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Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders

www.theguardian.com Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders

Labour government says it will not pursue questions on court’s jurisdiction over Netanyahu and Gallant

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Israel is slowly losing the support it needs to get away with this genocide...

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- Far too slowly
  
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- they've acted solely w/o support with anyone in the past and i suspect that they will continue to do so, so long as the current sole superpower has their back
  
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  All these countries are dependent on Israel in order to hack into our smartphones…
  
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- It has all the support it needs from the USA.
  
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  And Germany.
  
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Unexpected from Keir Starmer.

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- It shows how low the bar is with pro Israeli regimes in the West.
  
  "we won't object to the application of an arrest warrant for a war criminal who is orchestrating a genocide"
  
  That should be the standard for every country
  
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- i'm so glad to see this from starmer and labour; this plus macron's initiative to invalidate the french elections by working the far right was giving me a pessimistic view of our future.
  
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- Not that unexpected - from the article:
  
  David Lammy, the foreign secretary, told the Commons in May: “Labour’s position is that the ICC chief prosecutor’s decision to apply for arrest warrants is an independent matter for the court and the prosecutor.”
  
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  Labour have kept changing policies all over the place so have been difficult to predict.
  
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You can't support the ICC against Putin but challenge it against Netanyahu. Double standards are harder to maintain when the world is paying attention.

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- Germany strongly disagrees.
  
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- That's literally what the USA is doing.
  
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  And the US is hurting the Ukrainians by doing this. Then again the US never cared about Ukrainians, it doesn’t even care about its own citizens.
  
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Electoralism works?

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Time for the United States to follow suit

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- The USA don't even recognise the ICC. Also just read the first paragraph of the text
  
  Labour has announced its biggest step yet in overhauling the UK’s approach to the Middle East, dropping its opposition to an international arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu despite pressure from Washington not to do so.
  
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  Huh weird, when the same institution issued an arrest warrant for Putin, USA was encouraging it heavily. But now it's their dog and of course crickets ensues.
  
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As long as countries like China, North Korea, Myanmar, Russia, or the USA don't care, he has quite some travelling options.

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- One of these is not like the other. Every country on that list recognizes except for one, the same one funding the genocide.
  
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