The arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant should be the last the International Criminal Court issues, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator. Here’s an excerpt:
The ICC accuses the men, whose nation is embroiled in a multi-front war against enemies sworn to its destruction, of using “starvation as a method of warfare”, “murder, persecution and other inhumane acts”, and “intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population”. Merely to say the charges out loud is to expose their absurdity. Not only is there no evidence that Israel is denying the Palestinians food as a military tactic, there is copious evidence to the contrary: 1.1 million tonnes, to be precise. That is how much humanitarian aid, 79% of it food, has been transferred into Gaza since October 7th 2023 under Israeli supervision.
Absurdity is one thing, but malevolence is another. It is an act of wicked cruelty and sadism to invert the truth as the ICC does and accuse Israel of murder, persecution and inhumane acts, the very crimes to which its citizens were subjected by Palestinian invaders on October 7th. The accusation that Israel intentionally targets civilians is simply a lie: the Israel Defence Forces routinely warn civilians in advance of military operations to allow them to vacate the area. Capping off the obscenity is that on this occasion only one warrant was issued against the Palestinian side. That was for Hamas terror chief Mohammed Deif, who has been dead for five months. …
Republican Senator Lindsay Graham says he will be introducing a Bill to punish nations that cooperate with the ICC’s attack on Israel, warning: “If you aid and abet the ICC after their action against the State of Israel, you can expect consequences from the United States.” …
The ICC was established to bring tyrants and human rights abusers to book, but today you have more to fear from this body if you are the elected leader of a democracy striving to protect its citizens from barbarism. The court has dragged itself and the laws it purports to uphold into a mire of politics, prejudice, caprice and improper process. It is no longer fit for purpose and its continued existence harms the global purchase of international law. The International Criminal Court must fall.
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Where have you been the past year Will Jones…..
This article takes the prize for the biggest load of bs I’ve read about Gaza, it oozes Zionist Propaganda.
“The accusation that Israel intentionally targets civilians is simply a lie”… The IDF have been intentionally targeting civilians and shooting them dead for decades..
This article is beyond a joke…
The data and figures over the past decades are easily found, obviously a journalist that doesn’t want to find them…
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/middle-east/israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/report-israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/
In May, Israel launched a five-day offensive in the occupied and blockaded Gaza Strip, killing 11 Palestinian civilians. Following a Hamas-led attack in southern Israel on 7 October during which at least 1,000 people were killed, of which 36 were children, and some 245 were taken hostage or captive, Israel conducted intense military operations that killed 21,600 Palestinians in Gaza, a third of them children, and wrecked 60% of homes.
21600… What sort of figure is that if they purport to be not targeting civilians….. You’re having a laugh..
And now we’ve got Netanyahu screaming “antisemitism”
Yes yea yea, what would Israel do without that construct that is “antisemitism”
please explain ‘construct’.
Are you unable, or more likely unwilling, to tell the difference between civilians massacred because of their religion/ethnicity (think Hamas on 7 October) and civilians killed during a war in a heavily built up area?
It continues to amaze me – but I suppose it shouldn’t given the fact that Israel has been controlling the MSM/Hollywood/the USA since WW2 – that so many supposed “Sceptics” on here don’t realise they’ve been so brainwashed that they simply cannot see the truth.
Were I unaware of the sentiments of the author I would applaud him for ultimate sarcasm.
To self.
Forgot to mention the score since October last year.
What is it now.
43,000 and counting.
75% children and women.
NOTHING justifies that.
And a lot on here welcome it.
Remind me of the situation on October 6th 2023, please.
what do you mean by ‘Zionist’?
This is ethnic cleansing, being carried out right in front of you…
And you applaud it…..
Remind me what “River to the sea” actually means.
It is called Greater Israel and is Netanyahu’s dream.
It’s the slogan of Hamas and means the death, or forced eviction, of all Jews living in Israel and the occupied territories. To claim/pretend anything else is BS.
Here is Netanyahu quoting the Israeli version of ‘from the river to the sea’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V96T8rIkFc.
You can encourage friendly relationships with your neighbours or you can bomb them. I just do not see how Israel thinks it will ever live in peace by killing every Arab in sight.
Before the state of I@rael was founded it was a Zioni@t slogan signifying Eretz Israel.
You can make a perfectly reasonable argument that, for some reason, organisations created to apolitically support peace, avoid wars and avert famine have become captured by those who only want to support the right kind of peace, avoid the wrong kind of wars and feed only the right kind of people…
Thus exposing the dangers of a prospective ‘World Government’ that would soon tilt into partisanship. And heaven help you if you ended up out of favour.
