KernowDamo: It finally happened — a European leader could be dragged to The Hague over Gaza. Giorgia Meloni backed Israel, now she faces the consequences.
Right, so it turns out the phrase “Never Again” has ended up coming with caveats and that statement will no doubt draw most people’s minds to Israel. But Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has just discovered what happens when a European leader realises that phrase might finally apply to them and there’s no trace of irony that a far right neo-fascist like her has ended up falling afoul of international law over this first where Europe is concerned. Italy’s prime minister now shares an honour no Western politician wanted: being the first to have her name filed at The Hague for complicity in Israel’s genocide of Gaza.
It’s not for saying the wrong thing, but for exporting the wrong parts to the wrong war, a war that in this case has already plausibly been found to be genocidal. The government insists it’s all “political,” which is one way of describing the act of profiting from mass d*ath while calling it diplomacy I suppose. But until now, the ICC mostly kept itself busy by judging Africans and scolding Arabs, while sparing its own so to speak. It’s been a long time coming and with one European leader now facing complicity charges, how many more can and should follow?
Right, so Giorgia Meloni says the charge of aiding genocide is “political.” But the politics she means are the contracts, licences, and profits that made it possible and her role in that. It began with what should have been a routine television appearance. Sitting beneath the bright studio lights of RAI, Meloni tried to sound composed. But she confirmed that she, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, and Leonardo CEO Roberto Cingolani had been formally named in a complaint to the International Criminal Court for complicity in genocide.
“It’s unprecedented,” she said — and on that point, she was right. A Western head of government admitting live on air that she is accused of helping enable genocide is something the world had never seen.
Otis Redding - Sitting in the dock of the Hague
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