Benjamin Netanyahu,the Prime Minister of Israel has labeled the decision of the International Criminal Court(ICC) of issuing warrants of arrest against him and Yoav Gallant as antisemitic.
On Thursday,the International Criminal Court has announced that issuing warrants of arrests against Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defence,Yoav Gallant for killing and starving civilian population in Gaza since 8 October 2023 to 20 May 2024.
Netanyahu has compared the ICC decision with of the French court whereby accused Alfred Dreyfus for treason almost 130 years ago.
"The antisemitic decision of the international court in The Hague is a modern Dreyfus trial,and it will end the same way.
"One hundred and thirty years ago,the French Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of treason by a biased French court,"said Netanyahu.
In his speech he used the nationality of the ICC judge to play an antisemitic card because is what he does to silence Israel critics.
He said now,an international court in The Hague,also headed by a French judge,is repeating this outrageous offense.
In his publicize speech he continued with his lies when he claimed that they have tried to prevent civilian casualties and dragged Hamas name to shield himself and Gallant.
"It is falsely accusing me,the democratically elected prime minister of the State of Israel and Israel's former defense minister Yoav Gallant,of deliberately targeting civilians,this when we do everything in our power to avoid civilian casualties.
We issue millions of text messages,phone calls,leaflets to the citizens Gaza to get them out of harm's way-while the Hamas terrorists do everything in their power to keep them in harm's way,including shooting them,using them as human shields,"he added.
Netanyahu also lied to the entire world when he claimed that his government has supplied Gaza with thousands of tons of food and used Hamas as scapegoats for his failures.
"The court in The Hague accuses us of a deliberate policy of starvation.This,when we have supplied Gaza with 700,000 tons of food to feed the people of Gaza.That's 3,200 calories for every man,woman and child in Gaza.
And these supplies are routinely looted by Hamas terrorists,who deprive their people of much needed food,"he lied publicly.
In his speech,he also dragged the name of Karim Khan on the mud because he requested warrants of arrest against him and Gallant and he ignored numerous threats from U.S government.
He also said the decision to issue an arrest warrant against me,the democratically elected prime minister of the State of Israel,and our former defense minister was made by a rogue prosecutor who is trying to extricate himself from sexual harassment charges,and by biased judges who are motivated by antisemitic sentiments against the one and only Jewish state.
He spoke without any shame while knowing very well that his government has lied to the world about October 7 incidents and he failed to furnish UN with evidence to support their claims of rape and beheading.
He said nor the court do anything against the Hamas terrorists who raped our women,beheaded our men,burned babies alive in front of their parents and kidnapped hundreds of men,women and children to the underground dungeons of Gaza.They're still holding 101 hostages,citizens of many lands,including the United States.
He thanked all people who stand with Israel while is busy killing defenseless civilians in Gaza and he maintained that Israel will not entertain the ICC decision against him and Gallant.
"I want to thank our many friends around the world,especially those in the United States,who have condemned this outrage and who have said this decision will have severe consequences for the ICC and those who cooperate with its decision.
Israel does not,Israel will not recognize the validity of this decision.We will continue to do everything we must do to defend our citizens and to defend our state against Iran's axis of terror.Iran and its terrorist proxies,which include Hamas,Hezbollah,the Houthis and others.Our enemies are your enemies,and our victory will be your victory,the victory of civilization over barbarism and tyranny,"he concluded.