The Tories lost all credibility when they said they’d break intl law to send a few asylum seekers to Rwanda. Not surprising that they are ignoring the ICC to be honest.
@garyb455
4 ай бұрын
funny now the EU this that is a good idea
@bradw8102
4 ай бұрын
Tomorrow: hardliners in Tory party demand UK exit from ICC.
@alundavies1016
4 ай бұрын
Or demand Angela Rayner be hauled up at The Hague for her vicious attack on HMRC!
@DaraelDraconis
4 ай бұрын
@@alundavies1016or both, simultaneously, without caring about the inconsistency.
@hornetgamer8980
4 ай бұрын
You think it'll take them that long?
@dalecrocker3213
4 ай бұрын
That would be a very good idea.
@Housecathst
4 ай бұрын
I’m pretty amazed at this analysis. Arrest warrants issued for terrorist leads, not really big news, arrests warrant issued for leader of Israel, that’s big news. It looks like Israel are getting exactly what they want being able to kill as many Palestinians as they want with zero repercussions with anybody that matters and they probably just steal a load more land. Joe Biden is still totally behind them given his comments just now.
@Serpsss
4 ай бұрын
Don't forget that, according to the Tories, human rights are woke.
@vijendrapatricknaryan2637
4 ай бұрын
No doubt the current UK government will call this wokery in action and say this is the main reason why we have to leave the human rights convention.
@GodlessGrandpa
4 ай бұрын
Brit living in Canada for the last 20 years here. Thanks for the content. It keeps me updated on what's going back in blighty and further a field
@ikke12345
4 ай бұрын
The international humans right court is not the ICC. The ICC is the international criminal court. It prosecutes individuals not countries
@Bolachas25
4 ай бұрын
Still disagree with your framing of this mess as starting with the attacks on Oct 7th. The Israeli govt had ramped up the open and violent abuse of Palestinian civilians to levels not seen for years before Oct 7th. They had already snatched and imprisoned over 150 children in the previous 10 months of 2023 alone, never mind the number of innocent civilians, paramedics and journalists (including Shireen Abu Akleh) they had shot dead “by accident” during the same period. The first half of 2023 also saw a record number of permits given by this fascist govt for settlers to turf Palestinians out of their homes and land, with the armed backing of the IDF to assist them. They were barring more and more Palestinians from access to the Al Aqsa mosque and beating up, on camera, many who tried to gain access. Anyone following what was happening in the region could feel the outrage and tension ramping up like a pressure cooker throughout late 2022 and 2023 with each atrocity committed. And this does not even take into account the aggressive, colonising language used by those in power in Israel since this coalition was voted in. They have been talking openly about pushing for a Greater Israel (which would cover Jordan and bits of Syria too, never mind just Palestinian land); and they frequently talk of Israel being ‘from the river to the sea’, with no one in the west batting an eyelash at this.
@davidpowell6098
4 ай бұрын
Without the US, they wouldn't dare to do what they have done. They have blood on their hands too.
@IPW133-yo
4 ай бұрын
are you a hamas journalist?
@Bolachas25
4 ай бұрын
@@IPW133-yo what kind of dumb comment is that?
@Bolachas25
4 ай бұрын
@@IPW133-yo I see you like to peddle Israeli misinformation in your comments. Perhaps I should ask, are you an Israeli spokesperson? There’s a long list of them spreading already debunked lies, just like you.
@EMidMSO
4 ай бұрын
If your 'policy' is to shut a population inside a pressure cooker & screw the lid down tighter & tighter, then I think the responsibility for the inevitable explosion is yours. Likewise the responsibility for the response plan
@Jay...777
4 ай бұрын
The US are mad as hell. Extreme pressure has been brought on the ICC. If the ICC does not pursue prosicution, its reputation will be trash.
@vxicepickxv
4 ай бұрын
US leadership never signed onto the ICC, and as such would gladly harbor Israeli war criminals for a few hundred thousand in bribes, I mean donations, from AIPAC.
@MichaelBrown-yj9kj
4 ай бұрын
If only there was a leading British politician who knew something about human rights law. Someone who had the ability to hold our governments support for these illegal Israeli actions to account. It is a shame how low the quality of our MPs have fallen that only the minor parties have attempted to raise their voices on this matter. Only then to have then squashed by the Speaker of the house. You can now see why people are taking to the streets to protest. Nevermind I am sure in time the British Establishment with the Friends of Israel will silence such voices...
@user-s1o3nr532
4 ай бұрын
After The Anti-Defamation league and The Board of Deputies saw off Jeremy Corbyn, Kier Starmer has been terrified of the consequences of offending them himself.
@jamesorr4061
4 ай бұрын
Starmer has completely lost my respect over his approach on this.
@kevinwells768
4 ай бұрын
What other country nakedly buys off MPs with money and free holidays?
@thesheperd7567
4 ай бұрын
George Galloway has rocked the snugness of the pantomime parliament to the very core. No one would dare contradict Gallow.
