ICC has worked in places like Venezuela.
I cannot say how correct each of these is. Though I suspect there is a degree of motivated reasoning in the keenness to bring charges, its really a toss up to who is in the right.
I am not a lawyer and only going on the Telegraphs reporting. I am also assuming the FCO has had a hand in this so they have a strong reputation of being “Arabist” (surprise to some but the UKs relations with Arab monarchies tends to be very good). So its likely they think this is credible enough that it wont rock too many boats in the palaces of the ME. If it had zero chance of working it would have come from the US State Department from Blinken.
Britain’s ability to disappoint at every level and opportunity is impressive
Rishi trying to sneak it in before getting booted out
Can Sunak just fuck off into the abyss please. Your out of office in few weeks. Just fuck off and leave with what little dignity you have left.
We are trashing the UN, the ICC and all the institutions of our rules based order. For what?
Why do we *always* have to be the bad guys of history? Why can’t we be the good guys for once? The political leadership could just do what the British public actually want. That would be nice, wouldn’t it?
Is there an arrest warrant for Putin due to Ukraine? What about Xi and the Uyghur Muslim concentration camps? Bin Salman for the years of bombing Yeman?
Nope, Gaza seems to hold a unique place in peoples psyche…
Scraping the bottom of the barrel… Using the Oslo accords to try to get war criminals off the hook.
Ohhhh, so it’s all good when it’s a warrant against other figures perpetuating horrific atrocities, but not when it’s someone who has their fingers deep in your money grabbing scalp.. cunts.
Part of the deal for US “letting ” asange off the hook /s
The UK is morphing in US style donor controlled party politics & people are missing it happening.
Supporting forever wars & the genocidal crime of the century in Gaza is a reflection of how far this has come.
Starmer is no different, he has purged the party of anyone who’s doesn’t hold that pro Atlantisist view.
More frightening, he is bureaucratic, totalitarian.
Don’t look to the media to call it out they belong to the same self serving political establishment class.
The reason they attack Farage on the right & Galloway on the left is they challenge their narrative.
Upending the rules based order, one legal challenge at a time.
You don’t kill women and children, it shouldn’t be up for debate.
I presume this is costing money? What a fucking waste of time and money.