By inviting Netanyahu to Germany,
Merz is emboldening the Israeli war criminals, violating the ICC statute, and
presenting himself as subservient to the butcher of Gaza.
“In the event that he [Netanyahu] plans to visit Germany, I
have promised myself that we will find a way to ensure that he can visit
Germany and leave again without being arrested,” Merz said from Berlin.
Germany says it has been a strong backer of the ICC. After
the ICC’s decision against Netanyahu and his war minister Yoav Gallant in
November, a German government spokesperson said, “The federal government was
involved in the drafting of the ICC statute and is one of the ICC’s biggest
supporters. This position is also a result of German history.”
To the shock of the international community, German
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government was the biggest supporter of the Netanyahu
regime in its 16-month barbaric acts in Gaza. Germany has also been the second
biggest supplier of deadly arms to Israel after the United States. However, it
seems that Merz, still not forming a government, wants to present himself as a
stronger supporter of Israel.
As a
member state of the court, Germany is required to detain suspects facing arrest
warrants if they set foot on their soil, but the incoming Marz government is
sending signals that it is joining certain countries, including the United
States, which are defying international order.
Viktor Orban was the first European leader who invited
Netanyahu to visit Hungary in a show of disdain for the ICC ruling. Now, Merz
is following in the footsteps of Orban, whose policies are not in conformity
with the European Union.
Merz said, “I think it’s a really absurd idea that an
Israeli prime minister can’t visit the Federal Republic of Germany. He will be
able to visit Germany.”
Contrary
to Merz’s claim, it is absurd to invite a war criminal to Germany as the most
important member of the EU and as a country rightly or wrongly considered the
most law-abiding nation.
Netanyahu
is already buoyed that he has been invited to make a trip to Germany. His
office said in a statement that Merz had invited the prime minister to make an
official visit to Germany, in overt defiance of the scandalous International
Criminal Court decision to label the Prime Minister a war criminal.
Before Merz welcomed Netanyahu’s possible future visit to
Germany, the Biden administration and hawks in the American Congress had
demonized the ICC to the extent that Senator Tom Cotton had threatened military
action against the ICC and insulted its chief prosecutor Karim Khan.
Cotton
said, “The ICC is a kangaroo court and Karim Khan is a deranged fanatic.”
The statement by Merz has even irritated the ICC, saying
that states have a legal obligation to enforce its decisions. It said, “It is
not for states to unilaterally determine the soundness of the court’s legal
decisions.”
Merz
either has been too busy to notice what degree of crimes Netanyahu and
lieutenants have been doing in Gaza or he does not care about the tragedies
that the Gazans have gone through.
It is not necessary to mention the horrific crimes that
Israel committed in Gaza. They are obvious to the world. It is just enough to
notice that thousands of Palestinians, mostly women and children, are still
missing under the rubble.
In its November ruling, the ICC said there are “reasonable
grounds” to believe that Gallant and Netanyahu “intentionally and knowingly
deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their
survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as
fuel and electricity.”
Naturally, Merz like other Germans must repent what Germany
did against Jews during World War II which is famous as the Holocaust.
Merz
must be reminded that Israel committed another Holocaust against the
Palestinians in the third decade of the 21st century.
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