The Same Coin!

The International Court of Justice ordered an immediate end to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The United States is down sliding in democracy.

Democrats and Republicans are insufferable. They are only bipartisan when it comes to one country engaged in one of the worst acts against mankind. 

President Joe Biden is willing to sacrifice his reelection to stand with the apartheid ethnostate of Israel. Biden and Democrats have banned TikTok, want to redefine antisemitism, continue to ignore their core base of progressive voters to suit the narratives of moderate and conservative Democrats. They also back sanctions on the International  Criminal Court. Democrats will cave to Israel. 

Former president Donald J. Trump is very definition of white privilege. He is running for president to stay out of legal jeopardy. He continues to parrot false narratives about his criminal and civil trials. He still lies about his election loss. Trump and Republicans claim to be the party of "law and order" only when it suits their authoritarian interests. They want to arrest protesters, punish women for having safe medical care, ban transgender Americans from being themselves, ban Muslims, ban Arabs, make English the official language, continue to build a border wall (the monument to white supremacy), pardon seditionists, pack the Supreme Court, push for prayer in public schools, give Israel unilateral support, instigate a trade war with China, banned TikTok, redefine antisemitism and sanctions on the International Criminal Court. Republicans will cave to Israel.

Israel is still engaging in destroying Gaza. The Rafah offense is on and the U.S. is still allowing it to happen. The U.S. will likely veto the emergency session by the United Nations after the International Court of Justice ordered an immediate ceasefire to the conflict.

The ICJ ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. Although Israel is unlikely to comply with the order, it will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country.

The fascist regime of Israel will not abide to international law. The UN is going to figure out ways to bypass U.S. interference when it issues sanctions against the apartheid ethnostate.

Criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza has been growing, particularly since it turned its focus to Rafah. This week alone, three European countries announced they would recognize a Palestinian state, and the chief prosecutor for another international court requested arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, along with Hamas officials.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also under some pressure at home to end the war, which was triggered when Hamas stormed into Israel. Israel says Hamas killed 1,200 people, most civilians, and taking some 250 hostage. Thousands of Israelis have joined weekly demonstrations calling on the government to reach a deal to bring the hostages home, fearing time is running out.

Although the ruling by the International Court of Justice is a blow to Israel’s international standing, the court doesn’t have a police force to enforce its orders. In another case on its docket, Russia has ignored the court’s 2022 order to halt its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The sharply focused decision sent a clear, three-pronged message to Israel, ordering a halt to the Rafah offensive, access to Gaza for war crimes investigators, and a big and immediate increase of humanitarian aid to the region, parts of which are enduring famine.

“This legally binding and very specific ruling leaves Israel with very little wiggle room,” said Reed Brody, a veteran human rights lawyer and prosecutor.

Benny Gantz, a popular Zoinist member of the war cabinet, appeared to indicate that Israel would not change its course regarding Rafah.

“The State of Israel is committed to continue fighting to return its hostages and promise the security of its citizens — wherever and whenever necessary — including in Rafah,” he said.

“We will continue operating in accordance with international law wherever we might operate, while safeguarding to the best extent possible the civilian population. Not because of the ICJ, but because of who we are and the values we stand for.”

Immediately after the ruling, Netanyahu announced that he would hold a special ministerial meeting to decide how to respond. Yair Lapid, the leader of the opposition, derided the decision.

“The fact that the ICJ did not even directly connect the end of the military operation in Rafah to the release of the hostages and to Israel’s right to defend itself against terror is an abject moral failure,” he said.

Biden's support for Israel still strong but its declining due to his frustration with Netanyahu.

Balkees Jarrah, associate international justice director at Human Rights Watch, said the court’s order underscored the perilous situation of Palestinians in Gaza, but warned that it could be ignored if the international community doesn’t use whatever leverage it can on Israel.

“The ICJ’s decision opens up the possibility for relief, but only if governments use their leverage, including through arms embargoes and targeted sanctions, to press Israel to urgently enforce the court’s measures,” Jarrah said.

The court’s president, Nawaf Salam, read out the ruling as a small group of pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside.

Fears the court expressed earlier this year about an operation in Rafah have “materialized,” the ruling said, and Israel must “immediately halt its military offensive” in the city and anything else that might result in conditions that could cause the “physical destruction in whole or in part” of Palestinians there.

Rafah is in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, on the border with Egypt, and over 1 million people sought refuge there in recent months after fleeing fighting elsewhere, with many of them living in teeming tent camps. Israel has been vowing for months to invade Rafah, saying it was Hamas’ last major stronghold, even as several allies warned that an all-out assault would spell disaster.

Israel started issuing evacuation orders about two weeks ago as it began operations on the edge of the city. Since then, the army says an estimated 1 million people have left as forces press deeper inside.

Rafah is also home to a critical crossing for aid, and the U.N. says the flow of aid reaching it has plunged since the incursion began, though commercial trucking has continued to enter Gaza.

The court ordered Israel to keep the Rafah crossing open, saying “the humanitarian situation is now to be characterized as disastrous.”

But it did not call for a full cease-fire throughout Gaza, as South Africa, which has historic ties to the Palestinian people and brought the case, requested last week.

South Africa’s foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, said the country’s allegation that a genocide is underway is getting “stronger and stronger by the day.”

“We are really pleased that the court has given very serious consideration to the matters that we put before it and has affirmed that an urgent decision is needed from the court to pause this onslaught against innocent Palestinian people,” she told South African state broadcaster SABC, adding that it’s now up to the U.N. Security Council to determine how to protect the Palestinians.

John Fetterman and Lindsey Graham support banning International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan from entry into the U.S. because of the indictments of Israeli regime officials.

The cease-fire request is part of a case accusing Israel of committing genocide during its Gaza campaign. Israel vehemently denies the allegations. The case will take years to resolve, but South Africa wants interim orders to protect Palestinians while the legal wrangling continues.

The court ruled Friday that Israel must ensure access for any fact-finding or investigative mission sent by the U.N. to investigate the genocide allegations.

At public hearings last week at the International Court of Justice, South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusimuzi Madonsela, urged the panel of 15 international judges to order Israel to “totally and unconditionally withdraw” from the Gaza Strip.

