American media is lying to the American people. CSOs in Gaza do not see U.S. media in Gaza at any time since 7 October yet we learn alarming distortions are made of real news from recordings we see of alleged newscasts on CNN and other entertainment outlets like CNN, blasting out parochial nonsense in favour of the Democrat Party and its politicians. Sourcing U.S. politicians for news in Gaza may not be the best content because in America politicians tend to be liars and they are seldom well briefed or well balanced.
Some truths: Amanpour interviews ICC Prosecutor
On 3 March 2021, the Prosecutor announced the opening of the investigation into the Situation in the State of Palestine.
This investigation followed the Pre-Trial Chamber-I’s decision on 5 February 2021 that the Court could exercise its criminal jurisdiction in the Situation in the State of Palestine and, by majority, that the territorial scope of this jurisdiction extends to Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
That means that under certain circumstances, actors committing crimes against the Rome Statute are possibly subject to prosecution in the Court.
The international Criminal Court (Courtesy ICC)
The 2023-2024 war against civilian Palestinians and how it is prosecuted clearly violates international laws according to the allegations of the International Criminal Court.
Genocide is not referenced in the International Criminal Court allegations against the parties, but the International Court of Justice has adduced that Genocide by Israel is probably being committed.
Joseph Biden’s rants clearly indicate he and Blinken have no grasp of the situation, nor do they realize they may be likely candidates for indictment for committing crimes in the Situation in the State of Palestine by having enabled and participated in the killing of tens of thousands of women and children in Gaza who are obviously not combatants and obviously citizens despite havening been repeatedly warned since 7 October 2023 that this was the outcome of their activities in the region and even some of the American servicemen in Gaza were warned that this was the outcome of their activities.
Karim Asad Ahmad Khan and the ICC, does not assert any kind of “equivalence of Israel with Palestine” but does intend to arrest leaders of both states.
“France supports the International Criminal Court, its independence, and the fight against impunity in all situations,” France’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“Crimes committed in Gaza must be prosecuted at the highest level, regardless of the perpetrators,” Belgium Minister of Foreign Affairs Hadja Lahbib posted on X.com, along with a statement.
Read ICC Complaint filed by CSO as Israel breaches World Court order by killing kids in the Situation in the State of Palestine
The Netanyahu Administration has weakened Israel’s Courts so badly they are not relevant in dealing with the Israeli Governments Criminality.
In both Israel and the United States, democracy has deteriorated in what is claimed to be a free society that upholds freedom of the press, but as both the Associated Press and Al Jazeera have faced shutdowns in Israel, and blockage in the USA, each through different methods, Americans see only a very minimal element of the whole truth.
Our humanitarian organization The RINJ Foundation witnesses daily the presence of Al Jazeera’s team in Gaza, despite numerous members being targeted and killed. And don’t be fooled. We see that American troops (advisers?) are on the ground and in the air in Gaza and in Israel—thousands in all. (Sometimes we bump into each other in the tunnels.)
There is a lot that can be said of the International Criminal Court. The foremost observation is that the ICC is grossly overworked yet is achieving at a relatively high level.
The International Criminal Court is precisely that—a court. It conducts numerous trials, procedural and motion hearings, sentencing, and voir dires (the preliminary examination of witnesses or jurors by a judge or counsel), among other proceedings.
The Court has conducted and will continue to conduct trials for numerous individuals accused of crimes, not for countries. The proceedings involving these alleged criminals may be announced in the same press release, as is customary for courts in all jurisdictions.
Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, does not assert any kind of “equivalence of Israel with Palestine” but he announced that he does intend to arrest leaders of both states.
The list of persons named for pre-trial court hearings by the ICC prosecutor Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, does not ever assert any kind of “equivalence of the states of Israel and Palestine”.
As always, the International Criminal Court tries persons not countries.
The ICC since its founding, perhaps because of the high caliber of professionals it has retained, and because of its well thought out mandates, while underfunded and overworked, has served as a proof of concept. It is more needed now than ever before and many observers say it needs to be enhanced with a stronger mandate, more support and more funds.
The ICC stands for fair justice for every individual who appears before the Court, a principle that has always been upheld. The ICC has consistently been a model of due process and fairness. The current focus is to initiate the preliminary hearings and approvals in the Situation in the State of Palestine investigations. Any deliberate defiance aimed at misleading the populations of Israel and America constitutes, undoubtedly, a contempt of court, and it would not be surprising if sanctions were to follow.
