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Is Keir Starmer Really Going To Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu?
'Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he enters Britain. That is the welcome the Israeli leader will receive should he fancy another trip to the UK anytime soon. It comes after the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, along with former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif of Hamas, who is thought to be already dead. Justifying the decision to issue warrants for the two Israeli politicians, the court said they shared 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.’
Downing Street has confirmed that it will respect the ICC’s decision once the UK domestic process had taken place
In response, the Israeli government has – unsurprisingly – heavily criticised the judgment. The United States (which is not an ICC member) has also ‘fundamentally’ rejected the court’s decision – stating that the ICC has no ‘jurisdiction over this matter’. The incoming Trump administration has warned of a ‘strong response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC and UN come January’ when Trump takes office.
In contrast, Downing Street has confirmed that it will respect the ICC’s decision once the UK domestic process had taken place. This is thought to reference the ratification of the warrant by a UK court. Starmer’s spokesman said the UK government would comply with its legal obligations but added there was no ‘moral equivalence’ between Israel and Hamas.'
The ICC, Ayatollahs without beards. 🙄
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'Now of course it is easier for the US to take a bold stance against the ICC ruling, given unlike the UK it is not a member of the court. But Starmer’s seeming compliance – with little criticism or scepticism to accompany it – is very different to what would have been expected if the Tories were still in power. Starmer’s hand-picked choice of Attorney General recently told the Financial Times that the government ‘is determined not to do anything that undermines the work of the ICC.’ Already, the shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel has criticised Starmer’s response – describing the warrant as concerning and urging the government to ‘condemn and challenge the ICC’s decision’. If Starmer continues to hold his position, he risks a diplomatic rift with both Israel and the incoming Trump administration.'
Katy Balls
He'd leave it to his police force. If they are happy to hassle and arrest folk putting hurty words on social media they shouldn't baulk at holding the Israeli leader. After all they let islamist riots carry on and tell the jews to stay away, don't they ? So the arrest ought to be right up their street.
Sir 2Tier isnt in the country long enough to make any arrest!
This is all about pleasing his Muslim voter base and lets be honest about this the ICC is just a "Court" run by political activists, and just look at Karim Ahmed Khan (no bias from someone with that name then) who led this, also faces allegations od sexual misconduct which just 'vanished'. Khan's ICC colleagues implied the allegations were part of an Israeli smear campaign, so no bias there either then.
Its just more of the Political 'elites' using law as a tool to shut up and jail opponents.
ICC, like the UN, needs disbanding or at least the UK to withdraw from it.
Trump could sanction ICC, unlike Britain's pusillanimous, cow-towing Starmer.
'President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans are weighing up sanctions on Karim Khan KC, the ICC’s chief prosecutor behind Netanyahu’s arrest warrant application. Trump’s upcoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said the court had “no credibility” and promised “a strong response to the anti-Semitic bias of the ICC” when Trump takes office in January. Meanwhile, the UK has said it respects the Hague-based court but ministers have not confirmed if Netanyahu would be detained if he entered Britain.'
The ICC has undermined – perhaps fatally – its own credibility, as well as prospects for a peace settlement in Gaza.
The process which led to the warrants was compromised from the very beginning, when the ICC’s Prosecutor, Karim Ahmad Khan KC, who is currently being investigated for alleged sexual misconduct (he denies the allegations), convened a ‘Panel of Experts in International Law’ to provide support for his decision to seek the warrants.
More troubling is the fact that the Court had no jurisdiction at all to issue these warrants
The panel’s entire membership was selected by Khan, which raised concerns about its impartiality. As Lord Macdonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, pointed out in a September 2024 panel discussion at Policy Exchange, at least two of the Panel’s members had publicly accused Israel of international crimes beforehand, while at least two others had personal links to the Prosecutor.
The court does have jurisdiction khandro. you are just upset because you agree with genocide and do not wish for it to be impeded.
you may have missed the review of the prosecutor's case by a panel of judges which included a holocaust survivor... they found that the prosecutor had been scrupulously fair and that the charges warranted a trial.
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