@candidaprout560
4 ай бұрын
Good evening Phil and all here. My heart goes out to All civilians. Hamas and Netanyahu have nothing inside their hearts and their heads. Each one should be judged for this violence. I agree with all you exposed here Phil. 😢
@davidpowell6098
4 ай бұрын
Absolutely, you would think, after their history they would act differently. Israel is carrying out a Holocaust on the Palestinians. He has mirrored Hitler in this conflict. Good evening to you, Candida, I hope you, and those you care for, are well.
@candidaprout560
4 ай бұрын
Thanks very much. Have a nice evening 🍀
@IMelkor42
4 ай бұрын
Parties involved should be judged by their actions, indeed. The question does occur to me, however. What would you have done if you were in charge of Palestine/Gaza (before October, that is)?
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
@@IMelkor42 maybe ship them to Rwanda
@annenewton2950
4 ай бұрын
@@IMelkor42payed more attention to the border and the border guards who were reporting unusual activity to their higher command. They were told to stop whingeing. Can’t give chapter and verse for this but the female guards’ evidence was broadcast in a BBC Radio programme shortly after Hammas’ breach.
@scooble
4 ай бұрын
Even if an arrest warrant is issued, its unlikely that the Tories or Labour would honor it. In October 2011, Keir Starmer was asked by a human rights group and law firm to issue an arrest warrant for former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni, who was visiting London, over alleged war crimes. Tzipi Livni was the Israeli minister of foreign affairs between 2006 and 2009, and a member of Israel’s war cabinet during the brutal bombing of Gaza between December 2008 and January 2009, known as Operation Cast Lead. Starmer was then Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). But instead of issuing the arrest warrant, he blocked the application for Livni’s arrest and waited another two days, allowing the Foreign Office to grant her visit ‘special mission’ status'. Don't hold your breath
@colinireson9339
4 ай бұрын
Wouldn't it be funny if Starmer's name ended up on an international arrest warrant. After all, he did say it was ok to cut off water, fuel, etc to the civilian population of Gaza.
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
@@colinireson9339 and why would saying that be a crime or against any laws?
@colinireson9339
4 ай бұрын
@@ryaneylee To support genocide can be deemed as being complicit in it.
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
@@colinireson9339 that's a moral argument, not a legal one
@colinireson9339
4 ай бұрын
@@ryaneylee No, it's a legal one. It's like incitement to murder.
@zxbzxbzxb1
4 ай бұрын
One point - The protests in Israel are NOT against the war in Gaza, they're mostly just against Netanyahu and his governments corruption and incompetence. Polling in March showed about 75% of Israelis support the war in Gaza and I don't support it's collapsed since then.
@jamesorr4061
4 ай бұрын
Starmer being so slow on this and even supporting it initially, has been absolutely appalling.
@howmanybeansmakefive
4 ай бұрын
Syria, China, US... and many more are not States Parties to the Rome Statute (ICC). The only MENA territories that are are Palestine, Jordan and Tunisia. Israel is also not a signatory, but because Palestine is a State Party, that gives the ICC jurisdiction to investigate crimes that occur on its territory, no matter the nationality. Palestine knew when signing in 2015 that they would be open for prosecution too. International Law is a very idiosyncratic patchwork, and works horizontally against/alongside/through vectors of politics and power. It's easy and justified to question its utility, but it's important to look at specific international bodies on their own terms, and keep in mind that analogies to vertical national/supranational legal systems often do not fit
@tombattisti8682
4 ай бұрын
formerly from Ireland but living for the last forty years in the US I'm very appreciative of this channel providing a nuanced take on politics
@styot
4 ай бұрын
Nuanced, haha, I mean I like the channel but it's definitely biased as hell.
@davidbates3057
4 ай бұрын
@@styot I'm pretty sure these comments are bots, similar to the Brit living in Canada one. They pop up every single video to the point where there's no way it's organic that random people feel the need to say how informative, nuanced, and clear this analysis makes topics they struggle to understand.
@Borishal
4 ай бұрын
Dont blame the genocide on Hamas.
@rsfaeges5298
4 ай бұрын
Bravo 👏
@Andres_1970
4 ай бұрын
Man you are too logical and clear-eyed , if such a thing exists, for this F#cked Up world we live in. So... Kudos to you !!!
@KevIsOffGrid
4 ай бұрын
Glad both sides are prosecutions :) Well deserved by both sides, both have committed war crimes.
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
We all know the effect on one side is disproportionately heavier than the other side. probably added the other side only to give a facade of condemning both sides, but one side doesn't really travel the world conducting international diplomacy (which the arrest warrants would now complicate) and likely doesn't hold assets and wealth in legitimate accounts.
@rgoonewardene380
4 ай бұрын
If you think both sides will be prosecuted, you are very innocent.
@iamrocketray
4 ай бұрын
@@rgoonewardene380 Only the Losers ever get prosecuted. And Hamas has already been declared a terrorist organisation so is the Loser!
