Welcoming a war criminal in America

Yoav Gallant, a wanted war criminal and former Israeli war minister, was recently invited to the White House to meet with a senior member of US President Joe Biden's administration. Only a few weeks after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Gallant for crimes against humanity, the US welcomed him.

Gallant announced on social media that he had met with Joe Biden's Middle East envoy Brett McGurk to talk about a deal to free Zionists who were detained in Gaza.

On November 21, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Gallant on charges of war crimes against humanity for purposefully targeting civilians in Gaza and using starvation as a weapon of mass destruction.

The Israeli cabinet no longer includes Gallant. He led the Israeli army through genocide in his capacity as Minister of War before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replaced him last month with a more obedient individual.

According to the ICC, there are good reasons to think that Netanyahu and Gallant both willfully and knowingly denied Palestinians in Gaza access to basic essentials like food and water, and that their destruction of the living conditions in Gaza amounted to crimes against humanity.

Many of the 124 states that have ratified the ICC's statute, including European nations like Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands, have promised to implement the decision if given the chance. Gallant and Netanyahu's positions have been categorized as "wanted" by the ICC.

The United States threatens to upend the entire framework of international law by rejecting the legitimacy of the court's decisions against Zionist officials and, by extension, the legitimacy of the indictments and sentences imposed on its adversaries by the Hague court.