Op-ed:

On the UN's Upcoming Palestinian Statehood Vote

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots, Right Side Patriots Radio

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google  

 

...the now aforementioned western countries...some of whom are NATO members... willingly have chosen to ignore right from wrong and good from evil, and have self reimposed the victim v. perpetrator mentality onto the “Jewish State of Israel.” And why so? I believe it's most likely being done in the name of abject “fear”...“fear” that what was done to Israel on October 7th will, in time, happen to their countries as well. But the truth they refuse to see is that it already has happened albeit on a smaller scale, for now anyway, for islamic incursion coupled with islamic based terrorism into both Europe and Australia has now reached record high numbers as has corresponding rapes, murders, and other assorted nasties.

 

Simply, those countries turning their backs on Israel have, at best, bought themselves nothing but a bit of time for another truth of what they “fear” is that by showing any support for Israel would see the UN then turning its back on them when the Palestinians do eventually come “a-knocking” on their respective doors. What a sad but truthful commentary on misplaced loyalty indeed...Read entire article here. 

Op-ed:

On the UN's Upcoming Palestinian Statehood Vote

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots, Right Side Patriots Radio

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google   

As worldwide antisemitism and outright hatred for the "Jewish State of Israel" seems to be showing no signs of abating anytime soon, especially with the upcoming UN vote regarding Palestinian statehood now fast approaching, it got me thinking about why all this hatred for the Jewish people. And know this hatred goes well beyond the still being taught in some Christian denominational churches that the Jews killed Jesus, never mind the historical truth that Pontius Pilate and the politics of the time were what killed Jesus. And even when that indisputable fact is taken out of the mix, the only reason that actually makes any sense to me is that the haters are actually "jealous" of the very people they so love to hate...jealous of the Jewish people's tenacity; their economic successes; the value they place on education and family; and their unquestionable will to survive in the face of continuing adversity.

Throughout documented history no people have been persecuted more than the Jewish people. And while many history books do teach certain historical facts in relation to the Jews, like their being slaves in ancient Egypt and God's promise to Moses of a Jewish homeland; like the “Babylonian exile” in 597 BCE which set the stage for the Jewish people being "stateless" until the 1948 birth of the “Jewish State of Israel;" like the Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834} where Jews were expelled and/or murdered for being supposed “heretics” who converted from Judaism to Catholicism; as well as the Russian "pogroms" of 1the mid-19th to early 20th century where Jews were rounded up and massacred with Russian government approval; the fact remains that nothing could have foreseen the hatred and jealousy for the Jewish people becoming so overtly overwhelming that it culminated in what became known as the "Holocaust."

Simply, the "Holocaust" was the cleverly crafted “systematic genocide" of over six million Jews...men, women, children, and babies...perpetrated by the Nazis both before and during World War II. And while the world at large did know...at least to some limited degree...what was happening to Europe's Jewish population, they willingly closed their eyes to the unfolding horror and did little to nothing to help stop what was, still is, and in my opinion, will forever remain the greatest human tragedy in all of mankind's recorded history.

Nothing...absolutely nothing...compares to the planned and then executed annihilation of six million Jews...killed not in battle but were “selectively chosen” to either be gassed, shot, hung, starved, worked to death, medically experimented on, and then burned to ashes in ovens or thrown into mass graves not only in an effort to try and erase the horrific deeds that were committed against their person, but to deem their very existence as meaningless. And it's this tragedy alone...done for no other reason than they were Jews...was documented via not only the meticulous Nazi records kept, but by photographs, newsreels, testimonies of survivors, and by the words of those American and Soviet troops who helped in the liberation of the camps...that has led me to believe that it's time we put two specific current events into their proper perspective.