The court has already found that Israel’s military operations pose a “real and imminent risk” to the Palestinian people.

Israel’s offensive has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians. The operation has obliterated entire neighborhoods, sent hundreds of thousands of people fleeing their homes, and pushed parts of the territory into famine.

“This may well be the last chance for the court to act,” Irish lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, who is part of South Africa’s legal team, told judges last week.

In January, ICJ judges ordered Israel to do all it could to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide in Gaza, but the panel stopped short of ordering an end to the military offensive. In a second order in March, the court said Israel must take measures to improve the humanitarian situation.

The ICJ rules in disputes between nations. A few kilometers (miles) away, the International Criminal Court files charges against individuals it considers most responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

On Monday, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, said he has asked ICC judges to approve arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three top Hamas leaders — Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh — of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Israel is not an ICC member, so even if the arrest warrants are issued, Netanyahu and Gallant do not face any immediate risk of prosecution. But the threat of arrest could make it difficult for the Israeli leaders to travel abroad.

Rights lawyer Brody said the that ICJ decision together with the ICC prosecutor’s request for warrants “are a 1-2 legal punch to the conduct of Israel’s war in Gaza.”

Ohio Republicans Intentionally Delaying Biden Ballot Access!

Ohio governor demands Republicans get Biden and Trump on the ballot.

Ohio governor is calling a special session of the statehouse after Republicans refused to place President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the general election ballot. It has become clear that the Republican Party is doing all it can to stop Biden.

Biden is being challenged by the left for not doing enough to stop Israel from its genocide.

The president is being challenged from the right over conspiracy theories about his son Hunter Biden, his age, his stuttering, the Russian operative Tara Reade accusing him of sexual assault, his handling of the economy, his handling of the Israel genocide and just their plain hatred of him.

The state of Ohio is not in play. 

Donald J. Trump will likely carry Ohio in the general election. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is facing Bernie Moreno in the general election. It is a toss up. Brown voted to ban TikTok if the company can't find an American investor. Moreno supports an abortion ban nationwide and supports the former president Donald J. Trump's false belief of the 2020 election being stolen.

Colorado, Maine and Illinois had Trump disqualified from the primary ballot and his campaign fast tracked it to the Supreme Court. The states believe Trump's role in the insurrection is a violation of the U.S. Constitution. 

They had the legal right to reject an insurrectionist. The Supreme Court made it clear that Congress had the right to disqualify candidates. However, it did not make a broad impact on Trump in the primaries. He won despite not attending any Republican presidential candidate debates or even following the rules. He forced Ronna McDaniel out because of that.

DeWine on Thursday called a special session for the state's Legislature to get President Joe Biden on the ballot this November, saying his patience has "run out" with his fellow Republicans who appear less than inclined to offer a legislative fix for a timing problem with the Democratic convention.

“The Legislature had [a] session yesterday and again failed to take any action. This is simply unacceptable,” DeWine said in remarks to the press. “Ohio is running out of time to get Joe Biden, the sitting president of the United States, on the ballot this fall. Failing to do so is simply not acceptable. This is a ridiculous — this is an absurd situation.”

“The purpose of this session will be for the General Assembly to pass legislation ensuring that both major presidential candidates will be on the Ohio ballot in November, as well as legislation that would prohibit campaign spending by foreign nationals,” DeWine said.

NBC News has reached out to the Biden campaign for comment on DeWine's remarks.

The late date of this year's Democratic convention, at which Democrats are set to certify Biden as their nominee, comes after Ohio's statutory deadline to certify presidential candidates for its November ballot. In the past, such issues have been handled with quick legislative fixes, but a number of Republican legislators have balked this year.

DeWine has been at odds with the GOP-dominated state Legislature in the past. In 2021, lawmakers voted to limit his authority to issue public health orders. By votes of 23-10 in the Senate and 62-35 in the House, legislators overturned his veto of a bill that aimed to give them more power to reject his moves. The override set up a power struggle with DeWine, who had mandated masks and balanced other social distancing regulations against the reopening of schools and businesses.

Ohio Democratic Party Chair Elizabeth Walters blasted "corrupt GOP politicians" in a statement after DeWine's announcement.

"Meanwhile, Republican politicians who hold supermajorities in both chambers at the statehouse must put politics aside and pass a clean bill to put Joe Biden on the ballot," Walters said. "Despite Republicans’ political gamesmanship, we’re confident Joe Biden will be on the Ohio ballot.”

Across the aisle, Ohio Republican Party Chairman Alex M. Triantafilou agreed with DeWine's decision to call a special session, "although we are confident that Donald Trump will win decisively."

Ohio used to be considered a vital swing state, but it has trended to the right in recent elections.

In 2020, then-President Donald Trump won the state with about 53.3% of the vote, compared to Biden's 45.2%. Four years earlier, Trump won with 51.8% to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 43.7%. President Barack Obama won the state in 2012, marking the last time a Democratic presidential nominee has won Ohio.

Ohio Predator Tries To Duck His Shame!

When Brock Turner is out in the city, he likes to be called Allen.

Be warned, there will be details of sexual abuse.

Former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner is using his middle name to avoid the publicity and try to rebuild his life. Not saying all individuals deserve a second chance, Turner is by far an unrepentant figure in the game.

White privilege kept him out of a California iron college. He now lives with the shame of being labeled a TIER III in California and Ohio where he lives.

Turner grew up in Dayton. He attended prestigious schools and was accepted into Stanford on a full ride swimming scholarship. He was hoping to be an Olympian.

But all that changed when he decided to take advantage of a woman who was too intoxicated for sexual encounters. Chanel Miller (formerly the Jane Doe) who Brock sexually assaulted was robbed of her life. Two men saw Turner drag her behind a dumpster and tried to penatrate while she was unconscious.

