Joe Biden' cannot stop an arrest warrant being issued for Netanyahu, but his actions afterwards could be unthinkable...
Right, so Joe Biden is desperately it seems trying to save Benjamin Netanyahu’s backside from an arrest warrant that could be…
Joe Biden' cannot stop an arrest warrant being issued for Netanyahu, but his actions afterwards could be unthinkable...
Right, so Joe Biden is desperately it seems trying to save Benjamin Netanyahu’s backside from an arrest warrant that could be issued by the International Criminal Court, but in truth he hasn’t got a leg to stand on and the most powerful politician on the planet, is utterly powerless in forcing the ICC’s hands. You see as much as the US is subject to the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice at the Hague, the ICJ, the same isn’t the case for the ICC. With the US not being an ICC member state, Genocide Joe can whine and bleat for Israel’s sake all he likes, but as far as the Chief Prosecutor goes, it doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. So will Biden’s efforts fail? Well by rights they should, however if they don’t, then something will have happened behind the scenes which the ICC had better have inordinately good answers for – that or the US for Israel’s sake might be prepared to do something a whole lot worse.
Right, so Joe Biden, desperately unhappy that arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence minister the eternally scowling Yoav Gallant, and the Chief of Staff of the Israeli defence Force Herzi Halevi could be coming potentially at any time as I’m writing this, but reputedly at some point this week, from the ICC, the International Criminal Court and actually it isn’t just Biden because the Republican party are saying exactly the same, but they’re basically threatening repercussions if the ICC go ahead with this.
Now last March when ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin in relation to crimes committed against Ukraine, Biden was all over this, fully in support of it, fully welcoming the war crimes charges levied against him, based on territorial dispute – I’ll come back this point in a minute - but when the same likely charges are going to get levied against Israel? Well justice be dam..
