The International Criminal Court, in the Hague [“ICC”] is considering an arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamine Netanyahu and other Israeli officials for war crimes in Gaza. Indeed, the United States is studying the question of whether Israel violated international law in Gaza.
Let us review the situation from a number of considerations.
Nobody suggested – as of yet – that Hamas personnel will be arrested. And what about those who supported Hamas? What about those who neglected their obligations and “shut their eyes” while Hamas was using funds - to be supervised by UN and others - and committing major breaches of international law for years? Let me explain.
The suffering of innocent people in Gaza does not give any advantages to Israel. [It does to Hamas – inter alia as shields]. But how do we explain the West sending hundreds of millions of Dollars to Gaza for the restructuring of schools and hospitals and Hamas using these funds for the construction of tunnels under Israel? There was no word of alarm or protest from the US, UK, or EEC. ICC? Really? When evidence was shared of missiles concealed in hospitals and schools, in mosques and private houses, why was no one raising his voice? No consideration of arrest warrants by the ICC against any of Hamas’s leaders? Not even after 7th October, in the “festival” of murder, rape, beheading, torturing, cooking babies in microwaves kidnapping? Against President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran or its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, the leaders of world terrorism, who conduct the “Terror Orchestra” and dictate all terror activities through Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Lebanon and Gaza? Does anybody think they did not violate international law?
The stunning war crimes by Gazans, all by Gazans, and initiated by Yahya Sinwar, who prohibit the Red Cross from even finding out about the kidnapped, is not addressed by ICC. This does not “invite” the ICC to issue arrest warrants. Years of rocketing civilians within Israel did not justify raising the voice of the ICC. Nothing. Not a word. All this was not punished. Israel retaliated and fought to get its captives back; they are under arrest warrants. Israel, challenged by Giststapo-style terror groups, suddenly is the accused? Why? Because Qatar promotes financially, demonstrations of people who know zero about what they are demonstrating? [Review some Youtube].
Let me suggest one more person to be investigated for his—what I consider—criminal negligence: Mr. António Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations.
It is true. Hospitals are protected by international law. When did the Secretary-General condemn Hamas for using Hospitals to conceal rackets? The United Nations, many Western organizations, and governments have tried to support Gaza for many years. They have injected staggering amounts of money and, yes, allowed Qatar to bring in cash, which, in normal countries, would never be legal but constitute a classic case of money laundering. And the UN? Nothing. Those funds were supposed to have supported the building of hospitals, schools, and kindergartens to benefit the population of Gaza. UNWRA has a very central base in Gaza. Most of these funds provided to Gaza and should have been supervised by the UN were dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and used to bomb civilians in Israel for years or used for the 7th October Massacre. Mr. Guterres is exempt from responsibility? As the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Guterres was and is responsible for supervising how the governing entity in Gaza spent the money it received. He did not. He and his associates knew very well what was done with the money. But they poured in more. The misery of the people of Gaza and Hamas’ ability to conduct the atrocities on 7th October rests on his shoulders. Will ICC consider an arrest warrant against him? I do not think so.
The Secretary-General knows very well that UNWRA is cooperating with Hamas and has many times turned a blind eye to the confiscation of assets from UNWRA for its own purposes; for using funds to dig more tunnels than the underground map of London; to the concealing of ammunition in hospitals and schools administrated and financed by UNWRA. The Secretary-General knows Hamas denies any movements of Gazans to safety. Mr. Gutteres knows what the consequences of Hamas's victory were following the elections in Gaza in 2006. All was “well” until Hamas became politically stronger. PLO’s personnel in Gaza were pushed off buildings to their deaths, not before family members were brought to witness these executions.
Yes, UNRWA – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in The Near East [The only agency of its kind – no other groups of refugees are supported by a parallel organisation] with an annual budget of one Billion dollars, whose personal participated in the 7th Octobers horrendous crimes, – announced on 17th October, that Hamas has stolen humanitarian aids – inclusive of fuel and medicine. We did not hear anything from the Secretary-General. So, who is causing the suffering of the Gazans? Israel or Hamas? Who contributed to such suffering and enabled it to develop? Israel or the UN? History will judge the integrity of The Secretary-General. History does not lie. It will judge Mr. Guterres to condemnation. Mr.Guterres “shut his eyes” to the misuse of funds, knowing very well what might be the results. His conduct qualifies for “criminal negligence”, enabling war crimes. Was he advised that the ICC was considering sending him an arrest warrant? Was he invited to explain himself in any formal entity?
Hypocrisy is the name of the game.
Let us look back. Did ICC issue arrest warrants against any of the American presidents who [in their capacity as such also serve as the commanders in chief of all US forces] – for the killing of children in Iraq, Afghanistan - the bombing of the Haska Menya wedding party where at least 63 people were killed in 6th of June, 2006, come to mind – or the “hosting” of terrorists in Guantánamo Bay in Cuba where - for one reason or another, the US believes, the international law does not apply, and so, inmates are subject to whatever any investigator deems fit?
ICC Should have been the symbol of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. To preserve the law and punish those who violate the rights of others. ICC is not the Liviatan. It is a shark.
Enforcing International law? In a normal country, there are policemen. If someone breaches the law, the damaged party usually cannot take the law into his own hands and retaliate. He approaches the police, whose duty is to protect the citizenry.
Where there is no law or no party that can enforce the law against the "criminal", the harmed party cannot be required to keep the law, leaving the criminal the advantage of doing whatever it wishes. This simply does not work. That is why the West had to bomb Iraq and Afghanistan, or bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, or devastating Hanoi during the Vietnam War. Or even invading Panama to arrest its president Manuel Noriega in “Operation Just Cause” in January 1990. Israel cannot be different. There are no international policemen to protect Israel against Hamas. Nobody can punish those who represent ISIS ideology. No bringing to justice those who breached their obligations as trustees.
It is very simple, International law requires reciprocity. No reciprocity, no law. A rapist cannot scream for help. The terrorists cannot conceal weapons inside hospitals, thinking that International law will protect them.
One thing all of us should remember. Today, it is the Jewish state. Tomorrow, the rest of Western civilization. This was the philosophy of ISIS. This is the philosophy of Hezbollah; this is the philosophy of Iran. Cells of Hamas and ISIS are everywhere in the UK and Europe. Presently, they are targeting the Jews [easy when you have Jeremy Corbyn on your side]. The tragedy of Western civilization is that it fails to understand that Christianity is next. The alarm bells are ringing. Nobody listens. In other words, Israel is not fighting only for Israel. It is fighting for Western Civilization and, yes, for those Muslims who are amazingly kind and good, cultured and most civilized, who do not tolerate the war crimes of Hamas but risk death if they speak out.
If the West does not wake up, if it does not find out who is behind the anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli demonstrations and who is developing extremism in the universities, it will not be Israel who will lose. It will be Western Civilisation. “The “Sharia Patrol” in the United Kindom will confirm this assumption. The fact that 40% of British Muslims would like to see Sharia law enforced in the UK substantiate it. The number of schoolboys in Germany who wish to convert to Islam so they can be “members of the gangs” reflects the shift. The fact that France will be challenged by being the first Western European country with a Muslim majority or the fact that the most common name given to children in Belgium is Muhammad mirrors the message. The Muslims – are here [in Europe] to take over.
And Europe plays appeasement. Navil Chaimbarline – welcome back.
Zalli Jaffe,
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