Is Netanyahu heading to The Hague for war crimes?
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🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister and Defence minister and three Hamas leaders - accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Israeli cabinet has already hit back - calling it 'moral blindness'. But this means the country's leaders could face arrest in over 120 countries (the signatories to the ICC) if they travel abroad.
Why has the prosecutor sought the warrants now - and what impact could this have on the war in Gaza and on Israel's relationships with the international community? Could Netanyahu really end up in the Hague?
Later, as the infected blood scandal finally acnkowledges decades of failure and cover up we ask why these slow burn scandals that wreck so many lives are such a familiar story in the UK.
And we talk to Omid Djalili about the death of Iran's PM in a helicopter crash.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | We are following this breaking news. |
| 0:13.2 | The International Criminal Court moments ago announced it is seeking arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas for the October 7th terrorist attack in Israel, |
| 0:20.6 | and also seeking arrest warrants for the political of Hamas for the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel, and also seeking arrest warrants for the political and military leadership of the state of Israel. |
| 0:26.6 | This is potentially quite the most extraordinary moment. |
| 0:31.6 | The idea that the Prime Minister of Israel and the Defence Secretary could be wanted individuals at the |
| 0:39.9 | International Criminal Court and arrest warrants issued for them is a remarkable turn of events. |
| 0:47.2 | I should also add that arrest warrants have been issued for the three leaders of Hamas as well. |
| 0:53.1 | This is the ICC, otherwise known as the Hague, |
| 0:57.4 | and judges have now got to decide whether to issue those five with warrants. |
| 1:03.8 | What does all this mean for the war in Gaza, for Israel's fate, |
| 1:09.4 | and for what happens next on the world stage. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:17.2 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And a bit later in this episode, we'll be talking about |
| 1:23.1 | scandal and why we are so bad at dealing with them policy scandals and why it seems to take |
| 1:30.1 | so long to correct them and to stop covering them up. |
| 1:33.3 | But we have to start with the extraordinary announcement made today by the International |
| 1:38.8 | Criminal Court in the Hague that it wants to have arrest warrants issued for the leaders of Hamas for what |
| 1:46.8 | happened on October the 7th, but more particularly, the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu and the |
| 1:52.7 | defence minister Yuav Galant for their response to what happened on October the 7th. So putting the political leadership of Israel in the |
| 2:04.2 | crosshairs of the criminal court. And I should say that there has been a very swift, kind of furious |
| 2:11.0 | reaction from an Israeli government, a spokesman who says this is scandalous and a historical disgrace. |
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