Melanie Phillips, Substack, Apr. 30, 2024
A story has been running for days that the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is poised to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Israel Defence Forces chief of Staff Herzi Halevi over alleged war crimes committed in Gaza.
If this is correct, the prosecutor would be taking action against Israel for defending itself against genocide while doing more than any other military in the world to minimize civilian death and suffering. It would mean the ICC would be acting on the basis of lies put out by Hamas, such as the number of civilians killed in the Gaza war — figures which have been rubbished by statisticians — and Israel’s alleged blocking of humanitarian aid — a claim that’s contradicted by evidence of aid being provided from the start of the war but which was mostly stolen by Hamas.
Such arrest warrants would be a wickedly perverse move and a breathtaking onslaught against truth, justice and the Jewish people. The move would represent the ultimate in defamation, demonization and delegitimization mounted by the apparatus of international law against the Jewish state, a unique and malicious double standard applied to no other country on earth. …SOURCE