@SheilaBloom.
4 ай бұрын
@@ryaneylee yes but only one side claims to be a civilised democracy. Not !
@alexperriman9298
4 ай бұрын
Finally. Does this mean Sangita Myska will be reinstated on LBC, and Piers Morgan will finally shut the hell up? Or too soon?
@williampatrickfagan7590
4 ай бұрын
Israeli PM now a prisoner in his own country That made my day.
@Wenutz
4 ай бұрын
not until the warrant is granted. But fingers crossed!
@abbofun9022
4 ай бұрын
Don’t hold your breath. . . .
@MiningForPies
4 ай бұрын
@@Wenutz even if it’s granted it would have to be invoked in a country willing to extradite him. He isn’t going to visit Iran for the funeral of Ebrahim Raisi.
@williampatrickfagan7590
4 ай бұрын
@@MiningForPies But he will never set foot in the European Union. Palastine has right and entitlement on its side as well as all the time in the world. I am not anti semitic but I am anti Israel. Israel and nazism have a lot in common.
@Wenutz
4 ай бұрын
@@MiningForPies If it is granted it will be more difficult for politicians and journos to defend him and Israel. That is a plus.
@antonnurwald5700
4 ай бұрын
Thank you for the very clear words Phil.
@finlayfraser9952
4 ай бұрын
Phil, thank you for your analysis. Post WW2 Israel had, and indeed deserved, unlimited credit with the bank of public opinion, but now their account is overdrawn. There are those within Israel who seek to establish a "Greater Israel", and their fingerprints are all over this wretched debacle.
@philmus1
4 ай бұрын
Different court. This is the international criminal court, which deals with war crimes, i.e. the Geneva conventions, not human rights
@derekmulready1523
4 ай бұрын
We. The British Government will break International law in a Limited and Specific way. 🇮🇪🇪🇺
@SirWhig-esq.
4 ай бұрын
🎉South Africa🎉
@Kanonenwind
4 ай бұрын
The country that refused to honor arrest warrants for al-Bashir and Putin? If they are consistent with their own logic, Netanjahu could go to South Africa for a holiday and not be arrested!
@DaraelDraconis
4 ай бұрын
South Africa's case at the ICJ has nothing to do with an application for warrants by the chief prosecutor of the ICC. Two different courts.
@Kanonenwind
4 ай бұрын
@@DaraelDraconis I know, but the comment above is celebrating South Africa, which I find quite ironic given their government has repeatedly proven to not care in the slightest for international treaties and justice, especially the ICC. Nobody here is a good guy, a bunch of countries each pound on international law when it suits them, but the moment it affects them, they tell everybody that their excuse is more important than everything else.
@RedJadeArt
4 ай бұрын
5:20 We’re at a point where Hamas has effectively won international recognition of Palestine as a country from Ireland, Norway and Spain. But in a way Hamas didn’t win it, Israel won it for them with their behaviour in Gaza. The only thing Hamas did was give Israel’s government to a chance to damage their credibility- and Israel’s government took it with both hands.
@brianferguson7840
4 ай бұрын
Interesting to see who will condemn an "independent court's" decision on 40,000 deaths
@abbofun9022
4 ай бұрын
Be careful with that number; it’s from Hamas and a significant percentage of them are combatants (some say approx 50%)
@tohellorbarbados4902
4 ай бұрын
@@abbofun9022 My arse. You're Jabotinski's ghost and I claim my fiver.
@rgoonewardene380
4 ай бұрын
Sorry to have to tell you this, but this whole court thing is just window dressing.
@davidpowell6098
4 ай бұрын
@@abbofun9022 Like a certain 6,000,000?
@LeafHuntress
4 ай бұрын
@@davidpowell6098 Could you NOT? Abbo, more likely a troll using abbo's name, is wrong here. But you being more wrong doesn't make anything right.
@jamesorr4061
4 ай бұрын
Israeli people voted in a hard right nationalist coalition and for most of the campaign has been supportive of it's aims. To purely put this on netanyahu is ridiculous.
@dawnmoriarty9347
4 ай бұрын
Such a pity that an experienced humanitarian lawyer lost my vote over his opinion that the Israeli government has the absolute right to withhold water from a captive population. Note that I said "government". Individual citizens have varied views. The behaviour of Hamas and it's allies was monstrous but a civilized country/government doesn't indulge in collective punishment. That OUGHT to be the difference between the government of Israel and Hamas
@DaraelDraconis
4 ай бұрын
"The Israeli government have made terrible mistakes"? Come off it, Phil. Senior Israeli politicians have been open about fully intending what they've done to Palestinians all along. "Amalek". "Inhuman animals". "There will be no food, no water, no electricity". "The people of light versus the people of darkness". Whatever laws they have or have not broken, there's no _mistake_ to it. Likud's coalition knew what they wanted and saw it executed. It was never _about_ eliminating Hamas; Hamas was always the _excuse_ for trying to wipe out Palestinians. Settler and IDF behaviour in the West Bank (where there is no Hamas) is sufficient to prove that.
