The European Jewish Association deplored today the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on alleged charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In his statement, the EJA President Rabbi Menachem Margolin stated: "This is the level of the moral and intellectual decline of this Institution. If the ICC was around today America would be in the dock for Japan, Britain for Dresden, and Nuremberg would have had Nazis and allies in the dock together. We deplore this decision that equates Hamas terror and Israel’s sovereign right to defend itself and its people. The ICC is no longer fit for purpose, it has no credibility and we urge political leaders to distance themselves from it And call for the immediate reversal of this shameful ruling."
Also the European Jewish Congress deplored today the International Criminal Court's decision. In his statement, the EJC President Ariel Muzicant stated: “In issuing for the first time arrest warrants for leaders of a democratic country together with one for a dead terrorist, the ICC has shown itself to be no longer fit for purpose. It is beyond shocking that the leaders of a democratic state defending its own citizens can be made into international fugitives after a brutal invasion with a terror organisation that uses rape, murder and kidnap as its principal tools of war,” he added.
Both organizations call on the heads of European governments and the European Union to strongly and unequivocally condemn this call by the ICC and to demand its immediate overturning.
In the meantime, the European Union's foreign policy chief said International Criminal Court arrest warrants issued Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas's military chief Mohammed Deif were "binding" and should be implemented.
