Courtesy of OtherWords.org
Perhaps the most frustrating news to come out of Europe this week is the announcement by France that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, cannot be arrested if he arrived on French soil, as Israel is not a party to the International Criminal Court.
There’s hypocrisy, and then there’s political hypocrisy. This is an obvious political move likely agreed by Israel and the United States, to include Emmanuel Macron, the French president, in the joint agreement for peace in Lebanon, that has so far put a stop to the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting there.
As Russia is not a party to the ICC either, then presumably Vladimir Putin could also visit France without fear of arrest. For that matter, any tuppenny dictator wishing to prevent arrest for his war crimes, could plead similar immunity from prosecution by not being a party to the ICC, or simply withdrawing their nation’s membership.
Benjamin Netanyahu has called the arrest warrants ‘antisemitic’. That’s been the Israeli government’s “Get Out Of Jail Free” card for too long.
Meanwhile the Israeli Prime Minister continues to commit genocide in Gaza, using it as his very own “Stay Out Of Jail Free” card.
Hypocrisy is alive and well and breeds profusely throughout the world’s political regimes.
Hunter Biden’s “Stay Out Of Jail Free” Card
On the subject of political hypocrisy it would seem Joe Biden’s come in for some stick because he’s pardoned his son, after Hunter Biden failed to admit to drug use on a legal form while purchasing a gun. Well, we’ve all done it, haven’t we? No, not necessarily while purchasing a gun, but who out there can honestly hold up their hand and say they’ve never just missed out ticking a box that they know would disqualify them from something they want? I would guess most of us. I certainly have. And no, I’m not going to admit to what it was.
The hoo-hah has arisen because old Joe had constantly told the world that he would never pardon his son and justice must take its course. Had he won another term, or if his vice president had won the election, I’m sure Joe would have let run the natural flow of justice. That was before Trump was elected. Trump has surrounded himself with Democrat haters in general and Joe Biden in particular. There’s a fair chance that son Hunter would not have had a fair trial, left to the not-so-tender mercies of Trump’s forthcoming judicial system. Let’s not forget the next President’s cries for revenge on those who, in his opinion, had done him wrong previously. Ensuring his son spent the next twenty years behind bars would be just the revenge on Joe Biden that Trump could wish for. After all, Biden had taken the 2020 presidency away from him.
So can we say for sure that Biden is a hypocrite for changing his mind? There are enough loonies and misfits shouting their mouths off on social media, apparently convinced he is.
Perhaps they should be asked the question, “If you were in Biden’s position, would you allow your son to go to jail for possibly twenty years just to satisfy the vengeful wrath of a tyrant?”
Joe Biden has done the right thing. He’s given his son a “Stay Out Of Jail Free” card. In his position I would not have hesitated to do the same.
Good lord all the pearl clutching at Joe pardoning his son! Of course Rump would throw him in jail and throw away the key just to see Joe suffer and Hunter lose his sobriety. For what? He paid his taxes and penalties (unlike the Criminal in Chief) and signed the gun form off his head on drugs.
As to Bibi, I’ve written about that before. He will continue to annihilate Gaza and sell the waterfront to the Rump family. No surprises there, he said it aloud. he is, like Rump, unaccountable to anyone for ALL his crimes.
I’m weary from it all RJ, as must you be.
XO
WWW
WWW ~ weary, indeed, WWW. The planet itself seems weary of late. The rise of these far-right, power-grabbers, signals only more turbulence and suffering in the world for the ordinary folk who just want to be left alone to live out their lives. Yet, it’s always been the same. Throughout history there’s never been a time when Homo sapiens lived in peace with its neighbour. The lust for power, land, money, conquest, is as natural to our species as an apple tree producing fruit in autumn. We protect our families as best we can from the tyrant, the invader, the vengeful, which is all Joe Biden has done for his son.