Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, LXIII: "ICC's arrest warrants"
inspired by ICC seeking arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders
in my dream
a Gazan boy's bruised body
a question mark
unravelling in smoky twilight ...
cease-fire chants from afar
FYI: For more about ICC's arrest warrants, see Special Feature: "Selected Poems for ICC Seeking Arrest Warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Three Hamas Leaders"
Haaretz, Analysis, May 21: Jerusalem, Not The Hague: Israel Must Investigate Netanyahu for Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza
The only effective way of responding to the ICC's request for arrest warrants is to convene an Israeli state commission of inquiry to examine if Gaza's population was deliberately starved – not cry antisemitism and Nazism
And The Guardian, May 28: Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed
Now, an investigation by the Guardian and the Israeli-based magazines +972 and Local Call can reveal how Israel has run an almost decade-long secret “war” against the court. The country deployed its intelligence agencies to surveil, hack, pressure, smear and allegedly threaten senior ICC staff in an effort to derail the court’s inquiries)
