Why we support ICC prosecutions for crimes in Israel and Gaza
Posted by Ed on May 20, 2024, 3:52 pm
Amal Clooney on the list.
Why we support ICC prosecutions for crimes in Israel and Gaza From Lord Justice Fulford, Judge Theodor Meron CMG, Amal Clooney, Danny Friedman KC, Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC
Are they sure someone didn't sign as her given she's been completely and utterly silent on this issue for ever basically but certainly in the last six months she's been NOWHERE.
The Panel unanimously agrees with the prosecutor’s conclusion that there are reasonable grounds to believe that three of Hamas’s most senior leaders — Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh — have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity for the killing of hundreds of civilians, the taking of at least 245 hostages and acts of sexual violence committed against Israeli hostages. The Panel also unanimously agrees that the evidence presented by the prosecutor provides reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Israel’s minister of defence Yoav Gallant have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. This includes the war crime of intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and the murder and persecution of Palestinians as crimes against humanity.
Nothing about the thousands of hostages taken by the apartheid stage and the tens of thousands killed just a rather vauge "murder and persecution of Palestinians". Also including the "sexual violence against hostages" line in direct contradiction of all the testimony from returned hostages suggests this might not be all it's cracked up to be.
Having very briefly skimmed it, it appears the focus of their complaint against Israel is based around intentional starvation and blocking of aid with very little reference to constant bombardment of civilian population, collective punishment, targetting hospitals, doctors, assassinations, etc. etc.
It seems harsh to be unhappy with them being charged with crimes against humanity but it does seem rather limited, at least when it comes to the apartheid state and much more wide ranging and specific when it comes to Hamas.
I guess we'll see....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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The Prosecutor has also sought charges against Netanyahu and Gallant for the war crimes of wilful killing or murder and intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population, as well as the crimes against humanity of extermination or murder and persecution for deaths resulting from the use of starvation and related acts of violence including attacks on civilians gathering to obtain food and on humanitarian workers.
30. In the Panel’s view, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the suspects committed these crimes
So it's in there but feels very "small printy"....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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"Are they sure someone didn't sign as her given she's been completely and utterly silent on this issue for ever basically but certainly in the last six months she's been NOWHERE."
Indeed, there has been several remarks on the forum about that very thing so I thought it might be worth a mention. A bit late to the "party" though, as you say.
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Wasn't attacking you btw More like my disdain for Clooney coming through as bluntness in my post.
I posted the Alan McCleod article on her a while back; very revealing.
It feels odd to be critical of some of those maniacs being potentially charged but you just know they are shaping up to use Nutty as an admittedly massively guilty scapegoat and then kind of brush the apartheid state down and pat it on the head and let it carry on its merry way.
Still, seeing that fucker on trial for crimes against humanity would be a delightful start....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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Interestingly, shitlibs on Twitter are now using this as a reason for everyone to take back all their criticism of Clooney because, "That's why she didn't say anything (all these years presumably) because she was involved in the proceedings" which I'm not buying.
Caalz @nomorecaliyo · 4h Nah it's like when Beyonce adds a "the" to a song to get lyric credits lol
!!! Like it....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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No problem Rask, I didn't think you were and I didn't mean my reply to imply you were. Yes, I feel Nutty will be sacrificed in the long run (or maybe not so long) and the rebranding of the vicious little settler state will begin although it's murderous agenda will continue as usual.
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Senior lawyer says ‘ink is almost dry’ on the guilt of many MPs who have enabled and covered Israel’s atrocities
Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak and other UK MPs may be looking uneasily over their shoulder tonight after receiving a renewed warning from the lawyer leading a pro-Palestinian justice group about their own guilt regarding Israel’s war crimes, after International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan announced he has requested arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant.
Tayab Ali, a partner in Bindmans, one of the world’s leading human rights law firms, and a director of the International Centre for Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) published his stark warning on Twitter/X this evening, telling MPs who have supported and enabled Israel’s atrocities against the people of Gaza that it is now too late for them to do much to avoid their guilt and complicity, because ‘the ink of history on your potential complicity is almost dry and you already made your decision’ – and that ICJP will be demanding personal legal accountability for guilty MPs:
Scotland Yard has already called for evidence after the ICJP warned Tory PM Rishi Sunak and notionally-Labour leader Keir Starmer that it would prosecute them if they colluded in war crimes against the Palestinian people. Starmer has even gone as far as to tell a radio interviewer that Israel had a ‘right’ to cut off food, water and fuel from Gaza, with several of his front bench MPs publicly defending his statement until he later tried to pretend he hadn’t said it.
Israel has killed at least 40,000 civilians and potentially as many as 100,000, overwhelmingly women and children, with double that number maimed and wounded and many more set to be murdered as Israel continues its invasion of Rafah and its block on the entry of food, fuel and medicines for more than two million people.
on May 20, 2024, 3:52 pm
More like my disdain for Clooney coming through as bluntness in my post. 