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ICC prosecutor ordered to reexamine Gaza flotilla incident — for the third time
Times of Israel ^ | November 22, 2018 3:56 PM | Raphael Ahren

Posted on 11/22/2018 8:18:57 AM PST by Olog-hai

Judges at the International Criminal Court have ordered the court’s chief prosecutor to reopen for the third time her probe into the May 2010 flotilla incident, during which Israeli commandos killed 10 Turkish citizens aboard a naval vessel that was aiming to break the Gaza blockade.

Israel has reacted scornfully to the pre-trial chambers’s decision last week to require Fatou Bensouda to reconsider a case that she had repeatedly sought to close due to lack of gravity.

One official in Jerusalem said that the court was wasting its limited resources on a frivolous suit in a manner that reflected poorly on other outstanding cases, including an ongoing preliminary examination into alleged crimes committed by Israelis in the Palestinian territories. […]

The Hague’s five-year engagement with the flotilla incident is a procedural saga of Kafkaesque proportions, with thousands of pages of legal arguments and counterarguments — not about the alleged crimes themselves, but rather about who has jurisdiction to close and reopen probes — and no end in sight. …

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; bensouda; eussr; gaza; gazaflotilla; icc; letshavejerusalem; marmara; palestinians; rop; turkey; un

1 posted on 11/22/2018 8:18:57 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

So the lesson here is if Muslims attack you, don’t defend yourself.


2 posted on 11/22/2018 8:49:27 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Olog-hai

How about the USS Liberty?


3 posted on 11/22/2018 9:02:31 AM PST by gandalftb
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To: gandalftb

The favorite of the neo-national-socialists?


4 posted on 11/22/2018 9:17:00 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

ICC international tyrants demanding what they want!


5 posted on 11/22/2018 10:42:37 AM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Olog-hai

Israel should have sunk the ship.


6 posted on 11/22/2018 11:06:25 AM PST by myerson
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7 posted on 11/22/2018 12:42:57 PM PST by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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8 posted on 11/22/2018 12:43:01 PM PST by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)
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The ICC - A court run by criminals.


9 posted on 11/22/2018 2:47:37 PM PST by little jeremiah (When we do not punish evildoers we are ripping the foundations of justice from future generations)
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To: antidemoncrat

If you do, you’ll be in trouble with the ICC.

Dear ICC:

GFYS.

Sincerely,

Me.


10 posted on 11/22/2018 3:10:26 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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