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Republican senators threatening the ICC
paused a shipment consisting of 1,800 2,000-lb bombs and 1,700 500-lb bombs.
Only ID comes free of charge. Israel has to buy the other weapons, and there's absolutely no correlation between getting ID for free and then having more cash remaining to buy other weapons! Do not even dare to suggest it!!!3,500 bombs. I thought they were only supplying Iron Dome.
Finally!!!
U.S. pauses some weapons to Israel as battles rage around Rafah
A senior U.S. official said President Joe Biden's administration paused a shipment of weapons to Israel last week in an apparent response to the expected Rafah offensive. The White House and Pentagon declined to comment.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington had carefully reviewed the delivery of weapons that might be used in Rafah, and as a result paused a shipment consisting of 1,800 2,000-lb bombs and 1,700 500-lb bombs.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...9fb53c9fef75686a2ea9e66c4be822768a09512e0c82f
For a balanced understanding of how the ICC system works one should read this article:
Seven questions (and answers) if the ICC issues arrest warrants for Israeli officials
Israel’s government has voiced its concern in recent days that the International Criminal Court will soon issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials in connection with the war in Gaza.www.atlanticcouncil.org
Pretty much suggests because there's an active war involved the ICC won't get involved. And if they were they would also have to issue arrest warrants against PA authority officials with Gaza being part of Palestine and Palestine being a signatory of the ICC.
For comparison Putin didn't get any arrest warrants even for the unprecedented massacre that occurred in Maruipol (up to 100,000 civilians in Maruipol estimated to have been killed by Russian invading forces).
His arrest warrant was issued because of Russia's transferring of nearly 400,000 Ukranian children from Ukranian territory against their will and without permission to Russian filtration camps and eventually resettlement within Russia. The reason he got his arrest warrant was this action cannot possibly be construed as an act of war.
I wouldn't be holding your breath for arrest warrants against Hamas or Israeli officials until the current war is over.
What are your thoughts on US senators threatening the ICC on AIPAC’s behalf?
No thoughts, it means nothing. The ICC is very unlikely to intervene when an active war is ongoing.
Meanwhile on the other side of the coin we have South Africa who actually refused to process an ICC arrest warrant for genocide when they are a signatory to it:
The real problem behind South Africa’s refusal to arrest al-Bashir | ISS Africa
The ICC relies on states to do its work, but what sanctions are there when they don’t cooperate?issafrica.org
Thoughts?
it means nothing.
Doesn't mean Israel aren't committing war crimes. They are .Hamas include all Hamas fighters in their casualty figures. Reliable reports are that over 10,000 Hamas fighters have been killed in the war and that Hamas are down to between 5-8000 fighters left before they all fled to Rafah. They also include the thousands and thousands they have killed during their attacks on Israel. Something like nearly 1000 rockets have failed and impacted in Gaza since Hamas launched its unprovoked war on Jewish civilians. You won't hear about it from Hamas but each of those failed rocket attacks usually kill Gazan civilians. In the 2022 attack (which Hamas declared a truce afterwards to not attack Israel btw) within 2 days Hamas had killed 14 civilians in failed rocket attacks.
2022 Gaza–Israel clashes - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
After launching nearly 15,000 rockets in 7 months with a usual failure rate of 20% I will let you come to your own conclusions how many Gazan civilians Hamas has killed.
The one at the Ah-Ahli hospital killed hundreds of Gazans and that is simply added to the tally of total deaths. It must also be pointed out that initially the Gazan health ministry put out a report that nearly 1000 civilians had been murdered and that the hospital had been levelled. This of course quickly changed when it was discovered not to be the case and that they were actually responsible for the deaths in the courtyard of the hospital. There's also Gazan civilians who are executed for attempting to help Hamas be captured. Nobody seems to care about those, seems easier to just attribute them all to Israel.
Anyone who repeats the Hamas mantra that all deaths in the war are civilians being murdered by Israel are knowingly repeating blatantly false Hamas propaganda.
That doesn't make any sense. Netanyahu is a far right nutter, everyone knows that and agrees with that. He allows crazy settlers to kill and take land and he happily kills children and his own hostages. That's what a far right nutter does.The only far right nutter defending murderers in this forum is yourself.
That doesn't make any sense. Netanyahu is a far right nutter, everyone knows that and agrees with that. He allows crazy settlers to kill and take land and he happily kills children and his own hostages. That's what a far right nutter does.
Do you fall for every bit of propaganda Hamas does? Hamas didn't accept a ceasefire, they made a ridiculous counter-proprosal to end the war and release hundreds of Hamas terrorists from Israeli prisons essentially in exchange for 33 hostages. That's not how any of this works.Hamas accepts ceasefire proposal in Gaza war, Israel says deal 'far from' its demands
Hamas says it has accepted a ceasefire proposal from Egypt and Qatar, but Israel says the deal the group has agreed to is "far from" its "necessary requirements".www.abc.net.au
Hamas accepts ceasefire.
Israel launches air strikes on Rafah.
Do you fall for every bit of propaganda Hamas does? Hamas didn't accept a ceasefire, they made a ridiculous counter-proprosal to end the war and release hundreds of Hamas terrorists from Israeli prisons essentially in exchange for 33 hostages. That's not how any of this works.
Hamas could end this now by releasing all hostages and laying down their arms and turning Gaza over to people who can actually run the place without constantly attacking Israel and bringing misery to their own people.
Why on earth would Israel accept that ridiculous deal? Why did Hamas reject the proposal that was on the table that the US called "generous"?Funny how when Israel doesn't accept a ceasefire agreement it's Hamas fault.
True.When Hamas doesn't accept a ceasefire agreement it's Hamas fault.
Yes, if Hamas weren't firing rockets, starting wars, and being terrorists, Israel would have ZERO reason to bomb Gaza. Correct again.When Israel bombs Gaza it's Hamas fault.
Yes most often it is Hamas' fault.When Israel kills thousands of children it's Hamas fault.
Israel havent done anything remotely close to being as bad as what Hamas did on Oct 7th. If Israel crossed over to Gaza and just started shooting every civilian on sight, mutilating their bodies, sexually assaulting them, then we could talk.Hamas is a terrorist organisation, what are Israel if they've done (and continue to do) worse.
Israel havent done anything remotely close to being as bad