Posted on 09/16/2019 10:27:27 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The District Court of the Hague will hold a hearing on Tuesday about whether a war crimes case against Benny Gantz is admissible relating to his command decisions during the 2014 Gaza War.
Israeli soldiers and commanders may also be on the hot seat at The Hague before the International Criminal Court, but Tuesdays hearing, which also happens to be Election Day, is a local Dutch court proceeding that is unrelated to that.
In fact, the ICC preliminary probe of Israels conduct of the 2014 war is moving slowly and is not expected to come to any conclusion earlier than December, with real progress possibly even farther off.
A statement about the case from the Palestine Justice Campaign said that the case relates to Ismail Ziada and is against Gantz and former IDF Air Force Chief Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Eshel for allegedly killing six members of Ziadas family.
Ziada is claiming that the IDF prosecution uses discriminatory practices against Palestinians which prevent him from receiving justice in Israel.
According to the principle of universal jurisdiction, some countries, especially in Europe, allow prosecution of foreign officials for war crimes if the local state refuses to prosecute.
All prior attempts at using universal jurisdiction against Israeli officials - sometimes described as lawfare - have failed with European courts finding that they did not have jurisdiction for a variety of reasons, though some Israeli victories came only at the appeals level or from executive branch intervention.
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This is designed to HELP Gantz, by creating a foil in the Hague for Israelis to rail against.
Well Israel is never going to hand someone over (thank God) so why hold these things?
[All prior attempts at using universal jurisdiction against Israeli officials - sometimes described as lawfare - have failed with European courts finding that they did not have jurisdiction for a variety of reasons, though some Israeli victories came only at the appeals level or from executive branch intervention.]
The Center parties may win a plurality today but I suspect were headed for another political deadlock.
Polls in Israel close at 10:00 pm tonight and first exit polls should be out within an hour afterwards.
They will likely be inaccurate and it may take several hours for the election outcome to become clear.
If neither bloc wins a Knesset majority, were likely headed for a third general election later this year.
Only other possibility on the table is a national unity government.
Hi! Thank you for the update. How does the Centrist party compare with American GOP and Dems? And what is a national unity govt?
Terrible to consider in light of this month being the 80th anniversary of the start of WWII.
The Left in Israel is on the fringe and wont win more than 10 seats. The Center is in the middle and is competitive with the secular and religious Right.
Main problem is given the weakness of the Zionist Left, a Center Left government is a political and mathematical impossibility because ant-Zionist Arab parties cant be part of a coalition government.
The Center would have to bring on board religious parties to form a government and it would have to make certain concessions to them it doesnt want to make like retreat on extending military conscription to haredi Jews.
What that leaves is a national unity government of the Center and the Right to push through such a measure. Good luck with it.
Neither Netanyahu nor Gantz have good options on the table but the balance of forces, given 63% of Israeli Jewish voters are Right-leaning, favors the former.
The largest city in the country, Jerusalem the capital will go Right as will the working class Sephardic strongholds of South Tel Aviv.
Expect the Center to do well in the upscale areas of Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Who do you prefer for top position? Netanyahu or Gantz?
Netanyahu because hes the lesser of all evils and he still has the best chance of forming the next government.
Real question is who the kingmaker will be: Avigdor Lieberman or Ayelet Shaked. Will it be a man or a woman? Well find out tonight.
Israel should decimate the EU after pushing the ingrates from their borders.
Israel should decimate the EU after pushing the ingrates from their borders.
I agree. Besides, how many divisions does the court have?
The problem with these kind of legal processes is that it can make it impossible for anyone charged to travel through the EU; because a warrant can be served for their arrest in any of those countries.
Makes him look tough on Palestinians while he is a leftist traitor and compromised colluder
International criminal court of criminals, any of the genocidal maniacs over the years go through the court
That is Israeli time. So that would be 3PM our time (Eastern DT). Correct?
10:00 pm Israel is 3:00 pm Eastern.
But dont expect real results very quickly. Its a much different system.
The Euros are pacifist cowards who flaunt their law in effort to control the world.
Europe died and their gene pool is now human trash
In six hours. There are four channels: 11, 10, 13 and 20 each with their own exit polls so dont be surprised if there are differences.
Actual seat distribution will differ when the raw vote is counted and party lists will receive seats based on their share of the vote.
As in April and for decades past, no party is going to win a majority of the popular vote.
Final result is expected to be close and which side gets to form a government will be decided by whose preferred partners come out ahead tonight.
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