It appears that nearly everyone has taken sides in the Israeli-Hamas fiasco. I was suspicious from the beginning. Not only do I believe that this was a false flag perpetrated by Netanyahu. I would not be at all surprised if Mossad hadn’t dressed like Hamas and carried out the original assault on Israel and the concert goers. Maybe not, but the whole operation smelled like the package of chicken thighs I inadvertently left under the seat in my car in the middle of July. It shouldn’t take much imagination to decide you never want to smell anything like that again!
That is how I felt about October 7th. I didn’t see any provocation from either side. Yet all at once, Hamas decided October 7th would be a good time to attack Israel? People don’t usually react to ‘nothing’ like that. And, almost everyone I listened to said the same thing basically. How did a bunch of ragtag, so-called terrorists spring a surprise attack on Israel like that, with Israel’s crack military and even better intelligence, to be gob-smacked like that, and for 6-7 hours? Really? Was it a Jewish holiday? Had all of the military and intelligence agency people gone on a vacation? I’m not buying any of it.
The ‘Hamas’ attack gave Netanyahu the ‘Problem’ justification to retaliate against Hamas. But, it did not give him the right to kill an entire people who had nothing to do with the attack. Of course, those siding with Israel like to gloss over that fact. I nearly choked when I read the letter from the twelve Israeli ‘owned’ Senators to the ICC that took them to task for “taking legitimate actions of self-defense, against their Iranian backed aggressors. Had Netanyahu retaliated against known Hamas locations and then stopped, he would have had the backing of most of the civilized world.
But, that isn’t what Netanyahu wanted. Like a rabid dog, he continued to kill Palestinians wherever he found them, until the deaths totaled upwards of 35,000 men, women and children. Yet, these pompas -assed Senators tell the ICC “there is no moral equivalence between Hamas terrorism and Israel’s justified response.” Are you kidding me? As far as I know, that remark was delivered with a straight face. While it is true that the ICC is only allowed to intervene where a state is unable or unwilling to genuinely carry out an investigation and prosecute the perpetrators, I saw no evidence of Netanyahu applying the brakes to his clear genocide of a people.
The ICC prosecutes individuals, not groups or states. Any individual who is alleged to have committed crimes within the jurisdiction of the ICC may be brought before the ICC. In fact, the Office of the Prosecutors prosecutorial policy, is to focus on those who, having regard to the evidence gathered, bear the greatest responsibility for the crimes, and does not take into account any official position that may be held by the alleged perpetrators.
No one is exempt from prosecution due to their position held at the time of the crimes. Being a prime minister or president, or any head of state does not exempt anyone from crimes committed and they may even be held accountable for actions taken by those under their orders. The ICC judges are elected by the States on the basis of their established competence in criminal law and procedure and in relevant areas of international law such as international humanitarian law and the law of human rights. They have extensive expertise on specific issues such as violence against women and children.
And, of course, neither Israel, nor it’s satellite country, America, are participating States. In the case of the U.S., understandably, parts of the policies might conflict with our Constitution. In the case of Israel, I think they just don’t want any other organization telling them they can’t commit genocide. But, in the case of a nation’s constitution, don’t these other 120-160 States have their own constitutions? Should a criminal be allowed to hide behind his countries internal laws like diplomats from other countries do?
Finally, the twelve Israeli Zionist government’s trained puppies finished their letter to the ICC on a personal note. “If you issue a warrant for the arrests of the Israeli leadership, we will interpret this not only as a threat to Israeli sovereignty but to the sovereignty of the United States. Target Israel and we will target you. If you move forward with the measures indicated in the report, we will move to end all American support for the ICC, sanction your employees and associates and bar you and your families from the United States. You have been warned.”
So, I am confused. Either you belong to an organization or you don’t. Why would America and Israel be allowed to have any say in the organization if they don’t want to be a participating State? Up to January1, 2017, the U.S. had initially raised concerns about the definition for the crime of aggression, the conditions under which it would exercise jurisdiction and a road map for the eventual activation of jurisdiction. After January 1, 2017, The U.S. initially raised concerns about the definition, but accepted it after other countries agreed to attach a set of detailed understandings to the resolution adopting the amendments.
And, here it comes, under the amendment, the ICC will be, first, unable to prosecute individuals of a non-state party, like Israel. And, second, state parties will have the opportunity to opt out of aggression jurisdiction if they so wish. Talk about a paper tiger! And, last question. If the ICC has no jurisdiction over Israel because they aren’t a participating member state, why would these twelve Senators feel threatened by the ICC’s move to issue warrants against Netanyahu and other Israeli leadership?
One good outcome from this is now we know at least some of our congressmen who are owned by Israel. Do any of them have dual citizenship? I would think that would preclude them from running for public office in the U.S. If it doesn't, it should. Where do their loyalties lie? It wasn't difficult to find out who the twelve Senators are. So their constituents need to ask them that question. Maybe they would prefer to live in Israel.
It’s going to be a long hot summer.
