Here is the latest show of desperation from the Israeli stay as accountability finally comes knocking

for some of the worst atrocities committed in the 21st century in a genocidal onslaught which has offered

yet more evidence of the human capacity for depravity,

as if the dark history of our species did not already have enough.

Now for days there have been rumors swirling that the International Criminal Court is about to finally issue

arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister

Yov Galan for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the course of Israel's

onslaught against Gaza.

You may recall that requests for those arrests warrants were issued on the 20th of May this year.

That is 123 days ago, approaching 18 weeks ago,

by the ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan.

A recap there. The process is that those requests have to be approved by three judges in the ICC's

pre-trial chamber who hail from France, Romania and Benin. There have been repeated attempts

to sabotage this process, not least by the Conservative

former government of the United Kingdom here before it was defeated in the general election,

which submitted an utterly vexatious attempt at derailment, despite the terrible and adequacy of

gear stammer's Labour government including on Palestine they at least thankfully

dropped that particular wrecking attempt though the bar really is on the floor abiding my international

law not trying to wreck it now indeed just so you don't think I'm being kind of

of ungrateful here today's Guardian reports like number 10 that is the seat of power here in the UK, has been on alert for a week now about imminent arrest warrants,

and that they fear that the ICC will expect the British government to support those warrants.

Oh, the indignity of it all.

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