Israel has told the US that if the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials, it would take strong action against the Palestinian Authority (PA) that could lead to its collapse, Axios reported on Wednesday.
Israel has claimed that it has information that suggests the PA is encouraging the ICC to issue the arrest warrants that are expected to target Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.
A senior Israeli official told Axios that if the warrants are issued, the Israeli cabinet would likely approve action that could collapse the PA. Israel could freeze the transfer of tax revenue that it collects for the PA, which would bankrupt the authority.
The US is opposing the ICC warrants and has said the court lacks jurisdiction. Russia has called out the US for hypocrisy over the issue since it backed the ICC’s warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Neither Israel nor Russia are parties to the ICC.
In 2021, the ICC began investigating the Israeli military and Palestinian militants over the 2014 Gaza War. The court extended the investigation into the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel and the genocidal Israeli campaign in Gaza that followed. It’s possible the court issues warrants for both Israeli and Hamas leaders.
Netanyahu has declared arrest warrants for Israeli officials over the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza would be an “unprecedented antisemitic hate crime.” He called on the US and other countries to work against the court.
Israel is also facing a genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which handles disputes between states. The US has rejected the ICJ’s ruling that it’s “plausible” Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
He’s threatening a crime, to murder people if he is arrested for the crime of murdering people.
How in the actual fuck does that translate into Israel defending itself?
Be careful, questioning murder is now considered anti-semitic!
That’s why the US continues to send bombs to Israel. Not assisting Israel in ethnic cleansing and the genocide of women,children, and non-combatants is anti-semitic. I wonder if not using poison gas or nuclear weapons will be the next things determined to be anti-semitic?
Gaza brings Kent State Deja Vu. Was it “12 DEAD IN OHIO!!!???”
Roughing up the STUDENTS & PROFESSORS TOO DEJA VU
“Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we’re finally on our own!
“Gonna get down to it, soldiers are gunning us down, should have been done long ago, forget it Ohio, forget it Ohio!”
The dilemma for American college students is that their tax and tuition dollars are helping fund a plausible genocide; if they protest that fact, their tax and tuition dollars are then used to beat and arrest them & their teachers. _Prem Tahkker
How many students earn enough money to pay taxes?
Every student who earns any money at all pays taxes.
They may or may not earn enough to get robbed of federal income taxes. But every time they buy anything, they pay sales tax. If they own a car or land, etc., they pay property tax. If they drink or smoke they pay excise tax. If they drive they pay gas taxes.
Fuck you and all like you!
Zionists are a direct threat to American freedom & democracy: Press control & censorship by Zionists, assaults on free speech & assembly by Zionists, corruption of elections by Zionists, Violence against students at the behest of Zionists, banning TicTok at the behest of Zionists.
Whenever you racist anti-democratic pieces of shit show your faces, you should be mobbed! And you can cry “antisemitism!” all you want. I don’t give a shit. It’s s bogus charge. Palestinians are Semites too!
Until the return of Messiah, Satan rules this earth.
It is not Messiah returning. But the power of the Beast being finally revealed. Yeats was right.
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Israel’s leaders don’t realize the beast they have awakened … as you sow so shall you reap … destruction only begets destruction … “surely the second coming is at hand.”
You are right. They do not realize. Their world view is still shaped by the horrors of the superior race slaughtering innocents in their millions. And the reaction to it embodied in the state of Israel, returning to the ancient beliefs of might being the only right. It is the return to the era of Zeus, Baal, El, Amalek. The era of belief that only strength, supported by being fiercely feared — brings safety. And the notion of evil thus becomes relative. Whoever has the power of escallation of feat — wins.
Standard maffia practices by Israel and the US. But what else to expect from a gang of criminals? They don’t just run the streets, they run the state. So this is the state’s equivalence of demanding protection money.
Don’t insult the Mafia. Washington licks up BB’s spittle.
