The Zionism Observer
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The Zionism Observer
Placing the leaders of a country that went into battle to protect its citizens, in the same line with bloodthirsty terrorists - is moral blindness and harms its duty and ability to protect its citizens. Accepting the prosecutor's position will be a historical crime that cannot be erased.
The statement of the chief prosecutor in The Hague, which puts the prime minister and the defense minister in the same line as the heads of Hamas, shows that sending representatives of Israel to the deliberation at the antisemitic court was a serious mistake to begin with. The prime minister and the defense minister must ignore the antisemitic prosecutor of the antisemitic court, and to order the escalation of the attack against Hamas until its absolute submission.
It's inconceivable that arrest warrants are issued after they massacred us on October 7. It's unforgivable. We are waging a just war, and let's be clear - we will not let this pass in silence … We call on the Americans - I expect the administration to stand behind us and for Congress to convene and condemn the arrest warrants.
I think that the situation at the court is anti to begin with. Everything is not in our favor. We made a mistake going there the first time. We need to deal with it, but we also need to remind the members of the coalition that dealing with it without the Americans is almost impossible. We have to coordinate with them.
The ICC decision is evidence of the bankruptcy of the institutions of international law, and this is a continuation of the farce of the deliberation in the South Africa claim at the ICJ. The very comparison between the prime minister and the defense minister of Israel, a state that fights according to the rules of international law and is accompanied by an independent judicial system, to the jihadists of Hamas - is scandalous. These are moves aimed at harming the right of Israel - the most threatened and attacked state in the world - to defend itself, a right enshrined in the UN Charter. Those leading these moves, whose goal is to tie Israel's hands, is the Palestinian Authority led by Abu Mazen.
The ICC is a neo-Nazi institution. Both the fake court and its genocide enabling employees should be treated accordingly by all people of good faith. They should be denied visas. Their assets should be frozen. And they should be prosecuted for providing material aid to Nazis.
The outrageous decision by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague is an unrestrained frontal assault on the victims of October 7th and our 128 hostages in Gaza. While Hamas murderers and rapists commit crimes against humanity against our brothers and sisters, the Prosecutor mentions in the same breath the Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Israel alongside the vile Nazi-like monsters of Hamas – a historical disgrace that will be remembered forever.
I have instructed the immediate establishment of a special command center at the Foreign Ministry, with all professional entities, aimed at fighting against the decision intended primarily to shackle Israel's hands and prevent it from exercising its right to self-defense. I intend to speak with foreign ministers of leading countries around the world to urge them to oppose the Prosecutor's decision and declare that even if warrants are issued, they do not intend to enforce them against Israeli leaders.
The ICC arrest warrants are a complete moral failure, we cannot accept the outrageous comparison between Netanyahu and Sinwar, between the leaders of Israel and the leaders of Hamas.
The announcement of the prosecutor at the ICC is beyond outrageous, and shows the extent to which the international judicial system is in danger of collapsing … We expect all leaders in the free world to condemn outright this step and firmly reject it.
A court that equates the leaders of a democratic nation, such as a prime minister and a defense minister, with those of a terrorist organization responsible for a sadistic massacre, where they butchered, tortured and raped of thousands of innocent citizens, does not deserve the title of a legitimate judicial body. This is a puppet theater, manipulated by the directives of terrorists. I expect genuine democracies to condemn this blatantly antisemitic ruling.
The request for arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant is delusional, unfounded, and [a serious matter]. To place Netanyahu and Gallant together with Sinwar and Deif is madness.
Shame on you all. Your legal pitchforks for Jews have discredited your institution.
To utter the names Netanyahu and Gallant in the same breath as Sinwar and Deif is to suggest some moral equivalence between a Western democracy, however imperfect, and the bloodthirsty terrorist group against which it is defending itself. The ICC prosecutor’s announcement is abhorrent and amoral and should be roundly and categorically rejected by the international community.
The State of Israel must take control of the Gaza Strip. Not the Palestinian Authority, not Gazan families. Only Israeli control of the Gaza Strip will lead to the removal of the threat in the future from the State of Israel and its residents. Only from a position of strength will we be able to discuss the day after with countries- Western and Arab- that are looking for a solution to Gaza.
For me, the alternative is Jewish settlement. We abandoned our land 20 years ago and the time has come to correct this disgrace.
The "court" in The Hague reveals its true identity to the masses: antisemitism in a tie and cloak. Those who are able to put Sinwar's mechanism of genocide in the same line as those fighting against the mechanism of extermination - do not deserve the title of court, but rather the definition of an antisemitic theater of the absurd.
The ICC presents an antisemitic theater of the absurd. Nothing related between it and justice. To compare the prime minister of a democratic state that is fighting a war it didn't choose, in accordance with international law, to a mass murderer who led to the slaughter of children, brutal rape of women, amputation of organs and mass slaughter, is moral bankruptcy.
The position is clear and has not changed - the State of Israel should not stand trial for fighting for its existence and it will not take part in The Hague’s Russian roulette. The fact that the chief prosecutor in The Hague indicates that the oppressor Sinwar and the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu are equal, only proves the claim.
The hypocrisy of the Attorney General at the Hague court, in creating symmetry in the request to issue the arrest warrants for Yahya Sinwar, Netanyahu and Gallant is shameful. The fact that a country that operates in accordance with the laws of war, while putting combatants at risk, is compared to monsters who have come to massacre, rape, and kidnap civilians, is a moral and legal scandal.
