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Summary

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defense minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza and during the October 2023 attacks.

The court alleges actions like depriving Gaza civilians of essential resources.

Israel and the U.S., non-members of the ICC, reject the warrants, with Netanyahu calling them antisemitic.

Hamas also criticized the decision.

The practical enforcement of these warrants remains uncertain, as the ICC lacks authority to compel arrests.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do they think nobody is going to replace them and resume the conflict?

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

Then why would we persecute anyone? Maybe give that take one more round of thought.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Not everyone we persecute is in a leadership position with high amounts of pressure from the population to do the things we're punishing them for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It's about fucking time! This should've happened much earlier.

Anf of course Netanyahu is hiding behind the discrimination card.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

With Netanyahu calling them antisemetic

Why do they always call justified responses antisemetic? Like I swear, due to this, I have heard a resurgence of people believing that "Hitler was right in his actions" and "he was trying to save us", even though that's clearly a stupid take but I digress.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He should be arrested and given a quick trial and hanged.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imprisonment for live is the highest possible sentence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wasn't Sadam Houssein sentenced to death?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That wasn't the ICC, it was the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal, set up by the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ICC:
"We acknowledge that Hamas' attacks against civilians are crimes too."

Netanyahu and Hamas in unison:
"What do you mean, 'crimes too'?"

Meanwhile, the slaughter goes on because nobody wants to risk open conflict with the US and they* have a raging hard-on for genocidal imperialism.

*Not all of them, of course, but enough are either complicit or at least complacent that it remains a tenable political position.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Its the one silver lining about trump--he'll destroy US economic, military and political power and in doing that remove the zionists shield from consequences.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

One thing, why are the Hamas officials never named, and we never get their reaction? I'd really like I to be able to despise both side of that shit medal evenly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

One thing, why are the Hamas officials never named

they are always named.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're in the article:

The court issued a warrant for Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas’ armed wing, over the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks that triggered Israel’s offensive in Gaza...Khan withdrew requests for warrants for two other senior Hamas figures, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, who have both since been killed. Israel says it also killed Deif in an airstrike, but Hamas has never confirmed his death.

Hamas in a statement welcomed the warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant but made no mention of the one against Deif.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you, I should have verified before commenting. It's still the feeling I get, that Hamas leadership is way less named than Netanyahu. If at least in the headlines.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (2 children)

God they really just play the antisemitism card for everything

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I remember when the people who said 'if you call everything Nazism, then what are you going to do when the real Nazis arrive' ended up being Nazis themselves... who did not shy away from calling their opposition fascist and Nazis even when they were wearing Swastikas on them.

Zionists are the same. The exact same. They are remarkably antisemitic (look up the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl. The guy was a RAGING antisemite!) but at the same time throw that accusation left and right at anything that even remotely disapproves of their actions.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

It's the only card they have

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's funny how the criminal immediatelly implied that it's a Jewish characteristic to be a criminal like him, just like he and his minions (which includes the American Administration) have been continuously implying that commiting all manner of horrid crimes, from theft and rape all the way to Genocide and purposeful child mass murder, is a Jewish chacteristic.

Like the last bunch of Nazis, these people aren't merelly immoral, they're so depraved, disgusting and devoid of even the most basic humanity that they'll slander millions of those they claim to defend in order to avoid the consequences of acting like the most extreme and out of control psychopath (far beyond mere Serial Murderer and well into Hitler-level).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Exactly. Israel's actions is Palestine make Jews everywhere less safe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Well the ICC won't let me be or let me be me so we'll just see. -- Benjamin Netanyahu

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