Benjamin Netanyahu has made possibly his most insane speech ever, since even the rule of law now no longer matters to him.
They aren’t of course saying that, they’re claiming they are defending global shipping even though actually they are very much screwing it up with their activities in the Red Sea, but it’s being read as a shot across the bows of anyone who thinks they will take any notice of the ICJ. If they carry on, or escalate, the Red Sea will become impassable for everyone. But the West aren’t stupid enough to overtly come out and say they’ll ignore a judicial ruling, but unfortunately for them, somebody else is stupid enough to come right out and say it, and that person is Benjamin Netanyahu.
Right, so while the US and UK are playing damage limitation for Israel, still committing genocide in Gaza, by deciding to bomb Yemen, ahead of an expected legal finding against Israel on charges of genocide, Benjamin Netanyahu takes to TV to just come out and say they’ll ignore the ruling. Nothing quite says we’ve already lost than that, does it? It ought to harden the resolve of the court judges really, but they’ll have to pretend he didn’t say anything, though I suppose having come out and said what he has, he can later accuse the court of being biased against Israel by taking into account things not said in the courtroom! Not that that will wash, either.
Well Netanyahu took to Israeli TV last night to address the nation, a nation of people growing in number, protesting his premiership wanting him gone and a new set of elections held, to say: ‘Citizens of Israel, Today, we mark 100 days of the war, 100 days since the terrible day on which our citizens were massacred and taken hostage. We are continuing the war until the end – until total victory, until we achieve all of our goals: Eliminating Hamas, returning all of our hostages and ensuring that Gaza will never again constitute a threat to Israel.
We will restore security to both the south and the north. Nobody will stop us – not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anybody else. The hypocritical onslaught at The Hague against the state of the Jews that arose from the ashes of the Holocaust, at the behest of those who came to perpetrate another Holocaust against the Jews – is a moral low point in the history of nations. In the murder tunnels of Gaza, our forces have found copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. In a home in Gaza, they found a child’s tablet with a picture of Hitler as the screensaver. Not for nothing did German Chancellor Scholz, after viewing the atrocities of the October 7 massacre, say: ‘Hamas are the new N*zis.’