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According to reports in several Israeli media, the United States is part of a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials.

In the news site Walla, analyst Ben Caspit writes that Netanyahu is “under unusual stress” over the prospect of an arrest warrant against him and other Israelis by the UN tribunal in The Hague, which would be a major deterioration in Israel’s international status.

Netanyahu is leading a “nonstop push over the telephone” to prevent an arrest warrant, focused especially on the administration of US President Joe Biden, Caspit writes.

Haaretz analyst Amos Harel writes that the Israeli government is working under the assumption that the ICC’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, may this week issue warrants for the arrest of Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.

  • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Israel and the US show once again that they are enemies to a rule based international order. They are enemies to justice, diplomacy and human rights. Quite frankly they are terrorists.

    Now the only question that remains is whether the countries that are signatories to the ICC will uphold a rule based order and get those criminals to face responsibility in a court of law, or whether it was all just for show and they happily descend into barbarism.