Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has been on the ICC arrest warrant list, and there has been a lot of stirring up in Western public opinion circles, but is it possible that the Middle East is about to change the sky? Is the justice that the Palestinian people have been waiting for for a long time coming? According to a number of foreign media sources, Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), may issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Gallant, and Defense Force Chief of Staff Al-Khallewi in recent days.
The reason for this is also very simple, that is, the current ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which is constantly exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and the Israeli government of Netanyahu has not only turned a blind eye to all this, but is still preparing to attack Rafah. Although the Israeli army is fighting under the banner of "completely eliminating Hamas", if the attack on Rafah really begins, it will be tantamount to a "genocide" disaster for the Palestinian people. Under these circumstances, the international community, while strongly condemning Israel, has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and the UN Security Council alone has convened several emergency meetings and adopted relevant resolutions. However, in the face of all this, the Netanyahu government is still taking a tough stance, putting on a posture of not giving up until the goal is achieved, and the world is the enemy. Against this backdrop, it is understandable that the ICC may issue arrest warrants in recent days, with the news that Netanyahu, Gallant and Halevi are being arrested.
Netanyahu, as a party concerned, obviously realized that the situation was not good after hearing the news, but he was not worried that he would really be arrested, he was worried that once the International Criminal Court really issued this arrest warrant, it would seriously deteriorate Israel's international status and reputation, and to some extent, it would be equivalent to confirming Israel's "genocide" in Gaza, and then the Israeli army would inevitably be nameless if it wanted to launch an operation in Gaza. To this end, Netanyahu has been hurriedly preparing for two things in the past few days: the first is to make a clear response to the possibility of the International Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant against him.
On the 26th, Netanyahu publicly claimed that the International Criminal Court may issue an arrest warrant against him in an "attempt to undermine Israel's sovereignty" and "threaten to arrest soldiers and officials of the only democratic country in the Middle East and the only Jewish state in the world", which Israel refuses. In order to make his arguments more intimidating, he also took the opportunity to rally the world to "stand up" for him, claiming that the ICC's actions could also "threaten all the soldiers and officials of democracies fighting terrorism and aggression." Although he has joined the whole world, the facts have long shown that the international community does not agree with the current behavior of the Israeli army in Gaza, and it still strongly condemns it. The so-called "fight against terrorism" in Netanyahu's mouth is nothing more than an excuse he is looking for for the atrocities committed by the Israeli army; you must know that the most casualties in this Palestinian-Israeli conflict are women and children, and are the women and children in Gaza also "terrorists"? Obviously, Netanyahu's response is not convincing.
Secondly, Netanyahu urgently asked the Biden administration in the United States for help, and the phone of US President Biden can be said to be ringing non-stop in the past few days. Since Karim Khan's election as chief prosecutor of the ICC is supported by the United States and the United Kingdom, in Netanyahu's view, the United States should be able to prevent the ICC from taking real action. It is undeniable that the United States does have the ability to influence some decisions of the International Criminal Court, and the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Putin. In general, the help will definitely help, but Biden may not want to help now, one of the reasons is that the Netanyahu government and the Biden administration "do not deal with each other." At present, Netanyahu is bent on taking advantage of this Palestinian-Israeli conflict to pull the United States down, and does not hesitate to provoke a "direct conflict" between Israel and Iran, but this year is the year of the US presidential election, and Biden is bent on being re-elected, and does not want to be dragged into the quagmire of war in the Middle East by Israel. At this time, Netanyahu has a request for himself, and Biden is likely to use this matter to "knock" him.