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Exclusive: David Cameron threatened to withdraw UK from ICC over Israel war crimes probe (www.middleeasteye.net)

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The British government privately threatened to defund and withdraw from the International Criminal Court if it issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, Middle East Eye can reveal.

David Cameron, then foreign secretary in Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government, made the threat in April 2024 in a heated phone call with Karim Khan, the British chief prosecutor of the court.

Cameron told Khan that applying for warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant would be “like dropping a hydrogen bomb”.

Cameron said it was one thing to investigate and prosecute Russia for a “war of aggression” on Ukraine, but quite another to prosecute Israel when it was “defending itself from the attacks of 7 October”.

He claimed the warrants would have “profound implications” in Britain and within his own Conservative Party. Cameron then said that if the ICC issued warrants for Israeli leaders, the UK would “defund the court and withdraw from the Rome Statute”.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We've had some bad PMs lately but Cameron is still the worst since Thatcher. Austerity, Brexit, demonisation of disabled people, bombing Libya and creating the biggest refugee crisis of our time, it's all down to this cunt. And centrists like to say "the Tories were fine until Johnson and Truss messed it all up".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yup. Johnson and Truss were “worse” leaders, but that just means they were ineffective leaders. Cameron was disastrously effective and will be remembered for the devastating effect he had on the nation, fundamentally Johnson and Truss were his fault.

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