You have to admire their sheer chutzpah:
Israel has decided on Sunday to launch an information campaign against the International Criminal Court in order to highlight the court’s lack of jurisdiction and authority in investigation Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a meeting of legal advisers and other officials to hash out an Israeli response to the ICC move, a source in the Prime Minister’s Office said.
The Prime Minister’s Office decried the court’s investigation as “absurd” and slammed it as a “perversion of justice.”
“At a time when terrorism is attacking the free world, this step will hurt international efforts to fight terrorism,” the Jerusalem Post reported, citing sources.
Netanyahu met with security officials and legal experts in order to find discredit the legitimacy of the international tribunal, as the Palestinian Authority is not a state, and technically unable to file a case against the Jewish state in the ICC, said the PMO source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Israeli and American officials have been harshly critical of the ICC move since the Friday decision.
“The decision by the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court to begin an inquiry against the State of Israel is the height of hypocrisy and the opposite of justice,” Netanyahu said at the start of the cabinet meeting Sunday morning. “I have already encountered such phenomena during my years of public service representing the State of Israel both as ambassador to the UN and as prime minister, but this decision by the prosecutor is in a category of its own. It gives legitimacy to international terrorism.
The Jewish people were not organized as a state so an investigation by an international criminal court into the killings at Auschwitz would be ultra vires. Yeah, I can’t see them saying that either.
We have to forgive Netanyahu. After all he is a certifiable lunatic.
Yesterday he ordered his air force to fire a missile at a group of “terrorists” located in Syria. At least five people were killed including several Iranian and Hezbollah soldiers. Those soldiers were invited into Syria by the Syrian government.
So now we wait for the response from both Hezbollah, which will surely come, and from Iran who has every right to respond.
How would Israel like it if Syria fired a missile at a few Israeli terrorists inside Israel?
Odd coincidence, don’t you think, that an Israeli move to delegitimize Justice comes just hours after a brazen ‘terrorist’ attack against the Court’s European supporters?
I thought the same thing.