Two Swedish graduate students, Peter Lars Jonsson and Carl-Fredrik Arndt, were cycling on the Stanford campus at about 1:00 a.m., on January 18, 2015, when they spotted the assault taking place. According to Arndt and Jonsson, they surprised Turner behind a dumpster as he was on top of an unconscious 22-year-old Chanel Miller, whose dress had been pulled up to expose her genitals, her underwear and cell phone having been dropped beside her. Jonsson and Arndt saw Turner thrust his hips into Miller, whom the two men observed appeared to be unconscious. Jonsson testified that he confronted Turner and asked him, "What the fuck are you doing? She's unconscious." According to Jonsson, Turner quickly rose and attempted to flee the scene. As Arndt briefly went to determine whether she was breathing, Jonsson chased Turner, tripped him and held him down around 75 feet (23 m) away from the dumpster, asking "What are you smiling for?" Later, responding to the assistant District Attorney's questions during the trial, Turner testified that he was laughing because he found the situation ridiculous. Arndt then joined the chase, helping to pin Turner down while a third bystander called sheriff's deputies. When the authorities arrived, they arrested Turner on suspicion of attempted rape.

According to a deputy sheriff who described the victim as unconscious at the scene, when Miller arrived at the hospital, she did not respond to shouting and being shaken by the shoulders. She regained consciousness at 4:15 am. She later testified at Turner's trial that at the time she regained consciousness, she had pine needles in her hair and on her body, and dried blood on her hands and elbows. In an interview with police, she said she did not recall being alone with a man during the night and that she did not consent to any sexual activity. At the hospital, she was found to have abrasions and erythema (reddening) on her skin. One nurse who administered a sexual assault response team examination at the hospital determined that she had experienced significant trauma (physical injury, bruising, etc.) and penetrating trauma (piercing and cutting injuries).

Turner and Miller had attended a party at Kappa Alpha Order fraternity earlier in the night. Her sister testified in the trial that Turner, a man previously unknown to Miller, had approached her twice and attempted to kiss her, but that she pulled away. She also testified that she never saw Turner and her sister at the party. According to a police report compiled in the morning after the incident, Turner at first told police that he met Miller outside the fraternity house and left with her. He also stated he did not know her name and "stated that he would not be able to recognize her if he saw her again."

Chanel Miller.

After his arrest, Turner told police that he met Miller at the Kappa Alpha house, they "drank beer together," "walked away from the house holding hands," and that he took off her clothes and fondled her while she rubbed his back. Turner then said he got nauseous and told her he needed to vomit. Turner said he got up and started to walk away to throw up, and heard another person saying something to him which he could not understand, then heard the same person talking to another person in a foreign language. Turner initially denied but later admitted that he ran from the two Swedish graduate students before being tackled. During his trial testimony, Turner stated that he and Miller drank beer together, danced and kissed at the party, and agreed to go back to his room. Turner stated that Miller slipped on a slope behind a wooden shed, then Turner got down to the ground and started kissing her. Turner stated he then asked her if she wanted him to "finger" her, to which she said yes. He stated that he "fingered" her for a minute as they were kissing, then they started "dry humping." Turner testified that he stumbled down an incline where he was confronted by Jonsson and Arndt, who were saying things like "You're sick" and "Do you think that's OK?" Turner testified that he did not know what they were talking about. Turner stated that he fled when Jonsson tried to put him in an armlock.

Both prosecuting Attorney Alaleh Kianerci and Miller stated that Turner's narrative during trial testimony was fabricated. Kianerci argued to the jury, "He's able to write the script because she has no memory. But just because he wrote the script doesn't mean that ... knowledgeable jurors have to believe it." The victim described Turner's testimony as presenting "a strange new story, [that] almost sounded like a poorly written young adult novel."

The jury found Brock guilty and recommended a 25 year term.

The state judge, Aaron Persky decided to sentence Turner to six months in the Santa Clara County jail followed by three years of probation. After three months in jail, Turner was released on September 2, 2016. He is permanently registered as a sex offender and was obligated to participate in a sex offender rehabilitation program.

The decision was controversial. Persky was a former Stanford student and an alumni.

He called it a youthful discretion that ruined a good person's life. It led to his recall and eventual disbarment. Turner lost his scholarship and was booted from Stanford. Upon returning home, some of his allies backed him, most of the world condemned him.

Turner works at factory in Springboro and travels to his Alcoholic Anonymous and probation office. He has stayed out of the limelight. 

Until now.

Folks around Dayton seen him back in the clubs and he is using his middle name Allen to pick up women. 

Turner should just try to find women who are willing to take him. The club scene is going will put this predator in the iron college.

SCOTUS Keeps GOP Gerrymandering On The South!

The Supreme Court's six morons dismiss the NAACP complaint about racial gerrymandering in the South.

If former president Donald J. Trump wins, he will likely stack the Supreme Court and of course, progressives will blame each other. While I am angry with President Joe Biden and his "iron clad" support for Israel as well as him signing laws giving Israel billions while banning TikTok, Democrats have a rare chance at unifying.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of segregationists. Yes, Republicans.

The very same political party that claims to "freed the slaves" but always wants them "locked up" or "put in their place" allowed the South to continue its hyperpartisan gerrymandering to keep Republicans in power for decades to come.

Biden, Congress and the Supreme Court are tanking in job approval. Trump so far has 23% of the Black vote. The former president has gained more support despite him being a confirmed rapist, deadbeat, adulterer, thief and seditionist. A liar and con man who tries to paint his rival as such.

The Court ideology is not popular. Rolling back progress is the price we pay when we don't vote or hold our vote against a candidate over a political disagreement.

Yeah, I am pissed that Biden still favors Israel. It will doom him. But the Supreme Court and the fact that the 6-3 majority is close to destroying everything should be a warning sign.

The Court's fascist wing basically stomped on fair elections and it will provide a future president an opportunity to flip a district to win a state.

The Republicans intentionally gerrymandered a map to give them an advantage.

The Court overturned a lower court decision that found that South Carolina Republicans improperly used race to gerrymander the state’s 1st Congressional District in a Thursday decision.

A three-judge federal district court panel ruled in 2023 that the lines drawn in the state’s 1st Congressional District were an illegal racial gerrymander. The legislature’s movement of Black voters out and white voters in amounted to a “bleaching” of the district, the district court said in a ruling that Republicans in the state legislature later appealed to the Supreme Court.

But the conservative majority on the Supreme Court disagreed in a 6-3 opinion that reversed and remanded the lower court decision. The majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, argued that the complaint brought by the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP relied on “circumstantial” evidence that the state legislature used race when it drew the 1st District’s lines. Instead, the majority sided with South Carolina’s argument that the state’s movement of Black voters in and white voters out of the district was merely a side effect of their attempt at partisan gerrymandering.