First, it's time we no longer give “lip service” to those who are still demanding "reparations" for their long dead ancestors 85 years of slavery here in what is now and what officially was then the United States. That so-called “debt” has been paid way many times over. And second, it's time that those who continue to claim that Israel is committing "genocide" against the Palestinian people...or Gazans as some call themselves...still living in what remains of the Gaza Strip to please keep their mouths shut after Israel's rightful retaliation for the horrific events of what has come to be known as "Black Saturday" ...as in October 7, 2023...the day Hamas tried to finish, at least in part, the job Hitler thankfully failed to do.

Again, the unquestionable historical fact remains that the Jewish people have been on the receiving end of both centuries of violence and hate, which culminated in the “Holocaust.” But from the ashes of the "Holocaust" arose a new generation of Jews who not only founded a nation...the now and forever “Jewish State of Israel”...but whose children and grandchildren stand united in the fact that not only is "Never Again" now, but that "Never Again" does unequivocally mean "Never Again"...no ifs, ands, or buts allowed into the discourse.

And with that said "Never Again" now takes on a whole new and quite dangerous meaning as the UN's late September meeting will once again see on its agenda the official creating of a Palestinian State...the ever so infamous, non-workable “two-state solution”...a solution which would actually reward those who do continue to wish both the "Jewish State of Israel" and the Jewish people dead. And if you think the violence and hate will end with the UN basically trying to orchestrate the total demise of Israel as a “Jewish State,” you best think twice for the haters and one world government sorts...which seems to be the hallmark of the UN...will surely come for the Christians next...to think otherwise is foolhardy at best.

So as Israel's former European supporters are now turning on her one by one, turning in support of islamic terrorists whose self-welcomed incursion into their countries came replete with unseen knives, if you will, being held to their collective throats, we find France, the UK, Austria, Finland, Canada, Australia, and now Germany...as if Germany hasn't already done enough to the Jews...joining together in support of a “two-state solution.” And they do so while ignoring the fact that the Palestinians had already been given the Gaza Strip as a homeland back in 2005 after the “Oslo Accords,” and promptly turned it into both a hell hole and terrorist enclave by electing Hamas as their governing body.

And this now outwardly turning on Israel started just this past July courtesy of a UN “confab” (which the US and Israel rightfully did not attend) led by host countries France and Saudi Arabia...seemingly two peas in the same Israel and Jew hating pod.

And so the media then began spewing its lies about Israel committing “genocide” against the Palestinians still left in Gaza and doing so via starvation, while they completely ignored nor reported on the fact that Hamas operatives were being caught stealing the humanitarian aide that was indeed flowing into Gaza. And also throw into this media stirred pot of lies the cleverly crafted and orchestrated “staged photos” of supposedly starving and dying children that were being sold to the world as truth...that is until said photos were finally exposed as the fakes they were.

But still the hatred for Jews and Israel continues on unabated no matter that Hamas operatives continue to perpetrate acts of terrorism within Israel proper. One case in point, less than two weeks ago a pair of islamist terrorists opened fire on a crowded Jerusalem bus resulting in at least seven Israeli deaths, and many more wounded.

Sadly, the now aforementioned western countries...some of whom are NATO members... willingly have chosen to ignore right from wrong and good from evil, and have self reimposed the victim v. perpetrator mentality onto the “Jewish State of Israel.” And why so? I believe it's most likely being done in the name of abject “fear”...“fear” that what was done to Israel on October 7th will, in time, happen to their countries as well. But the truth they refuse to see is that it already has happened albeit on a smaller scale, for now anyway, for islamic incursion coupled with islamic based terrorism into both Europe and Australia has now reached record high numbers as has corresponding rapes, murders, and other assorted nasties.

Simply, those countries turning their backs on Israel have, at best, bought themselves nothing but a bit of time for another truth of what they “fear” is that by showing any support for Israel would see the UN then turning its back on them when the Palestinians do eventually come “a-knocking” on their respective doors. What a sad but truthful commentary on misplaced loyalty indeed. And so these countries will cowardly acquiesce to the extremist ideologies being pushed forward by the terrorist condoning, Palestinian supporting UN when the already on-the-agenda Palestinian statehood vote does take place later this month.

