ICC warrants like charging Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during WWII 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has requested an arrest warrant against him, along with Hamas officials, for indicting former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. I likened it.

“I think these charges are exactly what President Biden says they are. They are outrageous,” Netanyahu said in an interview with anchor Jake Tapper on CNN’s “The Read” on Tuesday. “They are outrageous. This is a corrupt prosecutor who imposed false charges and created a false symmetry that is dangerous and false.”

“The first false symmetry is that he equates Israel’s democratically elected leaders with the terrorist tyrants of Hamas,” Netanyahu continued. “It’s like, ‘Well, I’m going to issue arrest warrants for FDR and Churchill. [Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.]””

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan on Monday requested arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Galant, and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh.

Mr. Khan said Prime Minister Netanyahu and Mr. Gallant are criminally responsible for starvation, extermination and persecution as a means of war that intentionally targeted civilians, among other war crimes.

Biden on Monday went after ICC prosecutors for trying to obtain arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.

“It is outrageous that ICC prosecutors have applied for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders,” Biden said in a statement. “And let me be clear: no matter what this prosecutor says, there is no equal relationship between Israel and Hamas. We will always support Israel and stand up against threats to its security.” Dew.”

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also criticised the request, saying the ICC was “established by the states parties as a court with limited jurisdiction”.

“These restrictions are rooted in the principle of subsidiarity and allow prosecutors to rush through requests for arrest warrants rather than giving Israel’s judicial system a full and timely opportunity to proceed,” Blinken said in a statement. “In the middle, it doesn’t seem to apply here.”