JERUSALEM, Israel, April 30, 2024 – The following is Tuesday’s statement from a video released by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concerning reports that the International Court of Justice may issue warrants for the arrests of Israeli officials for actions in Gaza:
“You have to hear this to believe this. The International Criminal Court in The Hague is contemplating issuing arrest warrants against senior Israeli government and military officials as war criminals.
This would be an outrage of historic proportions.
International bodies like the ICC arose in the wake of the Holocaust committed against the Jewish people. They were set up to prevent such horrors, to prevent future genocides.
Yet now the International Court is trying to put Israel in the dock. It’s trying to put us in the dock as we defend ourselves against genocidal terrorists and regimes, Iran of course, that openly works to destroy the one and only Jewish state.
Branding Israel’s leaders and soldiers as war criminals will pour jet fuel on the fires of antisemitism, those fires that are already raging on the campuses of America and across capitals around the world.
It will also be the first time that a democratic country fighting for its life according to
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