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 Tuesday’s 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 Israel’s 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 Ziada’s 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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There are a number of indications that B&W is going to win the most seats and form a government with Liberman and cooperation of Arabs.
There’s also Jeremy Saltan, an old hand who thinks the most likely outcome is Likud with 38 seats, able to form government without Liberman.
Pick ‘em. And it will likely take time.
I expect soon after Israel starts selling natural gas to Europe the Europeans will start to be (a little) less anti-Jewish.
A Kachol Lavan led government is only possible if Zionist left-wing parties outperform their April showing. And they would still need religious parties to support their overnment.
If we exclude the Arabs, that’s still a tall order. Likud still has an advantage based on the fact over 60% of Jewish voters skew Right. Add that to the fact the once mighty Labor Party left office over 18 years ago.
Kachol Lavan may come out ahead again tonight but it means nothing if its natural coalition partners remain decimated.
Israel has five channels and there’s also 12 in addition to the other four already mentioned.
Benny Gantz has a distinguished record in the IDF including Chief of the General Staff.
Not the first general officer to go into politics, he’ll be tough to beat. But he’s a little squishy on the Pallies, IMO.
We’ll see how well Labor, Meretz and Ehud Barak’s new party do tonight. If they perform below expectations, Kachol Lavan would be holding the short end of the stick.
We’ll have to see where they’re at when exit poll projections are released.
Netanyahu has always had a late night rabbit out of the hat to save him. Will it be the end of the proverbial rabbit out of the hat tonight? We’ll find out soon if its the end of his winning streak in Israeli politics.
Polls in Israel due to close within the hour. Following election coverage on channel 12 on my Roku IsraTV app.
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They’re Israeli, and Gantz is military, and Bibi is former military and the Israeli PM. So hatred is a given.
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