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According to reports in several Israeli media, the United States is part of a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials.

In the news site Walla, analyst Ben Caspit writes that Netanyahu is “under unusual stress” over the prospect of an arrest warrant against him and other Israelis by the UN tribunal in The Hague, which would be a major deterioration in Israel’s international status.

Netanyahu is leading a “nonstop push over the telephone” to prevent an arrest warrant, focused especially on the administration of US President Joe Biden, Caspit writes.

Haaretz analyst Amos Harel writes that the Israeli government is working under the assumption that the ICC’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, may this week issue warrants for the arrest of Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.

  • thbb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    8 months ago

    Too bad neither Israel nor the US are member of the ICC. That gives them far less leverage, even though they will likely put pressure on some weaker members of the ICC.

  • Riffz7@lemmy.worldEnglish
    475·
    8 months ago

    Nothing in the article says the US is doing anything. It just said Netanyahu is trying to convince the US to stop it

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      336·
      8 months ago

      According to reports in several Israeli media, the United States is part of a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials.

      The US, which, like Israel, is not among the 124 countries that signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, is already engaged in the effort to block the arrest warrants, according to Harel.

      • Riffz7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        122·
        8 months ago

        According to reports in several Israeli media, the United States is part of a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials.

        I saw that and I wanted to know what exactly the role of Biden or any other whitehouse staff was so I read the rest of the article which said

        Netanyahu is leading a “nonstop push over the telephone” to prevent an arrest warrant, focused especially on the administration of US President Joe Biden, Caspit writes.

        So the entirety of the involvement according to this publication which says they are involved is that Netanyahu is calling “nonstop” to try to get them to intervene in an organization that they themselves haven’t signed on to? Sure sounds like a lot of involvement at this moment.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          75·
          8 months ago

          The second paragraph I quoted does indicate that the US is currently actively involved

          The US … is already engaged in the effort to block the arrest warrants, according to Harel.

    • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
      14·
      8 months ago

      Don’t forget finance minister Bezalel Smotich. He gets less attention than Ben-Gvir, but he is arguably to Ben-Gvir’s right, as insane as that concept sounds.

      Smotich has even acknowledged (in a joking manner) that he’s a fascist.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      There are a bunch of people in the government and the IDF that should end up in The Hague for what they did and do.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      251·
      8 months ago

      What’s done is done. If they’re complicit in direction of war crimes, they should hang.

  • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
    256·
    8 months ago

    Israel and the US show once again that they are enemies to a rule based international order. They are enemies to justice, diplomacy and human rights. Quite frankly they are terrorists.

    Now the only question that remains is whether the countries that are signatories to the ICC will uphold a rule based order and get those criminals to face responsibility in a court of law, or whether it was all just for show and they happily descend into barbarism.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    Both countries didn’t join the ICC. There are obvious reasons for that - They know about being guilty. Keep in mind that the US is going after Assange not because he published some arbitrary “secrets” - he published evidence of American war crimes that the US army wanted to hush up.

    I think, arrest warrants for Netanyahu and quite a number of people in the IDF are simply appropriate. The ICC is no political cangaroo court, and it would not charge or convict someone without evidence. Especially not a prominent figure.