Especially the Muslim judges sitting on this kangaroo court.
“Outrageous,” “unacceptable,” “non-comprehensible,” and “appalling.” Those were the words used by world leaders to describe the ICC’s simultaneous pursuit of arrest warrants for leaders of a democratic country and a terrorist group that attacked it.
U.S. President Joe Biden expressed outrage at the decision. “Whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas,” Biden said on Monday. Secretary of State Antony Blinken added: “the United States has been clear since well before the current conflict that the ICC has no jurisdiction over this matter” and expressed concern that the ICC prosecutor’s decision could complicate the process of reaching a deal to secure a ceasefire and the release of hostages.
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala called the false equivalence of a democratically elected government and a terror organization “appalling and completely unacceptable.”
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer called it “non-comprehensible.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said for an international institution to engage in such a comparison is unacceptable.
French Foreign Minister Sephanie Sejourne said that people should not draw an “equivalence” between Israel and Hamas leaders.
Germany’s Foreign Office said “The Court will have a host of difficult questions to answer here, including in particular the question as to its jurisdiction and the complementarity of investigations carried out by affected states governed by the rule of law, which include Israel. The simultaneous applications for arrest warrants for the Hamas leadership on the one hand and the two Israeli officials on the other have resulted in an incorrect implication of equivalence.”
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson said: “”This action is not helpful in relation to reaching a pause in the fighting, getting hostages out or getting humanitarian aid in” and “As we have said from the outset, we do not think the ICC has jurisdiction in this case.”
Ray Jarman says
Douglas Murray is so correct. Nawaf Salam, the judge on the International Court has also threatened members of governments who defend Israel and defame their precious behinds. In a great article by Elliot Abrams on the website, Gatestone Institute, discusses the issue and I have posted the url for the article below.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20666/icc-threatens-us-senators
BareNakedIslam says
So glad the US never ratified the ICC.