How long does it take #Biden to backtrack on direct and accurate observations regarding the Butcher from Balfour? Not too long. Biden gets just enough to satisfy the progressive wing, while coming across ambiguous enough to quiet critics on the right. Just for a while. Sounds like Trump in fact, when his many stupid “people say” assertions are challenged, but in reverse.
According to a Senior Israeli Defense Official, the Order has now been given to the #IDF Northern Command and other Forces in Northern #Israel to Expand Military Operations against #Hezbollah in Southern #Lebanon.
#Netanyahu will set the region on fire before leaving office.
It's probably best not to trust any Israeli voices on the state of things in #Israel or #Gaza. Even this Israeli "scholar," who admits that Israelis are almost unanimously pro-genocide, is pushing the "sexual violence" lie about Oct. 7.
I think it's cute that the only standard of international justice #Palestine recognizes is the #icj and #Hamas basically told the court to fuck off after it declared Hamas international criminals with #Netanyahu.
The #ICC can issue for signatories countries an arrest warrant on #Netanyahu because it has jurisdiction over international crimes committed in @Palestine since 2012
BUT
If @Israel doesn't recognise the #ICC, its territory isn't included in the jurisdiction, and the crimes of Hamas where carried out there, then how can the #ICC issue a legally binding arrest warrant on Hamas' leader?
[cont’d] Let Justice in the Gaza War Take Its Course (David Kaye)
Kaye says that the #ICC has jurisdiction over international crimes committed in Palestine since 2012, when the court's territorial jurisdiction was expanded to include the territory occupied by Israel.
[…] Regardless of the outcome of the cases, the prosecutor’s request that the court issue arrest warrants for #Netanyahu and #Sinwar helps cut through the polarizing language of the moment and promotes the idea that the basic rules of international humanitarian law apply to all. Anyone demanding an end to the conflict in Gaza and the release of all hostages from the grasp of Hamas should embrace the decision.
[…] There is a global cost to opposing the International Criminal Court. With U.S. and European support, the court is seeking to prosecute President Vladimir #Putin for alleged crimes in Ukraine. The court promotes the global interest in accountability for the worst crimes under international law. Attacks on it only benefit those who, like Mr. Putin, seek to delegitimize its existence.
Leading the lemmings to a collective suicide, Netanyahu says an ICC ruling will not stop him.
Netanyahu on the Warrant: An Outrage; It Won't Stop Us
#Netanyahu addressed the decision of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to request arrest warrants against him and Defense Minister Gallant at the #Likud faction meeting, and called the move an "outrage." Netanyahu told his party members that "this won't stop me or stop us."
Leading the lemmings to a collective suicide, Netanyahu says an #ICC ruling will not stop him.
Netanyahu on the Warrant: An Outrage; It Won't Stop Us
#Netanyahu addressed the decision of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to request arrest warrants against him and Defense Minister Gallant at the #Likud faction meeting, and called the move an "outrage." Netanyahu told his party members that "this won't stop me or stop us."