The ICC ruling, Sinwar's staff and the narrative turned upside down

The arrest warrant that the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued for Netanyahu and Gallant, although belittled with the claim that it is very hard to enforce and therefore will have no effect, is without doubt a very important event that in itself requires many calculations to be reviewed. Above all, it is a hopeful development showing that the international community has still not wholly surrendered to the international Zionist order.

It will be recalled that on the days when Israel's inhuman genocide, under US protection and with its unlimited support, was completing its 110th day, pessimistic talk that nothing would come out of this court began to be voiced immediately after South Africa's application was accepted. Yet even then we had said that the mere acceptance of this application was in itself important.

True, although Europe's political order also gives the appearance of being, in essence, hostage to Israel, it did not escape notice that a faint resistance, a discontent against it existed. After all, where danger grows, it is inevitable that a sensitivity to it forms and saving forces emerge. For how long can Zionist racism, with all its irrationality, keep hostage a Europe with so much scientific and philosophical accumulation behind it?

From the moment the ICC accepted this case, Israel had already been toppled head over heels, before the whole world and history, from the privileged position it had acquired until now. That the case has at this stage ended in an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant shows that Israel's untouchable privileged position no longer has any fighting value.

Without doubt, this decision also means touching a being protected by the US, one that it shelters, which is in itself a subject deserving attention. After all, this decision was taken despite the intense pressure and threats from Israel and the US, which did not refrain from using all means of pressure, blackmail and threat. Despite these pressures, this decision by the ICC was a good opportunity to prove itself in showing its ability to preserve its institutional independence and to resist political pressures, and it made very good use of this opportunity.

In the decision it took unanimously, the ICC ruled that the Israeli leadership, and especially Netanyahu and Gallant, are responsible for using starvation as a method of warfare, for intentionally killing the civilian population, for persecution and for other inhuman acts.

With the decision issued by the court, all the countries of the world, Europe first among them, were forced to announce their positions on this decision. The great majority declared that the court's decision binds them, that they will therefore comply with it, and that they will not refrain from arresting these war criminals the moment they set foot on their territory. This amounts to the official certification that for Israel, and for its owner the US that protects it unconditionally, there is no legitimacy left in the world, and that the only source of legitimacy, if any, is their bestial weapons.

At this point we cannot help recalling what Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who through the manner of his martyrdom made the resistance in Gaza an epic and condemned Israel in another way, said in a speech some time ago. Sinwar had said:

"To those who ask what we are doing by entering a desperate struggle in which we cannot cope with an enemy with whom there are clearly great differences of power between us, I say: on the contrary, this struggle of ours will in the end leave the enemy facing two options, in both of which we will come out gaining: either it will consent to a Palestinian state to be established on Palestinian lands occupied after 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital, or we will put it in a state of contradiction and conflict with the international community; it will be isolated from the world, and we will have ended its integration with the world and its being treated unjustly as a respected country in the world."

In fact we can say that this process had begun, as everyone could see, even before the ICC, but with the ICC's decision a situation has emerged in which Israel stands condemned before the whole world and history as a criminal against humanity, and in which the privileges stemming from the Holocaust victimhood that it has so extensively exploited until now are written against it as a debt, with exactly the opposite effect. The narrative has been turned inside out. Now aid given to a country committing the crime of genocide, every kind of contact established with it, and even further, those who remained silent when this crime was committed, can be considered complicit in this crime. The curse that fell upon the Nazis will now fall upon Israel and its supporters. The crime of genocide committed by Israel, with the US first among them, will be written today as a black stain on the face of the states, or statesmen of states, that dominate the world only with their crude material power. Unless the course of events destroys Israel entirely, the only thing awaiting it will be nothing other than a dishonored, discredited, humiliated solitude.

The staff that martyr Yahya Sinwar hurled at Israel with his left hand, which remained intact even as he breathed his last, strikes Israel as a curse, like the Staff of Moses.

From now on no country in Europe will be able to support Israel as in the past while the ICC decision stands.

As for Netanyahu and Gallant, the only way for them not to be arrested is to confine themselves to their homes and not to go outside Israel and the US. That is, the world has narrowed for them; there will be no place left where they can move and flee.

We will go on watching this situation in itself as the first installment of the cost that all of Israel's rampant, spoiled behavior has brought upon it.