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Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a cermony in Sha’ar Hagai, marking 80 years since the formation of the Palmach, on April 9, 2021. (Ministry of Defense)
Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Friday criticized the International Criminal Court’s probe of alleged war crimes by Israel as “blind and unjust,” after Israel sent a formal response to the decision.
“I believe the truth will come to light,” Gantz said. “It’s not just a matter of the court’s ‘technical-legal’ lack of jurisdiction, but a matter of justice and morality, of a strict military ethical code, of truth and falsehood, of a democratic state with strong legal institutions, clear values, rules and laws against a blind and unjust decision.”
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Demonstrators carry banners outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, rear, urging the court to prosecute Israel s army for alleged war crimes in The Hague on Nov. 29, 2019. (AP/Peter Dejong)
Israel will tell the High Court of Justice that the court does not have the authority to probe alleged war crimes by Israel and Palestinian terrorists.
In its formal response to The Hague-based court’s decision to open the war crimes probe, Israel will say it won’t cooperate with the investigation, according to a statement Thursday from the Prime Minister’s Office.
“In the letter, it will also be noted that Israel completely rejects the claims that it is carrying out war crimes,” the statement said.
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In 2015, when Katie Pavlich a few years removed from a broadcasting degree from the University of Arizona, and already an editor at Townhall published her second book, a Townhall blurb suggested, “Reading Katie Pavlich’s
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True of course, but not the best reason to read this enlightening book.
Assault and Flattery should be required reading for every young woman who is trying to make up her mind as to whether liberals or conservatives better represent women’s real interests. Pavlich dissects liberal policies that purport to be pro-woman but are anything but and profiles Democratic icons Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton spring to mind whose actual treatment of women was glossed over by the mainstream media.
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Silvia Fernandez De Gurmendi from Argentina takes the oath during a swearing-in ceremony as a new judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), at the seat of the Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/ Bas Czerwinski)
The International Criminal Court welcomed US President Joe Biden’s lifting of sanctions imposed by former US president Donald Trump on the tribunal’s prosecutor, saying it signalled a new era of cooperation with Washington.
The Trump administration imposed the financial sanctions and a visa ban on Fatou Bensouda and another senior court official last year after she launched an investigation into alleged war crimes by US military personnel in Afghanistan.