@ADifferentBias
4 ай бұрын
If they end up being cursed by their own people, then by definition they miscalculated.
@DaraelDraconis
4 ай бұрын
@@ADifferentBiasOnly if you assume their goal was maintaining power, rather than seeing through their ideological project of killing as many Palestinians as possible before anyone can stop them, which certainly appears to be the point for several seniors.
@paulbo9033
4 ай бұрын
"mistake" "miscalculation". Absolutely disgraceful. He is honestly one of the worst Labour apologists for Labour and Israel. I get the feeling he doesn't like Muslims or something. Disgusting.
@hornetgamer8980
4 ай бұрын
The most brutal regimes in history were able to rise to power because a sufficient minority of people enabled them.
@anthonyfisher-7090
4 ай бұрын
@paulbo9033 oh grow up! Stop mud slinging and actually use your brain and listen rather then being outraged. At what point throughout this video did he say "he hates Muslims?" Of course Israel miscalculated just like Russia did. Both Hamas and Israel are ruining the lives of thousands in Gaza. They miscalculated as they didn't think going into this anyone would give a shit and they'd get away with their war. Stop twisting word to suit your own narrative.
@almafrith778
4 ай бұрын
Brilliant analysis Phil. 👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽
@roisinmalone3015
4 ай бұрын
No it's not it's nonsense
@IPW133-yo
4 ай бұрын
I'm surprised at someone to seems to be politically astute, totally failed to understand the issues. Phil - stick with UK analysis.
@dagatha3982
4 ай бұрын
Thank you Phil. Great video
@bereal6590
4 ай бұрын
This encapsulates exactly how I see the whole aituation. I'm sick of the black and white lack of nuance of those ranting about one aide or the other rather than see the whole picture ✌
@jonpritz8358
4 ай бұрын
Great honest journalistic deliberation..Keep shining that light..
@katebradshaw9280
4 ай бұрын
This is soooo overdue!
@izo_is_me
4 ай бұрын
The protests in Israel are largely about the return of the hostages. Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank and stealing their land are largely ignored as the IDF backs up the settlers. Hamas isn't in the West Bank. When the orange thing moved the American embassy to Jerusalem and his son-in-law stated that the sea front in Gaza could be ripe for luxurious housing. One could argue that prior to Gaza originally elected Hamas, land was constantly being taken by force from the Palestinians. Look at a map from 1947 that showed what Israel (land taken from the Palestinians - the kibbutzs attacked on 7/11 were Eastern European Jews fleeing the Ottoman Empire - they settled in Palestine) and Palestine were meant to be and look at a map now. Before anyone throws around antisemitism - Semitic is a group of languages and includes the Palestinians.
@tomconneely1361
4 ай бұрын
It's worth mentioning that, although Israel has begun recently to challenge the official death toll figures from the Gaza Health Ministry as being inflated, only about a month ago Israel was claimign the official figures were far too low. This was still the case at the 30,000 mark. The shift in Israeli policy on the figures seems to map exactly with moves in the US by groups like AIPAC and far right news outlets like Newsmax and OAN to downplay Palestinian civilian deaths in the wake of US campus protests. If Israel felt it was losing US public support, Netanyahu's position would be untenable, and his coalition would fall apart.
@davidbates3057
4 ай бұрын
Yeah, the people who think the death toll is ~30-40k -- which it has been since before they went into Khan Yunus -- are just delusional. They've literally levelled two cities and are now rolling through a third. I would be very surprised if the death toll isn't in the hundreds of thousands at this point, but it's impossible to know since anybody reporting figures or trying to help survivors is getting shot dead by I D F snipers.
@MichaelSmith-ns8ow
4 ай бұрын
I’m admiring Phil’s optimism about ‘there will come a point when..?’ My thoughts: we will be talking about this for about 10 years. That’s how long it will take Europe and America together to begin to force a kind of Truce. That’s only if the Tories both here and Europe and America don’t block the Political Process from acting because it’s not in their interests. Good video Phil and the team. Refreshingly unbiased.
@distinctdipole
4 ай бұрын
This has been going on in one way or another since 1948. I admire you optimism. 10 years is nothing, sadly. And war helps no one except the arms dealers and manufactures pockets.
@nco1970
4 ай бұрын
Europe can do nothing. Only the USA can.
@davidpowell6098
4 ай бұрын
@@distinctdipole The Military Industrial Complex President Eisenhower warned us about is a hungry beast, in both money, and lives.
@MichaelSmith-ns8ow
4 ай бұрын
The There that was Gaza is no longer alive. 10 years. That’s if the people there left decide to simply not live there anymore and live somewhere else. What can you do with a rubble pile?
@rogblankpage
4 ай бұрын
Well summarised
@adampowell5376
4 ай бұрын
Thank you, Phil, for making this video. I think this is very important.