“Saving face” with their UN buddies is important to them even while knowing that a “two-state solution” is just window dressing and nothing more. Why so? Because the UN knows well that while they actually have no legal authority to take land away from one sovereign nation...in this case Israel...and give its land to a newly made up nation...as in Palestine...it still helps them perpetrate the on going but laughable ruse that the Palestinians will then in having a homeland suddenly coexist with Israel in both peace and security, while at the same time knowing it keeps the bottom of the Arab “cast system” barrel Palestinians corralled in the Middle East instead of their having to forcibly help in relocating any of these people to the aforementioned nations.

Remember, no country wants these people...not even their Arab brethren...no country wants the economic burden they bring with them...plus the known fact that the Palestinians seem to cause trouble and be trouble wherever they go, and that, most assuredly, will again come into play.

Simply, those countries still claiming to want a “two-state solution”...those saying they will vote for said solution even knowing that a sure to come “NO” vote by the United States will prevent it from happening courtesy of our exercising our veto power in the UN Security Council...do though want to see their vote helping to keep the Palestinian-Israeli fight ongoing replete with its bloodshed and depravity, but keeping it on Israel's doorstep and not on their own...it cannot be said any more directly than that.

 

Antisemitism/anti-Israel sentiments remain alive and well in many of the hearts of the aforementioned countries leaders as well as in increasing numbers of their people... while memories of the “Holocaust” and centuries of Jewish persecution and misplaced hate now sadly once again be damned. Case closed.

 

Copyright © 2025 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.  

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Op-ed:

A Dangerous Symbolic Gesture 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google  

...And all I stated has led me to think about how the UN outwardly favors both those who commit terrorist acts and those who reward them for doing so. And to that I say the UN itself and certain member nations are part and parcel to what has become a so-called Middle East “crisis of humanity.” Why so...because the UN condones or looks away from any and all acts being perpetrated against the Jewish State as witnessed by all their anti-Israel resolutions that have been the UN's calling card for years. And when you add that the UN is no friend to the U.S. as well, you have to wonder why we and Israel are still member nations of such a group of cowards who lack the guts and fortitude to discern who the real enemies of “humanity” are.  

And all I stated has led me to think about how the UN outwardly favors both those who commit terrorist acts and those who reward them for doing so. And to that I say the UN itself and certain member nations are part and parcel to what has become a so-called Middle East “crisis of humanity.” Why so...because the UN condones or looks away from any and all acts being perpetrated against the...Read entire article and see video here.

Op-ed:

A Dangerous Symbolic Gesture 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google  

“Canada condemns the fact that the Israeli government has allowed a catastrophe to unfold in Gaza,”                   - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

On Thursday, July 31st, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada plans to recognize the “State of Palestine” at an upcoming September meeting of the United Nations...the reincarnation of the League of Nations in disguise...and do so if the fighting in what they call “Israeli occupied” Gaza has not stopped by then. And Carney believes that this, what amounts to a threat, would put pressure on Israel to stop their “supposed” starvation of Gaza residents...which has never existed by Israel's hand.

And so Carney's announcement, which he claimed was based upon assurances from the Palestinian Authority who claimed that reforms in its “governance” were ongoing, and stressed their willingness to hold general elections in 2026 of which Hamas “can play no part in,” saw Carney ignoring the fact that the PLO does tend to deal with “crossed fingers” behind their back when pushing forth their agenda. And Carney's announcement came but a week after France's President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will “officially recognize” a Palestinian state at said UN September meeting. 

