I was asked to provide comment for i24NEWS on the ICC's issuance of arrest warrants against the democratically elected Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the former Defense Minister of the one and only Jewish State, Yoav Gallant.
The court listed 'crimes against humanity' among the collection of baseless charges.
At The MirYam Institute, we assert that the true 'crime against humanity' is the issuance of such spurious arrest orders.
By targeting Israel, the court has established a dangerous precedent for the prosecution of leaders of all democratic countries that engage in the fight against Jihadist terror organizations and terror armies. It has disgorged its hallways of any and all legitimacy, in perpetuity.
The ICC issued these warrants in the midst of Israel's fight for its very existence on no less than seven active, hostile fronts.
In so doing, the court has demonstrated its expectation that the Jewish people accept upon themselves the genocidal fate that their enemies would decree for them.
Israel's citizen-soldiers, olive-green clad and upright as they are, stand as an unyielding, righteous symbol of defiance against any such expectation. They do so by their hundreds of thousands, by day and by night, along and beyond the borders of Zion.
Israel's leaders, supporters and friends throughout the world, reject this racist, anti-Semitic action by the ICC, and resolve to fight onward, toward victory, in this enduring war for peace and security - unyieldingly so!
Israel does so charged with a reinforced determination to prosecute all wars in accordance with the principled standards to which it holds itself, rather than the baseless, bigoted standards to which it is uniquely held by others; until victory is achieved.
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Fear not: with G-d as our witness, and our one true Judge, Israel will prevail!