US condemns ICC over Israel

[MK254]

A Palestinian protester runs away to take cover from tear gas during clashes with Israeli security forces following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on January 16, 2015. AFP PHOTO | JAAFAR ASHTIYEH

The United States on Friday condemned as "tragic irony" the International Criminal Court's decision to open a preliminary probe into possible war crimes committed by Israeli forces against Palestinians.

"We strongly disagree with the ICC prosecutor's action today," State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said in a statement.

"It is a tragic irony that Israel, which has withstood thousands of terrorist rockets fired at its civilians and its neighbourhoods, is now being scrutinised by the ICC," he added.

The ICC's prosecutor on Friday opened the probe into the alleged war crimes, including during last year's offensive in Gaza.

Nearly 2,200 Palestinians and 73 Israelis were killed during that conflict.

The Palestinians formally joined the ICC earlier this month, allowing them to lodge war crimes and crimes against humanity complaints against Israel as of April.

The United States has repeatedly said it does not believe that Palestine is a state and so should not be allowed to join the ICC.

Israel immediately blasted the ICC decision as "scandalous."


Source:nation

 

[Dhuks]

They know they are next, they may see none of their citizens paraded in that dubious court but their moral high ground will collapse eventually.

 

[Yusomwasha]

Netanyahu n muuaji tena mtenda jinai mkubwa alaaniwe pamoja na israel yote

 

[danta]

Netanyahu n muuaji tena mtenda jinai mkubwa alaaniwe pamoja na israel yote

Dua la kuku...

 

[Aidia]

Netanyahu n muuaji tena mtenda jinai mkubwa alaaniwe pamoja na israel yote

Mbongo hana vipaumbele.bokoharamu kwa imani yake anaua watu weusu kwa maelifu haoni.anaona ya Myahudi anayepambana na chuki ya enzi

 

[Kigogo]

ICC ni upumbafu na ushenzi

 

[Adiosamigo]

Israel alienda wapiga Hezbollah, lakini sa wamechokoza moto, wa ngojea kama Hezbollah haijalipa mapigo. Tegeni masikio muone atavyo sambaratishwa Israel na Hezbollah.

 

[MK254]

Israel alienda wapiga Hezbollah, lakini sa wamechokoza moto, wa ngojea kama Hezbollah haijalipa mapigo. Tegeni masikio muone atavyo sambaratishwa Israel na Hezbollah.

Huchoki bangi wewe, sasa huwa unasoma ulichoandika kabla ya kupost.

 

[Ishmael]

The answers are:

A. ISIS/ISIL
B. Hamas
C. Both
D. Neither


___ 1. This group rules by violence, intimidation, murder and barbarism.

___ 2. In their own perverted interpretation of the Koran, they hang and kill gays without hesitation.

___ 3. They view women as 2nd class citizens who are subservient to men.

___ 4. They want to erase/ eliminate / murder all people in their domain who do not subscribe to their own religion.

___ 5. Some of them have called for a 2nd Holocaust against jews...because they are jews.

___ 6. They use media to recruit children to become jihadists and kill their "enemy". (war crime)

___ 7. They view Freedom of Assembly as punishable by death.

____8. Freedom of Speech is absolutely forbidden.

____ 9. They are considered a terrorist group .

____10. They commit crimes against humanity by torturing innocent people with rubber generator belts or cables, torturing people with electric shocks or dragging them by motorcycles as a form of intimidation.

And for extra credit.

___11.There are people who , rather than blame these acts by this group, put the blame on the US or Israel.