“A circumstantial-evidence-only case is especially difficult when the State raises a partisan-gerrymandering defense,” Alito wrote in the opinion, noting that the majority of Black voters in South Carolina voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. “When partisanship and race correlate, it naturally follows that a map that has been gerrymandered to achieve a partisan end can look very similar to a racially gerrymandered map.”

Racial gerrymandering keeps insufferable lawmakers like Nancy Mace in power.

Justice Clarence Thomas filed a concurring opinion, while the three liberal justices, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined in a dissent.

The decision casts a bright light on the difficulties in determining when a state, particularly one like South Carolina that has a Black population twice the national average and presents a high degree of racial polarization with most Black voters and white voters supporting different parties, uses race or partisanship to redraw district lines.

And since the Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that federal courts cannot adjudicate claims of partisan gerrymandering, as the Constitution has nothing to say about it, states simply need to show that they only relied on partisan information, like party registration, when engaging in redistricting.

The conservative justices were not convinced by the district court’s reliance on expert analysis showing that South Carolina could not have moved the exact number of Black voters out of the district it needed to in order to achieve the desired GOP balance without relying on race.

″[N]o direct evidence supports the District Court’s finding that race predominated in the design of District 1 in the Enacted Plan. The circumstantial evidence falls far short of showing that race, not partisan preferences, drove the districting process, and none of the expert reports offered by the Challengers provides any significant support for their position,” the majority opined.

Thomas’ concurrence goes further, questioning what is even appropriate for the Supreme Court to weigh in on.

“In my view, the Court has no power to decide these types of claims. Drawing political districts is a task for politicians, not federal judges. There are no judicially manageable standards for resolving claims about districting, and, regardless, the Constitution commits those issues exclusively to the political branches. ... It behooves us to abandon our misguided efforts and leave districting to politicians,” Thomas wrote.

In a pointed dissent, however, Kagan and the other liberal justices suggest that in interpreting the evidence of the case, “the majority goes seriously wrong.”

″[T]he Challengers introduced more than enough evidence of racial gerrymandering to support the District Court’s judgment. The majority’s attempt to explain its contrary result fails at every turn,” Kagan wrote, accusing the majority of picking and choosing evidence and inverting the burden of proof.

“In every way, the majority today stacks the deck against the Challengers. They must lose, the majority says, because the State had a “possible” story to tell about not considering race—even if the opposite story was the more credible,” she added. “When racial classifications in voting are at issue, the majority says, every doubt must be resolved in favor of the State, lest (heaven forfend) it be ‘accus[ed]’ of ‘offensive and demeaning’ conduct.”

Prior to redistricting in 2021, the 1st District featured a much closer partisan balance than it does now, with voters choosing Donald Trump over Joe Biden by just six percentage points in 2020. Democrat Joe Cunningham won the district by 4,000 votes in 2018 and then lost to current GOP Rep. Nancy Mace by fewer than 6,000 votes in 2020. Mace walked to an easy 14-point win in 2022 following the redistricting that exchanged Black voters for white voters in the district.

The Supreme Court’s decision would not have mattered for the 2024 election, however, as the district court ruled in March that the state could go forward with the challenged map while it waited on the high court’s ruling.

Nimarata Haley Backs Trump!

Ben Garrison, the racist comic book artist predicted Nikki Haley's demise.

I guess it takes a bird brain to be a GOP woman.

After insulting him and calling him forgetful, saying that the Republican Party is stupid for electing an indicted criminal, calling his presidency a disgrace, saying that old men need cognitive tests to prove they have the ability, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has conceded to Donald J. Trump. She will endorse the the former president.

After months of denial and strong condemnation, Haley decided that having President Joe Biden is worse. Trump was found liable for sexual assault, found liable for defunding the state of New York, indicted by the state of New York, indicted by the state of Georgia, indicted by the U.S. government, facing legal issues for defrauding investors and faces lawsuits from those involved in Jan. 6.

Yet, Haley will pick a man who is willing to call her a "bird brain" and a "foreigner."

He picked the former South Carolina governor to be the UN Ambassador from 2017 until 2019. Haley endorsed Marco Rubio in 2016. She said his "grab 'em by the 🐱" was disqualifying and even thought the former president's actions on Jan. 6 were criminal.

The Republicans are a bunch of hypocrites.

“Trump has not been perfect on these policies,” Haley said Wednesday. “I’ve made that clear many, many times.”

Haley stopped short of endorsing Trump, whom she encouraged to reach out to her supporters Wednesday.

“Trump would be smart to reach out to the millions of people who voted for me and continue to support me and not assume that they’re just going to be with him,” she said.

Haley got more than 20% of the GOP vote in Indiana’s Republican primary earlier this month, even though she dropped out of the presidential race on March 6 with “no regrets.”

Haley referred to her opponent as “unhinged” and “diminished” in February. Trump implied Haley’s husband, a National Guardsman who deployed overseas, didn’t want to be with his wife.

“Where is he?” Trump asked in Haley’s native state of South Carolina. “He’s gone. He knew.”

Trump who threatened banning Haley and her supporting from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee said he “wish her well!” 

Trump is not considering Haley as a vice presidential nominee.

🇮🇪 🇳🇴 🇪🇸 Will Recognize 🇵🇸!

Three European Union countries will recognize Palestinian sovereignty.

Israel is fuming. They are recalling ambassadors and threatening retaliation.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. 

Netanyahu and Gallant won't be able to travel to 124 sovereignties. Even if he attempts to travel to the United States, a member not ratified poses a risk. Countries once friendly to Israel will abide to the ICC warrant. 

The U.S. vows to punish the ICC. It further weakens our standing. 

President Joe Biden and Congress continue to be lockstep with Israel. 

The effort to secure full UN membership was renewed in 2024 during the Israel–Hamas war, with the United Nations Security Council holding a vote on the topic in April. While the vote was 12 in favor, two abstentions, and one vote against, the United States vetoed the measure so it did not pass.

On May 10, 2024, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution that recognized that Palestine met the requirements for UN membership, and requested that the Security Council reconsider admitting the state. It also granted Palestine additional rights at the UN, including being seated with member states, the right to introduce proposals and agenda items, and participate in committees, but did not grant them the right to vote.