@GaryV-p3h
4 ай бұрын
What took them so long. Next arrest warrants for those who supply either side with the weapons to commit the crimes against humanity.
@paulhodgers
4 ай бұрын
That would depend on the outcome of any trial
@GaryV-p3h
4 ай бұрын
Get on with the trial in their absence then if they haven't shown up to defend themselves in court by this time best week.
@abbofun9022
4 ай бұрын
Yeah, but dream on. . . .
@geeksworkshop
4 ай бұрын
You are wrong about America Phil it's not a few crazies it's far greater than that. AIPAC own so much power.
@venenareligioest410
4 ай бұрын
“I came to the absolute conviction that it is impossible…impossible…for any human being to read the biography of Mohammed, believe in it, and then emerge a psychologically and mentally healthy person.” Syrian Psychiatrist and author Dr. Wafa Sultan
@PhilipLoughlin-z1m
4 ай бұрын
Well said Phil.
@123GGameerz
3 ай бұрын
Oct.7 didnt happen in a vaccum, while I completely agree and enjoy your content you must understand how Palestinians tried peace and even innocents in the west bank are being pillaged by ISRAELIS not the IDF
@grahambuckerfield4640
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the informed and reasonable addressing of this situation. Worth noting that prior to the attack, the largest demonstrations in Israel’s history were calling for the corrupt Israeli PM to face justice, demos full of IDF members. The correct response to the attacks was with well trained light infantry and special forces, Israel has both, not fast jets or artillery. Worth noting that the large underground tunnels and bunkers in Gaza are for HAMAS, not the civil population. Another part of the scandal is that border was virtually undefended, fancy hi tech systems and little else, those in the homes and Kibbutz were largely left of center and no friends of the Likud party and their extremist partners.
@treyquattro
4 ай бұрын
finally, a sane commentary on the situation. Kudos.
@timelwell7002
4 ай бұрын
Great video, balanced perspective from Phil.
@nigelmorris3014
4 ай бұрын
Spot on.
@andrewbellware3005
4 ай бұрын
It's so nice to hear what I would call a "sober Left" analysis. Thank you Phil!
@roisinmalone3015
4 ай бұрын
It's not
@madmoss101
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for this informative video Phil
@DougieJohnson-l5w
4 ай бұрын
youre some kind of expert to me, mate. love to see a poll of your impact on british politics Mr Moorhouse, Sir!
@billlowe70
4 ай бұрын
The idea to say the Israel's crimes are greater in _scale_ and put emphesis on the word scale, so weird...Israeli crimes are greater in _every possible way_ Phil. Tell it like it is ffs
@Pikaling3408
4 ай бұрын
If issued then anyone on that warrant shouldn't be in power and an immediate ceasefire should be called and the international community must work on making the two-state solution a reality.
@goblinwisdom
4 ай бұрын
What will happen to the British citizens that travelled there to join the idf and take part in this?
@dougaltolan3017
4 ай бұрын
There's a wicked echo in here. ~South Africa
@SirAntoniousBlock
4 ай бұрын
The only advantage to this is that now James 'O Brien will have to call the G word the G word.
@mikepetty3609
4 ай бұрын
Àt last,, well done Phil.
@willtricks9432
4 ай бұрын
Action , reaction, overreaction. Shame
@bodricpriest8816
4 ай бұрын
Much like the Tories with small boats Israel could get rid of the terror group Hamas really easily and quickly, but it would require pragmatic solutions to the actual issue... just as Tories are never going to allow a processing Centre in France and legal routes to migrate the Israeli government as it stands is never going to take the Palestinian problem off the table by genuinely engaging in negotiation.
@user-xd9yo3le7o
4 ай бұрын
Israel is supposedly a democratic state which upholds international law. China and Syria have very poor human rights records. Syria is at the bottom of the world league table, and faces extensive sanctions. China also faces sanctions from western countries like the UK particularly Chinese companies and individuals who are directly connected to the murder and repression of the Uyghurs. Omar Al Bashir the ex president of Sudan still has an arrest warrant outstanding in his name while he's waits trial in Sudan. Such actions by the ICC may seem futile to some but they are very important for the future if the world is ever to see a rules based international system where leaders understand that they can't get away with impunity.
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
leaders just only need to look at the US, UK, France, China, and Russia to know that they can get away with impunity if their country is powerful enough.
@gurditrehal3348
4 ай бұрын
If these applications are granted, how much of a turning point would they to the overall conflict?
