ICJ seeks arrest warrant for Netanyahu and others for war crimes.

Hmm. Well I have just looked up Karim Khan’s CV! I can’t actually believe what I'm reading. HOW can he can be impartial. Check out his family connections including his brother . I'm staggered.

How dare ICC compare Israel with the murderous terrorists Hamas.

Urmstongran

But … On the one hand you have a murderous leadership whose only aim is to kill Jews and take over Israel. All their resources have been plowed into that goal with no planning for a positive future for their people. On the other hand you have a forward thinking, proud, democratic western country trying to defend its people, get its hostages back and survive. How you can equate the two beggars belief. To me.

But no matter what your personal view of the organisations in question (and the personal bias is obvious) neither of them has the right to subject civilians to inhumane treatment, to deliberately target them, restrict their access to food and water or to eject them from their homes. It doesn't matter how democratic a country is if they choose a leader who promotes those things.

Anniebach

Khan a Muslim wants to prosecute Netanyahu a Jew

annie how on earth do you know what Khan’s religion is?

Do you not understand what a racist remark that is!

I can’t even begin to get my head around what you’ve posted.

Urmstongran

Hmm. Well I have just looked up Karim Khan’s CV! I can’t actually believe what I'm reading. HOW can he can be impartial. Check out his family connections including his brother . I'm staggered.

How dare ICC compare Israel with the murderous terrorists Hamas.

They are not comparing one outfit with another!!

Khan is Muslim. He is the brother of the disgraced Pakistani leader and ex-cricketer, Imran Khan.

Amal is also Muslim.

Just a coincidence. Not.

Rishi Sunak has described the application for arrest warrants at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli officials as “deeply unhelpful.”

Speaking in Vienna, the Prime Minister said the application for arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister. and Yoav Gallant, his defence minister, would make no difference to getting aid into Gaza and reaching a sustainable ceasefire.

“This is a deeply unhelpful development. Of course it is still subject to a final decision, but it remains deeply unhelpful nonetheless,” he said. “There is no moral equivalence between a democratic state exercising its lawful right to self defence and the terrorist group Hamas. It is wrong to conflate and equivocate between those two different entities.”

Well I did check out his background

www.icc-cpi.int/about/otp/who-s-who/karim-khan

- please actually read - and he is well qualified for the job.

To say he sent because he is from a Muslim background is simply Islamophobic.

Not ‘that word’ again. Sigh.

The whole war would stop if Hamas released the hostages. All the deaths are on their heads. The ICC have got it wrong.

People haven't hesitated (including me) to use the words "anti-semitic" where appropriate - and quite rightly so.

Islamophobic is the equivalent.

Well the word “Islamophobia” is too blunt. It fails, in principle, to distinguish between hating Muslims and criticising Islamic doctrine.

Unlike other words that have drifted from their original meaning, away from polite liberal circles and among the most vulnerable of minorities within our minority communities, it is still used regularly and interchangeably to mean either or both.

Islamists know this. They deployed this ambiguity in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. And they continue to do so after New Zealand. They seek nothing but an opportunity to reintroduce a blasphemy taboo through the backdoor. In allowing them this, we betray ex-Muslims, liberal Muslim reformers and those from minority sects. That latter category even suffered a murder on our streets in Glasgow for being “anti-Islam”.

This is not semantics. The dead do not have the luxury to indulge linguistic laziness. And there are alternatives.

The terms “Anti-Muslim hate” or “Muslimphobia” are more precise, and do the job nicely to address a very real and rising problem.

Well, if people believe that a Muslim is incapable of being impartial, then I guess they must also believe the same of any other faith/religion. Might make our courts slow down even more if we have to find a Jewish, Christian, Mormon, Hindu etc etc to ensure impartiality and fairness. But Urmstongran is it just Muslims you can't trust to be fair and impartial?

I think in this instance they are too near the epicentre to be completely impartial.

But members of the ICC are from all over the world including Western countries. Its not a single person making decisions or enacting process

How do you explain that the ICC has issued a warrant for Muslims as well as Jews?

The overt racism on this thread is so depressing.

O/P. Netanyahu and others

Others are of no interest ?

Anniebach

O/P. Netanyahu and others

Others are of no interest ?

I really can no longer be bothered to answer your ridiculous posts.

If you think about it, it is obvious to anyone why the OP took the form it did.

foxie48

Oreo

Hmm, wonder how any Israelis captured or hostages are treated by hamas in Gaza?
Given what happened to over a thousand innocent Israelis last October you can’t blame any less than kind actions directed against hamas fighters who were injured and ended up in military hospitals!

That is exactly why there are rules of war Oreo because people can behave in an inhumane way and justify it just like you have just done. Fortunately civilised governments know that this is not acceptable, hence they sign up to agreements with the ICJ and ICC.

Nurses and doctors declined to look after shot hamas terrorists in the days after the October massacre so a field hospital was set up for them to stay in.In my view acceptable after what hamas carried out, atrocities is the word, they were not soldiers engaging with other soldiers as in the usual way of wars.Had they been, then tho understandable, medics would have treated them even if reluctantly.
What those beasts did to families entirely unprovoked on that day deserves far rougher treatment than they got!

Whitewavemark2

How do you explain that the ICC has issued a warrant for Muslims as well as Jews?

The overt racism on this thread is so depressing.

Seems very biased one way to me, and not on the side of the Jews either.
So yeah, very depressing indeed.

Urmstongran

But … On the one hand you have a murderous leadership whose only aim is to kill Jews and take over Israel. All their resources have been plowed into that goal with no planning for a positive future for their people. On the other hand you have a forward thinking, proud, democratic western country trying to defend its people, get its hostages back and survive. How you can equate the two beggars belief. To me.

And to lots of us.

How dare ICC compare Israel with the murderous terrorists Hamas.

It doesn't.

Glorianny

Let's hope it causes the UK to stop supplying arms to Israel.
It is good to see the people of Gaza being given proper protection at last.

Netanyahu has sent in bulldozers into the occupied West Bank and they are digging up the roads. So it isn’t stopping.

Whitewavemark2

Anniebach

Khan a Muslim wants to prosecute Netanyahu a Jew

annie how on earth do you know what Khan’s religion is?

Do you not understand what a racist remark that is!

I can’t even begin to get my head around what you’ve posted.

What Anniebach says is a statement of fact, no more.

You can read into it whatever you wish but she only stated a fact..

Wyllow3

But members of the ICC are from all over the world including Western countries. Its not a single person making decisions or enacting process

Another fact.

So what the supporters of Netanyahu are saying is that because they consider Israel a democratic state, and he is Jewish, he should be permitted to break International law without facing the consequences. That is so ridiculous. The country doesn't matter, the religion doesn't matter, International law and therefore International justice works on a set of agreed principles and anyone who breaks those must be brought to justice. He would receive a fair trial, not be imprisoned or executed without one.