Washington has threatened the International Criminal Court with further reprisals if it maintains arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant. The US has already imposed sanctions on five judges and prosecutors.

The warning was direct, blunt and left no room for doubt. “We expect all ICC actions against the United States and our ally Israel – that is, all investigations and all arrest warrants – to be terminated,” said Reed Rubinstein, legal adviser at the US State Department, before delegates of the 125 member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday, July 8, at a meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York from July 7 to 9.

If the ICC arrest warrants for crimes against humanity and war crimes issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant on November 21, 2024, as well as ongoing investigations into crimes committed in the Gaza Strip and the settlement of Palestinian territory, are not dropped, “all options remain on the table,” he declared.

  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
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    20 hours ago

    There is no statue of limitations on genocide. And Trump won’t be president forever. And younger Americans (i.e. the future) are really fucking sick of Israel’s shit.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Nah, the more time passes, the less incentive there is for many people to pursue justice when there are newer things on their plates.

      Same as modern Web’s “attention economy”.

      But frankly in classical cultures they knew that too, catch the moment, now or never.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      And Trump won’t be president forever.

      So? The previous administration had the same policy on Israel, as do both parties currently.

      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
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        8 hours ago

        The American public used to broadly support Israel. That support has plummeted in the last 2 years, particularly among younger Americans. As they age into a more prominent voting demographic, this changes the types of platforms that politicians run, and win on.

        I want to point out that the shift in opinion is more a generational one than left/right one, even though there is a notable difference between the parties.

        • rumimevlevi@lemmings.world
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          2 hours ago

          The politicians are still payed by aipac, all the already strong support for palestine by people did nothing . People will still vote for the same two zionist parties. Netenyaho is determined to do the final solution . How many more months gazan can survive?

    • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      I think this is, in large part, one of the reasons many of these authoritarian types get out of control.

      On some level they know whether or not they consider their actions to be illegal that other people will. At some point they anticipate blowback and a lot of their flailing overreach stems directly from trying to get out ahead of any consequences that may come their way.