Diana Buttu: If this court (ICC) has any credibility, it should be going after those committing genocide rather than trying to play both sides.
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"Khan failed to lay any charges against Netanyahu and Gallant under Article 6 of the ICC’s founding Rome Statute – the section that deals with genocide.
He only charged them under chapters 7 and 8... the same articles he used against the Hamas leaders."
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He only charged them under chapters 7 and 8... the same articles he used against the Hamas leaders."
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"Khan could also have filed charges related to Israeli crimes elsewhere in Palestine... construction of illegal colonies all over the occupied West Bank...
By failing to do so, he is feeding the false impression that history began on 7 Oct. 2023"
By failing to do so, he is feeding the false impression that history began on 7 Oct. 2023"
"as Columbia Uni Prof. Joseph Massad points out, the West has always considered anti-colonial struggles to be criminal, while its own colonial barbarity is always described as 'defensive'... Khan’s blatantly political effort to downplay Israel’s crimes is par for the course"
"The process of going from today’s announcement by Khan to the judges actually issuing the arrest warrants could take as much as 2 months.
Perhaps the only important Q is whether Monday’s (ICC) announcement will deter Israel from continuing its extermination campaign in Gaza..."
Perhaps the only important Q is whether Monday’s (ICC) announcement will deter Israel from continuing its extermination campaign in Gaza..."
👇Excellent point.
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No crimes before Oct 7 are considered in the ICC application against Netanyahu and Gallant, despite applications before the court by Palestinians and other groups to look into Israel's crimes. And the ICC application isn't about genocide when this is the most pressing issue.
This is not justice.
This is so disingenuous by the ICC. No, Palestinian victims and Israeli victims aren't equal. x.com
I have no faith in the ICC. This court has made many blunders in its short history and allowed itself to become a political tool for the West against the Global South. It even reversed its decision in a major landmark case. aljazeera.com
Oumar Ba, assistant professor in the department of Government, Cornell U:
"the fact that the ICC is not a human rights court is often lost in the noise."
"the fact that the ICC is not a human rights court is often lost in the noise."
Read the case of Jean-Pierre Bemba and see for yourself why the ICC should not be trusted to give justice to Palestinians.
aljazeera.com
aljazeera.com
What the Bemba case tells us is that when the ICC indict few individuals for the multi layered crimes committed y Israel, it is giving a narrow path for the victims to prove the crimes, because the victims testifying in court have to be direct victims of the indicted individuals.
"The judges argued that the Trial Chamber had failed to appreciate the limitations that Bemba faced. He was a 'remote commander' ... and he faced 'logistical difficulties'... "
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