Norway, Ireland and Spain said Wednesday they would recognize a Palestinian state, a historic but largely symbolic move that further deepens Israel’s isolation more than seven months into its grinding war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel immediately denounced the decisions and recalled its ambassadors to the three countries.

President Biden get on the right side of history.

Palestinians welcomed the announcements as an affirmation of their decades-long quest for statehood in east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — territories Israel seized in the 1967 Mideast war and still controls.

While some 140 countries — more than two-thirds of the United Nations — recognize a Palestinian state, Wednesday’s cascade of announcements could build momentum at a time when even close allies of Israel have piled on criticism for its conduct in Gaza.

It was the second blow to Israel’s international reputation this week after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said he would seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister. The International Court of Justice is also considering allegations of genocide that Israel has strenuously denied.

Israel recalled its ambassadors to the three countries and summoned their envoys, accusing the Europeans of rewarding Hamas for its Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war. Foreign Minister Israel Katz said the European ambassadors would watch grisly video footage of the attack.

In that assault, Israel says Hamas-led militants stormed across the security wall, killing 1,200 people and taking some 250 hostage. In reality, many were likely causalities of the Israeli Defense Forces. The IDF is notorious for killing Israeli civilians and placing the blame on Hamas. Even some U.S. lawmakers blame Hamas for the deaths of humanitarian aid workers even though Israel committed the acts. The U.S. still awaiting the results of the Israeli airstrike on the World Central Kitchen workers. 

In clearly marked vehicles and buildings, Israel has launched airstrikes or gunfire on Red Cresent ambulances, UN aid workers, UNRWA administered buildings and journalists. 

They have killed Americans.

Biden and Congress don't react to it. They offer phony outrage.

Nor has Donald J. Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The current and former presidents all failed to control Israel. 

They all had an opportunity to control Netanyahu.

The ICC prosecutor is also seeking arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders. Israel’s ensuing offensive has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between fighters and civilians.

“History will remember that Spain, Norway, and Ireland decided to award a gold medal to Hamas murderers and rapists,” Katz said.

In response to the announcements in Europe, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir paid a provocative visit Wednesday to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound — a flashpoint in Jerusalem that is sacred to Muslims and Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount. The move that could escalate tensions across the region.

“We will not even allow a statement about a Palestinian state,” he said.

Netanyahu’s government opposes Palestinian statehood and says the conflict can only be resolved through direct negotiations, which last collapsed over 15 years ago.

The international community has long viewed the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel as the only realistic way to resolve the conflict, and in past weeks several European Union countries have indicated they plan to recognize a Palestinian state to further those efforts.

In contrast, the United States and Britain, among others, have backed the idea of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel but say it should come as part of a negotiated settlement.

The formal recognition by Norway, Spain and Ireland — which all have a record of friendly ties with both the Israelis and the Palestinians, while long advocating for a Palestinian state — is planned for May 28.

Their announcements came in swift succession. Norway, which helped broker the Oslo accords that kicked off the peace process in the 1990s, was the first to announce its decision, with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre saying “there cannot be peace in the Middle East if there is no recognition.”

The country plans to upgrade its representative office in the West Bank to an embassy.

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris called it an “historic and important day for Ireland and for Palestine,” saying the announcements had been coordinated and that other countries might join.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who announced his country’s decision before parliament, has spent months touring European and Middle Eastern countries to garner support for recognition and a cease-fire in Gaza.

“This recognition is not against anyone, it is not against the Israeli people,” Sánchez said. “It is an act in favor of peace, justice and moral consistency.”

President Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, welcomed the decisions and called on other nations to “recognize our legitimate rights and support the struggle of our people for liberation and independence.”

Hamas, which Western countries and Israel view as a terrorist group, does not recognize Israel’s existence but has indicated it might agree to a state on the 1967 lines, at least on an interim basis. Israel says any Palestinian state would be at risk of being taken over by Hamas, posing a threat to its security.

The announcements are unlikely to have any impact on the war in Gaza — or the long-running conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

Israel annexed east Jerusalem and considers it part of its capital, and in the occupied West Bank it has built scores of Jewish settlements that are now home to over 500,000 Israelis. The settlers have Israeli citizenship, while the 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank live under seemingly open-ended Israeli military rule.

Netanyahu has said Israel will maintain security control of Gaza even after any defeat of Hamas, and the war is still raging there. An Israeli airstrike early Wednesday killed 10 people, including four women and four children, who had been displaced and were sheltering in central Gaza, according to hospital authorities.

Hugh Lovatt, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said “recognition is a tangible step towards a viable political track leading to Palestinian self-determination.”

But in order for it to have an impact, he said, it must come with “tangible steps to counter Israel’s annexation and settlement of Palestinian territory – such as banning settlement products and financial services.”

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide defended the importance of the move in an interview with The Associated Press, saying that while the country has supported the establishment of a Palestinian state for decades, it knew that recognition is “a card that you can play once.”

“We used to think that recognition would come at the end of a process,” he said. “Now we have realized that recognition should come as an impetus, as a strengthening of a process.”

Bleach Blonde Bad-Built Butch Body Has No Serious Challengers!

Body build like an orangutan. 

The Georgia 14th Congressional District is a relatively safe district for the Republican lawmaker. She easily won her primary because there was no contender and she ran unopposed.

Too bad their nominee is by far one of the laziest in Congress. The Democrats don't have a strong contender to face her. She has gotten used to being in the limelight. 

Her boyfriend is leaving Right Side Broadcasting Network to join Newsmax or Real America's Voice News to push his pro Trump propaganda.

When an insufferable bunch of lawmakers got into it during the committee hearing on whether they should hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt, one Georgia lawmaker managed to take aim at the other's eyelashes. It prompted the Texas lawmaker to finally give her nickname.

It also forced two New York lawmakers to get into the spat.

It also dragged a Pennsylvania senator into the spat through his tone deaf reaction to the latest episode of insufferables.

Mind you, that senator spent his stroke recovery doing childish ads against his Republican rival.

