Bkk Brian

Salman Rushdie disagrees, there's a topic on the 2 states news here. https://aseannow.com/topic/1327895-ireland-norway-spain-to-recognize-palestinian-state-amid-ongoing-israel-hamas-conflict/

Cool, finally a sensible response to the post. Not sure they are retracting support however, just making a clear distinction between Hamas and Israel, they are still supporting international law via the ICC. Up to them. Just as its up too Ireland, Spain and Norway to move to recognise a Palestinian state next week. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-69047220 Not that I agree with that, rewarding terrorism is never a good thing especially when there are still hostages held.

Only in your head is it same same.

Everyone in your world you mean. How many posters do you have on ignore now?

Oh another one trying to make a comparison between hostages and prisoners 😴

Baiting ignored. Thanks for the permission lol

Take your placard with news elsewhere. It's also a forum where I am not obliged to reply to your baiting posts

So what? I don't care what you are responding to. My post was not for you. Rattlesnakes article had to be read first to see the significance as an update.

That's not the update though.

What has that got to do with the specific update the French gave?

What assumptions would those be that need clarifying from the article rattlesnake posted and the update I posted for him to read?

Actually, you didn't claim anything. Correct. So why? It was a response to the poster I was replying to, a clarification from the French themselves updated from the article he posted.

Is Biden Jewish also, what difference does your religion make for you to see it so important to point out? 'Not genocide': Watch Biden passionately denounce ICC seeking arrest warrants for Israeli leaders https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/05/20/biden-remarks-icc-israel-hamas-war-lead-digvid.cnn

Even if one crime is greater than the other, that still doesn't mean they aren't both crimes. Bravo did I claim anything else?

30,000 + dead Palestinian non combatants ( mainly women and children ) are proof that he's just another israeli sycophant blindly supporting israel in it's vile conflict destroying Gaza. Can you provide a link to that so called proof you have. Did he ever claim to be neutral? If not being neutral means your not trustworthy, what about you?

Yes Israel and those foreign governments including the UK are really worried that this has scuppered any deal to get hostages out and ceasefire that could lead to the end of the war. When did Norway have evidence there was genocide?

Vile Kill 26,000 people, execute children and women in Iran, forcibly displace 7 million Syrians, fund and plan the October 7th genocide in Israel, support terrorists in Yemen, Gaza, and Iraq, and chant "death to America." Then, die in a helicopter crash, and the UN will stand for a minute of silence—not for your victims, but to mourn you. What a morally bankrupt outfit this taxpayer-funded farce is!

Bit of clarification from the French Day after backing ICC, France says there’s no comparison between Israel and Hamas Changing tone on Tuesday, Séjourné stressed that Hamas is “a terrorist group that celebrated the October 7 attacks” in which it killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel and took another 252 hostages. Israel, by contrast, is “a democratic state that must respect international law in the conduct of a war that it did not itself start,” Séjourné noted. Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, speaking in Paris at an event attended by Séjourné, urged him “to announce loud and clear that the decision of the Chief Prosecutor is unacceptable to you and the French government – regardless of the authority of the court.” “This is what our friends around the world did, and this is what I expect from our friend, the French government,” Katz said, referring to denunciations of the prosecutor’s move by US President Joe Biden among others. https://www.timesofisrael.com/day-after-backing-icc-france-says-theres-no-comparison-between-israel-and-hamas/

Looks like some sanctions will be coming US signals support for possible ICC sanctions over Israel warrants US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has suggested he will work with lawmakers on potential sanctions against the International Criminal Court as its prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials. Mr Blinken told a congressional hearing he was "committed" to taking action against the "profoundly wrong-headed decision". His comments come amid a Republican push to impose sanctions on ICC officials, which may see a vote as soon as this week. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp66e6ppzd0o

They are also all unverified figures direct from Hamas. No international organization has confirmed them. Especially the 10,000 unidentified who Hamas has added from un-named media sources in Gaza and the 10,000 under rubble, where did they pluck that one from? This whole issue of the UN revising down their figures for women and children was known about weeks ago. It was ion this topic back in April: Hamas admits one-third of its data on Gazan deaths is ‘incomplete’ https://aseannow.com/topic/1325030-hamas-admits-one-third-of-its-data-on-gazan-deaths-is-‘incomplete’/ Its just that the UN has finally got round to acknowledge that Hamas was lying.

What genocide? Oh and those latest figures from Hamas, they are unverified but spewed out by Al Jazeera for the gullible.

Unless Hamas is eliminated it will never happen.

Well its quite a difference and you will have to wait a few years for a decision on those baseless accusations by SA but that's another topic. Former ICJ President clarifies court's ruling on South Africa's case against Israel https://aseannow.com/topic/1325978-former-icj-president-clarifies-courts-ruling-on-south-africas-case-against-israel/ ICJ “didn't decide claim of genocide was plausible” nor “that there's a plausible case of genocide”

Update on the hostage situation, predictable, especially now with the ICC fallout. Qatar says Gaza truce, hostage release talks remain ‘close to stalemate’ Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari says the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release talks between Israel and Hamas remain “close to a stalemate.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/qatar-says-gaza-truce-hostage-release-talks-remain-close-to-stalemate/

South Africans never made a submission to the ICC.