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Beastly Boy

(12,063 posts)
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 12:25 PM Thursday

ICC Appeals Court reverses lower court in favor of Israel

Source: Jerusalem Post

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court on Thursday reversed the November 2024 ruling of the ICC lower court against Israel's jurisdictional objections to the issuing of arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

The decision sends the jurisdictional fight back to the ICC lower court to more fully explore Israel's jurisdictional objections to the arrest warrants and to the ICC's intervention into Israel's conduct of the current war in Gaza more generally.

"The decision of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to order a hearing on Israel's claims that the court lacks jurisdiction to deal with the issue at hand illustrates the injustice done to Prime Minister Netanyahu and the former Minister of Defense, when the court issued ridiculous orders without having the authority to do so," sources close to the prime minister said.

According to the ICC Appeals Court, "Israel’s challenge to the jurisdiction of the Court pursuant to article 19(2) of the Statute should not have been dismissed as premature.

Read more: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-851409

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Beastly Boy

(12,063 posts)
4. My guess is the entire Appeals Chamber
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 12:50 PM
Thursday

It absolutely didn't make sense to only pay off or threaten w/harm just the chief prosecutor, the one person who had the option and the power to not investigate the accusation in the first place, or bribe/threaten the three judges of the pre-trial chamber of ICC. It only made sense to bribe the five judges of the Appeals Chamber.

Sounds logical, no?

tornado34jh

(1,460 posts)
2. Someone got paid. Also, if Netanyahu were not accused of war crimes,
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 12:39 PM
Thursday

Why was he issued an arrest warrant? Also, I would not surprised if Trump paid a lot of money to the ICC, bribery-style. Something seems very suspicious about this.

Beastly Boy

(12,063 posts)
5. Why? It's called due process of law.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 12:54 PM
Thursday

Something that seems, depending on your slant, very suspicious, or absolutely inseparable from administering justice.

Beastly Boy

(12,063 posts)
10. Seriously? Due process is dependent on slant?
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 02:08 PM
Thursday

Tell this to the legal professionals whose actions and ethics are bound by due process of law. They will appreciate the joke.

Beastly Boy

(12,063 posts)
16. I know a hell of a lot more people who were exterminated without due process.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 12:03 AM
Friday

Their count is in the millions.

choie

(5,368 posts)
17. And so we should neglect others who are being eliminated?
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 10:26 AM
18 hrs ago

I am Jewish and I believe in justice for all people, Jews and Palestinians.

Beastly Boy

(12,063 posts)
18. No, we sould not scoff at due process because it wasn't afforded to so many.
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 12:23 PM
16 hrs ago

That would make us complicit with denying due process to so many, no?

Beastly Boy

(12,063 posts)
6. What about the ICC? Are they doing as they please?
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 12:56 PM
Thursday

After all, this was a decision of the ICC Appeals Chamber, not Israel.

Beastly Boy

(12,063 posts)
8. You appear do doubt the independence of ICC
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 01:22 PM
Thursday

from Israel, which is not even a signatory state recognizing ICC's authority.

How do you propose one has to do with the other?

Beastly Boy

(12,063 posts)
12. You appear to have trouble writing in English.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 03:51 PM
Thursday

And i can only guess what your Latin references have to do with anything. I suspect that makes two of us.

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