The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is now a wanted man. If
he sets foot in Britain, he faces arrest and extradition to The Hague to answer
for alleged war crimes in Gaza.
Yet, the U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, says America will 'crush' the UK economy if Britain upholds the rule of law and tries to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes.
The International Criminal Court (ICC), have issued an international arrest warrant for Netanyahu, the former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant and the Hamas leader, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Neither Israel or the U.S. are members of the ICC but Palestine is an ICC member.
Although Israel and the U.S. say they don't recognise the ICC, the Biden administration have been accused of hypocrisy on the issue of ICC jurisdiction, because the U.S. welcomed the court's arrest warrant for the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. The ICC is recognised by 124 countries in the world including the UK, but Israel and the U.S. are not member states. The Biden administration maintain that the ICC "has no jurisdiction over this matter" and that Israel's conduct in Gaza has been lawful.
Since the Hamas attack on Israel last October, tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), using weapons supplied by the U.S. Donald Trump's National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, said that the ICC "has no credibility" and declared that the incoming Trump administration would take action against the "anti-Semitic bias" of the ICC and the United Nations. The legal duty to enforce the ICC arrests warrants is binding on all member states and members of the European Union.
Are you aware that President Bush- mark-2 had a bill passed when he was the supreme leader, which facilitated an American invasion of the Hague, in the event of an American or friend of America being arrested and placed before the court. I think that it is the Invasion of the Hague Act.
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