ICC arrest warrants against Israel get blocked by Britain
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The UK government has blocked Israel arrest warrants at the ICC from being issued to Benjamin Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant.
Right, so you might have been thinking to yourself, those arrest warrants that the International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan had applied for were taking a long time to materialise. Well it looks like the UK government has stepped in with an attempt to block the issuing of these warrants, by questioning the legality of the matter, by questioning whether the ICC actually has jurisdiction here and unfortunately the ICC judge presiding over this case has decided to allow the UK to present evidence to try and make it’s case, which seems like one heck of a stretch to me, but it does go a long way to underline just how far this current government will go to try and get Israel off the hook despite meting out getting on for 10 months of genocide.
Right, so the UK government, into it’s almost certain last week of existence in it’s current form anyway, has deployed it’s lawyers to try and save the bacon of Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence secretary Yoav Gallant, following the Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, himself British, applying for arrest warrants against the two men, accusing them both of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
And we’ve only just got wind of this, despite the government issuing it’s claim to the court back on the 10th of this month, despite having until the 12th July to do so, that pesky matter of a General Election that the Conservative Party are almost certain to lose, but it will now delay the issuing of these arrest warrants, should the UK petition fail, by at least a month. We’ve in fact only got wind of this application, made in secret because the election is coming so in light of that, the court has unsealed the application now, in order to ensure it get’s heard, having been made it must be heard, but the current government must still technically be in power I presume for the application to retain any semblance of validity.
Now to my mind the legal challenge from the UK has problems, but this is what UK lawyers are attempting to present.
The UK lawyers are essentially questioning whether the ICC can issue arrest warrants to Israelis, on one hand since Israel is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, the foundational documents of the International Criminal Court. By agreeing to be bound to the Statutes, you become subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC, but also because of the Oslo Accords. Now these are a set of agreements basically, mediated by Norway, hence the name, between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation organisation, the PLO aimed it was hoped to result in a two state solution, whereby the PLO would recognise Israel and Israel would recognise the PLO as representatives of the Palestinian people. It led to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, which operates self rule over some 40% of the West Bank, areas that Israel call Area’s A & B, whereas they have control over the remaining 60%, called Area C...
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