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Abbas paves way to join International Criminal Court
Elior Levy, Attila Somfalvi
Published: 31.12.14, 19:05
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1. The diminutive Luxembourg
EZEKIAL HAIM ,   London UK   (12.31.14)
Luxembourg must be acting as the illicit banker for trillions of dollars stolen by middle eastern dictators and deposited in the microcountry.The payback is the failed pro palestinian vote.Whoever decided to put this financial vulture in the security counsel need to have their head examined.
2. MORE WASTE OF THE WORLD'S TIME AND MONEY
Brant ,   Hilton Head USA   (12.31.14)
There he goes again; no-one telling him "enough is enough". No entity, no nation has EVER wasted so much time and money (not even its own money; but the money it extorts from the rest of the world) and for what> To help its people? No, that could have happened as far back as the 1940s. No, the sole purpose of these Abbastardly acts is do anything and everything to harm Israel. Lose in the UNSC because you posit a no-possiblity-of-passage one-sided resolution and what do you do/ Whine and bleat and join the Rome statutes so that you, the President whose term ended in 2009 of whatever the PA is (an entity that can't even come to terms with itself) can go after Israel for "war crimes" in the ICC. Be careful what you wish for, you sponging old holocaust-denying un-elected President of nothing.
3. Abbas ?
Gabe ,   Canada   (12.31.14)
The ICC might try him for murder.
4. President Abbas signed the ICC and 20 other organizations
Ramzi Jaber ,   Palestine   (12.31.14)
Game changer, hopefully. Good end to the year. Happy New Year!! VIVA PALESTINA!!!!!!
5. How? No Country, No Government
emanon ,   USA   (12.31.14)
How can they join anything when they can't even agree among themselves who speaks for them. Is it Hamas, PLO, ISIS, Muslim Brotherhood or one of the other splinter groups? Depends who you ask.
6. abus masen has started to panic..
Beary White ,   Norway   (12.31.14)
A member of the former leftist Norwegian labour government, the Arbeider-partiet, was his primary advisors, but they sure had not forseen the defeat of the resolution in UN...and now he is blindly following bad advicees..
7. Abass signed and he was already brought to the ICC
Eric ,   Tel Aviv & NYC   (12.31.14)
Several months ago 2 cases were referred to the ICC against Hamas and Abbas. Now he is a accepting ICC jurisdiction over things that happened in Palestine and both pending referals were already valid. He has just opened the door to more cases being referred with his own representative to the UN Human Rights council on the record saying it is the Palestinians not Israel that is breaking international law.
8. fantastic news. now take them all to court,
ralph   (12.31.14)
9. To those saying Palestinians must fear ICC
Ramzi Jaber ,   Palestine   (12.31.14)
This is like saying the Nazis will sue the French for resisting. LOL. Signs of despair from all those zionists who will be held accountable to their crimes.
10. nazis threatening to sue the french resistance! laughable.
Ramzi Jaber ,   Palestine   (12.31.14)
11. Makes sense: he's an international criminal!
David ,   Hartford USA   (12.31.14)
12. Abbas, International court, Terrorists
Brod ,   USA   (12.31.14)
Now the PA Islamist-Jihadist Terrorists headed by Abbas, Erekat and their cohorts are trying to be prosecutor for the international court. Dominated by Papism-the Inventor of Anti-Semitism, the international court may accommodate their counterpart Anti-Israel Islamist-Jihadism. Both entities worship a Luciferian god that hates Israel and Judeo-Christians. It is time to say NO to the dark forces. Their ugly heads have reemerged since they ganged up in murdering 6 million Jews in the Holocaust of WWII. The Free World must confront and defeat these dark enemies of humanity.
13. ICC Membership Rules
ik ,   USA   (12.31.14)
Perhaps Abbas thinks that one has to be a "criminal" to join the ICC.
14. Doesn't Israel have criminal courts?
(12.31.14)
I'm pretty sure that Israel has its own criminal courts,so it seems to me that Israel is in a very strong position even without membership of the ICC. Abbas and his cronies are no great distance away and can only go and re-enter with Israel's co-operation.It wouldn't be difficult to apprehend them. There's no need to send them to the Hague for trial.Just arrest them where they are and send them to Israel's own courts for trial in the full view of the world. Like Adolf Eichmann. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!
15. Like it or not
Emma ,   Tel aviv   (12.31.14)
It is just a matter of time,Israel Will have to share the country with the Palestinians or disapear completely. Free Palestine. Emma.
16. re: Ramzi Jaber
David   (12.31.14)
Your analogy about the "Nazis suing the French resistance" applies better in the reverse. Imagine, who would have thought a few decades ago, that the PLO would be suing Israel for "human rights violations"-- that the successors of Yasser Arafat would seek protection under laws written to protect civilian life and basic human decency. In the name of analogies, it is akin to Charles Manson suing his prison guards for "indifference to human suffering."
