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At least the International Criminal Court finally did what it could and issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, which actually doesn’t put him on par with the leaders of terrorist organizations, as the critics like to claim, but with Putin, which is absolutely correct. And while I was saying that the arrest warrant for Putin’s largely symbolic, the one for Netanyahu appears to be far more relevant, considering where he may be likely to travel. But, of course, it also shows once again just how toothless international organizations are and how badly the system needs to be reformed, seeing as Israel’s biggest ally, the US, is free to ignore the ruling while continuing to prove that there are no limits to the atrocities committed by Israel that it’ll turn a blind eye to, and even states that should be bound to the ruling openly flaunt it… Not that you’d expect anything different from Hungary, but when there are questions about what other EU member states would actually do, you definitely see the problem.
But the main question is whether this will bring any sort of improvement for regular Palestinians, and for the chances of a free Palestinian state. And it isn’t just that the US isn’t changing its position, but under Trump it is in fact likely to throw even more of its weight behind Israel’s push to take over Palestine and basically wipe out its population, not to mention its culture and any other potential pillars of a state, so without international organizations, starting from the UN, whose special committee already, and obviously pointlessly, likened Israel’s policy in Gaza to genocide, that’s pretty much impossible. But how do you make these international organizations have the power to enforce their decisions on those who have power to force their will upon them? If and when we’ll answer that question, we may finally have the tools to solve many of this world’s problems…