Yes but on the subject of crimes, WTF is this man doing to this swan??
I sincerely hope this incident had a good outcome.
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1860274322817859663
One of the farms we work on lost forty sheep three years ago to these “alternative” Europeans. The farmer has since sold most of his farm and what he has retained he rents to another farmer who has more manpower. Absolute cnuts these garbage.
I can’t imagine a Swan is going to go quietly, despite them not having talons or a predator’s beak, I presume they can do some damage to someone not used to handling waterfowl. So I’d like to think optimistically that the nutjob thought “this is too much like hard work” and let it go. Certainly you’re going to look pretty conspicuous walking down the street with a huge bird!
This is probably one of those stories where you don’t get to hear the outcome. Although somebody was taking that footage.
It’s like the doorbell cam footage of a man entering someone’s driveway and grabbing the cat. He was seen restraining it between his legs as he exited, but I’m also hoping somebody intervened if they saw him walking down the road like that, plus the poor animal must’ve made a right racket. You dread to think what someone’s intentions are, behaving in such an unnatural manner. But that’ll be another story we’ll probably not get to know the ending to.
Were the 40 sheep taken over a period of time though? Because that’s a lot of sheep to take. Did the perpetrators get caught?
I read of a Romanian who stole a few sheep and butchered them in his garage. He was fined £150.
Mogs, the forty sheep were taken over a twelve month period. The perps were never caught. GMP are not interested and don’t have the
resourcesmanpower anyway. Apparently some were butchered in the fields. We have problems around here with Romanians and they are nasty bastards. Some fishing waters have been plagued with these ‘people’ and large quantities of fish have gone missing – netting.As stated, plod cgaf.
Even when the police do attend they’re utterly crap. See here. Even a short-arsed girl has the better of a policeman here. We need some Benny Hill music as a soundtrack to this clowntastic fiasco for extra comedy value
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https://x.com/kingkapoor72/status/1860369233961521476
Useless plod.
International law is a bloody joke and only matters if those who seek to hide behind it say so. The reality is that there is no such thing as International law. I fully agree with Stephen Daisley but he should have widened the scope of his article. Also ripe for destruction are outfits such as NATO, the United Nations, the World Health Organisation and countless other grifter NGO’s which have assumed powers and responsibilities to which they have no right whatsoever.
There is not a day goes by when I don’t wonder how this world functions. The people doing real work such as erm… I know, farmers and manufacturing, are vastly outnumbered by the wa#kers all over the planet who do nothing every day except sit in meetings making rules and regulations about how people feed us.
At some point there has to be a reckoning. The world doesn’t owe any of us a living. I suspect the reckoning might be somewhat brutal.
I’m afraid it doesn’t work like that. You can’t cheer on a court when it prosecutes people you disapprove of but then ask for it to be abolished when it makes a decision that is contrary to your liking. Such a conceit is a clear disregard of the very notion of justice itself. This isn’t rocket science.
Agreed in principle if one accepts that the court is honourable and their decision is different, but Institutions change and here one is entitled to analyse the whole process and the people involved and the actual decisions, and if one comes to the conclusion that the ICC is no longer fit for purpose, then as a country we should not accept any longer that it has any jurisdiction.
One must start to wonder to LDS is turning into a version of a nuanced Daily Telegraph. Zionism is the territory of MSM, they do it so much better and with much more gusto. To see it on the DS is disappointing. 7/7, unless one may be wilfully blind, was to set the stage, so to speak, for the Gazan genocide, people don’t matter, oil and resources do. What we are witnessing is modern day colonialism under corporate licence. Not a popular opinion but when you sniff genocide, perhaps side with reason and humanity and call it.
genocide?
I absolutely agree. Vanessa Beeley and the UK Column are good sources of accurate and up-to-date information.
Oil?! Didn’t know there was oil in Israel (or Gaza).
They try to take over but they won’t take over have faith the moment is drawing near.
Total nonsense.
The arrest warrants against Putin were totally unjustified as Russia were evacuating women and children from a war zone created by the US and its vassals in this Nato proxy war.
Netanhayu is a genocidal maniac and needs to be taken out asap.
It is very sad that it has come to this with attitudes hardening from hatred of Zionists to hatred of Judaism generally. The genocide has reached such horrific proportions that it precludes rational consideration it is more like a horror movie. There is no way back from this situation. Every analyst knows that conflicts reach a critical mass after which neither party or both parties can stop it. Sad to see a country walk into a trap and destroy itself.
