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Head of the left wing Meretz party Nitzan Horowitz attends a Channel 12 News conference in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The leader of the left-wing Meretz party on Sunday said that it was right-wing policy on West Bank settlement that has brought about the International Criminal Court’s opening of a war crimes probe against Israel, doubling down on remarks he made the day before in which he gave legitimacy to the probe.
“Those who are dragging Israel to court in the Hague are [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, the right, and the settlers,” Nitzan Horowitz said at a Channel 12 conference hosting influential Israeli figures in Jerusalem.
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Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz attends a party conference in Tel Aviv on January 14, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
The chairman of the left-wing Meretz party said Saturday that while he was pained by the International Criminal Court’s opening of a war crimes probe against Israel, “there were grounds for the decision,” sparking immediate uproar from other lawmakers, mostly on the right.
“People tell us, ‘You want Israel to be brought before the Hague.’ I don’t want Israel to be brought before the Hague… But Israel also has responsibility,” Nitzan Horowitz said in a Channel 13 interview.
“I say this with great sadness, there were grounds for the decision. I don’t want Israel to face these situations… but Israel needs to ask itself what it needs to do to prevent that,” he added, urging the government to cooperate with the Hague-based international court something it has not done thus far.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu torched an investigation by the International Criminal Court into alleged Israeli war crimes as a “perversion of justice.”
The International Criminal Court is opening an investigation into allegations that Israeli and Palestinian terrorist groups have committed war crimes over the years, the agency announced Wednesday. While Palestinian leadership has cheered the announcement, the news has been met with enmity by Israel, with Netanyahu vowing Thursday to fight the move tooth and nail.
“I think this is an outrageous decision by a politicized kangaroo court that goes against the one democracy in the Middle East, Israel, whose soldiers honorably and scrupulously do everything to avoid civilian casualties as they’re fighting the worst terrorists on earth who do everything in their power to commit civilian casualties,” the prime minister told Fox News.
Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. As evidence of what the late Professor Edward Alexander has called “the explosive power of boredom” in rousing the liberal professoriate to its ideological feet, Harvard’s own Harvard Divinity School professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Cornel West, recently wondered out loud why the university might have denied him tenure. His explanation: that because he is a relentless critic of Israel, and because he thinks so highly of his academic accomplishments and record, it must be his pro-Palestinian leanings that spooked the Harvard committee making his tenure decision. This is my hypothesis,” West said, “because given the possibilities of why they would not be even interested in initiating a tenure process, what else it could be?”