Know the ICJ rules
Know the ICJ rules
Know the ICJ rules
Just to be clear, is genocide among the alleged crimes? I thought it was using starvation as a method of war?
I'm not comparing what's worse just wanna get the facts straight.
Couple things:
With regard to the crimes, the Chamber found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu, born on 21 October 1949, Prime Minister of Israel at the time of the relevant conduct, and Mr Gallant, born on 8 November 1958, Minister of Defence of Israel at the time of the alleged conduct, each bear criminal responsibility for the following crimes as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.
The Chamber also found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant each bear criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population.
To me, the clear takeaway is that they've walked as close as possible to (correct) genocide charges while pandering to the US.
Oh no!! Please don’t invade the Hague, that’s where we store all out politicians including a bunch of far-right assholes.
I mean, tbf in both cases the ICJ is fucking powerless.
It exerts more than nominal amounts of diplomatic pressure though. Of course neither war criminal will end up hanging out at the Hague, but it made Putin miss a BRICS conference for example, and this ruling keeps the Gaza genocide a fresh political issue on Europe.
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