ICC Kangaroo Court Against Israel
Happening Now: Issues Arrest Warrants Before Trump Takes Office
ICC arrest warrants against Israel could cut both ways
The decision put the Jewish state in one basket with Russia and Sudan but may invite American sanctions.
JNS | 11-22-24
In issuing an international arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the International Criminal Court has wielded a double-edged sword.
The move on Thursday landed a major public relations blow against Israel. It also opened up the already controversial tribunal to fresh allegations of politicization, antisemitism, and malpractice, including by countries that recognize its jurisdiction.
And it placed the ICC on a collision course with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
“For many, the ruling will confirm anti-Israel sentiments,” Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), a former Israeli Cabinet member and a longtime statesman, told JNS on Friday. “But at the same time, many people will recognize the blatant antisemitism behind this decision, which erodes its credibility and now especially could invite a painful American retaliation.”
Despite the sweeping U.S. rejection of the ICC’s warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, several Western democracies confirmed that they plan to honor them, including Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
As a result, Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar canceled a visit to Israel by his Dutch counterpart, Caspar Veldkamp, set for Monday over the Dutch statement of compliance.
The warrants were the first that the court ever issued against a leader of a Western democracy, placing Netanyahu in the same category as Russian President Vladimir Putin, former Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir and Lord’s Resistance Army terrorist organization leader Joseph Kony of Uganda.
Yet occurring amid a conservative renaissance worldwide and a reassessment of the powers of unelected international bodies, the warrants could invite noncompliance and serious countermeasures on the part of the Trump administration.
Mike Waltz, the administration’s nominated national security advisor, dismissed the warrants and promised a “strong response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC & UN come January,” when the new administration is sworn in.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called the tribunal “a kangaroo court” and its chief prosecutor Karim Khan “a deranged fanatic. Woe to him and anyone who tries to enforce these outlaw warrants,” the senator said.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the press secretary of the White House under U.S. President Joe Biden, told reporters that her country “fundamentally rejects” the ICC action and remains “deeply concerned” by the “troubling process errors” that led to the decision to seek arrest warrants.
Trump imposed sanctions on the ICC in 2020 for its plans to go after U.S. military personnel. Biden reversed those sanctions. The ICC has not pursued its plans to prosecute Americans.
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My first thought after reading this was Genesis 50:20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good for what is being accomplished now, the saving of many lives. Granted, Joseph was speaking to his brother about the harm they did to him and how God turned it around to save the lives of the Hebrews during the 7 year famine. Yet I see the ICC which is a kangaroo court trying to throw PM Netanyahu and Gallant into prison just as Joseph had been. What will the outcome be? I'm not God that I would know that, but I believe that if we pray and stand firm in our faith, God will turn this kangaroo court into a has been farce as He shows the people how wicked their leaders have become and hopefully wake up to the danger that their Jew hatred will bring upon their nations if they don't repent and remove these wicked leaders. I warned the Germans several years ago, if you don't repent you will bring WWIII upon your heads, and when you see that bright light with a mushroom cloud on the horizon, bend over and kiss your butt goodbye because you have been blinded by the light, ripped off like a douche in the middle of the night as the rock song says. No hope in that. During the first 3 years of abortion the US murdered 1,266,067 babies. 50 years later the covid plague killed 1,286,50 people according to the CDC numbers. The blood of the innocent that was shed cried out for justice and it was served on the first 3 years, not on the complete total we have murdered and keep murdering each day. So the judgment is not yet complete on the US and the nations of the world who have been murdering their children. Will it come via WWIII, I can't say for sure, but since many mock and scoff at the idea of repenting and turning to God, its heading in that direction. The Pharaoh hardened his heart each time Moses said God told him to let His people go. How well did that work out for him? The first 9 judgments were against the false gods they worshiped, the last judgment, the death of their first born son was brought upon their head because the Pharaoh's order to kill the Hebrews from 2 years under during the time Moses was born. So they brought hell upon their own heads the same as the world is bringing hell upon its own head. I was told at the age of 4, God is going to judge you for this and believe me, He has not spared me from any judgment of my own sins. He is no respecter of men, it rains on the righteous as well as the unrighteous.
Is this about greed? Is this about the oil in Israel? Are governments truly corrupt as they band together to overthrow a country's government so they can have the oil? Or their valuable resources such as grains (for example Ukraine supplies over 50% of the world's grain), iron, coal and petroleum. And Monsanto and Dupont now supply them the seeds? Interesting. We saw the war and government overthrow in Lebanon, Iraq, Venezuela and now an attempt to do the same to Israel, the Holy Land. We saw it in North Carolina where the destruction hit and coincidentally where the world's largest lithium deposit is. The government is forcing people off their property for $2500 and placing them in a trailer home. How can any of this be debunked? One would have to live under a rock to not to see what is happening. We are being drowned in so much distraction, twisted information, that people have lost discernment. I hope people center themselves and observe. We don't have to argue. Just observe and see the patterns. Seek and you will find...
And thank you for your brilliant and well articulated articles of truth.