Netanyahu tells Biden he’s worried about possible ICC arrest warrants

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/29/netanyahu-biden-icc-arrest-warrants-war-crimes

15 Comments

  1. Ihave10000Questions on

    Netanyahu is worried of ICC arrest while Sinwar is free and other Hamas officials are living luxurious life in Qatar.

    ICC should be defunded and closed, better now than later.

  2. makashiII_93 on

    I scrolled past a story about the ICC prepping warrants.

    Biden needs to step aside on this one.

  3. Well, if the Israeli government would stop trying to speed run the Geneva Checklist in their ‘reprisals’, y’know, maybe this shit wouldn’t come up?

  4. CrimsonLancet on

    The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin regarding *some* of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine. The law should apply equally to Israel’s leadership and Hamas terrorists for their war crimes.

    >Today, 17 March 2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) issued warrants of arrest for two individuals in the context of the situation in Ukraine: Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Ms Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova.
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    >Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, born on 7 October 1952, President of the Russian Federation, is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute). The crimes were allegedly committed in Ukrainian occupied territory at least from 24 February 2022. There are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes, (i) for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others (article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute), and (ii) for his failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission, and who were under his effective authority and control, pursuant to superior responsibility (article 28(b) of the Rome Statute).

    https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and

  5. > “Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defense,” Netanyahu said in a statement on X Friday.

    I mean, he can argue in front of the Hague why this is self-defense and not war crimes. Perfect venue to do so.

  6. ahh_real_spiders on

    The ICC are equally waiting for the outcome of the current negotiations. Should there be another escalation of the crisis, multiple warrants will likely be issued to both sides.

  7. Even if the warrant is issued he will be safe as long as he stay within Israel and limit his travel to countries that will not extradite him like Putin is doing.

  8. Fun_Objective_7779 on

    Considering all the lies which have been spread about Israel, I even start to doubt the independence of the ICC in this case.

  9. gentlemantroglodyte on

    If the Israel isn’t a signatory of the ICC there’s no reason for them to consider its judgements legitimate, nor defend its people in a court they don’t recognize. 

    The US doesn’t either, and has made it clear that any attempt to punish US citizens will be rejected strongly.

    This is not saying that some Israelis can’t have committed war crimes, just that it makes sense to refuse judgement of a court your legal system doesn’t recognize. Similarly, we don’t treat the judgement of some Russian court as if it was legitimate here either.

    The desire to be judged according to the laws of your own country and not something totally outside of your control is pretty reasonable.

  10. Does it seem reasonable to anyone? 
    It took 2 years for the ICC to come up with an arrest warrant against Putin. 
    Somehow they’ll issue these warrants against Israelis after about 3 weeks?  

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