The ICC Disgraces Itself Over Israel - WSJ Editorial

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The International Criminal Court has lost more than the plot. In requesting arrest warrants on Monday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense chief, alongside a trio of Hamas leaders responsible for Oct. 7, the ICC has lost sight of the crucial distinction between the death squad and the bomber pilot, on which the possibility of just war depends. President Biden is right to call the court’s action “outrageous,” but the grotesque false equivalence demands more than tough words.

On one side are Israel’s democratic leaders, waging a war to reclaim hostages and root out terrorists in Gaza. On the other side is Hamas, which precipitated the war with its mass murder, rape and kidnapping on Oct. 7, and whose officials pledge to do it “again and again.” Lumping them together is a slander for the history books. Imagine some international body prosecuting Tojo and Roosevelt, or Hitler and Churchill, amid World War II.

The defects in the ICC’s allegations against Israel are many. Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan alleges “starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.” Hamas lists 31 Gazans whom it claims died of malnutrition and dehydration in seven months of war. That’s out of 2.3 million whom Egypt won’t let out over its border.

Israel has facilitated the entry of 542,570 tons of aid, and 28,255 aid trucks, in an unprecedented effort to supply an enemy’s civilians, even while Hamas steals the aid and tries to frustrate delivery. Israel has begged Egypt for two weeks to let in aid at Rafah, while Egypt refuses. Is this the behavior of an Israeli government bent on starving Gazans?

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[gab13by13]

1. I have a serious question

If the ICC has disgraced itself, will condemning what it did give permission to autocratic countries like Russia to also ignore future ICC warrants? Just asking.

[ColinC]

4. I have a serious question about sharing right-wing sources on a Democratic oriented forum...

[question everything]

6. Like this one?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016377670

or this?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016377541

or this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016376487

or this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/11839810

and, of course, you can always alert.

[Celerity]

9. Fail. The WSJ regular news dept (what you posted in your reply) is not remotely as hard RW as its Editorial Board, which

is what you posted in your OP.

Rupert Murdoch, who owns the WSJ, makes sure that its Editorial Board is always far RW.

[jimfields33]

2. The whole thing is tragic. Hamas and Egypt are not helping.

Israel tries so hard and mostly succeeds in getting aid to the Palestinians but Egypt and Hamas are making it a tougher job than it needs to be. I hope Egypt and HOAs are ashamed of themselves.

[ColinC]

3. So... we are sharing right wing editorials here now?

[gab13by13]

5. When I post an article I give my opinion,

No one knows where the poster stands if there is no comment.

I see right wing articles here all the time, lots from "the Hill" the rag that Jonathan Turley writes for.

[Celerity]

10. see post 9: The OP's posting a RW WSJ Editorial Board stance, not an article from their far less RW regular news dept.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016378116#post9

[Celerity]

11. It's dismaying to see the biggest US RW newspaper Editorial board posted here. The WSJ Editorial Board has ripped Biden,

Obama, and Democrats, etc etc for ages.

Somewhere Rupert Murdoch is laughing.

[Celerity]

8. Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board is hard RW and shouldn't be used here to support your stances