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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12333064

International Criminal Court chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israeli PM and Hamas leaders

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This is such a smart move: it really cuts the legs out from under the "....bbbbut Hamas are terrorist!!" bad-faith arguments.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The headline focuses on Israel, but the prosecutor has also called for arrest warrants of the top two Hamas figures.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

They're only separated by the word "and"

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If that's the reason behind the arrest warrens for Hamas, doesn't it make the ICC's chief request in bad faith? Like "I really want to issue warrants only for Netanyahu, but I know this will be unfair, so I'll issue warrants for both sides, so I'll seem balanced"?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the reason for the Hamas warrants is that they ordered their soldiers to gun down civilians en masse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Right, so it's not "smart", it's just, you know, what he should have done regardless.

Preferably even before asking for warrants against Netanyahu and Galant. That way it won't look like the warrants against Hamas leaders are to justify the warrants against Netanyahu and Galant, like the person I replied to seems to imply.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yup!

Also addresses that, regardless of the Israeli apartheid regime's response being immeasurably worse, the leaders of Hamas DID also commit war crimes and violated the human rights of civilians, which you're not allowed to do no matter how much you're oppressed and abused..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Considering the leaders of Hamas are flitting around on private jets seeing all their fellow war criminals... I dont think we can say they're particularly oppressed or abused. Theyre just using those that are for their own malicious purposes.