@MiguelRodrigues-wf4hy
3 ай бұрын
As someone who enjoyed this channel and thought you were an independent voice Phil, it's quite sad to see what a stooge you are for Keir Starmer. Not a single video on all the recent turmoil in Labour over its own scandals. Just following the labour leadership line, hell maybe you will get appointed as MP candidate in a safe seat for all your great work. With regards to your comments on the ICC and why they don't charge anyone in Syria or China. Simply put, they have no standing there as neither of those countries are signatories. So the ICC has no jurisdiction and cannot pursue anyone there in "domestic" policies. As for Russia and Ukraine, it's true neither are also signatories. But Ukraine ratified the Treaty of Rome and accepted its jurisdiction in 2014, despite not having signed it into law yet. And as Russia's invasion is against Ukraine, the ICC does have jurisdiction. On the Israel genocide against Palestine, same thing applies. Israel isn't a signatory, but Palestine, as a observant member of the UN, did sign it. Following the same logic, the ICC claims jurisdiction. It really has to piss off the american administration that the same legal reasoning that allowed the ICC to charge Putin (which they cheered and applauded) is being used to seek arrest warrants for Bibi. Now let's give it up to a list of those countries that aren't signatories of the Rome Treaty because international humanitarian law is an aberration they despise: 1. USA 2. Israel 3. China 4. Syria 5. North Korea 6. Saudi Arabia 7. Cuba 8. Lybia There are more countries but this is going too long and I think you get the gist of what a prestigious group the USA and Israel belong to in this case. Cheers.
@margaretmcnamee6411
4 ай бұрын
I agree with your take on the Israeli -Palestine conflict
@itemushmush
4 ай бұрын
I have to say, your thoughts are exactly in mind with mine. Hamas has played Netanyahu as a fool. My close friend was a part of the huge protests against his rule, and hamas chose the perfect time to make maximum damage to the Israeli state. He's now moved to the UK because its currently a tinderbox over there
@Pikaling3408
4 ай бұрын
Things have gone out of control. The international community must bring this conflict to an end as soon as possible before more lives are lost.
@davidpowell6098
4 ай бұрын
With the backing of the US, Israel has got away with atrocity after atrocity, and has veto'd every resolution the UN has passed to stop them. This could be stopped quickly if the US abandoned Israel.
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
The conflict will end as soon as Hamas surrenders. The wider conflict will end as soon as the Arabs recognize Israel's right to exist in its full borders that were illegally and violently occupied by the ancestors of the current Arab residents.
@cbolt4492
4 ай бұрын
Jeremy Corbyn tho.....
@GaryV-p3h
4 ай бұрын
I'm not dure an arrest warrant is appropriate but he certainly needs to be held accountable for the part he played in helping the vote leave campaign get their way.
@davidpeacock40
4 ай бұрын
@@GaryV-p3hJust like FaRage, Johnson and mogg corbyn is nothing less than a traitor
@barbthegreat586
4 ай бұрын
@@GaryV-p3hHe didn't play any role in leave vote the way you think. You're making this up because it's become clear to many they're deceived and they're pointing fingers at the people they don't like (but not themselves).
@Redf322
4 ай бұрын
@@GaryV-p3hwhat part was that? What did he do?
@GaryV-p3h
4 ай бұрын
@@Redf322 In the run up to the referendum he wouldn't allow labour MPs to voicevtheir opinions even though 70% of the party membership wanted to remain because he is/was a euro sceptic & that allowed the leave campaign to spreadvtgeir misinformation unchallenged.
@maeror1022
4 ай бұрын
About time!
@nicholasrckent8609
4 ай бұрын
That made sense.
@Scutumdeorum
4 ай бұрын
Another problem for the ICC is the question of standing and jurisdiction. Quite a number of countries are not signateries of the treaties establishing the court limiting it's ability to even take cases.
@andrewwatson5324
4 ай бұрын
That which is "publicly known about October 7th" in the UK and elsewhere is based upon stories published largely before proper investigations could be carried out and there is good reason to suspect that they cannot be backed up with solid evidence.
@davidhooper1767
4 ай бұрын
The IDF killed Israeli civilians on 7th October.Then blamed Hamas for it.The Tories and Labour wont condem the response the IDF has taken.
@beast6943
4 ай бұрын
FINALLY.
@123GGameerz
3 ай бұрын
I’ve unsubbed after 5 years, you need to inform yourself of what’s really going on, some of what’s going on there is bigger than what’s going on with PMQs and Labour
@peterebel7899
4 ай бұрын
What's about the British war crimes in the Iraq war?
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
or in Afghanistan
@pam-gw6uk
4 ай бұрын
Yeh and while we're at It, lets tell the youngsters, many are unaware of the atrocities carried out by the Nazis, so be careful what you say.
@stephengallagher8002
4 ай бұрын
Yes, agree with this. It needs to be said in wider circles. 'Mainstream' circles perhaps?
@psych0536
4 ай бұрын
Israelis arent protesting because they care about the palestinians (the majority do not), but because their government has refused to bring hostages home. Also keep in mind that israel has been occupying and colonising land in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere for as long as the state of israel has existed. This is not something you can pin on Netanyahu, nor can you say its action being taken against hamas, when they only have presence in the gaza strip.
