Amid reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may issue arrest warrants for top Israeli officials, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out against it, accusing the court of attempting to prevent Israel from defending itself against terrorism.
In a video statement, Netanyahu condemned the ICC’s potential move, saying, “Eighty years after the Holocaust, the international bodies that were established to prevent another Holocaust are considering denying the Jewish state the right to defend itself against those who came to commit genocide against us, and are still actively working to do so. What an absurdity, what a distortion of justice and history.”
Netanyahu warned that issuing arrest warrants for war crimes would be “a scandal on a historical scale,” an “indelible stain on all of humanity,” and an “unprecedented antisemitic hate crime.” He accused the ICC of intentionally trying to paralyze Israel’s political and military leadership.
Despite the potential move, Netanyahu vowed that “no decision, neither in The Hague nor anywhere else, will harm our determination to achieve all the goals of the war,” including bringing hostages home, removing Hamas from power, and stabilizing Israel’s northern borders.
He called on world leaders to oppose the reported plan, warning that it would harm not only Israel’s right to self-defense but also that of “all democracies in the world.”
US Congress members from both parties have reportedly warned the ICC that Washington will retaliate if any arrest warrants are issued, and other allied nations have also expressed opposition to the move.
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DRAFTING BNEI TORAH INTO THE ARMY IS ALSO AN “indelible stain on all of humanity,” AND “a scandal on a historical scale,”
I should hope they do, I am waiting to see it happen iy”h bekarov.
The Zionist leader is lying and propagandizing as always. The Zionist “State” is Zionist, not Jewish. Therefore, it would not at all be an “unprecedented antisemitic hate crime” but rather simply an act of anti-Zionism.
Hakatan is lying and propagandizing as always. True, the Zionist State is Zionist and not necessarily representing the Jews or Judaism.
But nevertheless, since to the haters of the Jews and the antisemites all over the world it is viewed as the state of the Jews, it would , by design and intent, be an unprecedented antisemitic hate crime and not simply ‘an act of anti-Zionism’.
@yankel berel,
You have no one besides the zionist to blame for that.
If the reshaim goyim perceive the israeli state to be the Jewish one and therefore direct their hate against Jews (or vice versa), it would obviously take off some of the danger and anger if they were told that it is not the Jewish state, just as the Satmar Rav Ztzl”l said that those who follow Hashem and not the Ba’al will need immense mesirat nefesh literally to announce to the umot ha’olam that the medina does not represent us Jews and isn’t the Jewish state.
And no I didn’t say go to Arab marches/protests, I am talking about telling the umot haolam in other ways, for example, HaRav Avigdor Miller Ztzl”l wrote letter advertisements for the Satmar Rav many times in various gentile American newspapers like the New York Times etc..