UN chief and ICC protect warlords

In November this year, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The United States, Argentina and Hungary criticized the decision of the ICC, which permits genocide in the Muslim world to take place without action.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Vladimir Putin in violation of UN rules. Photo: Ekaterina Chesnokova.

Less than a month before the ICC’s decision, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, former leader of the Socialist International, visited Vladimir Putin in Kazan, Russia.
Putin is wanted by the ICC following an arrest warrant issued in May 2023. The UN’s collaboration agreement with the ICC instructs UN staff to avoid contact with or pay courtesy calls on persons wanted by the ICC. The agreement between the UN and the ICC reads: “The presence of UN officials at any ceremonial or similar occasion attended by a person who is the subject of an ICC arrest warrant should be avoided.”
Guterres’ visit to Russia took place in conjunction with the BRICS meeting in Kazan, attended by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of NATO country Turkey. BRICS, together with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), has profiled itself as a rallying point for Israel-critical dictatorships in the world.

The visit came barely three weeks after Israel declared the UN leader persona non grata for failing to specifically condemn Iran’s missile attack on Israel in early October. In an initial statement, shortly after Iran launched 189 missiles at Israel, Guterres lamented only the “widening conflict in the Middle East” without mentioning the Iranian attack.
Israel’s foreign minister accused the UN chief of cowering to “Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and now Iran — the flagship of global terror” and of failing to condemn the October 7 attacks and neglecting to label Hamas a terrorist organization.
BRICS, which largely consists of dictatorships or countries with a deep democratic deficit, has previously criticized the “hegemony of Western countries (read democracies)” and wants to challenge the global dominance of the United States and the dollar.

Chief prosecutor Karim Khan is a “practising Muslim” who has often quoted the Koran in public statements, according to The Palestine Chronicle. The ICC’s second deputy prosecutor, Nazhat Shameem Khan, is from the island nation of Fiji’s Muslim minority and was the former president of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which is led by countries that commit widespread human rights abuses and helped make Israel the country that the Council has criticized most of all.
The third deputy prosecutor, Mame Mandiaye Niang, previously served in the judiciary in Senegal, where 96 percent of the population is Muslim.
The ICC turns a blind eye to an Arab militia in Sudan now perpetrating genocide against non-Arab ethnic groups. As early as in May, the US special envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, said that up to 150,000 people had been killed since April 2023 – under the protection of the silence of the outside world and the UN-related court, the ICC. The war has resulted in the displacement of more than 11.5 million people.
As early as 2010, Sudanese President Omar al Bashir was indicted by the ICC in The Hague for genocide, without further measures. No arrest warrant has been issued and Al-Bashir has been able to travel to other Muslim states unconcerned. For example, he participated as a guest of honor at the Islamic Organization (OIC) meeting in Jakarta in 2016, where Muslim countries gathered to condemn Israel.

Recently, Islamist Arab militias in Syria have carried out a genocide of the Yazidi people, and where Syria, with the support of Iran and Russia, has fought a civil war, killing half a million people and displacing more than half the population – 12 million people – with impunity. Both Iraq and Syria have simultaneously been emptied of large sections of their Christian population. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can, despite this, move completely unhindered in both the Islamic Conference and the United Arab League.
Ahead of the BRICS summit, Turkey has announced that it would join BRICS, where on January 1 this year 2024 even Iran became a new member. Turkey will be the first member of NATO to join the bloc.
Erdogan’s meeting with Putin took place in a situation where the country is turning up the volume against Israel.’s During a “Future of Palestine Conference” organized by Erdogan own party in mid-October, Turkey’s president referred to the fact that the Palestinian people see Israel’s founding in 1948 as a “disaster” and that they regret the day the state of Israel was established.
He also claimed, according to the state-owned Russian news agency Tass, that “the so-called State of Israel is the only UN member state with vague official borders” and asserted that “Israel’s policy of occupation… has continued uninterrupted for 76 years… and it would be wrong to call it a state”.

The ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant is welcomed by Erdogan who believes that Israel and the Jewish presence in the Middle East are the result of a Western colonial project that began when the British seized the area from the Muslim-dominated Ottoman Empire in 1917.
Israel’s attempt to eliminate the Iran-controlled terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah’s missile launches and terror tunnels in Gaza and Lebanon due to the more than 20,000 missiles launched at Israel was described by Erdogan as “expansionism,” according to Tass.
“We can predict where this expansionism is going if Israel is not stopped,” he said, describing the development as a “great danger for our country.”
Erdogan has previously stated that Israel’s ultimate goal in the region is to control parts of Turkey’s territory. The opposition went against these statements and requested a closed parliamentary session on the Israeli threat. This meeting was held on October 8 and the minutes of the meeting will be classified for ten years, Tass reported.