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In April, Hungary announced its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court as it hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, making it the only EU state that will not be a member of the ICC. Now, the ICC is fighting back. “International Criminal Court refers Hungary to its oversight body for failing to arrest Netanyahu,” by Molly Quell, Associated Press, July 25, 2025:
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A panel of judges at the International Criminal Court reported Hungary to the court’s oversight organization for failing to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visited Budapest in April, saying the move undercut the court’s ability to bring suspects to justice.
The Israeli leader received a red carpet welcome from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during a state visit, in defiance of an ICC arrest warrant. Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant are accused of crimes against humanity in connection with the war in Gaza.
Israel is not a member of the court and staunchly rejects the charges.
In a filing released late Thursday, the three-judge panel wrote that “the obligation to cooperate was sufficiently clear to Hungary” and the failure to arrest Netanyahu “severely undermines the Court’s ability to carry out its mandate.”
Under the founding document of the ICC, the Rome Statute, a state’s full withdrawal from the ICC (and from the obligations that membership incurs) takes effect a year after it withdraws. Nonetheless, the powers of the ICC over Hungary are negligible. The ICC has no prosecutorial power over member states, including Hungary. It can merely attempt to shame them, marginalize them, and complain to the UN.
When Hungary withdrew from the ICC, Human Rights Watch rebuked the decision, stating that “Hungary’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) is an insult to victims and survivors of the world’s worst crimes.” But such a statement presupposes that the ICC is trustworthy, which it is not. Like the UN, the ICC has become increasingly leftist and anti-Israel. Despite the threat to Israel’s existence after October 7, which led to Israel’s necessary war against Hamas, the ICC issued warrants for both Hamas leaders and Netanyahu. But the two should not and cannot justifiably be compared. Hamas and its fellow jihadists are determined to destroy Israel because it is a Jewish state, while Israel is determined to secure its nation from annihilation and jihad attacks. Between these two determinations — one for destruction and the other for survival — a humanitarian disaster arose, particularly because Hamas used its own Palestinians in Gaza as human shields.
The ICC does, however, have powers to arrest heads of state who are members of the ICC. Israel is not a member, so the ICC relies on other states to honor its arrest warrants. Hungary refused.
Although separate from the United Nations, the ICC has a strong cooperative partnership with the anti-Israel UN under its Negotiated Relationship Agreement. The ICC is also influenced by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which submitted a legal paper to the ICC in 2020 arguing a case for “Palestine.” This case included alleged “crimes” by Israel on “is territory,” that is, Palestinian territory. The legal paper also demanded that the ICC accept the territorial jurisdiction of the “State of Palestine” (which is fully recognized by the OIC). Add to all this the fact that Islamic countries have been buying out UN agencies to promote the Sharia globally. So needless to say, the OIC is a powerful stakeholder to both the UN and the ICC, and goes a long way toward explaining why Israel is a targeted nation.
Hungary’s withdrawal from the ICC indeed represents a shift in the EU, but not on issues pertaining to international law per se. It can more accurately be stated that Hungary’s withdrawal from the ICC is an indictment of the arbiters of international law such as the ICC and even the UN.
The UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 was once the gold standard for human rights, until 1990, when the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI) was adopted by the OIC. It defined all human rights on the basis of Sharia law, which is egregiously opposed to equal rights for all, and to human rights for infidels. This in itself separated the OIC member states from UN member states on determining the very definition of human rights. The question of how any OIC member state could be harmonized with non-Islamic states under the UN umbrella, when determining what human rights even means, has not been addressed to this day.
Given the rise of the Red-Green axis and the few countries such as Hungary and the US (under Trump) that oppose it, there is no neutral and reliable international body that is now trustworthy. As a result of the right-left divide, mainstream media reports about international law tend to be left-leaning, and favor the Palestinian cause, without factoring in critical details, such as the use of human shields in the jihad against Israel, and the toll that takes upon civilian populations. Take, for example, The Conversation’s report about Hungary’s exit from the ICC over Netanyahu. It stated: “Hungary’s open repudiation of an important part of international law is further evidence of the tectonic shifts taking place in international relations.”
Kudos to Hungary for exiting the ICC. The country has never absorbed jihad propaganda. It has also managed its borders against a Muslim migrant invasion, unlike neighboring states that are governed by leftist globalist EU leaders. Hungary has also ignored the EU Commission’s pressure and the usual smears of “racism” and “Islamophobia.” As a result, Hungary’s national identity remains proudly Christian, and in keeping with the country’s values. It did not and will not succumb to the persecution from the International Criminal Court or the likes of the UN against Israel and Netanyahu. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás, has stated of the ICC that it had “lost its meaning by conducting political instead of legal activities.” As such, expect a series of attempts by the ICC and UN to smear Hungary, but these smears will almost certainly fall on deaf ears.
The ICC need to issue Arrest warrants for George and Alex Soros Bill Gates as well as all the rest of this whole Conspiracy against America
I would staunchly deny the charges, if I were iZrael/Netanyahu. Williams, your underwear trimmed in bias tape are showing.
The whining is like 14 year old girls in front of a mirror. Please stop. The US needs to stop funding this socialist crap. It is just a jobs program and dumping ground for boring people.
