Those who have swallowed the ancient antisemitic tropes and hate Jews on account of some supposed global conspiracy, or excessive economic power, or imagined hostility to Christianity or Islam – such people will believe Jews capable of anything, no matter how ludicrous.
On November 21 the International Criminal Court (ICC) declared to the world that it believed Israel, under the direction of Benjamin Netanyahu, deliberately set out to slaughter the civilian population of Gaza. Anything less likely it would be difficult to imagine.
It was on May 20, 2024 that Karim Khan KC, a British jurist and chief prosecutor of the ICC, applied to the court to issue international arrest warrants against three Hamas leaders (all now dead), and also against Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yoav Gallant. His request in respect of the Israeli leaders was backed by a catalog of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In issuing arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and his former defense chief, the ICC seem to have adopted Khan’s accusations as fact. The court charged them with being criminally responsible for a “widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population of Gaza”. They claim that an Israeli blockade on Gaza resulted in a lack of food, water, electricity, fuel and medical supplies which “created conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the civilian population in Gaza, which resulted in the death of civilians, including children, due to malnutrition and dehydration”.
In short the judges appear to believe that Netanyahu engaged in a “systematic” operation “calculated” to slaughter the civilian population.
Together with the warrants, the ICC........