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The Owen Jones Podcast

UK Politicians Face War Crimes Arrests After ICC Warrant Requests - w/. Tayab Ali

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Tayab Ali is an international lawyer who is leading a criminal investigation into the complicity of UK politicians and commentators in Israeli war crimes. Seem far fetched? Well, the ICC Prosecutor issuing an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu once seemed unthinkable. Here's why it could be far more likely than you think.


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0:00.0

Now the International Criminal Courts, Chief Prosecutor, of course, Karen Khan, has submitted requests for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders and Hamas leaders for a litany of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

0:12.3

Now the point of course with the alleged war crimes against humanity

0:17.4

lodged against Benjamin Netanyahu Yov Galan, who's the defense minister,

0:21.8

is these are crimes directly facilitated by Western states, not least the US, but also of course the UK, the arms, the diplomatic political cover, But also there are commentators out riders who have legitimised what I would argue is one of the great crimes of our age.

0:42.0

We can't see Israel's crimes in isolation.

0:44.4

Now with that in mind it's really important I speak to you Tyb Ali who is an international lawyer

0:49.4

also with the International Center of Justice for Palestinians.

0:52.4

Now the work he and they are doing is really important.

0:56.1

They've opened up an investigation into the complicity alleged of politicians here in Britain and that investigation is about to be widened which we will be discussing.

1:10.0

Haytab, how you did?

1:12.0

Hi, how you doing, Wayne, thanks for having me.

1:14.0

Right, let's just start with, because if we're going to talk about complicity,

1:18.0

if we're going to talk about the alleged criminal complicity,

1:22.0

that's what we're talking about, the alleged criminal complicity of people in

1:25.3

Britain, then we need to discuss what that actually means in terms of the charges leveled

1:31.2

against these two Israeli leaders.

1:33.6

So should we just start the ICC as a lawyer?

1:37.0

Go through it with me.

1:38.0

What, in terms of relevant because of your case?

1:40.4

Yeah, so what's happened to the ICC is historical, you've heard that probably quite a lot in social media and commentators and the reason it's historic is because Israel has enjoyed what we call the gift of or the shield of impunity.

1:53.2

And what that means is that whatever allegation

1:56.3

is thrown at or made against Israel politically

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