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Ahmet Gencturk | 02.05.2025 - Update : 02.05.2025

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reported as "Turkish State Media", which it is, but on investigation, despite being Right biased, I'm not seeing a bunch of factual issues or propaganda like we do with, say, Iranian state media.

Allowing it for now, if it becomes a problem, we may re-visit the issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

OK, thanks for the heads-up.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Zionist demons are starving 2 million people. 60 days and not a grain of rice has entered Gaza.

Now they are attacking aid ships in international waters, which is yet another war crime to add to the pile.

Fuck israel. It has no right to exist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Please correct me if I’m wrong but I believe war crimes are only enforced by ICC members and often only punish smaller countries. Unfortunately, USA and Israel are not members and none of the members are seemingly going to enforce it, so the law effectively doesn’t apply. Of course what they’re doing should be illegal but what is illegal if nobody does anything about it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Palestine is an ICC member state since 2014 however. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/31/icc-membership-double-edged-sword-palestine

But yeah there is no point in any ICC rulings, if the member states just ignore the court.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wonder if officially convicting Netanyahu would be dangerous because then members have to enforce it and if they don’t it’ll diminish the legitimacy of the law.

Would be nice for the world to know that a major chunk of the world officially believes what he is doing is illegal.

EDIT: there is an arrest warrant

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Wdym? There is an official arrest warrant for him already. So far ICC member countries have just been silent to defiant when it comes to actually arresting him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_arrest_warrants_for_Israeli_leaders

Hungary sadly has alrady been the first country to actually violate their obligations to the ICC. I assume others will follow like Germany.

During Netanyahu's visit, Orbán announced that Hungary would withdraw from the ICC. Per the Rome Statute, Hungary would need to formally notify the UN Secretary General. The withdrawal would become effective withdraw a year later. Hungary's obligation to arrest Netanyahu was unaffected by Orbán's announcement.[51]

On 3 April, the ICJP submitted a formal complaint to the Hungarian Minister of Justice stating that the Hungarian authorities were obliged to arrest Netanyahu in line with Hungarian obligations as a state party to the Rome Statute, under Article 86 of the Statute requiring it to cooperate with the ICC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I very much doubt Germany could grant Netanyahu immunity from arrest without withdrawing from the ICC, which is not going to happen. Just because Merz says he'd like to do something doesn't mean it's going to happen, he's running his mouth all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

he’s running his mouth all the time.

While that is true, i am not convinced of our legal system anymore after having a criminal as chancellor for 4 years.

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

Ah. So people just don’t care because it’s not enforced. Granted I don’t follow news much lately but I hadn’t heard about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The best we can hope for is a country saying that they wont arrest him, to bait him into coming, but then actually arrest him when he does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah would be great if he was on vacation or something and they snatched him up. It is God’s will.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is more that the countries that used to build what could have become a rules based international order are now tearing it down because they find genocide and horrendous crimes against humanity more attractive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which countries are you referring to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hungary openly defying the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Germany toeing around it and the new chancellor already announcing he wants to defy it. France saying they would arrest him, but allow him to use their airspace. The US praising the ICC when it comes to arrest warrants against Putin, and then sanctioning people working there when it comes to Israel.

Pracitically all EU countries and the US acting contrary to the ICJ "advisory opinion" that the illegal occupation of the Westbank, East Jerusalem and Gaza must not be aided in any way, be it diplomatically, militarily, financially or economically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

But is that favoring genocide or just avoiding conflict?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

China has done absolutely nothing. That must make you mad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think China is playing the long game at building up its economic and military power while the US destroys itself.

It's history doesn't suggest a desire to meddle or colonize like the European powers.