#ICC Warrant

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Slandered as a terrorist, this Palestinian journalist was a poet and a feminist

Palestinian women journalists have always been at the forefront of Israel’s violent occupation and the wars it has waged on Palestinians. Their bravery and dedication have helped shine light on the suffering and atrocities the Palestinian people have been through and continue to face.

The deadly forked tongue habit of Israelis on display and often the flimsy excuse for conflict. Enough.

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Watch "The Grayzone exposes shoddy ICC warrant against Putin" on YouTube

This one takes the cake.

I would say these are the most farcical charges I've ever seen, but they're being presented concurrently with the roll out of the Trump indictment, another farcical set of politically motivated charges.

The ICC Warrant accuses President Putin and his Director of Children's Welfare, Maria Llova-Belova, of literally kidnapping 16'000 Ukrainian children and forcing them against their will into a network of reeducation institutions spread across the Russian Federation "that stretches from the Black Sea all the way to the Pacific Coast" in order to retrain them and indoctrinate them into Russian ethnic and Nationalist views and even give them military training, describing the children as "hostages," though no evidence for this is provided.

The author of the report, Nathaniel Raymond even went on TV on CNN's Anderson Cooper's show and declared this was tantamount to genocide, connecting Putin's actions to Hitler's Nazi Germany.

These wild accusations are all based on a report conducted by an organization at Yale called the Humanitarian Research Lab, headed by Nathaniel Raymond which was in-turn funded openly by the US State Dept who contracted the Lab for the report and provided the HRL Team with access to Pentagon Satellites.

The report's authors conducted no ground investigation, no direct interviews, nor did they even request access to the sites in question, instead relying on Pentagon satellite imagery, similar to early fake investigations into the supposed Chinese Uyghur Camps. And it even appears that the State Dept contacted Yale's HRL and requested they form an investigative team two weeks before the Russian SMO began.

Nathaniel Raymond even admits in an interview that HRL was originally focused on Human Rights abuses in Afghanistan until they were pressured into investigating Russia by the State Dept two weeks before the beginning of the SMO.

In the HRL Report, the authors reference Russian news articles but appear to have used Google to translate the articles rather than an actual in-house translator. This despite being fully funded by the State Dept and Yale University, two sources for endless propaganda funds. They then chose to exclude actual testimony in those articles that quote the children from the program happily discussing how much they enjoyed the experience.

But the biggest and most obvious flaw in the narrative being pushed by the US and NATO in conjunction with the ICC is the fact that these are NOT in fact ethnic Ukrainian children being shipped off and retrained in Russian Nationalism.

That's not even remotely close to the truth.

These are children from families in Eastern Ukraine, specifically the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, suffering terribly under the weight of the war, who largely identify as ethnic Russians, speak Russian, and desperately want to get their children away from the frontlines: away from falling rockets and shells, away from the extreme poverty and destitution taking hold in Ukraine, away from the political corruption, away from the persecution against Russian speaking Ukrainians, and away from the economic and food access disruptions that have made life in Eastern Ukraine Hell for 9 years.

According to one violin instructor at a camp, many if not most of the children have lost a house, some have lost relatives and friends, and they cannot continue their musical instruction back home where only remote learning is possible. And even that is not always possible.

The report even concedes the children are participating in these cultural camps with direct parental consent and were returned to their families when they said they would be.

As for the facilities themselves, you don't have to believe me, believe the author of the report, Nathaniel Raymond who described the institutions as basically "teddy bears" at one point in an interview.

And according to the Yale HRL and the State Department's own paper:

"There is no documentation of child mistreatment, including sexual or physical violence, among the camps referenced in this report."

And of course there isn't.

These are NOT "reeducation camps" and ZERO evidence exists of ANY political training going on, of ANY kind, at ANY of the camps.

These are cultural institutions that offer music instruction and other artistic and scholastic outlets for these children to express themselves in a safe environment, without the fear of rockets and shells falling overhead. Children are brought, once again with the consent of their parents, to these educational and cultural facilities for an agreed upon period of time, usually a matter of a few days or weeks, and they are promptly returned to their families on time.

