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Spectre to World News@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

US threatens ICC, warning ‘If they [prosecute] Israel, we’re next!’

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US threatens ICC, warning ‘If they [prosecute] Israel, we’re next!’

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Spectre to World News@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for an arrest warrant for Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu over crimes against humanity in Gaza. The Bide...
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  • @Etterra@lemmy.world
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    Well to be fair, our government has done some war crimes. Maybe we should hear the ICC out on this one.

    • @filister@lemmy.world
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      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act

      Because your government has laws that would shield its citizens from ICC persecutions. Because you know, your government feels above international humanitarian law.

      When those arrest warrants are against your rivals (Putin) it is all fine and commendable, but when it is against you and your allies it is a despicable act. You see the double standards here?

      War crimes are war crimes no matter the side that commits them. And trying to undermine international laws and institutions created with the whole idea to prevent humanity from making the same mistakes like in the past should be preserved and protected.

  • @Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    35•1 year ago

    Maybe you should STOP AIDING THEM IN COMMITTING WAR CRIMES THEN???

    • @kromem@lemmy.world
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      7•1 year ago

      They don’t mean in terms of aid.

      The US has refused to submit themselves or their soldiers to international criminal law for a long time now, for plenty of other reasons.

  • FartsWithAnAccent
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    The US is not a signatory to the ICC, is it?

    In fact, I believe the planned response to such an arrest is to actually storm the Hague and retrieve the American.

    Point is, I don’t think the US government is too worried about it.

  • ☂️-
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    12•1 year ago

    but but biden is trying so hard to save the palestinians!1!!

    • @OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world
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      Yes but bad man is worse so it’s all ok, nothing to see here

      • @Dkarma@lemmy.world
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        What’s your 3rd option again? That’s right you don’t have one.

        • @OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world
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          7•1 year ago

          This is so fucking dumb. I don’t care, it doesn’t make what Biden is doing any better. This is not the voting booth

  • Em Adespoton
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    13•1 year ago

    Wait… the US is currently indiscriminately bombing civilians who have nowhere to go, while denying them access to basic necessities?

    • @TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml
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      Maybe not actively but there’s a lot of past presidents that should be charged if the world was fair. Most obvious example is Bush.

      • The Bard in Green
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        How about Reagon / Carter? El Salvadore Death Squads? School of the Americas?

        • @TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml
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          Oh 100% they should be too, I just went with the easiest recent one.

      • Em Adespoton
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        2•1 year ago

        Jr or Sr?

        • @mangaskahn@lemmy.world
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          7•1 year ago

          Yes

    • Patapon Enjoyer
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      This just reminded me Kissinger is dead, my sincere gratitude for that

      • @Dkarma@lemmy.world
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        Gotta plan the road trip to piss on his grave.

        • @pingveno@lemmy.ml
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          1•1 year ago

          “Putting hank in the dirt anywhere should be enough to kill every green thing in the area.”

          • art_of_snark
  • taanegl
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    8•1 year ago

    Ok, can we take the CIA to court? There are a couple of executives in old folks homes that arguably deserve to be rolled into an active volcano.

  • @kerrigan778@lemmy.world
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    22•1 year ago

    What’s this “we” business. I haven’t committed any warcrimes but I would like anyone who commits them in my name to face justice.

  • @Rottcodd@lemmy.world
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    So basically the US government is a gigantic Trump - rising up in self-righteous fury at the very idea that anyone might dare to charge them for the crimes they’ve brazenly committed.

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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      Always was

  • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    12•1 year ago

    The US government cares about international law now? That’s a new one.

  • tenchiken
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    25•1 year ago

  • @electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    7•1 year ago

    God willing!

  • @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml
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    3•1 year ago

    “Oh nooooo…anyway…”

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