So the phrase, Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body is about to be trademarked. It may be an unlikely birthday present to the insufferable Georgia lawmaker.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are insufferable and their behavior shows how our elected leaders can't do their jobs. Instead of decorum, it's hysterical theatrics.

Crockett is determined to get that phrase trademark so that she can collect royalties from the term to describe the insufferable Georgia lawmaker. Conservatives are calling Crockett "ghetto" and progressives are calling Greene a "neanderthal."

Crockett filed a trademark application for the phrase with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Sunday, May 19. She plans to use it for apparel like hats, hoodies, socks, pants, t-shirts and tops, per the filing. The owner's name is Jasmine for US, which is her branding for her website and professional Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Greene responded to the application, telling Fox News Digital on Monday, May 20, "I’m very happy with myself. I turn 50 on Monday, and I’m so excited that I’m still alive and healthy and have done so much in life."

"And I think no matter what shape, size or how we look, we need to be ourselves, not telling women the only way to be attractive or accepted is to have fake boobs, fake hair, fake lashes, and injected faces," Greene, a Republican from Georgia, told Fox News Digital. "I mean, we all wear makeup and do lashes and stuff sometimes, but it’s out of control. Women need a better message for women."

Taking advantage of a name calling, Crockett vows to trademark the Greene insult.

Crockett, 43, made the remark in a chaotic moment at the House Oversight Committee meeting on Thursday, May 16, referencing Greene, who had commented on her appearance moments before.

During the hearing, which was intended to revolve around a resolution over Attorney General Merrick Garland, Greene, 49, asked the committee's Democrats if they had been “employing Judge Merchan's daughter” — referring to New York Judge Juan Merchan in Donald Trump’s criminal trial.

Crockett questioned how that was related to Garland, asking Greene, "Do you know what we're here for?"

Greene quipped, "I don't think you know what you're here for. I think your fake eyelashes are messing with your reading."

As those in attendance verbally reacted to the comment and called for order, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said it was “absolutely unacceptable" and demanded for it to be removed from the record.

She added, “How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person?”

After a back-and-forth between Ocasio-Cortez, 34, and Greene, Crockett asked for clarification on what's considered an insult and appeared to toss in a jab of her own.

“I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling,” she said. “If somebody on this committee starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”

It also led to an exchange between Crockett and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL).

“Calm down,” Luna said to Crockett.

Crockett: “No! No, no, no, because this is what y’all do!”

Luna: “I can't hear you with your yelling.”

Crockett: “No! Don't tell me to calm down! Because y’all talk noise and then you can’t take it! … If I come and talk shit about her, y’all gonna have a problem!”

Luna: “I don’t know why you’re acting like that. It’s not cute.”

So the oaf, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) claimed it was like Jerry Springer. Mind you, he is a part of this too. Waving Israeli flags, sticking his tongue at constituents and shoving protesters. Such an asshole.

“In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show,” Fetterman said Friday morning on social media platform X. “Today, I’m apologizing to The Jerry Springer Show.” 

Ocasio-Cortez, who was one of the major lawmakers who clashed during the committee’s markup to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt, shot back at the first-term senator, saying she stands up to “bullies.” 

“I understand you likely would not have stood up for your colleague and seem to be confused about racism and misogyny being a ‘both sides’ issue,” Ocasio-Cortez said Friday on X. 

“But I stand up to bullies, instead of becoming one. And to the women of Pennsylvania: I’d stand up for you too. Enjoy your Friday.” 

Tornadoes Destroy Greenfield, Iowa!

Greenfield, Iowa destroyed by a EF4 tornado.

The billions of dollars going to fucking Israel is a big problem. Well they could go to our own country. Seeing that climate change is causing more deadlier storms, could we start demanding our lawmakers focus on fixing America instead of funding Israel.

Israel should be banned from the U.S., made to pay for reparations to every victim of the nakba and demolish the notion of being a "Jewish State." A country that maintains a religious order is a country embraced in fascism. It is not antisemitism, it is a fact that we must realize that America's values cannot solely depend on protecting Israel. We are often pulled into conflict because of Israel. Enough is enough.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Kim Reynolds, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) and Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-IA) will react to the tornadoes that ravaged through the state of Iowa.

Unprecedented that all 99 counties in the state were at a n Enhanced to Moderate risk of tornado activity. 

Now the lawmakers will spend more taxpayer money to fix our crumbling infrastructure.

Many of these Republicans who vote against funding the government and assistance for some of America's less fortunate are willing to give billions to a foreign nation engaged in an illegal act of genocide. Same with Democrats. They claim they want to protect democracy but endorse a fascist government sworn to being an ethnostate on our taxpayer dime.

When will American lawmakers come to their senses and start focusing on the needs of Americans and not Israelis?

Israel doesn't do shit for the United States. All it does is continue hostile tensions in the Middle East, ignore international law, defy U.S. order to stop carrying out illegal invasions, push propaganda and espionage tactics on civilians. Israel always begs constantly for our taxpayer money.

Authorities in Iowa were continuing search and rescue efforts Wednesday, a day after a deadly tornado slammed the state, killing at least one.

The Adams County Sheriff’s office said a woman died Tuesday when her vehicle was blown off the road during the storms about 3 miles (5 kilometers) north of Corning, Iowa, or about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Greenfield, where the tornado left a wide swath of obliterated homes and crumpled cars.

The woman’s name and age were not immediately released. She was the only occupant in the vehicle.

Officials did not immediately give details Wednesday morning of other deaths or injuries, saying they were still conducting search and rescue operations.

The tornado that tore through Greenfield also twisted and toppled wind turbines outside of the small town.

After devastating Greenfield, a town of 2,000, the storms moved eastward to pummel parts of Illinois and Wisconsin, knocking out power to tens of thousands of customers in the two states.

Deadlier storms in Tornado Alley.

The deadly twister that hit Iowa came amid a historically bad season for tornadoes in the U.S. at a time when climate change is heightening the severity of storms around the world. April had the second highest number of tornadoes on record in the U.S.

Through Tuesday, there have been 27% more tornadoes in the country than average. The preliminary count for this year of 859 is the highest since 2017 and is significantly more than the average of 676 through May 21, according to NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Nearly 700 of the tornadoes have been in April and May.

Iowa has had the most tornadoes this year with 81, followed by Texas with 74 and Kansas and Ohio each with 66.

