{"id":2248872,"date":"2024-05-20T16:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-army-is-the-icc-sending-to-arrest-benjamin-netanyahu\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:18:48","slug":"what-army-is-the-icc-sending-to-arrest-benjamin-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-army-is-the-icc-sending-to-arrest-benjamin-netanyahu\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Military Force Is ICC Deploying Against Benjamin Netanyahu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-army-is-the-icc-sending-to-arrest-benjamin-netanyahu%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2248872&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The ICC&#8217;s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, seeks the arrest of\u200d Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli war council members based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/duss-boosts-omar-tweet-praising-court-decision-to-investigate-israeli-war-crimes\/\" title=\"Duss Boosts Omar Tweet Praising Court Decision to Investigate Israeli \u2018War Crimes\u2019\">alleged war crimes<\/a>. The \u2063indictment\u200d implies a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas, sparking controversy over the ICC&#8217;s jurisdiction and credibility. Netanyahu faces charges of imaginary crimes, raising questions about the ICC&#8217;s selective indictments and political motivations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The same day the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Kredo0\/status\/1792611011238965442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden administration<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6980126\/world-leaders-reactions-ebrahim-raisi-iran-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">European Union<\/a> offered their condolences over the death of Iran\u2019s Ebrahim Raisi, the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/ebrahim-raisi-63-butcher-of-tehran-and-khamenei-protege-who-died-in-chopper-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Butcher of Tehran<\/a>,\u201d the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, sought the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli war council members over imaginary war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The first question we need to ask is: Karim Khan and what army?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1698149521\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d347bf5a6c4a681619cd0db81ff53b08 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d347bf5a6c4a681619cd0db81ff53b08\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s not worth taking a deep dive into the intricacies of law and war, because Hamas does not recognize any moral or legal restrictions on warfare and the International Criminal Court has no real jurisdiction over anyone, anyway. Khan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/20\/middleeast\/icc-israel-hamas-arrest-warrant-war-crimes-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a>, \u201cNobody is above the law.\u201d But there is no such thing as international law. The term is a contradiction and a fantasy. Law is a system of rules regulating citizens \u2014 in our case, with the consent of the governed \u2014 and is overseen with due process and enforced with penalties. Americans do not recognize any international government, so there can\u2019t be \u201cinternational law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though we occasionally enter treaties with other nations \u2014 neither the U.S. nor Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/asp.icc-cpi.int\/states-parties\">signed <\/a>onto the ICC agreement in 2002 \u2014 the ultimate authority that governs us is the Constitution. We do not recognize the ability of illiberal European institutions to punish our citizens, and neither does Israel.<\/p>\n<p>None of that is to mention that the ICC is an enemy of the Jewish State masquerading as a court. Just read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cpi.int\/news\/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indictment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To begin with, the ICC draws a moral equivalence between the actions of Israel and Hamas. Need it be repeated, Hamas \u2014 which even the EU designates as a terrorist organization \u2014 targets civilians, women, and children for murder and rape and torture. It is still holding hostages, among them Americans. It does not recognize any rules of warfare.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4e0c4b158d283cf2a9ac62b4bf0856e0 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4e0c4b158d283cf2a9ac62b4bf0856e0\"><\/div>\n<p>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was never indicted by the ICC. Nor has Bashar al Assad. Nor has Xi Jinping. Nor have dozens of other genocidal dictators. Netanyahu is charged with \u201cextermination,\u201d \u201cstarvation of civilians,\u201d and \u201cintentionally directing attacks against a civilian population,\u201d among other imaginary crimes. The ICC presumably relies on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/14\/how-the-media-and-democrats-helped-create-the-israeli-genocide-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wholly conjured fatality statistics<\/a> provided by Hamas and spread by the media and the left. The IDF estimates it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/four-idf-soldiers-killed-as-battles-rage-across-gaza-tanks-said-to-advance-into-rafah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">killed <\/a>around 15,000 terrorists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, or half of fatalities \u2014 which is a better civilian-to-combatant ratio in an urban warfare setting than perhaps any in history.<\/p>\n<p>Notice as well that indictments only charge members of right-center Likud who are in the war cabinet. Right now, Israel has a unity government. Every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-trans-state-senator-predicts-future-trans-president\/\" title=\"First Trans State Senator Predicts Future Trans President\">major political party<\/a> in Israel is in basic agreement that Hamas must be destroyed in Gaza. There is no government coalition that could survive which does not hunt down the remaining Hamas battalions. And the war cabinet, overseeing the decisions that brought on the ICC indictments, features Netanyahu\u2019s biggest political rival Benny Gantz, as well. Yet he is not charged.<\/p>\n<p>Placing blame on this one man falls in line with the American left\u2019s rhetoric about Israel\u2019s democratically elected unity government. Using Netanyahu as a strawman is a politically expedient way to attack Israel\u2019s democracy. The entire point of the ICC indictments is to further isolate Israel and reward Hamas. (Israel was about to host Khan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/israel-was-preparing-to-host-icc-chief-prosecutor-taken-completely-by-surprise-by-arrest-warrant-bid-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explain<\/a> their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-suing-texas-ag-over-probe-into-trump-ban-company-cites-first-amendment-rights\/\" title=\"Twitter Suing Texas AG Over Probe Into Trump Ban, Company Cites \u2018First Amendment Rights\u2019\">decision making process<\/a>, but the \u201cprosecutor\u201d was not interested.)<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the real tell is that the alleged crimes cover actions in both the \u201cterritory of Israel\u201d and the \u201cState of Palestine.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a06e0528f0fa1376af29cacaccd68d03 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a06e0528f0fa1376af29cacaccd68d03\"><\/div>\n<p>The ICC creates a fictitious \u201cstate\u201d and downgrades an existing one to a \u201cterritory\u201d \u2014 even though it is recognized by most United Nations member states.<\/p>\n<p>There is no Palestine. An independent Arab Palestine has never existed. There is no historical precedent for it. It didn\u2019t exist under Ottoman rule or the British Mandate or, in the end, under an United Nations Partition Plan that was rejected by every single Arab state and Palestinian leadership. It didn\u2019t exist when the Palestinians were ruled by governments in Jordan and Egypt (a time when there was virtually no international pressure to create an independent \u201cPalestine\u201d) and it didn\u2019t come into existence when the Arab states rejected Israel\u2019s peace gestures after the 1967 and 1973 wars.<\/p>\n<p>If Palestinians keep supporting nihilism and terrorism, such a state may never exist. And it won\u2019t make one lick of difference how the UN or ICC or EU describes Gaza in press releases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-403bfdcf4326ca725b70ed9adafb3846 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-403bfdcf4326ca725b70ed9adafb3846\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day of condolences for Iran&#8217;s Ebrahim Raisi, the ICC&#8217;s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, called for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli war council members. Alleging imaginary war crimes, this move raises the pressing question: What actions will be taken next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2248873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-20-at-1.54.45%E2%80%AFPM-1024x789.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-20-at-1.54.45%E2%80%AFPM-1024x789.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}