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SvennoJ on 20 June 2024
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White House says Netanyahu’s remarks on US weapons ‘perplexing’

The White House has described Netanyahu’s comments on US-supplied weapons as “incorrect”.

Netanyahu on Tuesday said he told Blinken it was “inconceivable” that in the past few months Washington had been “withholding weapons and ammunitions” to Israel.

“It was perplexing to say the least, certainly disappointing, especially given that no other country is doing more to help Israel defend itself against the threat by Hamas,” White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters.


Netanyahu says he will take ‘personal attack’ in effort to receive US ammunition

The Israeli prime minister makes the comments just two days after criticising the Biden administration in a video statement for “withholding weapons” to his country in recent months as it presses its war on Gaza.

“I am ready to suffer personal attacks provided that Israel receives from the US the ammunition it needs in the war for its existence,” he posted on X.


Israelis demonstrate against Netanyahu in front of his house

Video posted on social media shows large crowds outside of the home of Israel’s prime minister in Caesarea, in the north of the country. They are denouncing PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and its policy in the war on Gaza, and demanding early elections to replace him.

The footage shows the heavy presence of Israeli security personnel in the vicinity of the Israeli prime minister’s house.

Nearly half of Israelis don’t trust government to do what is right for country

A new poll of Israeli public opinion conducted by the Pew Research Center shows that 47 percent of Israelis do not trust that the government will do what is appropriate for Israel, while 53 percent expressed the opposite opinion.

“Israeli Jews are about three times as likely as Israeli Arabs to say they trust the national government [61 percent vs 23 percent]. Indeed, nearly four-in-ten Israeli Arabs [37 percent] say they do not trust it at all”, the study adds, breaking the results down by ethnicity.

The study also shows that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is the most popular politician in Israel with 61 percent approval, followed by Minister Benny Gantz with 51 percent.




Dunno if this is more productive than Israel's approach, threatening the court

Hamas plans a legal response to ICC arrest warrants

Hamas says it is planning a legal response against the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants against its top leaders.

Calling the war crimes accusations against three of its top leaders – Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif – “baseless”, Hamas said it would argue Palestinians have “the right, indeed the duty, to resist occupation by all means available, including armed resistance”.

The ICC’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan said in May the three Hamas leaders bore responsibility for the attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed at least 1,139 people with 250 captives taken to Gaza.

The same day, Khan announced he is seeking arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

In its statement, Hamas said the prosecutor “erred in considering that the state of conflict began on October 7”, asserting it began in 1948 with Israel’s establishment.

While armed resistance is valid, hostage taking and targeting civilians is not. The leaked plans clearly stated the aim of taking hundreds of hostages. There's only one exception POW: "while engaged in combat under orders of their government, is captured by the armed forces of the enemy"

https://www.icrc.org/en/document/prisoners-war-what-you-need-know

Just as Israel can't claim self-defense for kidnapping and torturing people, neither can Hamas in the name of armed resistance.