This event in my opinion will precipitate the rise of humanity to a higher moral level. Don’t be disheartened. Of course consider the dead. It is the centre of the world, perhaps the greatest evil that the world has ever seen. You can’t stop it directly but it is not long for this world and the graveyard. Afterwards we can hopefully build something better.
1.1 million tonnes … humanitarian aid, 79% of it food, has been transferred into Gaza since October 7th 2023 under Israeli supervision.
Source? The website ‘Humanitarian Efforts Israel’ (Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories) https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/, in other words, straight from the IDF who, while busy posting videos of their atrocities on social media, are possibly trying to keep a straight face here.
I have no particular sympathy for the ICC since they also have an arrest warrant out for Putin which, in my opinion, was a purely political action. But does the author really believe that the ICC judges have nothing better to do than dream up totally concocted charges against Netanyahu and Gallant, while being well aware of the political uproar it would cause? Does the author really believe the huge number of prosecuting lawyers from numerous countries and 15 ICJ judges had nothing better to do than invent fictional stories about what is happening in Gaza?
The author admits the Israel Defence Forces routinely warn civilians in advance of military operations to allow them to vacate the area – before bombing it flat and then bombing the place they told the civilians to go to. He will also be aware that Israel is bombing Lebanon and Syria, and just itching to carpet bomb Iran too.
Is such a report ignorance or intention?
There are so many cases that the ICC has ignored where the death toll is much greater, so it seems clear that this action on their part has a lot to do with it being Jews they can attack. The background of the judges just confirms this. The IDF shows a lot more concern on saving lives of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon than either Hamas or Hezbollah; both of these try and kill as many Israelis they can with their rocket attacks. Just one fact over the last year the population of Gaza has increased , the births exceeding deaths.
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEo813rYm8g or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcggRO8U_E4 and tell me that IDF does not want all Palestinians dead. Take a look at the headlines of https://antiwar.com/, detailing each day how many Palestinians have been murdered by the IDF.
Explain why over a year has passed and there have been no discussions concerning hostage releases, let alone any releases. Why have there been no peace negotiations, apart from the fact the IDF has repeatedly assassinated Hamas negotiators? Israel is equipped with a modern army, with fighter aircraft, bombers, tanks, so please explain why such a modern army can be defeated by a few terrorists. Israel is bombing Lebanon daily and randomly. Israel is bombing Syria. Please explain how you expect the future of Israel to look when it creates enemies on every border. Please explain what justification Israel has to bomb its neighbours instead of fostering friendly relationships, like any normal country in the world.
The IDF uses drones to machine-gun Palestinians running for food on the rare occasion a humanitarian aid lorry makes it past the IDF border guards. The IDF repeatedly attacks and destroys hospitals, schools and all the universities in Gaza. Countless bodies lie under the piles of rubble spread in every direction. Israel is intentionally starving the Palestinians and preventing medical aid (as stated in the ICC arrest warrants). Every day children have limbs amputated without anaesthetics because the IDF happily bombs refugee camps and refuses to allow medications into the area.
Nobody knows how many Palestinians have been killed. I am sorry but to claim there more Palestinians alive today than before October 7th is a pretty appalling untruth. There are reasons why the ICJ recognizes that Israel is committing genocide, as repeated by the investigations of the ICC.
Why were hostages taken in the first place.That really is a war crime. Why are you not calling for the immediate unconditional release of the hostages. Why should there have to be negotiations about that. Apart from that their release would change the whole dynamic, and the arab neighbours should have been brave enough to call for that. In reality they are more terrified of the Palestinians themselves
You well know Hamas built a tunnel network larger than the London underground in which they shelter with their armaments under hospitals, schools etc,. while the civilians are left deliberately exposed for propaganda. Without the food and water supplied by the Israelis there might really be starvation
If anybody were in the slightest interested in listening to me, I would call for the immediate release of the hostages, for an immediate cease-fire on all fronts, and for a lasting and permanent recognition of a Palestinian state, so that there may never be a ‘Middle East Problem’ ever again. Sadly, others dictate what is happening in the world.
Conflict in the Middle East has been rearing its ugly for as long as I can remember, with various US Presidents (Carter, Clinton) announcing they had solved the problem only for the fighting to be resumed a short while later.
And the media always report it is the poor Israelis who are suffering, who are acting in self-defence, and it is the nasty Palestinian Arabs who are always disturbing an oasis of culture and civilization in the middle of the Arab countries.