And thus France became the first G7 nation to do so, while the next day the UK jumped onboard as their Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that the UK will also recognize “Palestinian Statehood” at that UN meeting unless...again with the threats...Israel meets certain of their conditions. And what are the UK's conditions? First, Israel must agree to an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and second, the prospect of a “two-state solution” must be revisited. And upon hearing Starmer's words Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rightfully responded that the UK was rewarding, “Hamas's monstrous acts of terrorism”...to which I say no truer words spoken...while President Trump stated that recognition of a State of Palestine is wrongly “rewarding Hamas.”

So what might have caused our fellow NATO nations to turn their collective backs on Israel, and on Netanyahu?

• First, know that both France and the U.K. have for years been submitting to islamist demands after allowing their countries...hence their cultures...to be overrun by islamist anything but refugees.

• Second, in late May, France, the UK, and Canada demanded that Israel end settlement construction in the West Bank, adding that they would “not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions,” if Israel did not comply.

• Third, it's my opinion that some in the governments of France, the UK, and Canada are either veiled or openly anti-Semitic. Remember, some misguided sorts still blame the Jews for World War II and the destruction and hardships it caused. And when Hamas' actions of October 7th are coupled with the world's response or lack thereof to it, it leads me to believe that certain folks might actually want to help finish the job Hitler (thankfully) failed to complete, but do so minus their actually being physically on-the-ground involved, which is exactly what a UN vote for “Palestinian Statehood” would accomplish.

• Fourth, the governments of France, the UK, and Canada bought into the hype surrounding the now proven to be fake photo of a rail thin, almost skeletal Palestinian boy as being proof positive of Israel's starving the people in Gaza to death. Taking the media's word over the fact that the child was not and had not been starving to death, they willfully ignored the truth that said child suffers from cerebral palsy, hypoxemia (abnormally low levels of oxygen in the blood caused by pulmonary or heart disease), as well as having a serious genetic disorder.

And so this one photo saw the world's “bleeding heart” sorts, along with Jew-haters across the globe, helping to push the media's anti-Israel narrative that Israel wants all of the Palestinians dead. And they did so while ignoring the indisputable fact that it's Israel, together with the U.S., who continues to send massive amounts of humanitarian/food aid into Gaza only to have Hamas literally hijack said aid so that it does not and cannot reach the people in need.

Simply, if anyone is starving the Palestinians to death it's the Palestinians own Hamas brethren, who the people themselves did vote into power. In fact, American envoy Steve Witkoff, at the end of his recent Gaza visit, publicly stated that “there is no hunger in Gaza,” and that Hamas has “no reason not to negotiate”...which I take to mean that Hamas will not be surrendering anytime soon. And our Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee also had a few words to say as well including that, “There is one reason there is suffering in Gaza, it's the same reason that 1200 people were massacred on October the 7th. It's the same reason that 250 people were taken hostage, 50 of them continue to be held hostage and tortured and that's because of Hamas. They are a terror organization and they've acted like it.” Blunt to the point words of truth too many do not want to hear let alone accept as fact.

And the words from members of the “Hostages Family Forum” also ring true as they wait for the release of their loved ones...or sadly their remains...still being held captive in Gaza. Saying that no recognition of a Palestinian state should come before all the remaining hostages are safely returned home and that, “Such recognition is not a step toward peace but rather a clear violation of international law and a dangerous moral and political failure that legitimizes horrific war crimes,” these folks understand better than most the true gravity of the situation.

And while they have appealed to the leaders of France, the UK, and Canada to reconsider their vote, Jonathan Panikoff...former deputy US national intelligence officer on the Middle East...stated that the push for recognition of Palestine as a “state” by France, the UK, and Canada is intended “to increase pressure on Israel to compel it to return to a two-state paradigm.” So while that might well be the case, said scenario is highly unlike as Netanyahu himself has stated that while he wants peace with the Palestinians, Israel sees any future “independent state” as a “potential platform to destroy Israel,” so “control of security must remain with Israel.”

