Posted on 03/21/2023 5:59:58 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. But there is also a clear message to Israel behind it. Israel stands accused of war crimes against the Palestinians. Are some war crimes greater than others?
The Russian leader has been charged with personal responsibility for the abduction of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation. International law experts consider the most recent arrest warrant against Putin to be the most dramatic decision since the tribunal was founded in 2002. In the past, arrest warrants have been issued against heads of state from Africa, but not against one of the most powerful leaders in the world, such as the Russian president. Putin now has to be careful when leaving his country.
On Friday night, on our Israel Today Telegram channel, I sent out a quick thought-provoking question: The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Putin. He’s accused of war crimes in Ukraine. The same International Criminal Court previously indicted Israel. Now one has to ask whether the court was right about Putin and wrong about Israel, or correct on both counts, or incorrect on both counts.
The arrest warrant issued against Putin is valid in 123 countries around the world, not including Israel and the USA, as they are not members of the International Criminal Court. According to the arrest warrant, every country in Europe that Putin visits is obliged to extradite him to the tribunal in The Hague…
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Defending yourself against acts of terrorism resulting in the murder and maiming of innocent men, women, and children is committing war crimes? Only in a twisted libtard world.
Exactly!
This is the current world, it all depends on who and how war crimes are typified
The ICC is a tool of the globalist left. Wouldn’t be surprised to see it seek to arrest a future President of the USA for opposing globohomo or discrimination against white people.
“Best Practices Manualfor
United Nations – International Criminal Court Cooperation”
Just another United Muslims ... I mean United Nations organization looking for power? Have they ever addressed the “Religion of Peace” about their hobby of killing Christians?
In 2002, the U.S. Congress passed the American Service-Members' Protection Act (ASPA), which contained a number of provisions, including authorization of the President to "use all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court", and also prohibitions on the United States providing military aid to countries which had ratified the treaty establishing the court.
Donald Trump on the ICC:
So the United States took the only responsible course: We withdrew from the Human Rights Council, and we will not return until real reform is enacted. For similar reasons, the United States will provide no support in recognition to the International Criminal Court. As far as America is concerned, the ICC has no jurisdiction, no legitimacy, and no authority. The ICC claims near-universal jurisdiction over the citizens of every country, violating all principles of justice, fairness, and due process. We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy.
Russia is not a signatory to it, never having ratified the Hague agreement and thus does not recognize the court’s authority whatsoever, but also the US has already itself destroyed any credibility of the Hague by threatening to arrest its judges if they dared prosecute American troops for Afghani war crimes:
John Bolton also threatened to sanction the Hague for the same. In fact, the US literally passed the “American Service Member Protection Act,” which gives the US the legal right to ‘invade the Hague’ should they prosecute American soldiers.
This authorization led to the act being colloquially nicknamed “The Hague Invasion Act”, as the act allows the President to order U.S. military action, such as an invasion of The Hague, where the ICC is located, to protect American officials and military personnel from prosecution or rescue them from custody.
The ICC is a tool of the globalist left.
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Yep...it has the potential for tyranny greater than any single nation ever could.
Has the statute of limitations on the NATO attack on Serbia expired?
It’s atheist scumbag Israelis like Rabin and Peres who have boxed Israel into a corner, accepting the ridiculous fiction of an “occupation” via Oslo, instead of confidently and aggressively proclaiming the sovereignty of Israel over all its lands.
“Yet when disenfranchised voters in East Ukraine secede...”
Nobody holds a secession vote in the middle of a foreign invasion. You’re beclowning yourself.
Your 2 year view of history is impeccable!
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