In my opinion, the problem was always one of mass immigration. UK, Europe and USA are suffering from mass immigration (why?) at the moment and tensions have been flaring for some time now. Palestine was ruled by the Turks until the British took over in 1917 (good old Lawrence of Arabia) and the Palestinian inhabitants lived peacefully with their Jewish fellow citizens, the latter accounting for around 7% of the population. The British Administration, however, permitted an ever increasing number of Jews to immigrate, following the call of Zionists to do so, until they accounted for more than 30% of the population in 1947. Well before this, tensions had flared between Palestinians and Zionists, and there were calls for a sovereign Palestinian state and a stop to the immigration. The British were unable to band the resulting violence and handed over the problem of governing the country to the UN in February 1947.
The UN voted for the country to be partitioned into into an un-named “Jewish State” and an un-named “Arab State”. The territory of Palestine was divided into eight parts: three were allotted to the Jewish State, three to the Arab State, the seventh, Jaffa, was to form an Arab enclave in Jewish territory, and the eighth part was to be Jerusalem as a corpus separatum under a special international régime. The result was civil war with 726,000 Palestinians fleeing the violence. Israel declared its independence on 14th May 1948. (https://www.un.org/unispal/)
Returning to the current conflict, Hamas terrorists broke out on 7th October – broke out of where? – and killed primarily Israeli military personnel guarding the Gaza enclave. They took hostages – why? – and headed back to Gaza. They hid in tunnels – why were there tunnels? – and awaited the inevitable response.
My above questions are generally unanswered by western media. The fact is that the whole of the Gaza Strip is a prison – a huge, open-air prison. People are born there, people who ‘misbehave’ are taken to outside jails, where they may be mishandled, tortured or even killed. The Israelis allow only an exact amount of food to enter Gaza, calculated only to be sufficient for normal nourishment. Under these conditions, violence and outbreaks are hardly surprising. Hostages were taken to force the Israelis to discuss the conditions in Gaza. The refusal of the Israelis to negotiate with Hamas shows how hardened attitudes have become. And the reasons for the tunnels is simply to be able to move freely and away from the 24/7 satellite and drone surveillance. And, of course, to plan for outbreaks …
I have no idea how this problem can be solved. The UN official position is still for partitioning but this is refused by Israel.
It is a case of a dreadful situation where there is very little room for discussion. A provocation, a reaction, and now the worst possible consequences with absolutely no way back to de-escalation regardless of military victories on either side. This is the worst of all possible worlds because it precludes any future save cataclysm. When you look at economic factors as well it is truly an awful situation for Israel.
‘a provocation’? Is that what you’d call it if it was your daughter being raped daily in a Gazan dungeon?
Who is raping whom? The IDF rapes its Palestinian prisoners. Did you miss the time when 9 IDF soldiers were accused of sodomy against their prisoners and arrested? Then the mob came to release them. There was a political uproar and then some chief Rabbi said it was moral for a Jew to sodomize a Palestinian. And the prosecutions were dropped. There are so many disgusting stories relating to the IDF. And please do not start claiming Hamas beheaded babies …
You’re making it bad for decent Jews and you don’t even care about that. That should tell you something about your purported tribal loyalty. You don’t even care about your own tribe.
I think you’ll find that Zionism is antisemitic to start with. There are very many Jews who hate what Netanyahu and the Israeli government are doing. Don’t lump them all in together. Just because one criticises Israel’s current actions does not make one antisemitic; I can hugely criticise Britain for its actions over, say, supplying arms to Ukraine, mandating Covid jabs to care workers, etc etc, but I still love my country and the British people. One should try to be objective about a country’s actions.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143?s=08
A petition calling for an immediate General Election currently over 150,000.
170k nearly now.
I see we’ve got visitors on here below. Paraglide in did they?
“the Israel Defence Forces routinely warn civilians in advance of military operations to allow them to vacate the area.” And what after the Israelis have bombed the sh1t out of your home have you to look forward to on your return?
Steven Daisley prays the revolting Lindsay Graham in aid of his mendaciousness. No doubt in his opinion there is no genocide going on in Gaza, and coming annexation of the West Bank is merely self-defence. The reality stares us all in the face, but a few of us, under the stupor of Zionist zeal, remain in the tottering Tower of Lies.
At least the early pioneers and builders of Israel made no bones about the fact that they were taking land occupied by others (and who have some claim to being the original tribe) so that the Nakba was wholly to be expected.
Senator Graham frankly talks of Ukraine as a goldmine for US exploitation. Nothing here is different – with creatures like these we can expect to see expensive sun loungers on the beaches of Gaza as soon as all the bones have been cleared away.
Who still reads the spectator? Come on, it is time to pull yourself away from all msm. It serves no purpose.
If “its continued existence harms the global purchase of international law (sic)” then we should probably welcome its existence.