Greenfield’s hospital was among the buildings that were damaged in the town, which meant that at least a dozen people who were hurt had to be taken to facilities elsewhere, according to Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Alex Dinkla.

The tornado destroyed much of Greenfield, which is located about 55 miles (90 kilometers) southwest of Des Moines, during a day that saw multiple tornadoes, giant hail and heavy rain in several states. The National Weather Service said it received 23 tornado reports Tuesday, with most in Iowa, and one each in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

On Facebook, people as far as 100 miles (160 kilometers) away from Greenfield posted photos of ripped family photos, check stubs, damp yearbook pages and other items that were lifted into the sky by the Greenfield tornado.

In Wisconsin, the weather service’s Green Bay office dispatched a staffer Wednesday morning to survey storm damage near the village of Unity in western Marathon County after law enforcement received a report from the public about a tornado on the ground about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday in that community about 55 miles (89 kilometers) east of Eau Claire, said meteorologist Roy Eckberg. He said staffers would also be visiting Outagamie County near the city of Kaukauna, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) southwest of Green Bay, to investigate significant wind damage there.

Reynolds said she planned to visit Greenfield on Wednesday morning.

“It was just a few weeks ago that tornadoes hit several other Iowa communities, and it’s hard to believe that it’s happened again,” she said in a statement. “Iowans are strong and resilient, and we will get through this together.”

Iowa had braced for severe weather after the weather service’s Storm Prediction Center gave most of the state a high chance of seeing severe thunderstorms with the potential for strong tornadoes. The storms and tornado warnings moved into Wisconsin on Tuesday evening and night.

Earlier in the day, residents to the west in Omaha, Nebraska, awoke to sirens blaring and widespread power outages as torrential rain, high winds and large hail pummeled the area. The deluge flooded basements and submerged cars. Television station KETV showed firefighters rescuing people from vehicles.

In Illinois, dust storms led authorities to shut down stretches of two interstates due to low visibility.

The storms followed days of extreme weather that have ravaged much of the middle section of the country. Strong winds, large hail and tornadoes swept parts of Oklahoma and Kansas late Sunday, damaging homes and injuring two in Oklahoma.

Another round of storms Monday night raked Colorado and western Nebraska and saw the city of Yuma, Colorado, blanketed in hail the size of baseballs and golf balls, turning streets into rivers of water and ice.

Red Lobster Is A Sinking Ship!

The owners of Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy.

Eat in restaurants are about to collapse.

McDonald's, Burger King and Starbucks suffer because of their support for Israel. Now they are begging people by offering cheap meals for $5 and new flavored drinks.

Endless buffet of shrimp then a shocking announcement. 

Red Lobster files for bankruptcy and is expected to close hundreds of locations. We give billions to Israel while our own country is experiencing turmoils. It would be nice of we support local or Black-owned seafood restaurants.

There are only a handful of local seafood restaurants owned by Black entrepreneurs.

The company said it had more than $1 billion in debt and less than $30 million in cash on hand. It plans to sell its business to its lenders, and in turn, it will receive financing to stay afloat. It expects to continue to close restaurants in the meantime.

Red Lobster, known for its cheddar bay biscuits, crab legs and shrimp dishes, spread around the country during the 1980s and 1990s. In 2016, Beyoncé mentioned Red Lobster in her song “Formation,” describing bringing a romantic partner to Red Lobster, causing sales to surge.

With 578 restaurants across 44 states and Canada, Red Lobster serves 64 million customers a year, and it brings in $2 billion in annual sales, the company said in its bankruptcy filing. One in five lobster tails purchased in North America is bought by Red Lobster.

But recent mismanagement, competition, inflation and other factors brought down Red Lobster, analysts and former Red Lobster employees say.

Years of underinvestment in Red Lobster’s marketing, food quality, service and restaurant upgrades hurt the chain’s ability to compete with growing fast-casual and quick-service chains.

They gonna blame dine and dash customers or fast casual restaurants like a J&J Fish and Chicken restaurant.

Casual dining has slipped from 36% of total restaurant industry sales in 2013 to 31% in 2023, according to Technomic, a restaurant research firm.

In its bankruptcy filing, Red Lobster conceded it had “a bloated and underperforming restaurant footprint” and cited a difficult economic environment and increased competition for its recent financial failures.

President Joe Biden, former president Donald J. Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. all support the status quo. It doesn't matter who becomes the president. We will continue to embrace Israel, dehumanize Americans who don't agree with the status quo, rewrite history, continue to protect the indefensible and allow white privilege fester through either a Biden, Trump or Kennedy presidency.

Amber Rose Humping Trump!

MAGA Rose.

Thot endorses Donald J. Trump.

Amber Rose [Levonchuck] is an American model, video vixen, singer, rapper, podcaster and television personality. She is best known for being in relationships with rappers Kanye West, 21 Savage, Machine Gun Kelly and Wiz Khalifa.

Wiz Khalifa has one son with Amber Rose and married her briefly. She has another son with Def Jam executive Alexander "A.E." Edwards.

Rose came into the spotlight after she posted on Instagram her support for the former president. She posed with Trump and former first lady Melania Trump.

This riled up her many followers. Some who were part of the LGBTQ community which she claimed to be a part of. She also riled up women who felt that her bravery to stand up against slut shaming was a sham.

Amber Rose’s role in the empowerment of women through her SlutWalk, a protest against sexism, body-shaming, and double standards, had earned her a strong following.

The annual event advocates for the rights of women to express themselves without fear of judgment or harassment.

The recent endorsement has stirred unrest among her followers, who see a conflict between her activism and newfound political stance.

Again, Cardi B not endorsing President Joe Biden and former president Donald J. Trump shows how Americans are not interested in a rematch between the two. 

Trump is facing indictments in Georgia, New York and by the federal government. Trump also was found liable for sexual assault against E. Jean Carroll. He has mislead the state of New York through fraud at The Trump Organization. He also has lawsuits from former allies and those who were involved in Jan. 6.

Biden and his hardline stance with Israel has become the albatross around his neck.

Both presidents are old, senile and stuck in their ways. 

Amber Rose and her endorsement of Trump shows how he still has a slight grip on the Black vote. Trump has about 25% of the Black male vote and 10% of the Black woman vote. 

