The US is working to prevent the issuance of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the attack on Gaza, Israeli media has reported.
According to the news site Walla, Netanyahu is leading a “non-stop push over the telephone” to prevent an arrest warrant being issued against him by the ICC, particularly communicating with the White House.
The Israeli newspaper Maariv has reported that Netanyahu is “frightened and unusually stressed” by the possibility of an imminent arrest warrant.
Sources close to the paper believe that the arrest warrants are only a matter of time.
The paper reported that Defence Minister Yoav Galant and Chief of Staff Major-General Herzi Halevi could also be served with warrants. ⠀
An internal State Department memo reviewed by Reuters on Saturday revealed senior US officials have advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they do not find “credible or reliable” Israel’s assurances that it is using US-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law.
Other officials upheld support for Israel’s representation.
Under a National Security Memorandum issued by President Joe Biden in February, Blinken must report to Congress by 8 May on whether he finds credible Israel’s assurances that its use of US weapons does not violate US or international law.
By 24 March, at least seven State Department bureaus had sent in their contributions to an initial “options memo” to Blinken. Parts of the memo, which has not been previously reported, were classified.
The submissions to the memo provide the most extensive picture to date of the divisions inside the State Department over whether Israel might be violating international humanitarian law in Gaza.
Is there one for Ben Gvir? Cause dude needs one like yesterday.
Yet the heavens fall let justice be done
About time, if you ask me. After deliberately killing so many people, including kids and destroying almost entirely Gaza, making the life of ordinary people there and in the West bank hell.
Being a war criminal catching up with him?
It won’t. The US will defend him till the end
Get of the way US.
You can work with Netanyahu’s successor.
Stop the genocide of Palestine
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Damn, guess there is nothing we should do then.
The comment suggested that the US should “work with Netanyahu’s successor”, which is a dumb thing to say
Yeah the government and military is just a bunch more like him. Who ever is next in line will do the same shit.
It’s weird what could have happened to make a society so hateful towards another group.
You can work with Netanyahu’s successor.
Yeah no, their govt is full of people like Ben-Gvir. Though you are also correct, US is perfectly capable of working with them to further the genocide.
United States of Israel
This is actually literally antisemitic. Israel does not control the US or its politicians, it is simply in the interest of christian fascists and imperialists and settler colonialism and capitalism to provide unending support for a genocidal fascist state.
But to say stupid shit like “United States of Israel” just belies your own bigotry and small mindedness and total lack of historical or political education.
it’s important to come to this recognition.
america and israel are a team.
Israel =/= Jewish People everywhere
But believing the nation responsible for the #1 spyware has nothing to do with the US leaders choosing dumb plans shouldn’t be ignored
That, AND Genojoe is >$5 richer from this shit
Bruh I just said that it is anti-Semitic to say that Israel controls the US.
It is the opposite.
You need to chill the fuck out and stop carrying water for Nazis if you agree with the person I was dunking on.
What did you say that set everyone off? This is the weirdest dogpile I’ve seen in a while.
Is my reading comprehension so out of touch?
No, it is the children who are wrong.I said that implying the US is controlled by Israel is antisemitic its the other way around lol.
Whatever you say. You conflating the two was more antisemitic than anything anybody else said…
If anything, you took their joke at face value and made it far worse mate
omfg dude. I AM NOT CONFLATING THE TWO. YOU are doing that RIGHT NOW, by being willfully ignorant of the critique of the above poster, whose US of Israel comment was removed for good fuckin reason.
Israel doesn’t dictate US foreign policy. That is all I said you people are fucking daft.
Uh… You’re forgetting the Israeli/Jewish lobby. AIPAC is a thing.
I’ve never looked into it, but I suspect that much of Zionist lobby/think tank/PAC funding comes from non-Jewish American Zionists, perhaps the majority of it. But yes, there has to be a circular flow where the US pumps money into Israel, which uses some of it to fund US political lobbying to get more political & financial support.
I mean maybe but AIPAC’s control over American politics is a documented phenomenon. It’s beyond the level where we can argue its existence or nonexistence.
Conflating Israel with Judaism is antisemitic. Reducing antisemitism to just hatred of Jews is also antisemitic. Palestinians are direct descendant of ancient Canaanites including Israelites and Judeans.
Conflating Israel with Judaism is antisemitic.
While of course true, I didn’t see Israel & Judaism getting conflated. Maybe I got whooshed?
Reducing antisemitism to just hatred of Jews is also antisemitic. Palestinians are direct descendant of ancient Canaanites including Israelites and Judeans.
This is seldom said. Ask 20 people on the street who counts as “Semitic” and you’ll get 10 different answers, none of which are academic definitions 😑 Seldom are the indigenous Christians & Muslims included, and often are the European settlers with little-to-no genetic connection included. And the Zionists propagate and weaponize the confusion.
