cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12333064
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israeli PM and Hamas leaders
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12333064
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israeli PM and Hamas leaders
This is such a smart move: it really cuts the legs out from under the “…bbbbut Hamas are terrorist!!” bad-faith arguments.
Yup!
Also addresses that, regardless of the Israeli apartheid regime’s response being immeasurably worse, the leaders of Hamas DID also commit war crimes and violated the human rights of civilians, which you’re not allowed to do no matter how much you’re oppressed and abused…
Considering the leaders of Hamas are flitting around on private jets seeing all their fellow war criminals… I dont think we can say they’re particularly oppressed or abused. Theyre just using those that are for their own malicious purposes.
If that’s the reason behind the arrest warrens for Hamas, doesn’t it make the ICC’s chief request in bad faith? Like “I really want to issue warrants only for Netanyahu, but I know this will be unfair, so I’ll issue warrants for both sides, so I’ll seem balanced”?
Pretty sure the reason for the Hamas warrants is that they ordered their soldiers to gun down civilians en masse.
Right, so it’s not “smart”, it’s just, you know, what he should have done regardless.
Preferably even before asking for warrants against Netanyahu and Galant. That way it won’t look like the warrants against Hamas leaders are to justify the warrants against Netanyahu and Galant, like the person I replied to seems to imply.
The headline focuses on Israel, but the prosecutor has also called for arrest warrants of the top two Hamas figures.
They’re only separated by the word “and”