Wise words indeed for it's now being reported, as I write this, that one Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, proudly boasted on the Qatar based Al Jazeera network about the role that Hamas' October 7th massacre played in bringing the issue of Palestinian statehood back to the international forefront. Saying that interest in Palestinian statehood and the “fate of Palestinians” was only achieved through the terror group's “resistance and the blow we dealt to Israel,” Hamad's words actually sounded more like a not so veiled threat of more terrorist acts possibly to come, which is exactly why Israel must remain in control of security in Gaza for her existence as the “Jewish State” absolutely depends on it.

And while Hamad continues to spew his rhetoric to anyone who will listen, there remains about a month before the UN meets to vote on official Palestinian statehood. But here I present to you these key facts before this vote takes place. First, while Palestine as a nation has already been recognized by 147 of the 193 UN members to date...Israel is recognized as a sovereign state by 164 of said 193 nations...what the UN now considers to be Palestine holds only a non-member “observer status”... meaning they cannot vote...while Israel holds full voting membership. Remember, being recognized as a “nation” is not the same thing as being an official UN member “state.”

So taking yet another vote on the same issue actually has no legal bearing as lands belonging to Israel are not the UN's to take away. The land in question cannot be given by the UN to the Palestinians or to anyone else without Israel's consent as per the “Palestinian Mandate of 1967” which not only “dismissed” the right of Palestinians to self-determination and statehood, but that the land they claim to be theirs was “voided of a legitimate sovereigncy.” Simply, the lands in question belong to Israel alone to do as she so wishes to do.

And that means that while France, the UK, and Canada...in a quest for political relevancy...will most likely “symbolically” recognize Palestine as a “state” come September, it is unlikely that the UN would be able to do so both legally and officially. Why so...because not only will the U.S. likely block such a foolish action, but because logic and the reality on the ground is unlikely to change even if “statehood” was to be passed. 

Remember, in the eyes of certain all-important key players the UN has proven itself time and again to be a neutered, Israel and Jew hating anything but conduit for peace.

So where do we stand now as the vote date is fast approaching? It seems that both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu...the man trying to save his nation...might now be taking an “all or nothing approach”...as in “NO piecemeal deals"...to the situation by rightfully setting their own set of conditions which includes Hamas' full demilitarization of the Gaza Strip; releasing all the hostages at one time; that “temporary” administration of Gaza is under American leadership; and that if not agreed to by Hamas that Israel will launch a military operation to not only eliminate what's left of Hamas,* but to reverse what was then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's forced 2005 Israeli “disengagement from Gaza” in hopes it that it would brig peace...which thanks to Hamas' ongoing actions it did not.

And that seems to be the point we're at now, as I write this, for after last week's horrific video released by Hamas of emaciated hostage Evyatar David fearing that he's being forced before the cameras to dig his own grave, Netanyahu now has on the table the retaking of Gaza in full and eliminating what is left of Hamas...a good thing indeed for Yassir Arafat's made-up people along with their made up cause must accept as reality that they already have a homeland and it's called Jordan...let them rightfully go knock on the "kinglet" Abdullah's door. 

 

And all I stated has led me to think about how the UN outwardly favors both those who commit terrorist acts and those who reward them for doing so. And to that I say the UN itself and certain member nations are part and parcel to what has become a so-called Middle East “crisis of humanity.” Why so...because the UN condones or looks away from any and all acts being perpetrated against the Jewish State as witnessed by all their anti-Israel resolutions that have been the UN's calling card for years. And when you add that the UN is no friend to the U.S. as well, you have to wonder why we and Israel are still member nations of such a group of cowards who lack the guts and fortitude to discern who the real enemies of “humanity” are.

And maybe it's also time to take another look at NATO for they, like the UN, so relish in taking what they can from us and our true allies, but delivering little in return. Maybe new alliances need to be forged because what we have now does not seem to be working. We helped to save the world in two world wars, and now it's time to take out the terrorist trash for what we are witnessing regarding Israel v. Hamas, Israel v. turncoat nations, can easily turn into a nightmare that we might never wake up from. Something to think about as the UN's September pro-Palestinian, pro-terrorist agenda vote is fast approaching...something to think about regarding those turning on Israel like France, the UK, and Canada who in supporting said agenda says all one needs to know. Case closed.

