Freddy Eytan
Israel Hayom, Nov. 25, 2024
“The young IDF soldiers are not criminal and bloodthirsty mercenaries, as the report tried to demonstrate without success. IDF medics have even saved innocent Palestinian women, children, and babies at the risk of losing their own lives. All of this does not seem to raise an eyebrow in the criminal court.”
Two weeks after the hunt for Israelis in the streets of Amsterdam and still in the Netherlands, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has decided to issue, without scruple, arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. This scandalous decision is unprecedented in the annals of the contemporary history of the free world.
It should be noted that Israel has actively participated in the United Nations deliberations on the establishment of an international criminal court since the 1950s. It supported the idea of establishing a permanent international judicial institution that would fairly and truly reflect the principles and established procedures of criminal law, with a view to ensuring that those responsible for heinous crimes and the most serious crimes of concern to the international community were brought to justice.
This international court was created after the Holocaust precisely to hunt down and bring to justice all the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, particularly those responsible for the Jewish genocide. How can we draw a parallel between the Israeli democratic power and the Nazis or compare it to totalitarian and bloodthirsty regimes such as Iran or Syria? Which international court judged Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or Bashar al-Assad? … [To read the full article, click here]
