Israel are going to start WWIII

This has been going on all year with documentaries on Oct 7th but barely anything about the horrors of Gaza bar bits on the news. Same when a few Isreali soldiers died, we got names, smiley photos, family backstorys but zip when 30 or 40 Palestinian kids get evaporated.

Some pivoting alright.
And the US (nor Israel) are signatories to the Rome Statute/ICC. So not sure exactly what they're getting worked up about…

It's very complex…

ATT - arms trade treaty

IHl - international humanitarian law

States that supply weapons to a party to an ongoing armed conflict can be considered particularly influential in ensuring respect for IHL owing to their ability to provide or withhold the means by which wars are fought and IHL violations may be committed. In some situations, States may enjoy a position of influence because they import weapons from a party to an armed conflict or for other reasons. States must use this leverage to induce respect for IHL, in particular where there is a foreseeable risk that IHL violations may be committed. Conditioning, restricting or halting transfers of weapons are practical means in the power of arms transferring States to prevent and stop IHL violations. Influential States must take positive action even when the weapons they supply are not implicated in IHL violations.

Individuals, including government officials and business employees, that transfer arms to a party to an armed conflict can, in certain circumstances, be held criminally responsible for aiding in the commission of war crimes and other serious international crimes committed with supplied arms.

A State party to the ATT may be internationally responsible for a breach of its obligations under the Treaty. All States may be internationally responsible for a breach of their obligation to respect and ensure respect for IHL in all circumstances (Article 12, ILC ASR).

In addition, a State that supplies weapons to a party to an armed conflict may, under certain conditions, be internationally responsible for aiding or assisting in the commission of an internationally wrongful act by that party (Art 16, ILC ASR), or in maintaining a situation of serious breach of an obligation arising under a peremptory norm of general international law (Art 41.2, ILC ASR).

Major decision but it remains to be seen if the ICC has any teeth or is it just another UN.

All that matters is that there is an arrest warrant out for the criminal Netanyahu. He's now on the same scale as Putin, Kim and even Hitler. The Yanks can say what they like but he's been called out for the war criminal murderer he is and nothing can change that. A disgraced child murderer.

Not many places he can visit now either.

Biden: ICC warrants against Israeli leaders are outrageous.

When one old idiot will be replaced by another it’s not exactly inspiring times.

Israel is America's hard man should anything kick off with Iran in the future, and there are multiple "hawks" in US political circles who are just itching for some sort of confrontation over there. Thus Israel are very important to have onside in that region.

Starmer's in a weird position. He's essentially a lapdog to Israel and together they stabbed Corbyn in the back, but he's also a lawyer (human rights as well) so he's in a rock and a hard place.

Further evidence that Israel is only concerned with taking land that does not belong to it and settling it:

Haaretz:
The IDF announced that Sgt. Gur Kehati was killed in combat in southern Lebanon on Wednesday alongside an Israeli civilian, Ze'ev Erlich, who entered with troops against orders. The Golani Brigade headquarter chief, Col. (res.) Yoav Yarom, who allowed Erlich's entry into Lebanon in breach of military protocols, was moderately wounded in the incident.

• Israel's Military Police has opened an investigation into Erlich's entry to a combat zone. A far-right organization advocating for settlement in southern Lebanon said that Erlich was mapping out sites in Lebanon "which will need to be excavated once the territory is in our hands."

That's true, but it will be harder for them to use concepts as human rights, respect for international law and a rules based order as a geo political weapon while they continue to give cover to accused war criminals . This episode has exposed their bs about a rules based order- that's only for countries they oppose to follow.

I suspect that the Labour Friends of Israel will be working fastidiously to remove that one.

Isn't she a bigwig in that 'Labour Friends of Israel' thing? Compromised doesn't even begin to describe it.

Just Imagine if she gave that answer if she was being asked about Putin shortly after the arrest warrant was issued for him.

Of course there would be no equivocation from her then, she would be very forthcoming about her own opinion on the matter and the obligations of the UK. There is no difference between the Tories and Labour when it comes to defending Israel.