Benjamin Netanyahu: International Fugitive?
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A second Alito flag has hit the news, we have election results out of Fulton County, and the jury is nearly out in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial. Matt also answers patron questions about how things could go wrong with the jury between now and the verdict, as well as why juries everywhere are so rarely sequestered anymore.
After a brief detour past a very important class-action suit against Hershey’s for the insufficient jauntiness of its Halloween candy, we turn to our main story: International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan’s application for arrest warrants to be issued against leaders of both Hamas and Israel. How does The Hague have jurisdiction to prosecute the prime minister of a country which has flatly refused to recognize its authority--or, for that matter, Palestinians who carried out the attacks of October 7, 2023 in the territory of that same country? Matt explains the background and recent history of humanity’s first standing international criminal tribunal as we consider what this moment means for Israel, Palestine, and the world.
Complaint in Cynthia Kelly v. Hershey (Reese’s lawsuit)
ICC expert panel findings re: investigation into “The Situation in Palestine” (5/23/2024)
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan’s application for arrest warrants for leaders of Hamas and Israel (5/20/24)
Christiane Amanpour interview with ICC prosecutor Kamir Khan (5/20/24)
Comments
The statement by Gallant is indeed unfortunate. However, it was followed by the allowance of humanitarian aid. From the beginning of the conflict, Israel has supplied an average of 3,211 kilocalories per person per day to Gaza through food aid. This includes shipments analyzed from January to April 2024, involving 227,853.8 tons of food delivered via 14,916 trucks. The problem of hunger, as in most places in the world, is more a matter of distribution. This issue is exacerbated by the fact that Hamas "confiscates" food supplies going in, and these supplies often appear for sale in local markets. Hamas has also continually bombed the border crossing where food aid goes through, which Israel then dutifully rebuilds. Israel supplies Gaza with a significant portion of its essential resources despite ongoing conflict. Before recent hostilities, Israel provided about 50% of Gaza's electricity, with additional power generated within Gaza and from other sources. While electricity supply has been intermittent, averaging 13 hours per day, Israel has resumed water deliveries, providing over 27,760 tons as part of humanitarian aid. Specifically, Israel supplies approximately 10 million cubic meters of water annually to Gaza through three main pipelines.
Hotspear
2024-05-30 15:25:26 +0000 UTCThe statement by Gallant is indeed unfortunate. However, it was followed by the allowance of humanitarian aid. From the beginning of the conflict, Israel has supplied an average of 3,211 kilocalories per person per day to Gaza through food aid. This includes shipments analyzed from January to April 2024, involving 227,853.8 tons of food delivered via 14,916 trucks. The problem of hunger, as in most places in the world, is more a matter of distribution. This issue is exacerbated by the fact that Hamas "confiscates" food supplies going in, and these supplies often appear for sale in local markets. Hamas has also continually bombed the border crossing where food aid goes through, which Israel then dutifully rebuilds. Israel supplies Gaza with a significant portion of its essential resources despite ongoing conflict. Before recent hostilities, Israel provided about 50% of Gaza's electricity, with additional power generated within Gaza and from other sources. While electricity supply has been intermittent, averaging 13 hours per day, Israel has resumed water deliveries, providing over 27,760 tons as part of humanitarian aid. Specifically, Israel supplies approximately 10 million cubic meters of water annually to Gaza through three main pipelines.
Hotspear
2024-05-30 07:33:58 +0000 UTCEven better if you're subscribing to Dear Old Dads.
Gmork
2024-05-25 10:34:04 +0000 UTCThe peanut-butter cups are nostalgic. The Pieces are addicting. The cereal is edible euphoria, especially the mini-puffs version. Sipping that silky cool candied milk is a satisfying satiating extra bite. International law lights my brain on fire. Anyone know good podcasts or other resources someone law-nerdy but not a lawyer could dig into further? Any area of international law...past, current, arcane, or purely theoretical. International Relations and Comparative Politics were my favorite classes in college. I really wanted to go to law school and probably would have focused there.
Minnow & blossom
2024-05-25 08:33:29 +0000 UTCI hadn't heard about the threatening statement from Cotton/Rubio etc. What a powerful response from the ICC prosecutor.
