Deliberately stacking the deck against Israel

It wasn’t the tragic events of October 7th that set into motion a tidal wave of anti-Israel sentiment.  But what it did do was magnify the latent, well-concealed bad feelings, which had not yet received the approval of society to be unleashed.

That bigotry finally emerged through the clever manipulation of turning victims into oppressors and terrorists into freedom fighters.  Once those new definitions were introduced into the public, they helped to engineer a thought process which changed the way people viewed what should have been a very straightforward conclusion – that Israel was barbarically attacked by savage thugs who are devoid of a conscience.

While any other nation’s retaliation would have been justified, somehow the moment that Israel did, she began to be judged by a very different standard.  That is where the International Criminal Court comes into the picture.

On May 20, 2024, ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan announced he would be seeking arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The third warrant, for Hamas operative Mohammed Deif, became irrelevant since he had already been killed. Arrest warrants were also initially prepared against senior Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, but "these were withdrawn following confirmations of their deaths."

At the time, Khan confidently declared that “reasonable grounds existed to believe that Netanyahu and Gallant each bore criminal responsibility for the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts.”

What we didn’t know was that Khan had an agenda – one which was recently revealed and very politically motivated. According to a Jerusalem Post article, entitled “Khan issued arrest warrants for PM to turn nations against Israel,” an anonymous senior Western diplomat revealed that “he believed Khan’s decision, to issue arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, was based on a combination of a desire to see powerful Western nations turn against Israel and inspire public pressure from pro-Palestinian groups.”

In other words, Khan, a licensed attorney, and in this case, Chief Prosecutor of an international body, which adjudicates human rights, would have been expected to adhere to the highest ethics of fairness and justice in his role as one who would carefully and soberly determine who has egregiously broken the laws pertaining to the engagement of war. This shocking revelation, made by a close associate, who had private conversations with Khan on the matter, contradicts that assertion and accuses him of deliberately stacking the deck against Israel.

We’re all familiar with the infamous expression, “Give me the man and I’ll show you the crime,” a cynical method of framing almost anyone, since no one has managed to live an exemplary perfect life. But this goes even beyond that.  Karim Khan, apparently planned to rig the system against Israel by floating the accusation of a crime, charging two Israeli leaders, implicating them for alleged wrongdoings and, by association, their people, also becoming a pariah among the nations of the world. 

This is the lowest form of ethnic libel, based on a vilifying hatred for an entire race, which has been despised throughout history for having the distinction of being God’s chosen people. Nonetheless, if these allegations are true, Khan, whose reputation as a respected officer of the court, did not feel that employing such tactics was beneath him.

The gamble paid off, because, as things played out, Khan’s accusation became a credible claim, lending legitimacy for those who used the charges to support their disdain, not only for the State of Israel, but also for Jews worldwide, who were seen as equally guilty.  

Things got so out of hand that ordinary IDF soldiers could not leave the country for vacation without worrying that they would run the risk of being arrested for the part they played in defending their people. In a few cases, soldiers barely escaped arrest, simply because they were tipped off as to what was being planned for them.

Of course, the ICC charges also amplified the case against Israel, causing thousands, throughout the world, to vigorously protest our country.  By their standard, no court proceeding would have been needed since Israel was already guilty as charged. As the cries for eradication of the Jewish homeland were heard, by way of the “from the river to the sea” chant, it, once again, became fashionable for Jew-hatred to spread as an acceptable and justifiable sentiment, no longer relegated to secret whispers. 

But those same secret whispers were uttered by Khan, who allegedly said, “You just wait and see. If I apply for warrants against Netanyahu, this would give countries like Germany and Canada the excuse they need to turn against the Israeli government. “ 

Although the diplomat felt that Khan’s plot was a “naïve” attempt at discrediting Israel, he apparently never expressed how unethical such a viciously calculated move would be or how it could backfire on him, ending up in his own shame and humiliation.  

Of course, Khan tried to pre-empt any kind of backlash by insisting that his actions were not politically motivated.  He also tried to justify his decision by letting the U.S. administration, at the time, know of his intentions before they would be made public. He met with then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken as well as National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk, another White House official who was the coordinator for the National Security Council for the Middle East and North Africa.

In a further investigation of this matter, it is alleged that Khan failed to adequately perform due diligence, as to whether or not real violations existed, since much of the information concerning the IDF’s execution of the war was unknown to him, making it impossible to determine the facts. And while he supposedly informed a number of U.S. senators in early May, 2024 that an investigation was still in the process, things wrapped up pretty speedily, given that his official announcement was made just 20 days later.

Senator Lindsey Graham assumed that part of Khan’s investigation would involve a trip to Israel in order to hear the events which took place from their point of view, but no trip was made since Khan had already come to his own subjective conclusions, rather than the obligatory fact-finding mission which any honorable truth-seeker would have undertaken.

But when you’re trying to stack the deck against Israel, it’s probably best not to dig too deep, because, in the end, the facts may actually exonerate the country that you’re so keen on taking down!