One of the greatest crimes against humanity in my lifetime has been the Israeli military occupation of Palestine so it is about time that the International Criminal Court have decided to investigate Israels actions against its neighbour.
The ICC have announced they are opening a probe into accusations of war crimes against Israel which follows the United Nations commission concluding that 'Israeli troops committed war crimes or crimes against humanity' during the protests at the Gaza/Israel border last year.
The War crimes include the killing of protesters and the demolition of Palestinian homes and predictably the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed the probe, calling 'a political war against Israel' and the pathetically weak excuse that as Palestine is not a sovereign state, it cannot be accused of war crimes against it.
With the USA giving Israel a fig leaf of cover and defending it at the UN, Israel has been continually torpedoing any chance of peace talks while it continues to occupy Palestine, illegally seizes and builds settlements on Palestinian land, defies countless UN resolutions, kills innocent Palestinians, holding over 9,000 Palestinians in its prisons, destroys farms, bulldozes homes and businesses, builds a monstrous wall deemed illegal by the international court of justice amongst numerous other violations.
That it has taken over 60 years for the ICC to probe Israel is abhorrent and that America distastefully continues to back and bankroll it despite the continual calls of Israel being war criminals and human right abusers is loathsome, especially as America is quick to call out and condemn anyone else doing half of what Israel continually gets away with.
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