Most of these programs center around music or the arts and parents send their children to these facilities free of charge. The children are escorted safely into the Russian mainland, riding trains or busses where they get to observe beautiful lands and environments along the way. It is truly an escape for these children.

Some parents said they sent their children to the camp because they wanted to take advantage of a free trip for their child. Some hoped to protect their children from ongoing fighting, taking advantage of intact sanitation and nutritious food inaccessible from home. While others just wanted their children to enjoy a vacation at a time when few outlets for children exist in their hometowns.

The facilities themselves are described as generous: children are well fed and taken care of (something that's been difficult in war time), they get playtime, music instruction, therapy and schooling. Most of the children come from VERY low income families, badly affected by the war. Some are literally war refugees.

Therefore these people at the ICC, in the US Govt, and at NATO are basically demanding Russia return these children to Ukraine, into a war zone, where they can be brought into Western Ukraine, accused of being collaborators by the SBU, or returned to homes that no longer exist and are still under fire.

And again, I just can't stress this enough:

The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab conducted NO on the ground reporting, conducted NO interviews, and DID NOT request access to the facilities housing these camps.

Read more about this ridiculous facade here:

It's truly astonishing just how far the US is willing to go to damage Russia.

Even the ICC itself has fallen under the weight of US Foreign Policy.

The US, like Russia, is NOT a member of the ICC and has actively fought its investigations over the years, imposing sanctions on the Court a few years ago, and even going so far as to pass what's known as the "Hague Invasion Act" aka the American Service-Members' Protection Act, that literally threatens to invade the Netherlands should the ICC ever detain American service members for War Crimes.

But as a Pro-Western leadership has recently gained control at the ICC, the US has found use in the Court once again as yet another tool for damaging Russia on the international stage.

Watch Journalist Jeremy Loffredo visit one of these camps in this video

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Romanian PM invites Netanyahu despite ICC warrant

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu invited his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to Bucharest despite an international arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Romania is one of the 125 countries that have signed the ICC’s Rome Statute, whereas Netanyahu faces arrest for “crimes against humanity” related to military action in Gaza. Hence, the Romanian authorities are obliged to arrest him as soon as he arrives in the country.

In November, former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the ICC’s decision to issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant was binding on all member states.

A few days later, however, France said it believed Netanyahu was immune from ICC action, as Israel was not a signatory to the court’s statute. Subsequently, Poland said Netanyahu would have immunity from arrest if he visited the Auschwitz memorials.

On Sunday, Ciolacu welcomed the release of the first group of three hostages from Gaza after the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into force. Two of the freed hostages, Romi Gonen and Doron Steinbrecher, are of Romanian origin.

On 17 October 2023, Ciolacu became the first foreign leader to visit Israel since the Hamas attack.

Read more HERE

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Color coded justice

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do you think anything will come if the ICC arrest warrants?

Immediately? Probably not.

But there is def impact here.

Their (Netanyahu and Gallant's) international mobility just took a massive hit. There are 124 member states that have to abide by the ICC's ruling here. I'm really curious to see which members come forward the quickest.

More importantly I think the impact this is going to have on the broader political landscape is super interesting. Israel doesn't recognize ICC jurisdiction and it's attempt to delegitimize them is gonna hurt relationships with many of the 124 member states that do.

Charles Taylor, Al-Bashir, Karadzic, and Bemba all had warrants issued by the ICC and it took years before anything came of them. So yeah I'm hopeful something will come of this but doubt it'll be anytime soon

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Israeli Lawyer Accusses Israel Of Genocide To ICC

BREAKING: Israeli Lawyer Accuses Israel of Genocide to ICC.

Israeli lawyer Omer Shatz has accused 8 officials, including President Herzog and PM Netanyahu, of incitement to genocide against Palestinians in a submission to the ICC.

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(Quds) The Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain welcomed the ICC’s arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Gallant, calling it a first step to ending decades of impunity for Israeli leaders, supported by the U.S. and others.

The organization urged the ICC prosecutor to request Interpol, under a 2004 agreement, to issue red notices for the suspects, obligating 195 member states to arrest them if they travel there.

The decision counters the narrative that Israel’s actions are “self-defense.” While many countries pledged to comply, the U.S., not an ICC member, opposed the warrants.

