ICC Arrest Warrants and the Decline of Rules-Based Order

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The ICC is a Western institution that has often been used to advance Western foreign policy objectives, such as the issuing of an arrest warrant against the President of Russia, premised on unsubstantiated and limited evidence. The impact of such a decision is thus politically emblematic as a Western institution, after 7 months of a genocide and the most gruesome war we have seen this century, has been coerced to issue arrest warrants against a key Western ally. The arrest warrant does three things: 1) It is a futile attempt to salvage the declining reputation of the Western "international rules-based order." 2) Undermines the current Israeli establishment. 3) Exhibits the mounting tensions between Israel and the U.S. The fact that an arrest warrant has now been issued against senior Israeli officials, alongside the ongoing ICJ trial, places all the more pressure on the U.S and its unwavering support for Israel. It further highlights the U.S's desire to get rid of Netanyahu and as such, to revamp Israel's image by placing a new "moderate" political regime in power. Cover art by: https://www.instagram.com/rickyisolation/ #icj #antiimperialism #decolonize #ceasefire #uspolitics #israelhamaswar #globalaffairs #foreignaffairs #humanrights #breakingnews #internationalnews #warzoneclips #veteran #politicalnews #palestina #politics #political #internationalrelations #internationallaw #colonialoutcasts #counterterrorism #globalsecurity

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0:00.7	All right.
0:01.9	Welcome to Colonial Outgas.
0:03.9	We're going to jump right into it because we had some technical difficulties on the first take.
0:08.3	And because we have like no tech support, it's got to be perfect the whole way through because there's no post production on this one.
0:14.9	So we're going to jump right in because Monday, May 20th was a big day.
0:19.0	We had the helicopter crash and the Dismar Forest in East
0:22.3	Azerbaijan, and which paris, the Iranian president, Ibrahim Racy, and other senior officials.
0:28.1	And we'll get into this on the back end of the episode, maybe, because it looks like a simple,
0:33.0	bad weather, old aircraft combo. And really, it's, it's a matter of interest just to see what will happen in the elections,
0:41.8	who will become the heir apparent of Khomeini.
0:44.7	But Iran has a strong precedent of weathering administrative difficulties and overturn,
0:51.9	because during the Iran-Iraq war, the president was
0:55.0	assassinated along with 72 other ministers. So I think it's going to be fine. Regional instability
1:01.9	will be minimal and that's that. So we're going to just start with the ICC warrants,
1:08.8	which is the hot topic for today.
1:11.3	This is May 21st, and the news international media blew up and the propaganda machines went to overdrive yesterday.
1:19.4	So the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, the ICC, which prosecutes individuals for war crimes as opposed to states, which is the ICJ,
1:30.5	which South Africa brought a case for genocide against Israel earlier this year.
1:36.9	They've released, the ICC has released a statement on his application for the arrest warrants of Israeli prime minister,
1:42.2	Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Galant,
1:45.1	the Hamas leadership in Gaza, Yaya Sinwar, Mohamed Diyah, and Ismail Haniyah in Doha for war crimes.
1:54.1	So Karim Khan, said chief prosecutor for the ICC, previously asserted there were reasonable
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