According to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the International Criminal Court’s request for warrants for the imprisonment of Israel’s prime minister and defense minister is “deeply counterproductive” and has” created a misleading social equivalence between Israel and Hamas.”
The British government has criticised the , International Criminal Court ( ICC ) for deciding to seek arrest warrants against Israeli figures including Prime Minister , Benjamin Netanyahu, at the same time as leading Hamas figures. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said:” This is a seriously problematic growth. This is a very unfortunate development.” Of sure it is still subject to a final choice, but it remains profoundly problematic anyway”.
He continued, information the , Daily Telegraph:” There is no social equality between a democratic state exercising its constitutional right to personal- army and the criminal class Hamas. It is improper to compare and contrast those two distinct entities.
Sunak’s remarks echo those of U. S. President Biden,  , who lifted a Trump professional attempt against the ICC, evidently argument the judge’s anti- Israel bias had been resolved, and who said yesterday that the application for a warrant is “outrageous”. President Biden said:” Whatever this counsel may imply, there is no similarity — few — between Israel and Hamas.  ,  , We will always have with Israel against risks to its security”.
Cabinet minister Michael Gove, who told The Times on Tuesday that there is a distinct narrative that some are trying to work to keep Israel to higher standards than anyone else, and that is intended to de-legitimize Israel for a variety of reasons, underlining the position of the American government. The jury works to increase standards, he said, seeking to arrest , Netanyahu but no Syria’s leader , Bashar albert- Assad, who has waged battle against his own territories in the course of a terrible civil war for years.  ,
However, the British government is set to be reconfigured in the upcoming national general election, and polls indicate that a left-wing administration may be in place that is much less sympathetic to Israel than the Conservatives are. Labour’s pick to be Britain’s next foreign minister David Lammy, a SOAS and Harvard- trained lawyer, used a legalistic approach to condone the ICC’s move against Israel, saying as a signatory of the court’s founding treaty, the UK has a “legal obligation” to fall in line.
According to reports, he said:” Labour believes that the UK and all parties to the Rome Statute are required by law to follow orders and warrants issued by the court. Democracies who support the rule of law are required to abide by it. The Conservatives were further accused of being against “international rule of law” by criticizing the ICC, which may be accurate given their glacially slow waning support for Europe’s own international court, which was established by the British to protect Europe and is currently being used against it.
Lammy’s interpretation of the law appears to clash with the British government’s own lawyers, however. Given that Israel is not a party to the Rome Statute, an unnamed spokesman for the prime minister on Monday went into more detail and stated their belief that the ICC does not have the authority to issue an arrest warrant against, say, Benjamin Netanyahu.
It was stated, per Reuters:” This action is not helpful in relation to reaching a pause in the fighting, getting hostages out or getting humanitarian aid in… , The UK, as with other countries, does not yet recognise Palestine as a state and Israel is not a state party to the Rome Statute”.
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