Circling back to some news from a few weeks ago when The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former Defense Secretary Gallant.

Get premium only episodes with a free trial on Patreon.

patreon.com/wetwired

The ICC named them as “co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.”

The ICC’s Preliminary Chamber “also found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant each bear criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population.”

Now that world leaders have had some time to react and the media has had the chance to settle on the messaging we can see what we’re dealing with.

It’s pretty ugly. How do you wrap your head around the size and reach of this political and media machine designed to convince you that it’s not wet out when it’s raining?

Some reading:

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-says-israels-netanyahu-has-immunity-from-icc-arrest-warrant/ar-AA1uRHrn

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/cuomo-joins-netanyahu-s-legal-defense-team-against-icc-warrants-as-he-mulls-2025-nyc-mayoral-run/ar-AA1uRGIm

https://www.wsj.com/search?query=icc&mod=searchresults_viewallresults

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-22/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-brought-the-icc-ruling-on-himself-and-now-hes-whining-about-antisemitism/00000193-505c-d68e-a1db-f85ce7f60000?v=1733368678410

https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/1012/ekri.html#main-content

Music:

Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0)

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord.

discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c

Find us online:Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpodInstagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpodBluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social

Get extra, premium only episodes on Patreon for $5 a month. It's the only way you can hear everything we put out.patreon.com/wetwired