The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for arrest warrant against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the regime’s war crimes and systematic attacks against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
An arrest warrant has also been sought for Israel’s minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant against the backdrop of the military’s seven months of bloody campaign in the besieged Palestinian territory.
This is the ICC, not the ICJ just for clarity.
And Ireland is as hopeless a vassal state of the USA as most anywhere else in Europe.
Ireland is as hopeless a vassal state as anywhere else, yes, but at the very least they have not committed imperialism, and retain some considerable anti-imperialist sentiments with which they stand with the global south.
My point was that it is the only west European state that should even be considered, if at all- the thought that an institution based in the UK, France, Germany, any of the Benelux countries, the Nordics, or the (southwest European) Iberians or Italy can stand for anything remotely resembling “justice” or “human rights” is a farce, one which only could be topped by locating it in one of the various settler-colonial states whose very existence is a product of continuous genocide.
If Ireland were to reject all its ties to the western genocidaire bloc, and fully embrace its common cause with the global south instead, it would be a perfectly reasonable choice for an ICJ replacement, especially in a liberated northern Ireland. But the Netherlands, or any other west European country? Frankly, they could go truly communist, and embrace the global south in its entirety, and I don’t think they would be a good fit, not for centuries if not longer; their crimes are simply that significant that to place such an institution in such nations would be spitting in the face of all their victims and the entire non-western world.