Yoav #Gallant resigned as #Israel's Defense Minister after clashing with #Netanyahu over military conscription for ultra-Orthodox Israelis.
Netanyahu, facing a weakening coalition and growing instability, is using the ongoing war to maintain power. But once the war ends, Likud may split, and Gallant or others could challenge Netanyahu's leadership.
Nederland is potentieel doelwit van sanctiewet VS tegen het Internationaal Strafhof
Iedereen die samenwerkt met het Internationaal Strafhof, kan volgens een nieuwe Amerikaanse wet worden getroffen door sancties. Ook Nederlandse functionarissen van justitie en politie lopen gevaar.
De ‘Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act’ is een reactie op het arrestatiebevel tegen de Israëlische premier Benjamin #Netanyahu en oud-minister van Defensie Yoav #Gallant
#Gaza #ICC #Netanyahu #Gallant #Satire
"Arrest warrants issued for Israeli & Hamas leaders" [ ± 1min]
by washingtonpostuniverse
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cw-wjDm_yq4
Quote by wpu:
"Nov 23, 2024
Arrest warrants were issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister by the International Criminal Court.
They are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, a historic rebuke of Israel’s battlefield conduct — one that requires dozens of nations that are party to the court’s statute to apprehend the men if they set foot in those countries.
The ICC also issued a warrant for a Hamas military leader, Mohammed Deif, who was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July, according to Israeli officials. The court said it approved the order because prosecutorswere not able to confirm his death. Two other warrant applications for Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar were dropped after they were killed by Israel.
The charges against Netanyahu and the former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, stem from Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip. The 13-month war has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, internally displaced about 2 million people and destroyed much of the enclave’s health-care system and infrastructure.
A statement from the court said it found “reasonable grounds to believe” that Netanyahu and Gallant bear responsibility for crimes there, including the use of starvation as a method of warfare, as well as “murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.” Caption from original article by Kareem Fahim, Louisa Loveluck and Alon Rom."
#CeaseFireNow #StopTheGenocide
#JailForNetanyahu #JailForGallant
[cont’d] What’s the problem with Israel’s left?
Israel’s left is still perceived to be predominantly made of Israelis of Eastern European heritage, though progressives are not exclusively that. One can go back to the 1990׳s “Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition” (הקרן המזרחית הדמוקרטית) for instance, or the 1970’s Israeli Black Panthers before that.
As Aziza Khazzoom analyzed this brilliantly in “Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel, Or: How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual”, published by Stanford University Press in 2008, European Jewish identity was constructed as "modern" and "enlightened" against an imagined "traditional" and "backward" Mizrahi other. It's a fascinating paradox: the same Polish Jewish immigrants who were viewed as uncouth peddlers in Europe de-orientalized themselves in Palestine by positioning themselves as representatives of European progress. This required creating a new "Orient" within Israel itself, made up of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries.
Israel's left, rooted in this Labor Zionist tradition, internalized this framework so deeply that even their progressive politics remained trapped within it. While they could critique the occupation of Palestinians or advocate for social justice in abstract terms borrowed from the West, they remained largely blind to how they themselves perpetuated internal hierarchies. Their cultural capital wasn't just about wealth or political power - it was about claiming a monopoly on what it meant to be "modern" and "democratic," while treating Mizrahi political expressions as inherently suspect, or if you used to read #Haaretz back in the day, "primitive."
The irony is that this positioning helped create the very political dynamics they now decry. By treating Mizrahi Jews as objects of enlightenment rather than equal partners in building Israeli society, they contributed to their own eventual political marginalization while maintaining a posture of moral superiority. By the way, professor Sergio Della Pergola showed that there was no meaningful difference in the demographics of migrants from Eastern Europe and North Africa who came to Palestine after 1948 in any respect (income, education or profession). The economical gap that appeared in the 1960’s onward was a direct consequence of a policy of marginalization (or peripheralization) of Arab jews which gave Eastern Europeans a clear advantage.
Talking about Ashkenazi “enlightenment”, It’s worth mentioning that Israel’s leaders, many of which are wanted war criminals, are still mostly of Eastern European heritage, including Netanyahu (Polish), #Gallant (Polish), and #Herzog (Polish).
“GOOD AND BAD WAR CRIMINALS”
by Mark Curtis in Declassified UK @Declassified_UK @UKLabour
“Tony Blair sent the SAS to hunt down suspected Bosnian war criminals in the 1990s who were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.”
#DeclassifiedUK | Good and bad war criminals
"Far from sending in the SAS, the UK government is equivocating on whether it would even arrest the Israelis if they entered Britain, while the Conservative opposition thinks the ICC has no right to accuse them at all."
This Is #Palestine | Will the #ICC Arrest Warrants for #Netanyahu and #Gallant Lead to Justice?
#DianaButtu speaks w/ jurist #NimerSultany about the cases before the #InternationalCriminalCourt and the #InternationalCourtOfJustice wrt to #Israel, #Gaza and the other #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories
#oPt #ICJ #InternationalJustice #InternationalCriminalLaw #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #GazaGenocide #UNGenocideConvention @palestine @israel
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ICC
#Gallant
@palestine
"The US has welcomed Yoav Gallant on its soil, despite the former Israeli minister for military affairs facing an arrest warrant by the ICC for war crimes"
Also on Monday, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller addressed a press briefing, repeating the US’s opposition to the cases against Israeli officials, but saying Washington supported “an ICC case” against Syria's...al-Assad. The remarks drew laughter from reporters"
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/11/738879/United-States-welcomes-Israeli-war-criminal-Yoav-Gallant-Gaza-genocide-Syria-President-Bashar-al-Assad
A handshake in the White House.
The "rules-based order" is here too but not shown—it took this
#Gallant is wanted by the ICC for the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts and the war crimes: the use of starvation and indiscriminate attacks against civilians.