Yesterday there International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, recently ousted from the government by the same prime minister. According to the prosecutor’s office, Israel conducted a “widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population of Gaza”.
A warrant had also been requested for some heads of Hamas: Haniyeh, Sinwar and Deif, but the first two are certainly dead, according to Israel also the last one, for whom arrest was ordered anyway. Second Laura Boldrinideputy of the Democratic Party, since “the leaders of Hamas have been killed we will not have justice for the crimes they committed”. We’ll try to get over it, but now let’s get back to serious things.
Netanyahu claims that it is one political decision and the compare to the Dreyfus casewhich takes its name from the Jew convicted during the Third French Republic for treason and espionage for Germany. It was a judicial error/horror, the result of an anti-Semitism that was rampant in the society of the time, and which today we can say has never died. Gallant’s response was also not long in coming, as he believes that the Court puts “Israel and Hamas on the same level, encouraging terrorism”.
Taking sides with Israel are the United States and Argentinawhile theEuropean Union divides between those like Orban who defy the Court by inviting Netanyahu to Hungary and those like the Netherlands who seem to consider the ICC’s decision legitimate, which from now on would deny the minister the possibility of visiting the states that adhere to the Rome Statute of the Criminal Court international (of which neither the USA nor Israel are part).
On the question it seems instead the Italian government is divided, Crosetto takes a rather diplomatic position, although he does not agree with the ruling, he says that if the Israeli prime minister were to come to Italy they would be forced to apply the arrest order and that the only way not to comply with the Court’s decision would be to withdraw from the international agreement. Moderate too Tajaniwho states that he supports the Court but that the sentence will be evaluated. Decidedly less tempered is the declaration of Salviniwho, like Orban, challenges the judges’ decision by stating that “if Netanyahu came to Italy he would be welcome”.
Thus the decision of the judges of the Court of The Hague takes on a moral connotationbut ethics cannot be reduced to pure and simple law. Especially in times of war. Law has no life in chaos and cannot have effect in a conflict in which the existence of the Israeli people is at stake, and the right, yes, to live in peace, without risking future retaliation, putting once and for all a stone over Islamist hatred.
The decision of the Court of The Hague is yet another confirmation of the failure of international law and its institutions. Some judges want to elevate themselves to guarantors of the national interest and, as in this case, also international interest, but they work against democracy. Apparently they don’t just do it in Italy.
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