Netanyahu “Under Unusual Stress” over Prospect of ICC Arrest Warrant

Israeli media reported on Sunday that the United States is part of a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials.

In the news site Walla, analyst Ben Caspit wrote that Netanyahu is “under unusual stress” over the prospect of an arrest warrant against him and other Israelis by the UN tribunal in The Hague, which would be a major deterioration in the Zionist entity’s international status.

Netanyahu is leading a “nonstop push over the telephone” to prevent an arrest warrant, focused especially on the administration of US President Joe Biden, Caspit wrote.

Haaretz analyst Amos Harel reported that the Israeli government is working under the assumption that the ICC’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, may this week issue warrants for the arrest of Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.

The US, which, like the Zionist regime, is not among the 124 entities that signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, is already engaged in the effort to block the arrest warrants, according to Harel.

Netanyahu’s latest public statement about the war said forthcoming decisions by the ICC could set a “dangerous precedent.”

“We will never stop defending ourselves. Whereas decisions of the court in the Hague will not affect Israel’s actions, they would be a dangerous precedent threatening the soldiers and officials of any democracy fighting criminal terrorism and aggression,” he said on Friday.

Source: Israeli media