International Outrage

The International Criminal Court (ICC) created international outrage today when its chief prosecutor announced he was seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes in Gaza.

The ICC prosecutor also submitted warrant applications for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and Mohammed Deif, as if there was some moral equivalence between the state of Israel and the terrorists of Hamas.

Israel does not recognize the authority of the ICC, and neither does the United States. The reason is obvious. Globalist bureaucrats have no right to dictate how nations act in self-defense.

Congress even passed the 2002 American Servicemembers’ Protection Act to severely restrict America’s involvement with the ICC.

There is genocide taking place in communist China today. What is the ICC doing about that?

There is a brutal civil war going on in Sudan. What is the ICC doing about that?

Christians are being slaughtered in Nigeria. What is the ICC doing about that?

I don’t recall the ICC bringing Osama bin Laden to justice.

The ICC’s actions united Israeli leaders across the political spectrum. Israeli President Isaac Herzog of the Labor Party blasted the ICC’s move as “beyond outrageous” and “a political step that emboldens terrorists.”

Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana of the Likud Party denounced the ICC, saying:

“An institution that is incapable of differentiating between the aggressor and the defender, between a democracy that respects human rights [and] a terror organization dedicated to its destruction in the name of the ideals of radical Islam and murderous zealots, is a danger to humanity.”

Benny Gantz, widely seen as Netanyahu’s main political rival, called the warrant applications “a historic crime that will not be erased.”

The vast majority of Knesset members signed a joint statement today condemning the ICC. Here is the text of their statement:

“The state of Israel is in the midst of a just war against a criminal terror organization. The IDF is the most moral army in the world. Our heroic soldiers are fighting with courage and dedication that has no second, according to international law, like no other army has ever done.

“The scandalous comparison by the Hague prosecutor between Israel’s leaders and the heads of terror organizations is an unerasable historic crime and a clear expression of antisemitism. We reject this with revulsion. Eighty years after the Holocaust, no one will block the Jewish state from defending itself.”