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ICC issues arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant.

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The Druze tell Smotrich off in occupied Majdal Shams

The visit of Israeli ministers to the town of Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan has angered the residents, according to the Israeli media. Channel 13 reported angry protesters shouted at Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, asking him to leave. “Get out of here, criminal, we don’t want you in the Golan,” one person said, according to the broadcaster.

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A Panel of Experts in International Law convened by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan KC, today announced its conclusions. The Panel was established at the Prosecutor’s request in support of his investigation into the ‘Situation in the State of Palestine’, which covers international crimes committed either on the territory of Palestine or by a Palestinian national. The Panel’s mandate was to advise the Prosecutor on whether his applications for arrest warrants met the standard provided in Article 58 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The Panel members unanimously endorsed the Prosecutor’s assessment that the Court had jurisdiction over the case and that there were ‘reasonable grounds to believe’ that individuals named in the arrest warrants — including senior leaders of Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — have committed war crimes or crimes against humanity within the jurisdiction of the Court.

-Amal Clooney and Marko Milanovic

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Nothing to see here, just a senior Israeli terrorist General responsible for war crimes being welcomed by a UK arms think tank in London after visiting the British Ministry of Defence

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Voice of Toronto youth

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"When the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) announced he was seeking arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders, he issued a cryptic warning: “I insist that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the officials of this court must cease immediately.”

...Now, an investigation by the Guardian and the Israeli-based magazines +972 and Local Call can reveal how Israel has run an almost decade-long secret “war” against the court. The country deployed its intelligence agencies to surveil, hack, pressure, smear and allegedly threaten senior ICC staff in an effort to derail the court’s inquiries.

Israeli intelligence captured the communications of numerous ICC officials, including Khan and his predecessor as prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, intercepting phone calls, messages, emails and documents.

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Since it was established in 2002, the ICC has served as a permanent court of last resort for the prosecution of individuals accused of some of the world’s worst atrocities. It has charged the former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, the late Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi and most recently, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

Khan’s decision to seek warrants against Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, along with Hamas leaders implicated in the 7 October attack, marks the first time an ICC prosecutor has sought arrest warrants against the leader of a close western ally.

The allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity that Khan has levelled against Netanyahu and Gallant all relate to Israel’s eight-month war in Gaza, which according to the territory’s health authority has killed more than 35,000 people.

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Hacked emails and monitored calls

Five sources familiar with Israel’s intelligence activities said it routinely spied on the phone calls made by Bensouda and her staff with Palestinians. Blocked by Israel from accessing Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the ICC was forced to conduct much of its research by telephone, which made it more susceptible to surveillance.

Thanks to their comprehensive access to Palestinian telecoms infrastructure, the sources said, intelligence operatives could capture the calls without installing spyware on the ICC official’s devices.

“If Fatou Bensouda spoke to any person in the West Bank or Gaza, then that phone call would enter [intercept] systems,” one source said. Another said there was no hesitation internally over spying on the prosecutor, adding: “With Bensouda, she’s black and African, so who cares?”. ......

One of the sources said the Shin Bet even installed Pegasus spyware, developed by the private-sector NSO Group, on the phones of multiple Palestinian NGO employees, as well as two senior Palestinian Authority officials.

Keeping tabs on the Palestinian submissions to the ICC’s inquiry was viewed as part of the Shin Bet’s mandate, but some army officials were concerned that spying on a foreign civilian entity crossed a line, as it had little to do with military operations.

“It has nothing to do with Hamas, it has nothing to do with stability in the West Bank,” one military source said of the ICC surveillance. Another added: “We used our resources to spy on Fatou Bensouda – this isn’t something legitimate to do as military intelligence.”

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Three sources briefed on Cohen’s activities said they understood the spy chief had tried to recruit Bensouda into complying with Israel’s demands during the period in which she was waiting for a ruling from the pre-trial chamber.

They said he became more threatening after he began to realise the prosecutor would not be persuaded to abandon the investigation. At one stage, Cohen is said to have made comments about Bensouda’s security and thinly veiled threats about the consequences for her career if she proceeded.

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Antisemitic Decision?