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🏛 ICC Issues Arrest Warrants

Warrants issued, tensions rise—what happens next?

November 22, 2024

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ICC Issues Arrest Warrants

Today’s Top Story: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the Gaza conflict.

Reporting from the Right: ICC rejects Israeli appeals, issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant (Fox News)

Reporting from the Left: ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes (The Guardian)

RIGHT-LEANING SENTIMENT

“Antisemitic Decision”

The Top Argument From The Right: ‘A modern Dreyfus trial’: Israel assails ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel: “‘The antisemitic decision of the International Criminal Court is a modern Dreyfus trial and will end the same way,’ the [Prime Minister’s Office] PMO said in a statement referencing the infamous antisemitic incident from the 1890s in which a French Jewish officer was falsely accused and convicted of treason, before eventually being acquitted. Pledging that the court’s decision would not deter Israel from protecting its citizens, the PMO stated that it rejected the ‘false’ charges against Netanyahu and Gallant ‘with disgust.’ … The unprecedented decision marks the first time the ICC has ever issued arrest warrants against leaders of a democratic country, putting Netanyahu and Gallant at risk of being detained if they travel to any of the more than 120 countries that are party to the ICC. … Gallant, who was fired by Netanyahu earlier this month, accused the court of creating a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas and thus legitimizing ‘the murder of babies, the rape of women and the abduction of the elderly from their beds.’ … National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, representing the far-right flank of Netanyahu’s coalition, called on the prime minister to retaliate against the Palestinians over the court’s decision.”

LEFT-LEANING SENTIMENT

Why and What Now?

The Top Argument From The Left: Why did ICC issue Netanyahu arrest warrant and what are the implications? Haroon Siddique, The Guardian: “The ICC’s three-judge panel said it had found reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Gallant ‘bear criminal responsibility for … the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts’. In addition the panel said there were reasonable grounds to believe they bear criminal responsibility ‘as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population’. The panel said of [Mohammad] Deif that it had found reasonable grounds to believe that he was responsible ‘for the crimes against humanity of murder, extermination, torture and rape and other form of sexual violence, as well as the war crimes of murder, cruel treatment, torture, taking hostages, outrages upon personal dignity, and rape and other forms of sexual violence’. … The ICC relies on 124 member states of the Rome statute, which established the court, to execute arrest warrants. Member states are obliged to arrest individuals wanted by the ICC who set foot on their territory and, while they do not always do so, it means that the accused will have to consider whether they are willing to risk travelling. … Neither Israel nor its closest ally, the US, are members.”

Honorable Mention #2: War crimes charges will be hard stigma for Netanyahu to shrug off, Julian Borger, The Guardian.

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War Crimes Committed by Israel and Hamas

A YouGov study conducted earlier this year across seven Western European countries (Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden) and the USA reveals:

  • 70-75% of respondents believe Hamas has committed war crimes during their attacks on Israel and ongoing conflict.

  • 62-74% of Western Europeans believe Israeli forces have committed war crimes in Gaza, compared to 49% of Americans.

  • Only 26% of Americans and 8-14% of Western Europeans think Israel has not committed war crimes, with 5-10% in any surveyed country believing Hamas is innocent.

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