@WhichDoctor1
4 ай бұрын
The ICC only have jurisdiction over countries and areas that have requested such. That means it can’t do anything about what’s happened inside china or Syria even if it desperately wanted to because neither country are signatories to the ICC and therefore any crimes they commit inside their own territories or inside territories of other countries that are also not signed up are outside the ICCs jurisdiction. They were only able to put an arrest warrant out for Putin because despite Russia not being a member of the court his crimes are taking place inside Ukraine which itself is a signatory. Israel like China russa Syria and the USA are not members of the ICC, so any atrocities Israel carries out inside its own territory would not be covered. but a decade or so back the Palestinian authority applied to be members and were accepted. So the crimes carried out by Palestinians and inside Palestinian territory are seen as under The jurisdiction of the court. While there is a lot of internal diplomacy and power politics involved in who gets prosecuted and who doesn’t it’s not as blatant as Phill makes out here. The ICC simply has no say over what happens in much of the world, it can only posicute crimes that take place inside the baoders of, or carried out by the countries that freely choose to become members of it
@dougaltolan3017
4 ай бұрын
You don't have to be a carpenter to know that a chair is broken.
@ikke12345
4 ай бұрын
Phil the US and Israel did not sign the rome 2002 treaty, so they can set aside this arrest warant. Netanyahu however needs to avoid landing in Heathrow on his way to the US
@rgoonewardene380
4 ай бұрын
Yeah. Cos we are going to arrest him. 😂
@IMBlakeley
4 ай бұрын
I'd put money down that the UK would not arrest him.
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
and i'm sure we can count on the likes of Qatar, Syria, Iran to arrest the Hamas leaders they harbour.
@MrBanzoid
4 ай бұрын
UK won't arrest him because he holds Special Mission Status on top of his Diplomatic Immunity.
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
and we can count on Qatar, Syria, Iran to arrest the leaders of the other side, that they harbour, also being sought on the arrest warrants, right
@iwantsomecookies08
4 ай бұрын
*not* grinding the world's poor into mincemeat? "WOKE"
@martienvandenberg5181
4 ай бұрын
What would happen when the Hamas leaders volunteers to turn themselves in? Can they make a big public performance out of it and point to Israel and accuse the of avoiding responsibility?
@twocvbloke
4 ай бұрын
However the applications pan out, it's clear that benny's dun gon forked up, and he's going to be a big target, for whom, who knows, but he best figure out where he's going to run away to quickly...
@mfdoyle5879
4 ай бұрын
The Genocide in Gaza committed by Israel will be remembered for 2,000 years. The I.C.C will have to prosecute many more than Just Netanyahu and Sinwar, and see them face International Justice.
@andyb.5268
4 ай бұрын
I am not a strong believer in coincidence Israel said they would do something big. The Iranian president's helicopter falling out of the sky looks like they kept their word.
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
damn, how did they install enough fog machines in hostile territory undetected
@andyb.5268
4 ай бұрын
@@ryaneylee So I've been offline, be gentle.
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
@@andyb.5268 i apologize for the usage of the d word, sorry
@robertthweatt1900
4 ай бұрын
The Serbs sent Milosevic to the Hague to rehabilitate their reputation. We may see the same from Iarael.
@Bowleskov
4 ай бұрын
Israel's biggest problem in this part of this conflict has been the two faced approach, for every English Language plea of victimhood there has been dozens of Hebrew language vows of Vengeance for the internal populace of Israel. From an external point of view there has been an issue with how we have allowed this conflict to be framed, the UK does not recognise the Palestinian state and yet we talk about Palestine as if it controls any of it's borders whilst this war is best viewed as a state versus foreign aided Insurgents. I also think there is an ignorance in the degree to which the Fatah Party is not trusted in Gaza leading to the rise of Change and Reform List candidates who later turned out to be Hamas. We naively talk about a Two state solution when in reality the Palestinian people have lacked any unity since the death of Arafat. The problem the ICC has is that the state of Israel has attempted to cloak itself in victimhood to justify acts for which other countries would have been held accountable and then unlike with Chinese treatment of Uyghurs or Turkish and Syrian treatment of Kurds, Israeli leaders proudly boast to their internal audience how it is breaking international conventions.
@robertallen591
4 ай бұрын
about time
@jugaloo5873
4 ай бұрын
About tme.
@sasserine
4 ай бұрын
Jack Smith's twiddling his thumbs, waiting for Trump's pet judge to stop delaying his trials. He's probably got some pent up frustration to vent on Netenyahu.
@Leberteich
4 ай бұрын
Does an ICC arrest warrant overrule diplomatic immunity?
@ups1art
4 ай бұрын
The way the world seems to work these days, Netanyahu may end up being “punished” with that Nobel Peace Prize he’s been chasing for so long.
