The InternationalCriminal Court Confuses Right and Wrong

Xuefeng

November 27, 2024

What defines the law? The law is any measure designed to protect people from unjust harm. Anything beyond this cannot genuinely be considered law.

On November 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This act does not uphold the law; it is a blatant violation that muddles right and wrong.

The ICC claims Netanyahu committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Gaza war, which is the basis for its arrest warrant.

Did Netanyahu commit war crimes? If so, does this mean that the United States and Britain committed war crimes during the Normandy landings in World War II? Does Ukraine entering Russian territory to combat aggressors also constitute war crimes?

Who started this war? Why was Netanyahu compelled to enter Gaza to target Hamas?

If you invade my territory, launch a surprise attack, kill and abduct my citizens, am I not entitled to retaliate?

If you kill and kidnap my people and retreat to Gaza, does pursuing you into Gaza make me guilty of war crimes? If you take hostages to Gaza, am I not allowed to go there to rescue them?

Civilian casualties occurred during the Gaza war. Who should bear responsibility for this? Who used civilians as human shields? When you hide in schools, hospitals, and residential areas and stubbornly resist, who is accountable for the casualties among Gaza’s civilians? Is it not the Hamas terrorists who launched surprise attacks on Israeli soil, killing and kidnapping Israeli civilians?

How did the ICC’s logic lead to the conclusion that a hero fighting against terrorist organizations becomes a criminal, warranting an arrest?

According to the ICC’s logic, if I invade your home, pillage it, and abduct your mother, wife, and daughter to my house, you are prohibited from coming to my house to recover them. If you do, and I attack you, you are not allowed to fight back. Should you injure anyone in my house while resisting, you are guilty of war crimes.

Did Netanyahu commit crimes against humanity?

Destroying an organization engaged in terrorist activities is undeniably an act of protecting humanity. Yet, in the ICC’s view, Netanyahu, who defends humanity, is branded as a criminal harming humanity. To reverse right and wrong to such an extent, is the ICC upholding the law, or is it breaking it?

The ICC should be disbanded, and its judges sent home to farm potatoes!