13 thoughts on “ICC Approves Pursuing War Crimes Case Against Israeli, Palestinian leaders – Tikun Olam תיקון עולם إصلاح العالم
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  1. I have a feeling this isn’t going anywhere.

    Considering that the ICC really doesn’t have a great track record when it comes to getting convictions, it’s likely that Bensouda will kick the can down the street.

  2. “But there can be no doubt that today’s ruling was a milestone on a path toward accountability for Israel’s war crimes.”

    And a milestone on a path toward accountability for Palestinian war crimes”.

    Fair’s fair. Right?

    1. @ Forrest: I don’t know about “fair.” Israel’s far superior lethality is not exactly “fair.” But yes, a few Palestinian militant commanders are liable to be charged for rocket fire which killed or injured the few Israel civilians who were victims. As they should. But that’s nothing compared to the scores of IDF senior commanders, chief of staff, defense minister & PM who could/should be charged for killing many, many times more Palestinians than Palestinians killed Israelis.

      1. Fair is trying all the Palestinian commanders who ordered rocket and mortar fire on Israeli civilian targets in Ashkelon, Ashdod, Sderot, Beersheva, etc.

        Surely you’d agree that a commander who targets Israeli civilians doesn’t get a pass because his rocket lands in a field or is shot down by the Iron Dome system.

        Israel made the greatest effort to warn away Palestinian civilians who were in Harm’s Way, using ‘knock bombs’ and cell phone calls to civilians living near military targets.

        Israel has also conducted internal investigations into Palestinians civilian deaths during the Gaza operation. Has Hamas conducted similar investigations into why her commanders were trying to indiscriminately rocket Israeli civilians?

        Is this my final comment, or can I continue?

        1. @ Forrest: Do me a favor, read the blog post before wasting my time. I wrote several times that Palestinians were liable to be called before the ICC as well as Israelis. So there is no need to speak as if I hadn’t writtten this or didn’t believe it.

          Israel made the greatest effort to warn away Palestinian civilians who were in Harm’s Way,

          STop peddling bullshit here. That may work in whatever other venues Hasbara Central assigned you to. But not here. Under international law it doesn’t matter whether they sent Florence Nightangale door to door to warn Palestinians. What matters is the number of civilian dead. What was the outcome of actual IDF actions. And this was essentially mass murder. Which is why Israel, if there is any justice, will have many senior commanders, a few ministers and at least one PM testifying in The Hague.

          How many Israeli civilians did the rockets kill or injure during Protective Edge compared to how many Israel killed? The ratio was something like 20 to 1. That should be a similar ratio to the number of those charged on each side and the severity of the charges.

          Israel has conducted absolutely no “internal investigations” into Palestinian civilian deaths. None. The IDF has conducted investigations and disciplined grunt soldiers who stole from private homes. It investigated and failed to discipline or charge any senior officers for their mass murder.

          That was your final comment in this thread.

          1. I was defending you Richard! – but whatever – Moderate me if you have something to hide. It is now obvious whom you really serve depsite superficial appearances.
            Thank you.

          2. I reviewed your YouTube channel and several videos featured are offensive. I don’t need that sort of content to defend me. Since I already had moderated you and your derisive insult followed that, you are now banned.

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  4. ” That should be a similar ratio to the number of those charged on each side and the severity of the charges.”
    I think this is an absurd statement. Has there ever been a war that the two or more sides strive for equality in deaths or wounded? War is basically both sides trying to overcome or obliterate the other side. You know as well as I that if Israel desired it could entirely destroy e.g. Gaza. however the real object of war is peace in the end.
    When the ICC starts to put Jews/Israelis on their judicial staff[maybe they do have] and gives key positions to Israel on the UN counsels that would be ‘equal ratio’ but in my opinion the UN is a fake org catering to those who run It on being told what to do, hardly objective.

    1. @ Avram Stern: Your comment is Sui generics, not at all responsive to the assumptions involved in mine.

      Your comment also ignores the decades worth of development of the laws of war. Wars are not fought to kill the maximum number of the enemy. Attaining victory in war does not involve maximum killing. It involves winning strategic victories over one’s enemies. Sometimes that involves killing, sometimes it involves wholly other matters like logistics, weaponry, strategy, tactics, etc.

      Israel cannot simply wipe out Gaza even if it wanted to (and it would want to for sure if it thought it could get away with it). It understands that any hesitancy to bring its leaders into the dock at the Hague would evaporate should it kill a million Gazans and turn it into Dresden circa WWII.

      The ICC is a judicial body. Not a political body. Its judges are not swayed by political considerations. Or shouldn’t be. There are no Palestinian judges and there are no Israeli judges. In a case involving both as parties it would be inappropriate to have either an Israeli or Palestinian judge.

  5. Good, let them demolish the elected right-Zionist politicos and the more corrupt members of the Palestinian quasi-government. Better to do it now, when there still is an Israel, then later after the Gotterdaemmerung war and these characters are beaten to death by the mutant Nitro-Mauraders of the desert Hellscape……because that “Mad Max” knockoff is coming to the Middle East, the parties of the international far-Right have decreed it.

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