r/InternationalNews • u/isawasin • Sep 06 '24
International ICC prosecutor says world leaders 'threatened' him over Israel arrest warrants
https://thecradle.co/articles/icc-prosecutor-says-world-leaders-threatened-him-over-israel-arrest-warrants104
u/LegkoKatka Sep 06 '24
"This week, a pro-Israel legal group in the UK threatened to press charges against Khan, claiming that his efforts to issue arrest warrants against Israeli officials are based on false premises."
Not including the death count, there is still clear and empirical evidence of Palestinian deaths as a result of Israel's invasion and genocide. They'll call out holocaust deniers but stop short of Palestinian lives.
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u/fotographyquestions Sep 06 '24
essentially genocide deniers
There’s people here who say the 40,000 is not true or deflect by mentioning other genocides in a cavalier way. That would be as disrespectful as someone asking why aren’t we learning about X when discussing the holocaust
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u/EternalPermabulk Sep 07 '24
Is is sooo much higher than 40 thousand
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u/fotographyquestions Sep 07 '24
I agree, that’s the reported figure that’s remained stagnant
They were saying it’s less and equating Palestinians with terrorists, which is untrue
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u/hydroxypcp Estonia Sep 07 '24
Bosnian genocide, a genocide that is officially recognized as a genocide, had 8000 deaths. So, if we talking just numbers, even there their argument falls apart
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u/AdventureBirdDog Sep 08 '24
Someone told me to stop posting propaganda when I said the word genocide, they gave me the laughing emoji and told me "Gaza government is Hamas, stop it with the propaganda," These genocide deniers are monsters. I'm not even sure educating them is worth it at this point, I think blocking them is the better route. Genocide deniers are not worth any time.
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u/fotographyquestions Sep 08 '24 edited Sep 08 '24
Some people say that Hamas is a terrorist organization and that Israel is a “liberal democracy” or “legitimate government” and then they stop there
They don’t acknowledge the eviction of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948. They pretend the “conflict”started on 10/7 and mention ancient Jerusalem, then purposely leave out the Jewish diaspora after the Jewish Roman wars — as if there’s a continuous Israeli presence as a country there and they’ve been persecuted by Arabs all along. And then they find all sorts of excuses for the IDF
That’s not true. That’s gaslighting by distorting history — almost like what Trump said about the election and Covid
The Jewish Roman wars in 66–70 CE caused the Jewish diaspora. Some immigrated to Europe where they faced perpetual persecution as many immigrant minorities have experienced
The Zionist movement gained support after the holocaust. It displaced 700,000 Palestinians in nakba for Israel’s creation
Palestinians are not responsible for the holocaust or the Jewish Roman wars. Distorting history to make it seem like they’re the “aggressors” all along is cruel but unfortunately not unusual. It reeks of the propaganda and racism spread about native Americans and ethic minorities to systematically oppress groups of people
I’ve also seen people share sources with outright hate towards Palestinians
I don’t have a lot of optimism given the 2016 election and what I’ve heard about the misinformation the government spread about the Iraq war initially
But there has to be more advocacy after a ceasefire to end apartheid
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u/dogisgodspeltright Sep 06 '24
ICC prosecutor says world leaders 'threatened' him over Israel arrest warrants
So, ........issue warrants.
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u/cita91 Sep 06 '24
Which leaders.. United States of Israel
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u/isawasin Sep 06 '24
05.09.24 - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) says world leaders pressured him not to apply for arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and defense minister on allegations of war crimes in Gaza, the BBC reported on 5 September.
Karim Khan told the BBC, “Several leaders and others told me and advised me and cautioned me,” he said.
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u/binou1 Sep 06 '24
A joke! Lol They are the ones who created this tribunal after the war in Yugoslavia to judge crimes and genocide.
But when their Western "ally" in this region, Israel, a European creation in the East, does the same thing, strangely enough, their tribunal comes back to bite them in the ass.
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u/hydroxypcp Estonia Sep 07 '24
they should be charged as well. Imagine if you were accused of a crime and your buddy threatened the judge or their family. That I'm pretty sure is also a crime
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u/Successful-Peach-764 Sep 06 '24
Shocking turn of events, I guess anyone who's been around long enough knows bad people run this world.
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u/AntiFacistBossBitch Sep 06 '24
This will not go down well in history.
Everyone is escalating from genocide denying & enabling, to aiding & abetting a coverup & amnesty for war criminals- by discouraging empirical, legal means to be executed, by smearing & shooting the messenger
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u/xarjun Sep 06 '24
Please name these leaders. So that their electorate knows they've been bought.
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u/OccasionallyReddit England Sep 06 '24
Record that shit then issue warrent and share the evidence of interference on the internet! I hear a block chain would be a great place to do this.. Very difficult to remove once its on there.
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u/Fit_Helicopter1949 Sep 07 '24
The west plays to the hands of Russia and China. after this what credibility they will have against any claim for the latter?
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u/LDGod99 Sep 06 '24
Need the deets, cause this article is trash. Who are these “world leaders”? The word “threatened” is misleadingly quoted in the headline because the words he used are “told me” “advised me” and “cautioned me”.
The words “threatened” and “pressured” come from the journalist who wrote the article.
The closest “threat” I can see is from the letter from Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton saying they’ll target him…but Tom Cotton is neither a world leader nor capable of targeting any threat against him.
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