The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has requested an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Benjamin and Hamas terrorists. We are experiencing an orgy of hypocrisy that shows that law is increasingly becoming a prostitute to politics.
The International Criminal Court makes a mockery of law and morality. His chief prosecutor is responsible for this orgy of hypocrisy. It remains to be seen whether the judges will accept his request.
Either way, the damage is already enormous, because: The simultaneous and equal criminal or arrest application against Israel’s democratically legitimized Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Galant (whom he fought against!) and soon probably also against top Israeli officers on the one hand and on the other against The three main terrorists of Hamas, who not least knowingly and willingly abuse their own population as cannon fodder tens of thousands of times, turn all ethics on their feet.
Conclusion 1: We encounter law without morality.
Conclusion 2 follows from this: Law without morality destroys the foundations of civilized coexistence between people and people, because: Civilization or civilized behavior of people is the protective wall of people against people. Law is the decisive basis for civilized coexistence between people and people.
Anyone who knows “1984” by George Orwell remembers it. The state described in this book constantly brainwashes its citizens, telling them: “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.”
This brainwashing motto, which was still fictional in the book “1984”, has long been a reality. This is proven not least by the worldwide pro-Hamas demonstrations at universities, even at supposedly “elite” universities. Educated barbarians praise terror: “Glory to Hamas!” “Ignorance is strength.” “Thanks” to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, we know: “Law is immoral.” Not always, but not rarely either. In any case – also not new – law is often the opposite of justice and morality.
Prof. Dr. Michael Wolffsohn is a historian, journalist and university professor. Above all, he analyzes the relationships between Germans and Jews at the state, political, economic and religious levels. Wolffsohn regularly speaks out on important political, military policy, historical and religious issues.
Wolffsohn’s latest publications: “Never again? Again! Old and new anti-Semitism” (2024), “Another Jewish world history” (2023)
The greater the gap between law, justice and morality, the greater the danger that the civilized part of the world of states will abolish itself. Why? Because law is increasingly becoming a prostitute to politics. In Russia, China and Erdogan’s Turkey, this existing situation is due to the massive pressure, sometimes terror, of politics; in the free world it is tantamount to the self-abolition of law and thus of civilization.
In addition, according to the statutes of the International Criminal Court, it may only take action if the judiciary of the accused state, in this case Israel, does not itself take charge of the alleged crimes.
Israel’s legal system IS intact. “Still,” some will say, because the Netanyahu government wanted to rebuild it before the war began. Millions of Israelis protested, and the system remains as it was. It works perfectly. Apart from that: If you look at it soberly, everyone has to admit that there was no question of abolishing Israel’s judicial power, but that it was a legitimate slogan and not a statement of fact in the political struggle.
Tacheles: In the fight for the facts in history and politics – by Michael Wolffsohn
The chief prosecutor claims that Israel, under Netanyahu and Galant, does not allow aid to be delivered to civilians in the Gaza Strip. That’s wrong. It is true that without electricity, water and aid supplies from Israel or under Israel’s control, the approximately two million Palestinians would have starved and thirsted long ago. When in the history of human warfare has one side ever provided aid to the enemy’s population?
War is inhumane. But anyone who starts it – like Hamas on October 7, 2023 – knows that it will not only affect the enemy military, but also their own. The same applies to civilians.
What is true is that too many Palestinian civilians have been and are being killed in this war by, yes, Israel. But it is also true that Hamas is responsible for this very fact, because the Hamas fighters are, contrary to international law (!), not externally recognizable as partisans. Apparently, not really, they are civilians “like you and me”. They fight from civilian facilities such as hospitals, mosques, schools and kindergartens – and retreat there again.
When their enemy shoots at them – and at the civilians – then the images and reactions that Hamas wants are created: pity. But this human pity is a cynical abuse of humanity. Towards one’s own population and the outside world, which feels pity. Pure immorality. And this is what the chief prosecutor is covering up. Law without morality.
Encouraging: Germany, the USA and Great Britain have distanced themselves from the chief prosecutor’s orgy of hypocrisy. Not so France – while at the same time sending around a thousand soldiers to New Caledonia to trample on the locals’ right to self-determination. New Caledonia was a French colony until 1946, then an “overseas territory” until 2003 and since then an overseas community with special status.
The local indigenous population has long been a minority of around 40 percent. The majority are new French residents, who are called “settlers” in the West Bank and are still the minority here. What France can do, China has long been doing in Xinkiang. The native Uyghurs are also the minority there thanks to Han Chinese “settlers”.
Double standards, two types of “law”, i.e. orgies of hypocrisy. This is how the law abolishes itself.