That is literally what I was saying.
Conflating Israel with being Jewish is anti-semitic. Do better.
In what way were they conflated?
My comment is a little tongue-in-cheek. But the satirical observation that many US Politicians would rather sacrifice the prosperity of the United States for the defense of Israel is a real and disturbing phenomenon.
“I have said to people when they ask me if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to our aid…and I don’t even call it aid…our cooperation with Israel. That’s fundamental to who we are.” - Nancy Pelosi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53x_zrkJwDs&ab_channel=annatom
When there are many, many, bipartisan politicians whose biggest donor is Israel through documented Israeli PACs and who knows how much dark-money, calling the US the United States of Israel is absolutely appropriate.
Now about the conflation. @Nakoichi@hexbear.net was claiming (correctly) that Israel doesn’t “control the US or[sic] its politicians.” Which is strictly, factually true, there aren’t Jewish mind control laser’s that force our political leaders to bipartisanally and unconditionally fund Israel to every US citizens detriment. But money is power, and while the politicians aren’t coerced with violence, they are absolutely expected to support every bill that was written by an AIPAC lobbyist otherwise they may find a primary challenge in their future.
Calling the above observation “anti-semitic” as that poster was doing, is absolutely anti-semitic. All of the above common criticisms focus on the state of Israel. The original comment “United States of Israel” that was removed for an ambiguous reason, “cart before the horse?” have nothing to do with Jews, the race, nor Jews the Religion. So calling the criticism of a self-proclaimed secular and racially diverse state “anti-semitic” is absolutely conflating criticism of Israel, with criticism of Jews. A common rhetorical sleight of hand that is used by Netanyahu’s government and Zionists across all media.
The state of Israel does not exert influence on the US. It is the opposite. That Is all I was saying.
But that is factually untrue. AIPAC as a registered lobbying organization pays politicians to support Israeli interests. That is their stated goal, and they are the legal arm of the state of Israel. Saying that Israel doesn’t “control” the US is true. But sticking your head in the sand and claiming that Israel doesn’t “exert influence on the US” is obviously untrue as the existence of numerous Israeli supported and funded registered lobbyist demonstrates.
Just read the first few sentances of their website. https://www.aipac.org/ And this is just the official arm of the Israeli Government.
“We supported 365 pro-Israel Democratic and Republican candidates in 2022 with more than $17 million in direct support through AIPAC.”
How can you call that not exerting influence? What kind of liberal brain-worms do you have to have to come to that conclusion?
Whatever dude.
I don’t think you understand the flow of influence and power here.
I think the original point was that “the United States of Israel” can be—and often is—a (((globalist))) antisemitic trope. I think it’s very important not to ever give the impression that the influence is unidirectional, or even that it’s primarily Israel influence over the United States, because it absolutely is not. Israel is the US’s unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East, and “Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.”
Are you saying I was conflating Israel with being Jewish or the person I was replying to? I was definitely not doing that.
Joe Biden is a genocide supporter.
Correct.
Trump is a genocideS supporter.
Trump is not in power right now.
GOP is constantly refusing legislation because he told them no. That fat fucking orangutan still has power because they give it to him.
Correct.
Republicans voted for aid to Israel and tried to block aid to Ukraine. Under pressure from Trump.
Trump Derangement Syndrome claims another.
If he’s gonna live rent free in my head I ought to let people know right?
Now this is actual whataboutism
What about if it was a reminder and warning
I applaud your efforts to combat the tankies and trolls from lemmy.ml
I believe this is what you lot call whataboutism
He’s not just a supporter, he is an active participant.
It’s bad enough that they won’t join the ICC let alone actively working to undermine it.
The US making sure the UN goes the way of the League of Nations and then acting all surprised when other countries don’t respect international law.
EU will probably do the same
That was unexpectedly quick. I thought we’d be waiting years before we could even begin talking about any kind of measures that could be taken in response to the crimes (assuming that it wouldn’t be dismissed on the way).
The rest of the world knows what’s going on and is a lot to work around the US since our politicians don’t have the balls to do the right thing.
It’s not that they “don’t have the balls” to do the right thing, it’s that they have a vested interest in doing the wrong thing. The US isn’t just failing to prevent genocide or punish those responsible, they are helping to conduct it.
Mfers need to read Parenti.
The second part of the title in Blackshirts and reds is Rational Fascism for a reason.
Jail the fuck.
Jail him, try him. Let the law decide his fate.
“Rules-based order”
What am I missing? I don’t see in that article where it indicates that the us is blocking it, nor the evidence they have that supports it.
didnt they also step in between the ukraine-russia negotiations a year or 2 ago?
Technically that was Bojo, but UK obviously wasn’t just acting on their own there.
I believe that was Boris Johnson.