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FOOTNOTE

* Late Thursday evening, August 7th, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced that Israel’s Security Cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza City not to govern Gaza but to remove the last vestiges of Hamas, and to secure and bring safely home any hostages still found alive. 

Copyright © 2025 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.  

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Op-ed:

Overtly Biased Hate

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.  

 

...But reality in the case of Israel tends to see the Jewish State as a pariah circling in a sea of anything but innocent goldfish. Case in point, before Karim Khan applied for the issuing of Netanyahu's and Gallant's arrest warrants, the International Court of Justice (ICJ)**... the same court that ruled that Israel must “immediately halt” its military offensive in Rafah...also issued an interim judgment finding that the Palestinians have “plausible” rights to protection from “genocide.” How laughable is that when the so-called Palestinians have joined with Hamas, Iran, and other assorted nasties in hoping to see Israel wiped from the face of the map. In fact, not only have many textbooks used in Middle East schools...including some in Gaza...eliminated Israel from their maps, but the genocidal chant “from the river to the sea” has become the Palestinians and their supporters “calling card,” if you will. 

 

No protection from “genocide” for the Jewish State, but protection only for those who wish Israel and the Jewish people harm. A double standard indeed, and that's why Khan's and the ICC's warrants are laughable at best, especially when their main focus is targeted on Netanyahu and not on Hamas' leaders...Read entire article and see video here.

Op-ed:

Overtly Biased Hate

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google. 

 

“As the prime minister of Israel, I reject with disgust the Hague prosecutor's comparison between democratic Israel and the mass murderers of Hamas.” 

- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on hearing the International Criminal Court’s (ICC)* decision to pursue arrest warrants against him and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant

Fact 1: Israel did not start the war it now finds itself in nor did they deliberately target civilians in this nor any war they have fought, for Israel is the only country that not only warns enemy civilians to get out of harms way, but gives them time to do so. The sum of Palestinian civilians only became leftist deemed “Israeli targets” in an attempt to hide the fact that Hamas itself has not only caused many Palestinian deaths by cowardly using their own people as human shields in an attempt to save their own miserable lives, but that the number of Palestinians supporting Hamas greatly outnumbers those who do not.

Fact 2: It was actually Hamas not Israel who has committed “war crimes” by their purposely targeting Israeli civilians for death; murdering entire families; burning people alive; gang raping women; beheading men; committing sexual and other forms of bodily mutilation; and yes...by cooking a baby to death in a Kibbutz oven while forcing the baby's mother to watch.

Fact 3: Joe Biden, in a desperate attempt to bolster his sagging poll numbers, has been playing both sides against the middle in a dangerous game of deception as he not only panders for the Jewish vote via his recent condemning of the ICC's actions taken against Netanyahu, but he does so while anti-Israel protests continue on unabated in hopes of garnering the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian vote as well.

Fact 4: if Joe Biden had stood strong and united with our ally Israel from October 7th on, and did not throw numerous obstacles in her way, the Israel/Hamas War might well have ended fairly quickly with Hamas being the ones wiped off the face of the map...something I'm sure the sum total of the world's civilized nations would gladly applaud.

Fact 5: the Jewish State of Israel is now bearing witness to the “Nuremberg Trials” in reverse, so to speak, as the ICC prosecutor sees Israel as the war's perpetrator courtesy of his accepting as truth not only the rantings and ravings of Soros bought and paid for anti-Israel/pro-Hamas protesters and instigators...but by his accepting as fact the now proven to be overinflated Palestinian civilian casualty numbers issued by Hamas.

Five clearly stated facts, and yet Karim A.A. Khan...the ICC's chief prosecutor...continues on his quest to both defame Israel and find her leaders guilty in what is a court of anything but justice. 

