Aside from showing the world that there is indeed division among the anti-Israel ranks of the ICC, the Appeals Chamber ruling now stalls the arrest warrants, giving a hope that the ICC lower court may well “decide to cancel them after hearing Israel’s full jurisdictional objections.”
Not only is the ICC’s bias exposed, but so is the fact that the lower court was “unlawful” in its procedure as it persecuted Netanyahu and tried to weaken the resolve and reputation of the State of Israel amid jihadist threat to its very existence.
“In boost to Israel, ICC Appeals Court reverses lower court ruling,” by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, April 24, 2025:
In a potential historic comeback, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court on Thursday reversed the November 2024 ruling of the ICC lower court against Israel’s jurisdictional objections to the issuing of arrest warrants for alleged war crimes against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yoav Gallant.
The ruling is Israel’s first big win before the ICC since a win it obtained in 2012, and this after a string of losses in 2019, 2021, and November 2024 in which the war crimes proceedings against Israel continued to proceed from initial stages to interim stages, threatening to getting to even later stages, such as indictments.
The decision sends the jurisdictional fight back to the ICC lower court to more fully explore Israel’s jurisdictional objections to the arrest warrants and the ICC’s intervention into Israel’s conduct of the current Gaza war more generally.
Until the ICC lower court holds additional hearings on the issue, which could easily take a few months, and maybe even much longer, the whole case against Israel will be frozen.
The arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant technically have not been frozen, but given that the lower court could decide to cancel them after hearing Israel’s full jurisdictional objections, many countries that are members of the ICC may now feel more free to ignore the arrest warrants until a final ruling is reached.
According to the ICC Appeals Court, “Israel’s challenge to the jurisdiction of the Court pursuant to article 19(2) of the Statute should not have been dismissed as premature.”…..
On the merits of the appeal, the Appeals Chamber concluded that the Pre-Trial Chamber committed an error of law by failing to sufficiently address Israel’s argument that it was entitled to make a jurisdictional challenge under article 19(2)(c) of the statute.
Walter Sieruk says
The; left –wing Red /Green alliance corrupted and infiltrated International Criminal Court with its charge of “genocide’” against Benjamin Netanyahu is absurd and n never made in the first place because that charge is invalid and false. For it’s those jihadists of Hamas who committed action of attempted genocide against the Jewish people.
It ‘s actually the jihadist chiefs of Hamas who should have ICC charges and arrest warrants issued against them.
For it was Hamas that stated that current war in the Middle East by murderously invading Israel, on October 7,th , and now has its jihadists hide their terror and weapon centers among civilians ,including children in Gaza and then have the gall to blame the Israel Defense Force when civilians are killed.
For it was Hamas using its jihadists stooges then attempted to commit genocide against the Jewish people and the jihadists of Hamas even went further in heinous evil by kidnapping many Israel’s and raping many Jewish females .
Those Hamas jihadists are so cruel and vicious that they even took Jewish infants and burned them to death while they were still alive.
In spite of all those facts, some despicable people want to have acquittal for Hamas from all is wicked jihad terrorism and release its jihadists from the monstrous Islamic evil that they have so vicious committed and are very guilty of, and yet condemn Israel for striking back and Hamas in self- defense. This is absurd and wrong. Very absurd and wrong.
To add to this libelous and slanderous of false charges of genocide are made against Israel about it heads of government and the IDF.
Such charges are as absurd as they are also wrong. Those changes are very absurd.
Related to this, the Bible informs its reader that “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent – – the Lord detests them both.” Proverbs 17:15. [N.I.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
As for that bogus claim of “war crimes” and “genocide” against Benjamin Netanyahu by the International Criminal Court are unfounded and terrible. Therefore , the country of Hungry is justified for leaving the ICC For the reality is that the actual , real, cruelty are committed, many times over, by the Jihadists of Hamas in their horrendous evil goal committing against genocide of the Jewish people that’s the goal of Hamas and not of those in power in the State of Israel regarding the “Palestine” people.
About innocent those children who died in Gaza because the jihadists Hamas hiding among places with children. Also this current war that Hamas started this with Israel on October 7th when it launched its brutal vicious and murderous and even vile and heinous jihadist attacks on the peaceful Jewish citizens of the State of Israel.
Those innocent children who died in Gaza because of Israel’s air force was not the intention of the government and military officials of Israel.
Those youngster who had been killed had died because those despicable jihadists of Hamas, because they are so very callous and cruel that they deliberately stationed their jihad strategy command and weapon centers at buildings that have children in and around those places.
Therefore the bloodguilt for the death of those children of Gaza on the wicked hands of the Hamas jihadists.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That court should be abolished. If anybody is a war criminal, he can be tried after being captured by the enemy army. So if the Ukrainian army can capture Putin, they can try him. Similarly, if the Palestinian forces of Fatah, or the armies of Jordan or Egypt can capture Netanyahu or Gallant, they can try them. Note that I’m not rooting for either: I’m just describing the framework in which war criminals can and should be tried
Lady of the Lake says
This NWO globalist undemocratic and immoral body should not even exist.
gravenimage says
ICC Appeals Chamber stalls arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
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Well, that’s good–but they never should have been issued in the first place.