You are right. I have not sufficiently taken into account the contemptible nature of the real crooks and the criminally insane to which no maffia can really hold a candle. So I would like extend my sincere apologies to the maffia for the unfair equivalence. The insult was not intentional.
Very gracious and manly. We must all guard against hate speech.
Blackmail and extortion.
It’s how Yahweh rolls.
Israel has claimed that it has information that suggests the PA is encouraging the ICC to issue the arrest warrants
And if anybody that could fight back was encouraging the ICC to issue arrest warrants Israel would still target the PA. It’s very hard NOT to want them annihilated.
Nghaaa, see. Tell those coppers down at the ICC no arrest warrant for me or the PA, gets it, see. Nghaaa!!!
The ICC is over now. It was a short and rather uninspiring history. Corrupted politically from the start. But if they retract they lose whatever credibility they have left in the world forever. They have then have absolutely exhaustively shown to be nothing but a tool of the Western powers.
If they go the less dishonorable way and don’t buckle under threats of sanctions and the pressure and undoubtedly threats of persecution of individual prosecuters with the full and unrelenting state power of the US and the threats of Israel to destroy any sort of official Palestinian representation (which consequently removes entirely the last traces of Western pretense of working toward peace and their said favored “two state solution”) then the ICC with the assistance of the Europeans will become entirely an unworkable proposition.
Either way, they can’t survive in a US rules based world order.
The People of Israel should hand over Netanyahu, his Genocidal Thugs, to the ICC. If the People of Israel think Genocide is EVIL, they will do it, if not, then there is NO hope for them and only one solution to stop the Genocide.
I am astonished that opinion polls show that a majority of Israel’s population support the assault on Gaza, even though most also detest Netanyahu.
It would seem that the Commandment “Thou shalt not kill” only applies when it’s convenient for some of these supposedly devout people.
There’s a lot more people running other countries in the world for whom that rule doesn’t apply, either. Including our own.
I am astonished that opinion polls show that a majority of Israel’s population support the assault on Gaza, even though most also detest Netanyahu.
Why do people think those two things are mutually exclusive? I would imagine a good many people who despise Biden are fine with him for ensuring “world peace” with that $95 billion arms package.
Bullcrap. Netanyahu fully intends to do to the West Bank what he’s doing to Gaza – just later. It’s not conditional on any ICC warrants. That’s just a ploy to get the US to put pressure on the ICC. In fact, there appears to be little evidence other than stories from Israel that the ICC is even considering warrants.
But the corrupt PA ‘body or Israel handyman want to live off the feeds left at the trough for few more days and will oblige Israel .
Not even pretending that they’re not a mafia anymore.
Very soon Israel will threaten physical collapse of US UK Germany if it does not get what the Smotrch and Gvir demand from Saudi or UAE.
This POS is our close (intimate?) ally? Man, that says it all about the puppet regime in DC.
Shorter: we’re screwed. We’re screwed in Europe. We’re screwed in the Middle East. We’re screwed in the far East, we’re screwed here at home.
Israeli reprisals are why the arrest warrants are being raised in the first place.
I remain unconvinced there are, or ever were, any potential arrest warrants. The story was broken by media of the Zionist colonized Palestinian Lands called the state of Israel (hereafter, while I can without risking my freedom, I will refer to it as PLOI pronounced ploy.) The initial story and all evolving facts, beyond the bat-shit crazy stuff of congress, are attributed to Netanyahu, another minister or PLOI “official.” Hasbara anyone?
The PLOI are criminal lunatics believing themselves exempt from all law but their own they excel at manipulation and mendacity. I can’t believe the ICC would be so careless to allow a leak of this consequence – not in this case. The one the original prosecutor deemed so “unique [with] highly contested legal and factual issues” she submitted it to a Pre-Trial Chamber, criticized but IHL experts judged warranted.
PLOI is under increased pressure everywhere it turns. Maybe it’s a distraction maybe something else but I think the whole warrants contretemps is a PLOI ploy.