Lieberman Threatens To “Dismantle” ICC
IMEMC & Agencies | January 17, 2015
Following the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch a preliminary investigation to determine “whether war crimes have been committed” during Israel’s last war Gaza in the summer of 2014, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened that Israel “would act on dissolving the ICC,” and considered the decision “provocative.”
Lieberman alleged that the ICC decision “only aims at attempting to impact Israel’s ability to defend itself.”
He added that Israel will not cooperate with any investigation, and will act on the international level to dissolve the ICC after describing the decision as hypocritical, and supportive of what he called “terrorism.”
Lieberman also alleged that the decision is an outcome of what he called anti-Israel moves that only aim at “harming Israel and its right to defend itself.”
The Foreign Minister went on to talk about Syria and how the court “failed to intervene,” adding that there is no comparison between the Israeli army, which he called the most moral army in the world, with what he labeled as “terror groups” in Gaza.
He called on his government to officially reject the decision, and refrain from any cooperation with it.
On Friday evening, Lieberman told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that Tel Aviv should act on removing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from his post, and engage in talks with some Arab countries to reach what he called “a peaceful resolution that does not harm Israel’s ability to defend itself.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was also angered by the decision, and said that the ICC cannot conduct the investigation because “Palestine is not a sovereign state.”
The latest developments came after the ICC prosecutor Fatou Densouda declared she has opened a preliminary investigation of “possible” war crimes committed during the most recent Israeli war on Gaza.
She also vowed an independent and impartial preliminary investigation, adding that the move comes after the Palestinian Authority signed the founding treaty of the ICC in July of last year, and officially recognized its jurisdiction.
During the summer Israeli escalation on the Gaza Strip, the army bombarded dozens of thousands of Palestinian homes and residential towers, hospitals and clinics, UNRWA schools and facilities, media offices and dozens of other civilian facilities, in addition to destroying the infrastructure in the besieged coastal region.
The Ministry of Housing in Gaza recently said the number of homes that have been destroyed, and partially damaged, during the Israeli aggression on the coastal region is close to 124,000.
The Israeli bombardment and shelling killed at around 2,137 Palestinians, including 578 children, 264 women, and 103 elderly, while[ wounding] more than 11,100, including 3,374 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly.
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Does this man have ANY braincells working?
Obviously not, as when the ICC does an investigation into the activities of the state of Israel during the described period one would expect form the democratic state of Israel to minimally make efforts to cooperate with such an investigation, right?
Even when not being party to or with the ICC the state of Israel could show its good side to show some willingness to cooperate, the way this Lieberman man is acting is like a person who knows he IS guilty of the not even officially brought forward accusation, there is only an investigation mister Lieberman!
If the state of Israel is not guilty, why does the mister Lieberman, thus the state of Israel as he is the Israeli equivalent of the Secretary of State, oppose such an investigation?
Declaring himself guilty im voraus?
Anyway, dismantling the ICC isn’t done by mister Lieberman or anyone else, not even by a state, that is done by the United Nations, and as there is a Treaty establishing the ICC, and the ICC is acknowledged by the United Nations, it would be needed to dismantle the Treaty of Rome…..
Mister Lieberman is a coward, as he knows very well that in the investigation will show facts that will not be favorably for the state of Israel, to put it friendly……..
If and when the ICC decides to prosecute, after having gotten the mandate from the United Nations to do so under the mandate of the Treaty of Rome, I guess mister Lieberman can expect an international warrant for his arrest,even when the USA would “object” or try to protect him and the other members of the Israel Cabinet that gave orders and instructions to practice what the IDF practiced…..
Could it be that mister Lieberman and his Cabinet fellow-members are afraid to be forced to appear before the ICC, to either testify or be the accused? And that the state of Israel would be prosecuted for acts of war-crimes, acts against humanity?
Or could it be that in a couple of months the buildings of the ICC are ruined?
Or the Judges of the ICC be smeared with dirt all over the world?
Or perhaps……. mister Lieberman will have disappeared to some heavily guarded secret settlement somewhere in the middle of nowhere?
Could even be that mister Lieberman ends up in the USA, in the house of some American lawmaker who’s history is well-known to the mossad or another secret intelligence service….
We don’t know yet, but one thing is for sure….. there IS fear in the state of Israel with some for what the ICC could find in the investigation……..
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All a person needs to do to understand Israelis are indeed guilty of war crimes – perhaps it is not unfair to include genocide – is watch the Russell Tribunal of 2014. The crimes are completely obvious, so the ICC has no other moral choice but to act.
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