And while Khan has also applied for arrest warrants to be issued for but three of Hamas' top leaders...Hamas chief Yahya Sinwa, (who still is believed to be hiding underground in the tunnels under Gaza); Mohammed Al-Masri, the “commander-in-chief” of the military wing of Hamas; and one Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ Political Bureau...he still believes it's Netanyahu and Gallant alone who must “bear responsibility” for numerous war crimes having been committed. In other words, Khan is now putting Benjamin Netanyahu...who rightfully vowed to “overthrow the evil rule of Hamas and achieve complete victory”...on the same level as those who not only do not value human life, but those who see the blood on their hands as but a way to gain more favor with allah.

Warning: the video below contains content that might be upsetting to some.

It's obvious that this man cares nothing about the brutal and barbaric atrocities committed by Hamas on innocent Israeli civilian men, women, and children, for he chooses instead to focus on what is Israel's rightful and unrelenting retaliation on Gaza. Simply, Hamas itself...along with the majority of Palestinians who still condone, herald, and support their actions...is in some ways even worse than ISIS. And while Israel's goal remains to stop Hamas from ever again doing to Israel what happened on October 7th, what's even sadder about Khan's actions is that even in his request for said warrants it proves that neither he nor a multitude of others have learned a damn thing from the nightmare that was September 11th nor do they care to.

Folks like Khan know well that in war blood does tend to flow freely as the very nature of war itself dictates such happenings. But now with his, on behalf of the ICC, claiming that Israel is using “starvation as warfare” ...when actually Hamas is stealing aid shipments for themselves and/or selling its contents on the “black market” ...and that Israel is willfully causing “suffering to civilians;” with Netanyahu's intentionally attacking and directing attacks against civilians in the guise of hoped for Gazan “extermination,” “persecution,” along with “other inhumane acts”..acts he refuses to name...Karim Khan has indeed lost all sense of both reality and truth.

And with his words that, “Israel has intentionally and systematically deprived the civilian population in all parts of Gaza of objects indispensable to human survival,” what Khan ignores is the fact that Hamas denied over 1,200 Israeli civilians their right to life. And his claiming that he has “reasonable grounds” to believe that it's Netanyahu and Gallant who must bear “criminal responsibility” for “war crimes and crimes against humanity,” what Khan has left out of his distorted discourse is that he never stated exactly from where, whom, and when he garnered the information that became his anything but, supposed reality based, “reasonable grounds.”

But reality in the case of Israel tends to see the Jewish State as a pariah circling in a sea of anything but innocent goldfish. Case in point, before Karim Khan applied for the issuing of Netanyahu's and Gallant's arrest warrants, the International Court of Justice (ICJ)**... the same court that ruled that Israel must “immediately halt” its military offensive in Rafah...also issued an interim judgment finding that the Palestinians have “plausible” rights to protection from “genocide.” How laughable is that when the so-called Palestinians have joined with Hamas, Iran, and other assorted nasties in hoping to see Israel wiped from the face of the map. In fact, not only have many textbooks used in Middle East schools...including some in Gaza...eliminated Israel from their maps, but the genocidal chant “from the river to the sea” has become the Palestinians and their supporters “calling card,” if you will. 

 

No protection from “genocide” for the Jewish State, but protection only for those who wish Israel and the Jewish people harm. A double standard indeed, and that's why Khan's and the ICC's warrants are laughable at best, especially when their main focus is targeted on Netanyahu and not on Hamas' leaders.

 

So where exactly do we, the U.S., stand in regards to the arrest warrants? First, know that 124 countries*** have signed onto the ICC (governed by an international treaty known as the “Rome Statute” )...the U.S. and Israel while signing said treaty have yet to still ratify it. However, the ICC did admit the Palestinian “territories” ...note “territories” not country...in 2015, and Khan says this now gives his office jurisdiction over all the events since October 7th. And second, this means that those 124 countries would be “duty-bound” to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if the warrants were to be issued. And again as I write this, Khan's application for the arrest warrants still remains with a panel of ICC judges who have yet to issue their decision.

