#Yair Lapid

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Only in Israel.

While taking shelter in a stairwell during a Hamas rocket attack on Tel Aviv, opposition leader Yair Lapid explains (via a translator) to the visiting president of the French Senate why Europe must stop sending money to the Palestinians.

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Bethan McKernan at The Guardian:

The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court has said he is seeking arrest warrants for senior Hamas and Israeli officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant. Karim Khan said his office had applied to the world court’s pre-trial chamber for arrest warrants for the military and political leaders on both sides for crimes committed during Hamas’s 7 October attack and the ensuing war in Gaza.

He named Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas chief in Gaza, and Mohammed Deif, the commander of its military wing, considered to be the masterminds of the 7 October assault, as well as Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the group’s political bureau, who is based in Qatar, as wanted for crimes of extermination, murder, hostage-taking, rape, sexual assault and torture. In an extraordinary rebuke of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and its conduct in the war in Gaza, Netanyahu and Gallant are accused of extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, the denial of humanitarian relief supplies and deliberately targeting civilians. Monday’s statement notably does not include any Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials, such as its chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, focusing instead on political decision-making. Khan, the British ICC prosecutor, must request the warrants for the Hamas and Israeli suspects from a pre-trial panel of three judges, who take on average two months to consider the evidence and determine if the proceedings can move forward. The ICC has previously issued warrants for Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and the former president of Sudan Omar al-Bashir, but no leader of a “western-style” democracy has ever been issued a warrant.

While there is no imminent likelihood of prosecution, since Israel is not a member of the court, ICC warrants could put Israeli officials at risk of arrest abroad, further deepening the country’s growing international isolation over its conduct in the war in Gaza. The move also presents fresh challenges for Israel’s western allies, who are already struggling to reconcile support for the Jewish state with growing evidence of war crimes in the seven-month-old conflict and respect for the post-second world war rules-based order. Netanyahu described the prosecutor’s accusations against him as a “disgrace”, saying: “I reject with disgust The Hague prosecutor’s comparison between democratic Israel and the mass murderers of Hamas. “With what audacity do you dare compare the monsters of Hamas to the soldiers of the IDF, the most moral army in the world?” Joe Biden, the US president, described the move as “outrageous” in a statement, adding: “Whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”

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Condemnation of Khan’s decision from across the Israeli political spectrum was swift. The Israeli opposition leader, Yair Lapid, called the ICC’s actions a “disaster”. Benny Gantz, a former military chief and member of Israel’s war cabinet alongside Netanyahu and Gallant, criticised the ICC’s announcement, saying Israel fought with “one of the strictest” moral codes and had a “robust judiciary capable of investigating itself”. Khan suggested heavily in his statement that Israel’s judicial system ��shields suspects”. Last year’s conviction rate for Palestinians tried in Israeli military courts was 96%, while fewer than 1% of complaints against Israeli soldiers ended in a conviction, according to the US Department of State’s annual human rights report.

Hamas, too, was critical of Khan’s announcement. The ICC prosecutor’s decision “equates the victim with the executioner”, the senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters. Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz described the chief prosecutor’s decision as “a historic disgrace” that would be “remembered forever”. The US Republican party is all but certain to pursue sanctions against members of the ICC as a result of Khan’s announcement; a group of a dozen Republican senators wrote a letter earlier this month warning his office: “Target Israel and we will target you.” Sanctions were levied by the Trump administration over the court’s investigations into Israel and US actions in Afghanistan, but later reversed by Joe Biden. In 2021, Khan decided to drop the US from the ICC’s Afghanistan file.

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan is seeking arrest warrants for senior Israel Apartheid State and Hamas officials, such as Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Gaza’s Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

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[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I may be wrong, but I suspect were Lapid or Gantz or Bennett or whoever PM since 10/7/23 there probably would have been an invasion of Gaza (and also probably Lebanon) but

* at some point the IDF would have withdrawn entirely or almost entirely from Gaza (although Hamas intransigence quite possibly would have caused a re-invasion)

* the PM would have been willing to be dragged into a day after plan by making assurances to the PA/Saudi Arabia/UAE about Palestinian self-determination in Gaza (and possibly also the WB)

I dunno, it’s quite possible I’m just having wishful thinking about a situation that doesn’t exist.

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Jon Pearce’s Historic Visit: Strengthening UK, Israel, and UAE Ties Through the Abraham Accords

In late March 2025, Jon Pearce, Labour MP and chair of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), made history as the first British parliamentarian to fly directly from Israel to the United Arab Emirates. This groundbreaking journey, enabled by the 2020 Abraham Accords, underscores a new era of diplomacy and cooperation in the Middle East. Pearce’s visit aimed to strengthen ties, promote normalization, and…

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Gaza - lauantai 1.3.2025~?

Israelin ja Hamasin välisen kolmivaiheisen panttivanki- ja tulitaukosopimuksen ensimmäinen vaihe päättyy lauantaina 1.3.2025. Israelin johtajat eivät ole puhuneet paljon toisesta vaiheesta. Sopimuksen mukaan 602 vankiloissa istuvaa terroristia vapautetaan lauantaina 1.3.2025 vastineeksi neljän surmatun israelilaisen panttivangin ruumiista. Vapautettavista vangeista 50 istuu elinkautista vankeutta…

[vyorei]

It won't matter in the end when Apartheid Israel doesn't exist anymore.

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ב מיכאל על יאיר לפיד - לגזור ולשמור

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Sarah Netanyahou : « Lapid a franchi des lignes rouges »

Sarah Netanyahou, l’épouse du Premier ministre, a vivement critiqué le chef de l’opposition, Yaïr Lapid, suite à ses propos contre la ministre de l’Implantation et des Missions Nationales, Orit Strock. Dans une publication qu’elle a partagée, Netanyahou a exprimé son soutien total à la ministre Strock et a condamné les déclarations de Lapid. « Orit, je suis avec toi. L’attaque de Yaïr Lapid…

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The newest edition of the Cutting Through Newsletter is out. Although the far-right governing coalition in #israel is getting the attention, the opposition is dominated by the Israeli right as well. That’s why there’s little hope of any good coming out of the current crisis. We need to recognize what Israel is: a right-wing country, not just one that happens at this moment to have a right-wing…

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Fucking gobshites.

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

Ethnicity is about shared culture, which usually (but not always) involves shared ancestry. Freaking Mormons are apparently considered an ethnicity, so it makes total sense for Jews to be an ethnicity (yes, even if people convert in)