Nadene Goldfoot
Just at the time when the Lebanese civilians are sick and tired of having Hezbollah in their midst, they are realizing that they are not only incapable of bringing them peace and a better government, that they have brought them just the opposite, and that the Israelis are not bad after all. In fact, they are hoping that the Israelis wipe the Hezbollah terrorists out!
The court said there is probable cause that Deif is responsible for war crimes and
crimes against humanity, including taking hostages,
rape, and extermination, but he's already been assassinated by the IDF in July.
So what has the ICC (International Criminal Court of the UN)- the Hague, come up with at this tender time? They have put out an arrest warrant of Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel and former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant. They surprise us by including Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif for war crimes and crimes against humanity as well.
This is the first time a State Head has had this happen to themselves. Now, it is not that surprising that the ICC would do something like this. The UN is full with over 49 countries of Muslim majority population that have been wanting to eliminate Israel, the only Jewish country in the world with the original one having been created by King Saul back in about 1030 BCE which is over 3,000 years ago. The UN has continually found fault with only Israel, never the people trying to eliminate them. It's highly prejudiced !
Arrest warrants issued for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister over alleged war crimes threaten to deepen the global isolation of a country already under pressure around the world for its handling of the war in the Gaza Strip. Almost all of Europe are abiding with this ruling, lacking the spine to speak out against the UN leadership. The USA are not going along with it, but Canada seems to be doing so. The British government clarified its position on the arrest warrants issued by the world's top criminal court for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant by suggesting that it would arrest the leaders if they travelled to Britain.
Israel has tried to argue that the ICC doesn’t have jurisdiction over Israelis at all, but the state of Palestine has been a signatory since 2015 — so crimes committed by anyone in occupied Palestinian territory like Gaza are, in fact, the ICC’s purview.
Palestine? What is a signatory? A signatory is someone who signs a contract, therefore creating a legal obligation. There could be several signatories for a specific contract. Over time, this word has often been used for a person or country who signs a peace treaty. If the treaty is broken, the signatory will be blamed. As of June 2024, the State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 146 of the 193 member states of the United Nations, or just over 75% of all UN members. And then, the October 7, 2024 attack by Palestinians on over 200 Israelis living alongside Gaza on a National holiday of Sukkot ! They were horribly killed, as if by monsters, little babies to oldsters, beheaded and painful burnings, in ways we can't even imagine. What an introduction to their becoming a peaceful state Israel was to live next to ! I blame all that made these Monsters a state along with the monsters themselves.
As far as we know, there has never been, nor is now, a state of Palestine. As I've said a thousand times, it was the Romans who named a part of Israel as Palestine after 70 CE, the name of Israel's worst enemies then, the Philistines. Rome took down Jerusalem by burning the city and it's Solomon's Temple at that time as well as their Roman occupation that had been going on.
124 countries can arrest the Prime Minister of Israel with Gallant since they voted for this; so many of Europe doing so. Netanyahu has called the ICC's arrest warrant an "antisemitic decision" and said, "Israel utterly rejects the false and absurd charges of the ICC, a biased and discriminatory political body." The British government clarified its position on the arrest warrants issued by the world's top criminal court for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant by suggesting that it would arrest the leaders if they travelled to Britain.
Britain has let us down since the end of WWI when they stated in a letter (Balfour Doctrine) in the 1920s their support for a Jewish National Home with land regained from Ottoman Empire's holdings, raising our hopes, only to cut the land down to 10% of the original promised size by giving away 80% of it to the Prince of Arabia who needed land and people to rule. The Jews had 600,000 looking at their native land they had lost to the Romans, wanting that particular land for the past 2,000 years.
President Joe Biden has expressed support for Israel and called the warrants
"disgraceful." The U.S. is a strong ally of Israel and neither country is a member of
the ICC. It's amazing how many countries are chicken and just follow their leader.
Resource:
TV 7
https://www.vox.com/israel/387191/icc-arrest-warrants-netanyahu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine
