{"id":2354,"date":"2024-12-06T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:34:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:34:59","slug":"un-chief-and-icc-protect-warlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/un-chief-and-icc-protect-warlords\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief and ICC protect warlords"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In November this year, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The United States, Argentina and Hungary criticized the decision of the ICC, which permits genocide in the Muslim world to take place without action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Vladimir Putin in violation of UN rules. Photo: Ekaterina Chesnokova.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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L<\/span>ess than a month before the ICC\u2019s decision, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, former leader of the Socialist International, visited Vladimir Putin in Kazan, Russia.
\nPutin is wanted by the ICC following an arrest warrant issued in May 2023. The UN\u2019s collaboration agreement with the ICC instructs UN staff to avoid contact with or pay courtesy calls on persons wanted by the ICC. The agreement between the UN and the ICC reads: \u201cThe presence of UN officials at any ceremonial or similar occasion attended by a person who is the subject of an ICC arrest warrant should be avoided.\u201d
\nGuterres\u2019 visit to Russia took place in conjunction with the BRICS meeting in Kazan, attended by\u00a0Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of NATO country Turkey. BRICS, together with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), has profiled itself as a rallying point for Israel-critical dictatorships in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Guterres unwelcome in Israel<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The visit came barely three weeks after Israel declared the UN leader persona non grata for failing to specifically condemn Iran\u2019s missile attack on Israel in early October. In an initial statement, shortly after Iran launched 189 missiles at Israel, Guterres lamented only the \u201cwidening conflict in the Middle East\u201d without mentioning the Iranian attack.
\nIsrael\u2019s foreign minister accused the UN chief of cowering to \u201cHamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and now Iran \u2014 the flagship of global terror\u201d and of failing to condemn the October 7 attacks and neglecting to label Hamas a terrorist organization.
\nBRICS, which largely consists of dictatorships or countries with a deep democratic deficit, has previously criticized the \u201chegemony of Western countries (read democracies)\u201d and wants to challenge the global dominance of the United States and the dollar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Muslim countries escape prosecution<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Chief prosecutor Karim Khan is a \u201cpractising Muslim\u201d who has often quoted the Koran in public statements, according to The Palestine Chronicle. The ICC\u2019s second deputy prosecutor, Nazhat Shameem Khan, is from the island nation of Fiji\u2019s Muslim minority\u00a0and was the former president of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which is led by countries that commit widespread human rights abuses and helped make Israel the country that the Council has criticized most of all.
\nThe third deputy prosecutor, Mame Mandiaye Niang, previously served in the judiciary in Senegal, where 96 percent of the population is Muslim.
\nThe ICC turns a blind eye to an Arab militia in Sudan now perpetrating genocide against non-Arab ethnic groups. As early as in May, the US special envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, said that up to 150,000 people had been killed since April 2023 \u2013 under the protection of the silence of the outside world and the UN-related court, the ICC. The war has resulted in the displacement of more than 11.5 million people.
\nAs early as 2010, Sudanese President Omar al Bashir was indicted by the ICC in The Hague for genocide, without further measures. No arrest warrant has been issued and Al-Bashir has been able to travel to other Muslim states unconcerned. For example, he participated as a guest of honor at the Islamic Organization (OIC) meeting in Jakarta in 2016, where Muslim countries gathered to condemn Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Erdogan is warmongering<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Recently, Islamist Arab militias in Syria have carried out a genocide of the Yazidi people, and where Syria, with the support of Iran and Russia, has fought a civil war, killing half a million people and displacing more than half the population \u2013 12 million people \u2013 with impunity. Both Iraq and Syria have simultaneously been emptied of large sections of their Christian population. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can, despite this, move completely unhindered in both the Islamic Conference and the United Arab League.
\nAhead of the BRICS summit, Turkey has announced that it would join BRICS, where on January 1 this year 2024 even Iran became a new member. Turkey will be the first member of NATO to join the bloc.
\nErdogan\u2019s meeting with Putin took place in a situation where the country is turning up the volume against Israel.\u2019s During a \u201cFuture of Palestine Conference\u201d organized by Erdogan own party in mid-October, Turkey\u2019s president referred to the fact that the Palestinian people see Israel\u2019s founding in 1948 as a \u201cdisaster\u201d and that they regret the day the state of Israel was established.
\nHe also claimed, according to the state-owned Russian news agency Tass, that \u201cthe so-called State of Israel is the only UN member state with vague official borders\u201d and asserted that \u201cIsrael\u2019s policy of occupation\u2026 has continued uninterrupted for 76 years\u2026 and it would be wrong to call it a state\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Self-defense described as expansionism<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant is welcomed by Erdogan who believes that Israel and the Jewish presence in the Middle East are the result of a Western colonial project that began when the British seized the area from the Muslim-dominated Ottoman Empire in 1917.
\nIsrael\u2019s attempt to eliminate the Iran-controlled terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah\u2019s missile launches and terror tunnels in Gaza and Lebanon due to the more than 20,000 missiles launched at Israel was described by Erdogan as \u201cexpansionism,\u201d according to Tass.
\n\u201cWe can predict where this expansionism is going if Israel is not stopped,\u201d he said, describing the development as a \u201cgreat danger for our country.\u201d
\nErdogan has previously stated that Israel\u2019s ultimate goal in the region is to control parts of Turkey\u2019s territory. The opposition went against these statements and requested a closed parliamentary session on the Israeli threat. This meeting was held on October 8 and the minutes of the meeting will be classified for ten years, Tass reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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