Benjamin Netanyahu
Three of the four suspects were named: Ofer Doron, Itai Yaffe and Amir Sade. The name of the fourth suspect was withheld.
By calling for the arrest of Israel’s leaders, the ICC is violating the Rome Statute.
Israel rejects the authority of the International Criminal Court and the legitimacy of the arrest warrants it has issued.
The immunities “will have to be taken into account should the ICC request of us their arrest and surrender,” the French government stated on Wednesday.
Israeli experts weigh in on the various ways the country could respond to the controversial ruling.
Israel is under pressure by the U.S. administration to finalize a deal before the Thanksgiving holiday.
The citizens’ committee assigned personal blame to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as former premiers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid.
Some community heads decried the emerging deal as surrender and defeat.
Charges will “mean what people want it to mean, without ever being fully litigated,” a retired lieutenant colonel said.
“J Street should now be persona non grata in the Jewish community,” Morton Klein, national president of ZOA, told JNS.
“If there were to be such a visit to the U.K., there would be a court process and due process would be followed in relation to those issues,” the U.K. foreign minister said.
Viktor Orbán called the decision to issue arrest warrants for his Israeli counterpart “cynical” politics disguised as judicial action.