Katie Herrmann
2024-05-25 04:17:08 +0000 UTCin addition to this excellent summary, incitement to genocide is a separate crime (of which there is widespread evidence by many Israeli officials) and is an “inchoate offense” (like attempted murder) meaning that it is illegal and can be prosecuted and punished regardless of whether a genocide actually results
Tonei Glavinic
2024-05-25 03:36:03 +0000 UTCI'm surprised that Thomas is so ardently anti-innovation with regards to Reese's given his love for Taco Bell. If companies just rested on their laurels after making a good product, we wouldn't have the Crunchwrap Supreme.
Despairing Radical
2024-05-25 01:44:24 +0000 UTCI need you to know how correct you are about Reeses!!! The holiday ones have way too much peanut butter! THANK YOU
vantasticmess
2024-05-25 00:10:33 +0000 UTCGaza's population was 2.2 million with the killing of 35k+. Under international law, the crime of genocide is defined by “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such,” as noted in the December 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Israel has loudly proclaimed this intent. Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant declared on October 9th: “We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals, and we will act accordingly.” The UN Genocide Convention lists five acts that fall under its definition. Israel is currently perpetrating three of these in Gaza: “1. Killing members of the group. 2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” Israel has so far dropped 6000 bombs on Gaza including phosphorous bombs that set fire to bodies and building, creating flames that are inextinguishable. This is an act of deadly violence against Palestinian civilians. Israel is actively carpet bombing an area besieged and isolated from the rest of the country with no hesitation, no means to avoid civilian casualties. Gaza at the moment has been destroyed in such a way that Palestinians will have no footing to rebuild and recover from this. It is unlivable and that was the intent. This is a means to depopulate Gaza and ethnically cleanse it's people. Language asking Israel to “turn Gaza to Dresden” or “dance on what used to be Gaza" is the language of extermination. Genocidal verbs—calls to “erase” and “flatten” Gaza—have become omnipresent. I personally find it difficult to see this as anything but genocide.
Aminah
2024-05-24 19:09:18 +0000 UTCI find this question of whether the state of Israel is engaged in genocide very interesting and important given how much of a buzz-word this has become. I'd be interested to know what the ICC would say you need to show that it's the case. My inclination is that we aren't there yet for by this reasoning: From what I can find online Palestine has 5.5 mil citizens, and about 35k have been killed in this conflict (including Hamas casualties). that's ~6/10ths of a percent and for context that's about the same as the covid death toll in the US. both are killing an awful lot, but we haven't left the baseline realm of natural causes yet. for it to be a deliberate focused attempt to exterminate people it would necessarily be greater than that (for context the Khmer Rouge reached ~25%). But with half the Palestinian population displaced and being largely denied aid, if the intention is they starve, I think we'd be in the territory of 'conspiracy to commit genocide' or something if you can show that intent. Anyway, TL;DR we might want to be careful saying Israel is actively "genociding" and I would love to know how the ICC sets this standard and want to recommend this as a quick response Friday topic.
Mike Lilley
2024-05-24 17:13:21 +0000 UTCI just watched the ICJ ruling. What a joke. Lol
Aminah
2024-05-24 16:22:45 +0000 UTCMatt and Thomas brilliantly cover everything from Reece’s to war crimes. Amazing!
KeepingThePlatesSpinning
2024-05-24 11:35:45 +0000 UTCStrangely, I prefer the holiday Reese’s, because I prefer a higher peanutbutter to chocolate ratio (I love big cups too), but the biggest reason a prefer them is that when you buy a regular Reese’s you don’t know how old it is and there is a good chance it will have become chalky which is a worse experience then not having a Reese’s. With the suicidal holiday shape, I know it’s going to be a good fresh Reese’s because they are made for the holiday and then removed right after
Test Ease Interpreter
2024-05-24 11:32:41 +0000 UTCMy insomnia is made more bearable by the overnight drops. I can usually count on Thomas for some new early am content.
Jen Lytle
2024-05-24 10:08:11 +0000 UTC
