The Israeli government condemned this Thursday (23) an announcement by Germany that it would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the International Criminal Court (ICC) responds to the prosecutor’s request to issue an arrest warrant against him. of the court and if the prime minister visited the European country.
“I’m old enough to remember the German leader [o chanceler Olaf Scholz] coming here days after October 7th [data dos ataques terroristas sofridos por Israel] and claiming that Hamas are the new Nazis. They seek [cometer] genocide against the Jews. Many around the world need to check their moral compass and be on the right side of history,” Avi Hyman, Netanyahu’s spokesman, told the Fox News website.
On Wednesday (22), Scholz’s spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, had been asked whether the German government would execute a possible ICC arrest order against Netanyahu and replied: “Of course. Yes, we comply with the law.” Unlike the United States and Israel, Germany has ratified membership in the ICC.
Also on Fox News, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said: “It is beyond our comprehension that any German government would arrest the democratically elected prime minister of the Jewish state for blood libel. He should be arresting all the anti-Semites attacking Jews in the streets of his nation. Never, never again,” he said, citing the motto remembering the Holocaust.
On Monday (20), ICC prosecutor Karim Khan announced that he had requested arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as leaders of the terrorist group Hamas, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the current conflict in the Middle East.
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