Insane! Report: The chief prosecutor at Criminal Court at The Hague wants to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Sinwar. A delusional prosecutor who equates the abominable murderer Sinwar with the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense.
I call on all state leaders, coalition and opposition alike, to condemn the scandalous decision of the prosecutor in The Hague.
He who wants to put Netanyahu and Gallant on the same throne with Sinwar and Deif will remain in the history books as the destroyer of international law and a moral perversion.
[The ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan] is callously pouring gasoline on the fires of antisemitism that are raging across the world. Through this incendiary decision, Mr. Khan takes his place among the great anti-Semites of modern times. He now stands alongside those infamous German judges that donned their robes and upheld laws that denied the Jewish people their most basic rights, and enabled the Nazis to perpetrate the worst crime in history.
Two weeks ago, on Holocaust Memorial Day, I pledged this: no amount of pressure, and no decision in any international forum, will prevent Israel from defending itself against those who seek our destruction. To all the enemies of Israel, including their collaborators in The Hague, I renew that pledge today.
I met with @AIPAC leaders Michael Tuchin and Howard Kohr. The State of Israel owes them much for their longstanding support. I asked them to work with the administration and Congress to take dramatic steps against the decision by the Prosecutor of the ICC to demand arrest warrants for PM Netanyahu and the Defense Minister.
Someone tell the prosecutor at the anti-Semitic terror supporter court in The Hague that my name is Tali Gottlieb and not Tali Kottlieb.
Why is there still such a thing as Beirut?
Trucks with aid to the enemy? I blocked myself. I don't know if it was published, but I came and blocked the road with my car as well.
If you stop the aid trucks, I will applaud you.
In order to preserve the security achievements that our soldiers lost their lives for, we must resettle Gaza with security forces and settlers that will embrace the land with love ... This is the only true way, to make the Hamas Nazis pay a price and to defend our nation and country.
First we must return to Gaza now! We are coming home! To the holy land! And second, we must encourage emigration. Encourage the voluntary emigration of the residents of Gaza.
The responsibility for the October 7 massacre lies with those who expelled the Jews from Gush Katif.
Hamas ❤️ Biden
The United States of America forbids Israel from defeating Hamas. They chose a side and it's not our side.
The US is threatening not to give us precision missiles. Oh yeah? Well, I got news for the US: we have imprecise missiles and we have the right to defend ourselves. So maybe instead of using a precise missile, and taking down a specific room or a specific building, I'll use my imprecise missiles and I'll just collapse ten buildings. Ten buildings. Ten buildings! That's what I'll do.
Hamas' tricks and games have only one answer: an immediate order to occupy Rafah! Increasing military pressure, and continuing the complete crushing of Hamas, until its complete submission.
I think we should've gone into Rafah yesterday ... There are no uninvolved [civilians] there. You have to go in and kill and kill and kill ... We have to kill them before they kill us.
On the first day or two we should have killed 100,000 Gazans ... Maybe a few there are human beings. 90-something percent are terrorists and involved. Not uninvolved. There’s no such thing as uninvolved [civilians].
For years, the Palestinian Authority has become accustomed to illegally taking over open areas in Judea and Samaria, but this will not continue under our watch.
The idea that we stop the war before achieving all its goals is out of the question. We will enter Rafah and eliminate the Hamas battalions there - with or without a deal, in order to achieve complete victory.
I warned the Prime Minister if, God forbid, Israel does not go into Rafah; if, God forbid, we end the war; if, God forbid, there will be a reckless [hostage-exchange] deal. The Prime Minister heard what I had to say, promised that Israel is going into Rafah, promised that we’re not ending the war, and promised that there won't be a reckless deal.
There are no half measures. [The Gazan cities of] Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat – total annihilation. 'You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven' – there's no place under heaven.
Rafah, Deir al Balah, Nuseirat? Total Extermination! We'll destroy any semblance of Amalek from under the sky.
If the price of peace with Saudi Arabia is losing the war and supporting a Palestinian state, I don't want peace with Saudi Arabia.
If the ICC acts against Israel's leaders, branding them as war criminals it will guarantee Israel fights to victory on all fronts, because f#ck it. We have nothing to lose.
Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the Hague Criminal Court to undermine its fundamental right to defend itself ... While the Hague Tribunal's decisions will not affect Israel's actions, they will set a dangerous precedent that threatens the soldiers and public figures of any democracy fighting criminal terrorism and dangerous aggression.
[The bodies discovered in mass graves in Nasser Hospital had their hands tied] because we probably arrested the terrorists. I don't know if the terrorists fought back, I wasn't there ... It could be that many were shot and they were shooting in a battle. It could be that there were bombs thrown by them, and grenades ... We don't know what they were doing before their hands were tied behind their backs, do we?
The decision today in the Cabinet to force foreign observers on me in the prisons to check the condition of the Nukhba terrorists is a serious mistake. Our hostages in Gaza receive abuse, not visits and concern for rights. These visits harm deterrence, negotiations with Hamas, raise the morale of the terrorists, may lead to prison riots, and beyond that it is a violation of Israeli sovereignty, and an opening for international intervention in other issues in the future. No state that respects its sovereignty and security would allow this to happen. The British act as if the Mandate government exists, and we cooperate with this.
In an interview with @israelhayomheb I said that the UN has become a collaborator of Hamas! Israel will have to establish new "rules of the game", which will include the closing of UN compounds, the denial of visas and the deportation of UN employees who work against us. If after changing the rules, this rotten organization still won't behave fairly towards us - we should consider leaving the UN.
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