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The Owen Jones Podcast

US Threats Global Order Over Israel Arrest Warrant Requests

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This is how gangsters behave.

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0:00.0

The response of the US leadership to the request by the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor for the arrest warrants over Israel and Gaza has proven instructive panic, dishonesty, belligerent, menace. the stuff, in other words, of a flailing superpower,

0:16.2

which has spent the 21st century apparently unaware that it's in a death spiral when it comes to its

0:19.7

own global dominance overwhelmingly because of the catastrophic decisions that it has made.

0:26.0

Now this involves sinister stuff, we'll come on to that.

0:29.1

Firstly I want to discuss President Joe Biden himself, who denounced the arrest warrant requests

0:34.8

pertaining of course to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister and his

0:41.0

defense minister Yevgalan, as outrageous,

0:43.9

despite having previously welcomed the ICC's

0:47.6

war crimes charges against Russia's Vladimir Putin. Now let's just listen to Joe Biden here speaking at the

0:56.0

Jewish Heritage Month event following the prosecutor's statement.

0:59.4

Let me be clear we reject the ICC's application for arrest warrants against Israeli media.

1:05.6

Whatever these warrants may imply there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas.

1:13.2

And it's clear, the isn't what's all to do all it can to ensure civilian protection.

1:21.2

But let me be clear. Contrary to allegations

1:23.8

against Israel made by the International Court of Justice, what's happening is not

1:27.7

genocide. We reject that. We'll always stand with Israel and the threats against its security.

1:36.8

Compounding the pain and a vicious surge of anti-Semitism around the world here in America as well. Well, firstlyly I do think it's important to focus on the substance but you can't

1:47.2

listen to that and conclude there's a man who's on the ball I mean come on

1:51.0

let's just be serious about this in any case other than rejecting

1:55.2

the warrants he firstly promotes a recurring claim lodged against the prosecutor

1:58.8

of an implied equivalence between Israel and Hamas now first of all before we bought that on legal grounds

2:04.4

Benjamin Netanyahu himself when he was denouncing the ICC decision argued in his

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