You can be sure that if it were the president of Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, or the leader of North Korea, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis or Fatah, the ICC would not be seeking his arrest, nor would it chastise Hungary.
ICC is a joke. It must be disbanded.
It is a wise and righteous decision of the government officials of Hungary to withdraw from the International Criminal court.
If the International Criminal Court ; was really interested in acting against war criminals who are behind murderous actions of genocide, then the ICC would issue arrests warrants against those Muslim despots of Iran, as Khamenei,, who send Hamas and Hezbollah with deadly weapons, Iran’s proxy, , for those dangerous and deadly jihad entities have every intention of committing genocide against the Jewish people.
Furthermore, Those charge of “genocide’” against Netanyahu areabsurd and false. For it’s those jihadists of Hamas who committed action of attempted genocide against the Jewish people.
For it was Hamas that stated that current war in the Middle East by murderously invading Israel, on October 7,th , and now has its jihadists hide their terror and weapon centers among civilians ,including children in Gaza and then have the gall to blame the Israel Defense Force when civilians are killed.
For it was Hamas using its jihadists stooges then attempted to commit genocide against the Jewish people and the jihadists of Hamas even went further in heinous evil by kidnapping many Israel’s and raping many Jewish females .
Those Hamas jihadists are so cruel and vicious that they even took Jewish infants and burned them to death while they were still alive.
In spite of all those facts, some despicable people want to have acquittal for Hamas from all is wicked jihad terrorism and release its jihadists from the monstrous Islamic evil that they have so vicious committed and are very guilty of, and yet condemn Israel for striking back and Hamas in self- defense. This is absurd and wrong. Very absurd and wrong.
To add to this libelous and slanderous of false charges of genocide are made against Israel about it heads of government and the IDF.
Such charges are as absurd as they are also wrong. Those changes are very absurd.
Related to this, the Bible informs its reader that “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent – – the Lord detests them both.” Proverbs 17:15. [N.I.V.]
It’s not Netanyahu but Hamas , that criminal jihad entity that is responsible for starting this war on October 7th 2023 ,which resulted in those innocent those children died in Gaza because the jihadists Hamas are so very wicked as to hide among places with children .It also needs to be remembered that this current war that Hamas started this with Israel on October 7th when it launched its brutal vicious and murderous and even vile and heinous jihadist attacks on the peaceful Jewish citizens of the State of Israel and kidnapped children and cruelly murdered many more.
Those innocent children who died in Gaza because of Israel’s air force was not the intention of the government and military officials of Israel.
Those youngster who had been killed had died because those despicable jihadists of Hamas, because they are so very callous and cruel that they deliberately stationed their jihad strategy command and weapon centers at buildings that have children in them.
In other words, the Muslim terrorists of Hamas are so very evil that they use children as human shields.
Therefore the bloodguilt for the death of those children of Gaza on the wicked hands of the Hamas jihadists.
In the newspaper The Epoch Times April 3-6, 2024, A14 the reader in informed about “Civilian Casualties.” For it reads, “Israel risks the lives of its soldiers to prevent civilians deaths. Hamas risks the lives of civilians to prevent terrorist’s death. Israel considers it a failure, and Hamas considers it a globally advantageous when civilians die than its soldiers.”
The contrast between Israel and Hamas is vast and outstanding.
The evidence is against Netanyahu,here i evidence that requires action.
Today Tucker Carlson interviewed one of the very few Americans who have been to Gaza.He is TONY AGUILAR, a Green Beret veteran who worked for GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation)
and his almost 1 hr 30 min interview
gives lots and lots of information that goes against the affirmations Netanyahu is innocent.
I think the author should listen to the intellectual arguments Aguilar says, to see if she thinks Aguilar is correct.Aguilar has been interviewed before,but here it is the LONGEST one,with lots of more details:
Since Israel is not a member of their kangaroo court, how does the ICC have the authority to arrest and prosecute Netanyahu?
Once again, Hungary is showing leadership, in contrast to the feckless leaders of most of Europe.
The Europeans are the real war criminals by collaborating the Obama administration to oust the legitimate but Russian friendly Ukrainian leader, Viktor Yanukovych in favor of Ukrainian ultranationalists. The Europeans dangled both EU and NATO memberships in the faces of the coup leadership. This lead to the Russian minority living in the eastern provinces to seek independence from this bastardized pro-Western puppet regime. Then a civil war erupted and that’s where Ukraine is now; still stuck on a civil war but now each side is being funded and supported by their outside sponsor. The ethnic Russians are being backed by Russia, while the pro-Western Ukrainians are being back by United States and some NATO members (mainly Britain and Germany).
These very same European nations that label Netanyahu as a war criminal are ironically the genuine war criminals. By their actions, hundreds of thousands of people have died and millions have been displaced. But has the ICC placed any arrest warrants on any of their European leaders? Oops…I guess it was wrong of me to point out the hypocrisy by the Europeans.
My wife and I have seriously considered moving to Budapest in Hungary. Whenever I read about that country’s policies or see photos of the streets posted on the Internet, I feel refreshed. When I walk the streets of NYC and consider who the latest Dem choice to be mayor is — Zero-man Mamdamni — I really feel an urge to leave these United Immoral States (UIS for short).
One of Clintons(Bill) last acts of Treason against America and the American People was signing America into the ICC