One wonders how many of those making the Israel-Hamas equivalence point, including quite a few in the press, had taken 10 minutes to read the ICC prosecutor’s statement.
Last week, Joe Biden, criticising the decision of the International Criminal Court prosecutor to apply for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders , stated, “Let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas.”
The prosecutor, Karim Khan, applied for arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders on the basis of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, torture, rape, taking hostages, and extermination. He described visiting the “devastating scenes of these attacks … Speaking with survivors, I heard how the love within a family, the deepest bonds between a parent and a child, were contorted to inflict unfathomable pain through calculated cruelty and extreme callousness.
Some will be genuinely outraged by what they see as unjust criticism of Israel, and that is a fair debate to have. At the same time, we should be alert to what the “equivalence” talking point has largely obscured: a serious discussion of the substance of the crimes of which Israel’s leaders are accused.
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