Biden's inroads to winning the Black vote will be challenging. He earned 92% of the vote in 2020. Now in 2024, if he can't muster over 69% of the vote, he could lose.

Other rappers and hip-hop figures who endorsed Trump.

1. Sexxy Red
2. Lil Pump
3. Waka Flocka Flame
4. Teddy Riley
5. Kanye West
6. Benny the Butcher
7. Forgiato Blow 
8. Vanilla Ice 
9. Suge Knight
10. Kodak Black
11. DaBaby
12. Topher
13. Shoreline Mafia OhGeesy
14. Ray J
15. Lil Wayne
16. Takeshi 6ix9ine

Take this as a warning. The Democrats must change course on Israel. The president and Vice President Kamala Harris can't drop the ball on this. These entertainers want Trump back regardless of Project 2025 and Greater Israel. Republicans are hell bent on authoritarianism and if we get Trump it is because of Biden not listening.

Biden is walking the tightrope and it is snapping everyday we see a Black celebrity endorse Trump.

International Criminal Court Shows Its Hand!

No one is above the law. All parties will be held responsible.

We await the reaction from President Joe Biden, Congress and the junk food media.

Obviously, Republicans are going to be fuming. But expect some Democrats to he fuming as well. They will literally go beyond the pale to protect this foreign country from accountability. The Republicans have already threatened retaliation if the International Criminal Court issued warrants to the Israeli government.

Oh they will be crying for Hamas to be indicted and the Israelis will claim antisemitism or an act of war. Hell I can imagine that the Mossad will try to conduct a mission in the Netherlands to take out prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan.

The ICC has officially launched a criminal investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The indictments include intentionally depriving and starving civilians, destroying the resources of survival and continuing an illegally conducted war. Hamas was not spared either.

The regime is angry. Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant denounced the indictments and called the ICC antisemitic.

On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin NETANYAHU, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav GALLANT, the Minister of Defence of Israel, bear criminal responsibility for  the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 8 October 2023:

• Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Statute;
• Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
• Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or Murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
• Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i);
• Extermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity;
• Persecution as a crime against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(h);
• Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k).

On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Yahya SINWAR (Head of the Islamic Resistance Movement (“Hamas”) in the Gaza Strip), Mohammed Diab Ibrahim AL-MASRI, more commonly known as DEIF (Commander-in-Chief of the military wing of Hamas, known as the Al-Qassam Brigades), and Ismail HANIYEH (Head of Hamas Political Bureau) bear criminal responsibility for the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of Israel and the State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 7 October 2023: 

• Extermination as a crime against humanity, contrary to article 7(1)(b) of the Rome Statute;
• Murder as a crime against humanity, contrary to article 7(1)(a), and as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
• Taking hostages as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(iii);
• Rape and other acts of sexual violence as crimes against humanity, contrary to article 7(1)(g), and also as war crimes pursuant to article 8(2)(e)(vi) in the context of captivity;
• Torture as a crime against humanity, contrary to article 7(1)(f), and also as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i), in the context of captivity;
• Other inhumane acts as a crime against humanity, contrary to article 7(l)(k), in the context of captivity;
• Cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i), in the context of captivity; and
• Outrages upon personal dignity as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(ii), in the context of captivity.

The U.S. and Israel does not recognize the ICC. 

With this warrant issued, Netanyahu, Gallant and President Isaac Herzog will not be able to travel to nations that are recognized as partners of the ICC. If they even remotely flee, they could be arrested upon arrival to any member. This also give the United Nations more ability to demand permanent members to override any attempts by the U.S. to veto any resolution that punishes Israel or any draft resolution to recognize Palestinian sovereignty.

Yahya Sinwar, Hamas chief commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades issued an indictment.

Khan had directly told the U.S. and Great Britain that the ICC has waited too long to initiate the indictments. They gave Israel all the opportunity to handle the matter according to international law. The flagrant rejection and the repeated threats against the ICC forced the hand.

While the ICC is independent of the UN, it is endorsed by the UN’s General Assembly and maintains a cooperation agreement with the UN. When a case is not within the ICC’s jurisdiction, the UN Security Council can refer that case to the ICC, granting it jurisdiction.

The court can investigate alleged crimes committed on the territory, or by a national, of any state that has accepted the court’s jurisdiction by signing the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC. Any member state can ask the ICC’s prosecutor to launch an investigation.

The court has previously issued arrest warrants against high-ranking individuals, including former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, Saif Gadhafi, the son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, and most recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Signatory states are obliged to apprehend those facing arrest warrants, but leaders have often sought to evade those warrants, restricting their freedom of movement.

Both Hamas and Israeli politicians denounced the ICC’s move.

Hamas said it was an attempt to “equate victims with aggressors by issuing arrest warrants against a number of Palestinian resistance leaders without legal basis.” The militant group said warrant requests for Netanyahu and Gallant had come “seven months late,” referring to the duration of Israel’s war in Gaza.

Israeli politicians across the political spectrum condemned the decision. Foreign Minister Israel Katz called it a “scandalous decision” and an “unrestrained frontal attack on the victims of October 7 and our 128 hostages in Gaza.”

Ismail Haniyeh, former Palestinian prime minister and Hamas senior adviser has an arrest warrant.

The leader of the opposition, Yair Lapid, called it “a complete moral failure” and said Israel “cannot accept the outrageous comparison between Netanyahu and Sinwar.”

The right-wing minister for National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, accused the ICC of antisemitism and called for an escalation of attacks against Hamas, while Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said: “We have not seen such a show of hypocrisy and hatred of Jews as that of the Hague Tribunal since Nazi propaganda.”

CNN has reached out to the Prime Minister’s office and Defense Ministry.

In the US, meanwhile, House Republican leaders were weighing a potential legislative response to the ICC’s decision to seek warrants against Israeli leaders, according to a Republican source familiar with the matter.

House Speaker Mike Johnson was expected to put out a statement Monday, another source said. Nothing has been decided and discussions are still ongoing, but Republicans are expected to forcefully respond — and several of them have already spoken out.

US officials have previously said that they “firmly oppose” the ICC investigation into the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The US is not a signatory to the Rome Statute.

The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.