Israel Gaza war: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders

"Since 2010, when he resumed office, his policies have undermined democracy, weakened judicial independence, increased corruption, and curtailed press freedom in Hungary"

He's bffs with Netanyahu, you can see why.☝

Hungary to withdraw from icc. They’ll be welcoming netanhayu to their country

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c807lm2003zo

Perhaps the delay is because Netanyahu is due to address the UN general assembly in New York on September 27th? Signatories to the Treaty would have the obligation to arrest him if the warrant is issued before.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-said-expected-to-address-un-on-sept-27-spend-5-days-in-us-including-shabbat/

All the UK would be doing is showing a commitment to international law. It’s in Israel’s (and everyone else’s) long term interests that their fraudulent leader is held to account. Otherwise, things will only get worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/no-10-fears-icc-ask-uk-sign-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant

Couldn't access FT so found a similar article on YNET:
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rk56dnp2a

https://www.ft.com/content/a6362843-76d2-4a72-9fce-193e3c47a4de

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c303y5m1p19o

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/03/israel-gaza-war-benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-latest-live-news-updates

And???

Excellent news which has just been confirmed

https://www.ft.com/content/6dc54471-253a-4f16-9ada-50221192d657

I’ve also read rumours that uk will restrict the selling arms to Israel but ive only seen it in one newspaper. Hope both become true

That’s brilliant news.

Richard Hermes has a good track record on human rights and he’s a top legal brain. Just because he is Jewish doesn’t mean he wants Netanyahu to get away with this. Judaism is his religion, he’s entitled to practice it openly without it being assumed he’s in favour of the ongoing atrocities being carried out by Israel.

It’s likely a technical legal thing with the warrants-like the way it’s debatable as to whether they’ll be able to prove genocidal intent even though the actions of Israel are consistent with genocide.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-uk-to-drop-opposition-to-icc-arrest-warrants-against-gallant-netanyahu/amp/

UK to drop opposition to ICC arrest warrants against Gallant, Netanyahu

I believe that might not happen. That they’ve mentioned they’ll follow what USA does. And we know USA won’t recognise it so far with any of the future presidents

And has taken a close interest in the Israeli government response to 7/10 from the outset

His appointment may also signal some movement wrt to recognising Palestinian statehood too?

He's also Jewish.

Not entirely unsurprising given the choice of new AG who is an expert in international human rights

Labour expected to drop challenge to ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant

www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/jul/08/labour-expected-to-drop-challenge-to-icc-over-netanyahu-arrest-warrant

With respect , can you read and understand Ivrit?

To balance out the link to comments on quora by a few disgruntled individual random internet users that allege Haaretz publishes “fake news”, and is “extreme left” here is the fact check and bias report:

Bias Rating: LEFT
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: Israel
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Media Type: Newspaper
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

”Overall, we rate Haaretz Left biased based on story selection and editorial positions that strongly favor the Left and High for factual reporting due to a clean fact-check record.” -Last Updated on December 7, 2023
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/haaretz/

@keenforhelp

Haaretz is shunned by some Israelis

Its Hebrew print version has 72,000 subscribers as of 2022
Its Hebrew and English digital version has traffic of over 10 million unique visitors per month
It is the 3rd largest print news source in Israel with over 1000 staff and revenues over USD$500m

Haaretz is Zionist

Haaretz was founded by a Zionist Holocaust survivor and is currently 20% owned and published by his grand-son, who is also Zionist. The current publisher, Amos Schnoken, has stated repeatedly in interviews he is Zionist “Mr Schocken describes himself, and his family’s paper, as Zionist. “Ha’aretz is Zionism because Ha’aretz thinks the Jews need a place where they run the show, where they’re responsible for their destiny,” he says. “But as the declaration of [Israeli] independence said, Israel must offer full equality to non-Jews.”
https://www.ft.com/content/252f849c-75a5-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a

So, if supporting equality for non-Jews in Israel is a Pro-Palestinian agenda, it is an agenda that aligns with Zionism and with basic human rights.

I really don't understand how any person with an ounce of decency can cheer on the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people on a background of occupation and oppression.

Well done the UK. Right stance!