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You've also got some people using this line as to why netanyahu shouldn't have an arrest warrant taken out on him. Personally I'd be more than happy for all of them and others to be charged and tried as well.

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You've also got some people using this line as to why netanyahu shouldn't have an arrest warrant taken out on him. Personally I'd be more than happy for all of them and others to be charged and tried as well.

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As MEE and others pointed out yesterday, a big part (probably the most significant part) of the reason why the three above were not charged by the ICC is because there have been Parliamentary and judicial procedures against those individuals / people associated with those acts in their countries. They might have been insufficient procedures, the people responsible might have evaded the sentences that many people thought they should have faced, but there was an attempt at an independent reckoning and that has usually been enough to dissuade the ICC.

Contrast this with the complete and well-documented absence of nearly any legal consequences to individuals for Israeli military / political actions during the occupation, or indeed for anything else carried out “for the state” such as assassinations, terror attacks, espionage or anything else abroad. There are a handful of individuals who’ve faced trial or court martial for killing or mistreating people under occupation, most of them many years ago and (as Katz reminded everyone last night) an obviously and increasingly racist system of justice that operates there. In short there’s no alternative to the ICC getting involved.

Sadly though I think providing an alternative (the establishment of a relatively independent tribunal within Israel) is going to be the most likely way in which these warrants go away; that tribunal will tear Netanyahu up (for his failures before October 7th and afterwards) and do nothing about the multitude killed in Gaza, but it will be enough for the ICC to drop this.
 
You've also got some people using this line as to why netanyahu shouldn't have an arrest warrant taken out on him. Personally I'd be more than happy for all of them and others to be charged and tried as well.

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Proper whataboutery there from Mazzig. Did he raise any objections to the invasion of Iraq? I don't think he did. I'd like to see him in the dock at The Hague. In fact, anyone who propagandises on behalf of Netanyahu's mobster regime should face justice.
 
Headline from Haaretz. I wonder how long it'll be before Netanyahu tries to close them down?

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Moves to something similar have been suggested.

Israel targets Haaretz after publisher calls Palestinians 'freedom fighters' see
Justice Minister Yariv Levin also sent a letter on Thursday to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miar requesting powers to restrict Haaretz's operations.

"I ask that you urgently provide me with a draft law stipulating that actions by Israeli citizens to promote or encourage international sanctions on Israel, its leaders, security forces, and citizens shall constitute a criminal offence punishable by ten years in prison," he wrote.
 
Thought this was interesting article


It goes into the history of left/ progressive support for Israel/ Zionism.

There was a time post war when support for Israel ( the Labour Zionist version) was the norm.

Partly due to it being seen as building socialism and also due to Holocaust.

Back then there was little interest in Palestinians.

Generally the historiography put forward by Israel was accepted. That Palestinians left due to other Arab countries encouraging them. Etc. The Nakba was never mentioned

It wasn't until later , though the article doesn't mention this, that the Israeli new historians revised this version of history.

Change started to happen in 67. With Israel occupying West Bank and Gaza.
Then in early 80s the attack on Lebanon to remove PLO.
There has since been a complete role reversal. Israel’s staunchest defenders are now to be found on the right: see any issue of the Telegraph, or the Spectator, which is today unrecognisable from the paper Gilmour edited, or the Spectator for which I worked in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Today the left has no more fashionable cause than Palestine,

Support for Labour Zionism goes back to early days of Labour party. Explains why it's been such a contentious issue in the party. It's not just about Starmer. Support for (Labour) Zionism has deep roots in the party going back decades.
 
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She's the Home Secretary , a post of which I got the impression was responsible for law enforcement

Yes and her evasive answer is in stark contrast with Irish PM,


Yes absolutely. We support international courts and we apply their warrants," Harris told national broadcaster RTE on Friday when asked if Netanyahu would be arrested if he arrived in Ireland for whatever reason.
 
I check David Lammy the foreign secretary X and nothing on the ICC warrants.
I suspect that the lack of any comment on the ICC arrest warrants is because Lammy knows that as the UK is a signatory to the Rome Statute we should uphold and be prepared to act on arrest warrants issued by them.

I really can't imagine why neither he nor Stasrmer would not make a statement on this.

* Removes tongue from cheek *
 
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