17. Go for it!
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.31.14)
We can try Abbas in an Israeli court. He is, after all, responsible for the murder of eleven Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972. There is no statute of limitations on murder. On the other hand -- he will have a problem with the ICC. Israel is not a signatory to the Rome Treaty. The ICC thus has no jurisdiction over the State of Israel and Israeli nationals. I hope he does join the ICC. There are a lot of victims of the "palestinians" who can sue the PLO, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Popular Front, Hezbollah, and individual members of those organizations. If Abbas signs aboard the ICC, war crimes trials of the ersatz "palestinians" and "palestinian" terrorist organizations will tie up the ICC for generations to come.
18. Emma, do you think before you speak?
David ,   Hartford USA   (01.01.15)
First, when Israel was declared a state, she tried to live in peace with her Arabs. But it was the surrounding Arab states that declared war immediately and attacked on all fronts. Did you simply forget that? Second, for the last 65 years, the Arabs ('Palestinians' don't exist) have been trying, by every means possible, to destroy Israel. '56, '67, '73, etc., etc., war without end. Why? NOT because 'Israel' exists on a map, but because JEWS live in the dar Al-Islam, the Land of Islam, and the Quran states that infidels in the Land of Islam must be dhimmis and pay the jizya or convert or die. Israel's simple presence shows that the Quran is not perfect and that the child molesting thug who wrote it was not perfect. To a Muslim, that is heresy. So what do Arabs do? They psychopathically attack and slaughter JEWS in their cars, in stores, in cafes, in busses, in taxis, in their bedrooms, in yeshivas, in their synagogues. Why? Because their Quran directs them to 'strike the neck' of the infidels- that is, to cut their heads off- just what they did to the rabbis in the synagogue and the three boys. This conflict has nothing to do with 'occupation' - it has everything to do with civilized man against lunatic Islam. Emma, either the Arabs will learn to behave like human beings or they will disappear. I assure you Israel is not going anywhere. But I fear your Arabs will continue to act like the barbarians they have always been. The new Arab video on how to stab Jews must make you so proud to be an Arab. Or Boku Haram, another fine Muslim organization dedicated to slaughtering innocent men, women, and children, and kidnapping into sexual slavery the young women they keep. Or ISIS, those brave Muslim fighters who butcher everyone who they don't like. Or Hamas, the elected government of Gaza who uses donor money to build rockets and tunnels for use against Israel instead of improving Gaza. There are simply so many serious things wrong with Arab organizations, it's hard to imagine Israel making the top 20. The problem with the 'Palestinians' is not Israel- it is the 'Palestinians' themselves. "Free Palestine?" What a joke! They can't make a go of Gaza. Why would any sane Israeli government make any kind of bargain with these psychopaths? That's why Israel will be here in 65 more years and 'Palestine' still won't exist.
19. More of Pals knocking their heads against the wall.
Sam ,   Canada   (12.31.14)
The reality is Israel and no one else controls the territory. So, Palestinian complaining will get them nowhere. Palestinians are still stupid enough to believe that Israel is going to hand over the country to them. That is what peace means to them and they are frustrated that it's not happening. It never will.
20. YNET: give Bibi credit for the UN vote
Shep ,   Memphis   (12.31.14)
YNET has overlooked the success of Bibi in getting this UN scam to fail.
21. Ramzi jaber how could the palestinians be so stupid
Dovdevan ,   Ashdod,israel   (12.31.14)
You dare comparing Palestine To the French resistance did you ever read your own history ? The mufti of Jérusalem who met with hitler in 40's ask hitler if he wanted him to send an army of muslims to combat side by side with the nazi !!!
22. To: David at No. 18
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (01.01.15)
David, you are asking too much of Emma. She's been lobotomized. She can barely keep from hissing and drooling. Don't waste your time on someone who will never see the outside of a hospital for the incurably insane.
23. Emma, Emma, who made you believe..
Beary White ,   Norway   (01.01.15)
..what you are so confidently writing?? Read talk-backer # 18. There are listed som valuable marks / a timeline.. Are you not able to read the history of the jewish people and take it in??
24. Joke's on Abbas Israel isn't a signatory to the ICC
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (01.01.15)
Abbas reminds me of the wolf and the three pigs, he can huff and puff but, can't blow the house in!! Have to laugh at Abbas, soon to leave this world and still the same king of denial he always was.
25. 18
Birdi ,   Israel   (01.01.15)
Shame, poor Emma, for she has been brainwashed by her pallie boyfriend.
26. Abbas is out of chips and still bluffing
Steve   (01.01.15)
Abbas' rogue actions at the UN and ICC are blessings. By disregarding the objections of the typically very pro PA Obama administration, Abbas exposes himself as an unreliable ally and less of an asset to the U.S. than once thought. His days as unelected whatever are numbered and hopefully the entire rotten PA organization will crumble with his departure.
27. Palestinian leadership has let the Palestinians people down
US citizen ,   US   (01.01.15)
not the Security Council. This resolution would aid and achieve not peace but war against Israel, not that the nation of Israel has anything to fear from all humans united against them and the One that defends her.
28. ICC Criminal court
(01.01.15)
Who are these people sitting in the court. and which country ? Answer. Most of the judges will be from Europe, whom they hate the Jews, & other Jew haters from Africa, or South America. The court is in the Hague the future Islamic country. They will found the IDF GUILTY before they even open the case.
29. 28
Birdi ,   Israel   (01.03.15)
Read post no. 22.
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