by Oui
Sat Jul 27th, 2024 at 05:55:18 AM EST
Karim Khan should move forward in great pace ..
Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders | The Guardian - 12 hrs ago |
Labour government announces its biggest step yet in overhauling the UK's approach to the Middle East
Arrest warrants were sought for Benjamin Netanyahu (left), Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders for alleged war crimes. (Photo credit: Reuters)
Labour has announced its biggest step yet in overhauling the UK's approach to the Middle East, dropping its opposition to an international arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu despite pressure from Washington not to do so.
Downing Street announced on Friday that the government would not submit a challenge to the jurisdiction of the international criminal court, whose chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, is seeking a warrant against the Israeli prime minister.
The move makes it more likely that the ICC will now grant Khan's request, in what would be a stunning international rebuke for Israel over the way it has conducted the war in Gaza and put Netanyahu at risk of arrest if he travels abroad.
It also reverses months of British policy after the previous government was steadfast in its support of Israel and its desire to stick closely to the US position.
EuroTrib key word | Karim Khan | ICJ |
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UK dropping its objection to ICC arrest warrant for Israel's Netanyahu | MEE |
AMERICA IS A LOST CAUSE - FASCISM
The American Abyss | NY Times - 9 Jan 2021 |
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Timothy Snyder: Historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next.
Trump speaks as Congress prepares to count Electoral College votes in Biden win | PBS Newshour |
When Donald Trump stood before his followers on Jan. 6 and urged them to march on the United States Capitol he was doing what he had always done. He never took electoral democracy seriously nor accepted the legitimacy of its American version.
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He wrongly claimed on Election Day that he had won and then steadily hardened his rhetoric: With time, his victory became a historic landslide and the various conspiracies that denied it ever more sophisticated and implausible.
People believed him, which is not at all surprising. It takes a tremendous amount of work to educate citizens to resist the powerful pull of believing what they already believe, or what others around them believe, or what would make sense of their own previous choices. Plato noted a particular risk for tyrants: that they would be surrounded in the end by yes-men and enablers.
Aristotle worried that, in a democracy, a wealthy and talented demagogue could all too easily master the minds of the populace. Aware of these risks and others, the framers of the Constitution instituted a system of checks and balances. The point was not simply to ensure that no one branch of government dominated the others but also to anchor in institutions different points of view.
The January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol | American Oversight |
The heavily armed, Trump-incited mob attack of Jan. 6, 2021, was an attack not just on the U.S. Capitol building, but also on democracy and the rule of law.
SCOTUS Fixed the U.S. Constitution
Supreme Court issues ruling on Trump immunity case | CBS - Face the Nation |
