If Netanyahu is a war criminal then what is Putin? Certainly criminal too, but equal? And Italy, Israel’s historical ally, if it happens what does it do, arrest him? According to the rules of the founding statute of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, also signed by Italy, the answer is yes.
There is embarrassment in our diplomatic staff and in our government. And what about the president of the world’s greatest diplomacy, namely America, namely Biden, who has been tough on the court saying it is madness? It must be remembered that Israel, in fact, is the only democracy in the Middle East and that Netanyahu is a duly elected leader despite the divisions and arguments that political and military action arouses in the country. It is one thing to challenge Israel, and therefore its leader, for the way he has conducted the war operations in Gaza against Hamas; it is another to call him a war criminal.
Mr. Putin, who is not the head of a democratic system, has invaded Ukraine in violation of its sovereignty and international laws, and Ukraine is not a terrorist subject nor has it gone to Russian territory to carry out bloody attacks. Indeed, the risk of the judgments of these international authorities is precisely that of complicating the already complex situation of ongoing conflicts, pushing world opinion toward summary and non-analytical judgments on individual situations.
Moreover, so the work of diplomacies becomes even more difficult. I don’t know if it is a coincidence, but a few hours after the ruling, 4 Italians were wounded in yet another attack on the Unifil base in Lebanon. Already we risk nuclear escalation in the not-so-clear transfer of power between Biden and Trump, we have to be careful now not to confuse the protagonists of the Middle East crisis into a single cauldron. Really risky.
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