Mazsihisz: What happened in The Hague is a mockery of law and justice
The Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary
(Mazsihisz) considers the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal
Court against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense
Minister Yoav Galant to be a mockery of law and a violation of justice.
Mazsihisz agrees with Israeli head of state Yitzhak
Herzog, who called the ICC’s decision outrageous and in bad faith.
In this spirit, we remind the public that the
Hague-based body was established more than 20 years ago with the aim of
ensuring that those responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity and war
crimes receive their just punishment. But neither the prime minister of the
Jewish State nor its former defense minister fall into any of these criminal
categories. Under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Galant, Israel
Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers fought to defend the State of Israel in the wake
of the Hamas terrorist organization’s inhuman attack on 7 October last year.
Today, as the world is witnessing a wave of
anti-Semitism unprecedented since the Holocaust, Mazsihisz believes that should
any country enforce the Hague ruling, the consequences for the existence of the
State of Israel and the security of the Jewish diaspora could be incalculably
grave. If indeed those who have acted in defense of the Jewish State against
terrorists are arrested, the enemies of Judaism and Israel will conclude that
the justice system of the Western world has sided with the terrorists.
Every diplomatic effort must be made to prevent the
execution of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in
The Hague.