@eoinharrington2692
4 ай бұрын
Jesus Christ Phil, the Netanyahu government are not exceptionally violent or brutal as far as Israeli governments go, the Nakba itself in 1947-48 was overseen by David Ben-Gurion a self-described socialist and leader of the Israeli Labor party, Israel is a settler colonial state that was founded on ethnic cleansing and apartheid, by saying this is just the fault of Netanyahu or that Hamas 'lured him into genocide' is essentially apologising for this genocide (which long preceded Oct 7th I might add), it is untrue and deeply concerning that you would say something like this.
@andypeutherer4218
4 ай бұрын
Precisely.
@RainerMichelle
4 ай бұрын
the Nakba is an old lie, it was the Arabs who started the war against the newly formed State of Israel, and against all the odds Israel WON against 7 Arab armies, and the State of Israel became reality, there is no apartheid either, everybody who lived in Palestine got Israeli citizenship 1948 when Palestine changed its name back to Israel, only the Arabs who had fled because they listened to the wrong side have no right to return, Israel has 2 million Arabs citizens with equal rights and freedoms, what the leftover Arab refugees call ethnic cleansing is a lie, it just means they lost the war, and back to today, it is another war started by the Arabs, now called "Palestinians", and they will lose it, and unverified 10k civilian casualties(the rest are Hamas fighters counted as civilians) is not a "genocide", sorry🤡
@eoinharrington2692
4 ай бұрын
@@RainerMichelle Gregory Stanton's tenth stage of genocide; denial Thanks you for providing visual evidence of the point that Zionist ethnic cleansing and apartheid is not unique to Netanyahu and Likud.
@eoinharrington2692
4 ай бұрын
@@RainerMichelle oh no a Zionist with zero facts, however shall I defend the consensus position of all serious historians based on a range of evidence including the admissions of the Zionist leader and supporters. On a more serious note, thank you for demonstrating Gregory Stanton's tenth stage of genocide; Denial. It really goes a long to providing my point that Netanyahu is not unique in the Zionist colonial project
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
@@RainerMichelle i'm surprised your comment can stay unmolested by the biased youtube moderation. mine kept getting removed. sadly many 'useful idiots' fall for the nakba lie.
@colinireson9339
4 ай бұрын
Thanks Phil for another straightforward unbiased vlog. It'll be interesting to see whether the Israeli leadership do end up at The Hague. I suppose it depends on the attitude of the USA. Perhaps Starmer might make an appearance there as a sop to international opinion. 😁
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
@@Borderman47 he had already covered Starmer's stance before. Nothing new (wrt Starmer's stance on the issue) to cover in the meantime til now.
@frogandspanner
4 ай бұрын
The ICC can prosecute only the vanquished.
@johnrussell3961
4 ай бұрын
There is a no quid pro quo with this. The most decent combatant would hand their leader over over first.
@Malisteen
4 ай бұрын
I can't agree with the idea that the gaza war has all gone according to Hamas's intentions. Maybe the intentions of Hamas's backers in Iran, but my understanding is that Hamas themselves thought that demonstrating Israel's weakness via the 10/7 attack would galvanize Israel's enemies in its surrounding Arab neighbors into attacking together, something they expected and yet something that did not happen. Furthermore, I think the point of the mass abduction of civilians was intended to prevent exactly the indiscriminate bombing and shelling campaign that followed, since they figured Israeli civilians would be able to pressure the government into not bombing Gaza into oblivion as long as those bombs might land on the hostages as well - and that didn't work out as intended either. And even if the point was to provoke a disproportionate response that would finally force the Western world to stop backing Israel, while that shift in position may finally slowly be starting, it's happening so slowly that there may not be any Palestinians left alive in Gaza by the time it has any meaningful effect in their favor. I sincerely doubt Hamas deliberately sacrificed tens of thousands of Palestinian lives for the sake of maybe changing the minds of western nations who they consider enemies, but if they did even that can't be said to be working out terribly well for them. None of this is to defend Hamas or the 10/7 attack, just that this notion that Hamas are brilliant masterminds who have been playing Netanyahu like a fiddle and everything has gone exactly to their plans or whatever seems preposterous. As usual, human-made disasters are less the result of plans succeeding and more the result of incompetence and miscalculation and deliberate self-deception and, ultimately, failure.
@roisinmalone3015
4 ай бұрын
There was a siege re Gaza before Oct 7
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
You mean the siege where Gazans could travel into Israel for work and goods could flow in (albeit with some stringent checking), jointly conducted with the Egyptians?
@roisinmalone3015
4 ай бұрын
@@ryaneylee They could only travel when Israel let them
@ryaneylee
4 ай бұрын
@@roisinmalone3015 UK regularly blocks certain groups of people from traveling to the UK too
@roisinmalone3015
4 ай бұрын
@@ryaneylee So what
@DaraelDraconis
4 ай бұрын
@@ryaneylee The fact that Israel controlled almost the entirety of Gaza's borders, such that Gazans who were forbidden from entering Israel were ipso facto unable to go to other countries either, is a pretty big difference.
@peterebel7899
4 ай бұрын
"Laws are to be broken in a limited and specific way only!"
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