And if the ICC judges rule to allow said warrants to be issued that puts some countries in a quandary, most especially Germany...who is a supplier of arms to Israel...and Italy, two of Israel's staunchest supporters. However, even though France and Belgium have both experienced a dramatic rise in antisemitic incidents since the happenings of October 7th, they...not so surprisingly...have already issued statements in support of the ICC‘s requests for Netanyahu’s and Gallant's arrest warrants.

And what did Biden have to say when hearing of these arrest warrants? While he rightfully called Karim Khan's targeting of Israeli officials “outrageous”...of course not mentioning Netanyahu by name...and said there is no “equivalence” between Hamas and Israel, those words probably were said with fingers crossed behind his back. And while Secretary of State Anthony Blinken did say that the Biden administration is willing to work with Congress to “potentially” impose “sanctions” on certain ICC officials, it was House Speaker Mike Johnson, who not only called the ICC's request for said warrants a “baseless and illegitimate decision that should face global condemnation,” but he recently told reporters that details regarding “sanctions” are “still being worked out,” but that he hopes to move it forward “as quickly as possible.”

That is unless Biden were to veto it...always a possibility when one's strings are being pulled to play both sides against the middle.

And while a veto could happen, surprisingly there is bipartisan criticism of the ICC's actions including from, of all people, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries who stated that the arrest warrant request “goes against democratically elected members of the Israeli government, and is shameful and unserious. America’s commitment to Israel’s security is ironclad.”

Even President Trump's political allies had strong words to say about this overt miscarriage of justice. And it came courtesy of his former top foreign policy adviser Robert O'Brien who, along with former U.S. ambassador to the UAE John Rakolta; and former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, Ed McMullen; met in Israel with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz, and President Issac Herzog, and released a joint statement saying that, “the US could sanction the bank accounts and travel and can put visa restrictions on the "corrupt" prosecutors and judges of the ICC.”

“Corrupt prosecutors and judges” indeed for the ICC's international jurisdiction, which claims to only “reach out” for criminals hiding behind the veil of sovereignty, does threaten our and other country's national sovereignty. How so? While some say that the ICC does nothing more than what each and every country can already do under what are existing international laws, the flip side is the fact that the ICC imposes certain restrictions and limits of its own on a given country's authority while competing with that country in the exercise of authority. Again, how so...simply by monitoring what they consider to be human rights violations within a given country and then bringing those they believe to be involved to trial via the issuing of “arrest warrants.”

Simply, becoming or already being a member of the ICC does involve a certain sacrifice of ones national sovereignty. How so...because it allows ICC prosecutors to issue arrest warrants for any country's leader who they, and the ICC, believes has refused or fails to use its own already in place national criminal justice system to deal with those deemed to have committed crimes against humanity.

And while we know that it was Hamas alone who committed “crimes against humanity,” this still brings us back full circle to Special Prosecutor Khan and his hoped for warrants being issued for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. Remember, neither he nor the ICC is even trying to hide whose side they're on as the warrants for Hamas' leaders are barely even part of their public discourse. 

I believe Benjamin Netanyahu said it best when stating that the “absurd and false warrant of the prosecutor in The Hague is not only directed against the Prime Minister of Israel and the Minister of Defense – it is directed against the entire State of Israel.” And here might I add the sum total of Jewish people everywhere as well, for they continue...almost on a daily basis...to bear witness to overt acts of antisemitism overtaking reality, truth, and common sense. Case closed. 

 

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* The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression.

** The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the UN's only court that settles disputes between countries and provides advisory opinions on legal questions.

*** To see the list of the 124 countries who have signed onto the ICC click here.

 

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