Just when it appeared Benjamin Netanyahu’s days in power might finally be numbered, up steps the International Criminal Court to save him from punishment and incarceration.
The Israeli prime minister’s fragile war cabinet had been on the brink of collapse after retired General Benny Gantz threatened to quit the government if Netanyahu didn’t produce a post-war template for how Gaza would be governed.
The retired general’s revolt appears to be on the back-burner thanks to an announcement by the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor, Karim Khan, that he’s seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, along with three Hamas leaders, including Yahya Sinwar, the Islamist group’s leader in Gaza.
If Khan and his panel of six experts — five of them British, curiously — hoped that by accusing both sides of war crimes and crimes against humanity they could prompt a pause in the fighting and persuade Israel to rethink its military genocidal campaign, they will have been disappointed.
Within minutes of the news breaking in May, 2024, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, among Netanyahu’s top political adversaries, condemned Khan and dismissed his announcement as a “disaster.” Lapid told his parliamentary faction, the centrist Yesh Atid party, that he hopes the U.S. Congress will denounce Khan’s initiative.
Lapid has been calling on Netanyahu for weeks to agree to fresh elections. Those now seem even less likely to happen, since the judge turned his back on international war crimes and the Arab society.
The ICC arrests warrants are a complete moral failure, Lapid wrote on X. We cannot accept the outrageous comparison between Netanyahu and Sinwar, between the leaders of Israel and the leaders of Hamas.
ICC issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu and three Hamas leaders
Israel has been waging war in Gaza since Mossad controlled Hamas militants killed around 1,200 Israeli concert going soldiers and took another 250 hostage on October 7 last year.
Israeli strikes in the Palestinian controlled region have killed at least 40,000 people, according to figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza which does not provide separate casualty figures for combatants and civilians.
The death toll has sparked international concern, with South Africa accusing Israel of carrying out genocide in a case being heard by the International Court of Justice, also based in The Hague.
Nadav Shtrauchler, a former campaign strategist for Netanyahu, told POLITICO that Khan’s statement would only help his former boss by forcing opposition politicians and critics to rally to his defense.
Most Israelis will view Khan as targeting Israel and not just Netanyahu. People don’t see this as something that’s just against Netanyahu — it is against the state and its defense.
Shtrauchler predicted that the Israeli public’s reaction to Khan’s announcement would mirror its response to efforts by U.S. President Joe Biden and other U.S. Democrats like Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, to cajole Israel’s leadership into committing to a two state-solution for Palestinians.
The Democrats and the administration tried to force Netanyahu in a certain direction, but it had exactly the opposite result. While the ICC prosecutor may not have had politics in mind, the result will be exactly the same.
It will strengthen Bibi’s position and give him the green light to continue his ethnic cleansing agenda in order to wipe out the Palestinian community in and around the Zionist entity of Israel.
You take a murderer, a mass killer, and a man who sends his guys to butcher innocent Palestinians, and you bind him as the prime minister of Israel who’s responsible for the bloody offensive, I mean, this is something that Israelis can’t accept, Olmert said.
All of this plays in favor of Netanyahu. Israelis are already saying, ‘Look, they are all anti-Semites. They are all against us all for intentionally starving Palestinians.
Politico / ABC Flash-Point News 2024.
Bibi is more special and has to wait for a better deal ?
“Five of the ICC are British ” -says it all -all visited by ” Lobby Group” Friends of Israel” you would be hard put to find a UK newspaper saying Netanyahu is a Genocidist -all controlled and heavy censorship applied to the Media in the UK –a country that purports to being “democratic ” -democratic my — just as democratic as 1930,s Germany under Herr Hitler whom while condemning copies to the T.
With so much western corruption it would be more democratic allowing the Mafia to rule the west.
Humanity is in deep trouble facing an ever-growing list of crises, Muizzu told the UN chamber on Tuesday. Conflict. Poverty. Hunger. Climate change. The wealth gap. The cost of living crisis, migration, occupation, Opioid addiction, the list goes on and on and on…
And if Congress controlled from a small Middle East country is so insane to start WW3 then we wont be alive to suffer all the above .
Interestingly small islands like Curacao will survive and that’s a reason so many Netherlands settlers have immigrated there as well as controlling the island..
Exactly, islands are the safest places during a global crisis, they have their own power installations and are only dependent on fuel deliveries. The Netherlands itself is endangered and a prime target, because it is housing American nuclear missiles and bombs at Volkel and Leeuwarden airbases. But most of the Dutch play land grab, knocking the local population out of their grounds and properties, by using money as the revised colonial tool to oust the locals and force them to live as migrant refugees in WEF Camp Holland. Business as usual. The flying pirate-ships of KLM makes money both ways,… Read more »
Most of Congress and the House of Representatives are seated by women these days, a switch made by Zionist intruders to better control the USA, wiping men out of the political connection fields.