A shower of scandalized reactions followed the historic decision of the International Court of Justice to issue arrest warrants against Benyamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Published on 11/21/2024 at 8:09 p.m.
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Correspondent in Jerusalem
Un dark day. » It is in these terms that the entire Israeli political spectrum commented on the issuance of arrest warrants against Binyamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant by the ICC on Thursday, November 21. It was not, however, to describe the same thing.
A scandalized tone echoed by all Israeli politicians, even those who lead the opposition parties. “A shameful decision,” describes Yaïr Golan, leader of the Labor Party; “A moral blindness,” deplores Benny Gantz, minister who resigned from the war cabinet last June; “These arrest warrants reward terrorism,” criticizes Yaïr Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party.
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