Belgium would not arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited the country, according to his Belgian counterpart Bart De Wever. “I don’t think there is any European country that would arrest Netanyahu,” he told VRT’s Terzake talk show on Thursday evening.

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    “I don’t think there is any European country that would arrest Netanyahu,”

    Anyone not complying with the ICC arrest warrant not only deletigimitizes the ICC, but also makes themselves complicit in a genocide. This is literally criminal.

    Why should I follow any laws anymore if my leadership takes a massive dump on the most important ones?

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      It is even more ironic as Belgium has been the battlefield for warring larger nations like Germany and France in Europe. Belgium has a strong incentive to uphold a rules based international order. Undermining the attempts at building such an order instead will be to the detriment of it.

      Belgians should take note. The actions of their government now will pave the paths to their descendents being butchered in a future war without rules.

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        I guess he is sympathetic to genocide do the Belgium’s past endeavors in Africa.

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          Want to know the worst thing? The Belgian Free State was a notable improvement over when it was the personal property of King Leopold, which is fucking insane when you consider the fact that the Belgian Free State committed a massacre over a fucking socker game.

          Actually having seen what some Hispanic folks will do over fucking socker I can come up with at least a handful of things that could reasonably lead to that outcome.

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            Actually having seen casual racism upvoted on Lemmy I can come up with at least a few ways that liberalism leads to fascism.

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        No worries, most of us saw this coming when the asshat got to be pm. The asshat is all talk and no actions, which is why the city he is major of ( antwerp ) has such much issues with the drugs mafia after they got kicked out of rotterdam ( the netherlands ). It made his city the ship dock for european drugs cartels as its the second largest dock in the neighbourhood.

        Ive hated the fucker for years, yet here we are.

        The problem is he’s the leader of the nva, the centre right party and they have been shouting right shit for years. And now that the political scene in europe is getting more right with every election, he finally got to power. Instantly i saw that what expected was true: all talk, but no actions. He said for years “look at the new pm, he cant even get an agreement who gets what power. If i was in power…”

        Ye, it took him nearly a year too lawl

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      They’re all complicit in genocide already. That’s probably part of why they don’t want an investigation.

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    If a nation is signatary of the ICC and does not enforce its mandates, that nation is a rogue nation and its politians need to be presented to the ICC.

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    So, basically they are saying the rule of law does not apply anymore? Where are all the Luigis

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        That’s so fucking rage inducing, and then I read the article.

        First paragraph

        citing the 24-year-old’s future as a gynecologist

        Holy fucking shit that’s fucking EVIL

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          That’s everyone’s reaction. Until more context. Basically 2 overly drunk fucks that met up in the city and had sex. One is a male student and the other is a female student. Asked consent, was given. But drunk people can’t give consent.

          The girl was making advances on the guy by kissing him. Nobody would open the door for her, so she had no place to sleep. She slept at the stranger’s place.

          They had consented sex. But legally a woman can’t give consented sex when drunk.

          That the guy is drunk is of no importance legally.

          So yeah, sentenced guilty. But in practice it’s just bullshit. So, no punishment.

          The guy’s life is ruined. Probably will suicide.

          Shit happens bruv

          Idc either way. Male gynaecologists shouldn’t exist.

          I’m just going to hold my hands over my ears and act like I can’t read context and agree with everyone that calls him the literal devil. Grab a pitchfork and a torch and push him to the end of a cliff.

          In truth I don’t care. Don’t be drunk in public ya fucking morons.

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            Awfully sexist of you to say Male Gynecologists shouldn’t exist. You want to deny men jobs because they’re male, Wow. (Or was that sarcasm)

            Anyway can I get a source on your story please.

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    Belgium not having a problem with war criminals and genociders is not really a eyebrow raiser is it?

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    This guy made me so livid. If states are about to renage on their responsibilities then it really is the final straw and we should revolt. F*** these c***s They don’t own the world. They are representatives not kings

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        Genocide is actually very clearly defined under international law. To quote directly from the source:

        In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

        (a) Killing members of the group;

        (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

        © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

        (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

        (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

        Any single one of these criteria individually is enough to meet the definition of genocide. Every single one of these has already occurred and is ongoing, and it is only through pure delusion, media control, and wishful ignorance that anyone can claim otherwise.

        There is virtually no dissent among actual scholars and experts in the field of international law, Israel is unequivocally perpetrating genocide. They have simply not been held to account for their actions yet, due primarily to complicity from allies and collaborators who do not want to be criminalized for their actions as well. People are also not their rulers, and they have been watching those running their governments provide diplomatic, strategic, and political cover for some of the worst atrocities in human history.

        Make no mistake though, justice will come for Israel, and hopefully every state and individual actor who has supported and covered for it as well.

        For people like yourself, I hope you understand that at some point in the future you’re going to have to live in a world that sees you for exactly what you are. Israel will be remembered as exactly what it is, and you will know you were one of its defenders.

        When you hear stories of traumatized, maimed, orphaned children, of mothers forced to endure c sections without anesthesia, of the weeping friends and family of journalists, medical workers, educators, caretakers, and innocents of all walks of life as they and their loved ones were targeted and massacred by an inhuman genocidal apartheid state, you will have to reckon with the fact that you stood on the side of the perpetrators.

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        Would you be so kind as to define what genocide means in your own terms?

        I’m also quite interested in knowing why you think pro-Palestinian movements are insular and not capable of debating anti-Palestinian viewpoints.

        Do you think Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated from their land?

        Lastly, are you in favor of illegal settlements in the West Bank?

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        Removed for genocide denial. See Ployploys comment below, I was going to respond with it, they beat me to it.

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    So hypothetically speaking, if my friend has an arrest warrant and he visits me, and I know he has an arrest warrant, and I decide not to call the cops, what does that make me?

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    If a war criminal visited my country and my country refused to arrest him, I would consider direct action.

    Special scenario for Belgium: suppose that 1000 people with the means to break and enter show up and arrest Netanyahu, and deliver him to a neigbouring country where the ICC resides. What will the cops do, shoot them all?

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      What will the cops do, shoot them all?

      His security detail might. Shooting civilians is their specialty.

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    Okay. Then don’t be surprised that anti-semitism will rise in Europe. This just proves to anti-semites that the Jews control the world.

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      I think a lot of people don’t realize that for Zionist this is a double win.

      If I knew that it was possible to save all the (Jewish) children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.

      -David Ben-Gurion

      The first prime minister of Israel.

      Zionism is a force of destruction to the Jewish people. It often promotes or excuses Antisemitism to accomplish is colonialist objectives.

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      the US to say anything? We do the same thing with our Criminal laws

      … and don’t acknowledge the ICC and host indicted war criminals / Netanjahu. The president is also banking his annexation plans on the ICC not enforcing indictments in his case. And I believe I read that the agenda of Netanjahu’s next visit to the US openly includes action to undermine the ICC, so it’s indeed right wing authoritarians conspiring against accountability.

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      What would it take for the EU to sanction Israel.

      Real politics. Who would be the new gained allies and who would be the lost allies.

      Since ties with USA (biggest funder of Israel) are weakening and we look for new partners, then we can sanction Israel.

      All the countries with Muslims will cheer for that. That’s for sure.