Has Israel Blackmailed International Criminal Court?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Where are the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants against Israeli leader |
| 0:04.2 | Benjalahu and his Defence Minister Yove Gallan? |
| 0:07.4 | It's now been three months since the Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, |
| 0:11.7 | Cameron Khan, requested arrest warrants |
| 0:14.2 | against the two Israeli leaders for war crimes |
| 0:17.0 | and crimes against humanity, |
| 0:19.0 | as well as three Hamas leaders. |
| 0:21.6 | It is then left to the pretrial chamber of the ICC, with three |
| 0:25.7 | judges, to accept and issue these arrest warrants. Now in the case of the |
| 0:30.8 | Russian President Vladimir Putin, an arrest warrant request over the invasion of Ukraine |
| 0:36.0 | was submitted on the 22nd February 2023. That was accepted by the pretrial chamber with arrest warrants issued on the 17th of March |
| 0:45.5 | 2023 so that's 23 days later it's now been a hundred and one day since the |
| 0:51.4 | ICC T prosecutor issued requests for arrest warrants in relation to Israel and |
| 0:57.3 | Palestine, so over four times the length of time and counting. Since then Israel has continued on a daily basis to perpetrate some of the worst atrocities |
| 1:08.2 | of the 21st century, including atrocities which qualify as the worst kind of crimes which humans can |
| 1:14.6 | possibly commit against other humans. So I am going to ask is Israel is the |
| 1:21.0 | Israeli state blackmailing or threatening the ICC and specifically the |
| 1:26.8 | three judges in the pretrial chamber. Now this might seem like tin foil |
| 1:30.8 | conspiracism but I've always been on that wing of the left that tries to keep away from unjustified conspiratorial thinking and stick to the facts that doesn't mean conspiracies don't happen. They very much do. Just claims about them shouldn't be plucked out of thin air. I'm not doing that as we will see. |
| 1:46.6 | I will make the case for why we should at least consider what I'm setting forth here. |
| 1:53.4 | Now first of all I would note before I go on to that, |
| 1:56.0 | that six days ago the ICC chief prosecutor wrote to the three judges |
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