The International Criminal Court Ruling

 

In one sense, it's too little, too late.  As Caitlin Johnstone puts it:

The International Criminal Court has formally issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

No such arrest warrants were issued for President Biden or any of the other western officials who’ve been backing Israel’s genocidal atrocities, which is a bit like a judge issuing a warrant for a mass murderer but not for the guy who gave him the gun and stood next to him handing him ammunition and drove the getaway car and lied to the police to cover up the crime.

Nothing will come of this new development because it is completely unenforcible and international law is only as real as the US empire agrees to pretend it is, but it is a significant step in the deterioration of international consensus on Israel as the entire world watches the Zionist regime commit atrocity after atrocity right out in the open.

But in another sense, it is an enormously important sign of the dissolution of the US-dominated international order.  Even the institutions that the USA relies upon to enforce its hypocrisies could not bring itself to allow Israel's nazi-government to conduct a genocide.  No matter how much the degenerates in the Democratic and Republican parties and their paymasters demanded that they do.

Airhead Justin Trudeau said that he would "abide" the decision.  One definition of "abide" is to "tolerate."  Which can mean pretty much anything.

I would ask the shit-head Melanie Joly if she would enforce the arrest warrant if Bunion Naziyahoo dragged his stinking carcass into Canada.  When South Africa first brought its case against Israel and Joly was asked about how Canada would treat Naziyahoo if he was determined to be a war criminal, she airily dismissed it as "a hypothetical."  [Yes, you dumb-fuck.  That's why the word "if" was in the sentence.]

Now it isn't a hypothetical.

The usually magnificent Ian Welsh maintains that most people aren't evil.  They're just cowards.