This misleading ‘equivalence’ device was originated by Netanyahu’s administration which tells lies that make no sense. Hamas which leadership has demonstrated incompetence and a lack of caring for the people it claims to govern, has made no sense in most things it says and do0es at the top level. It’s rebuttal to the foolhardy Netanyahu ‘equivalence’ whining is the same thing in reverse.
Forest Gump’s mom said it best. Stupid is what stupid does.
Joseph Biden’s cadre of clowns copied Netanyahuby Biden’s command—we suspect staffers realized they were making a huge gaff and were likely told by their legal eagles, they made no sense.
Clowns may make a living being serious yet funny, but like all clowns they should not being taken seriously. The don’t realize they are in the White House and how dangerous a place that is if the clowns inside mislead a nation or even the world.
Joe Biden is widely accpted to be a habitual liar. White House staffers should not be enabling or exploiting that sin.
The reality is that certain alleged criminals have initially been named in the planned indictments and many others will follow. They will all have their day in Court, probably none will appear together or near the same time. Many months and years of judicial process in many courtrooms and many trials are ahead.
Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Laniyeh, and Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri are parties who had organized the attacks against Israel on 7 October 2024. Their cases for doing that are weak and those matters of course will be heard separately from other cases. According to The RINJ Foundation which asked that these men be charged, the focus is on crimes that took place related to hostages.
“Those are extremely serious matters and if the witnesses are willing to go through the grueling process of giving evidence and recounting their personal experiences, each of these men who ordered the hostage-taking and the others who did the crimes and who will soon be charged, will be sent to prison for a long time, In my personal view they deserve life sentences,” said Dale Carter, security director for RINJ Women.
“Our organization was able to assist persons who needed health care or counselling related to gender based violence on pr about 7 October 2023, but in the cases of persons harmed while being hostages, we have deferred them to the ICC. That policy decision was taken on 14 October 2023.
“One of the defences of the Hamas men is that the savagery of 7 Oct. was desperation from a wrongful open air prison. But no matter, there is no excuse for using rape as a weapon of war; no excuse for torture; no excuse for violating POW laws, turning captives into ‘hostages’ for barter; and grossly mistreating captives. Apartheid, genocide, torture, mass murder, do not warrant reciprocation with the referenced types of crimes. Descent people report crimes to the keeper of the rule of law or the finder of fact in the jurisdiction and leave the matters to authorities without exacerbating the situation with reciprocating crimes. Resistance is about stopping crimes from happening, not starting new crimes. (Rise Up, Mosul Resistance– Risk Assessment – (rinj.org))
RINJ Women are allowed to be judgmental of Hamas haveing been caught in situations wherein leading women was called for in a resistance against being sold en masse; or killed en masse. RINJ STATEMENT ON MOSUL LIBERATION | The RINJ Foundation
“In the case of persons involved in murders of female persons captured in Israel and both raped and killed in Gaza, we know what you did, Hamas/IQB—the three already ICC-accused are directly responsible because among them they issued directions to every hoser and fall-down in Gaza to ‘join in the fun’ and added specific allowances of what horror their behaviour could include, allowances that were not afforded to trained troops but allowed to rank-and-file hosers in Gaza street gangs and alleged militia resistance units which were as unlawful as any Detroit criminal street gang. I am assured that some primary offenders have become deceased following their killing of three women they dragged to Gaza and following or in the midst of their continued wrongdoings, but there are too many others whom Hamas should have imprisoned for past crimes if Hamas was true leadership. I can’t say that in absolute terms because all governments make these failings, but by the same argument, government has responsibility when it encourages crimes rather than punish them,” added Ms. Carter emphatically. “I am glad these men will at least be held to account, no matter what the outcome may be. They need to learn about accountability,” she said.
- The war against civilian Palestinians and how it is prosecuted clearly violates international laws according to the allegations of the International Criminal Court.
- Genocide is not referenced in the International Criminal Court allegations against the parties. Joseph Biden’s rants clearly indicate he and Blinken have no grasp of the situation, nor do they realize they may be likely candidates for indictment for committing crimes in Palestine for having enabled and participated in the killing of tens of thousands of women and children in Gaza.
- Karim Asad Ahmad Khan and the ICC, does not assert any kind of “equivalence of Israel with Palestine” but does intend to arrest leaders of both states.
- Read ICC Complaint filed by CSO as Israel breaches World Court order by killing kids in Palestine