By Vineet Malik | November 22, 2024 | London, England
The United States (U.S.) Senator Tom Cotton through a tweet posted yesterday on X, most brazenly went on to threaten The Netherlands, in response to the order passed by Pre Trial Court I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) located in The Hague, The Netherlands.
The World Court yesterday unanimously issued arrest warrants against the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged crimes committed against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, Palestine.
The U.S. has been Israel’s strongest ally.
Findings of the ICC against Netanyahu and Gallant
Despite, repeated warnings and appeals made by the United Nations (UN) Security Council, UN Secretary General, States and governmental and civil society organizations about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, only minimal humanitarian assistance was authorized. Both Netanyahu and Gallant have been accused for bearing criminal responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare.
That, the Chamber held that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the lack of food, water, electricity and fuel and specific medical supplies created conditions of life calculated to bring about destruction of part of civil population in Gaza that led to death of civilians including children due to malnutrition and dehydration.
Netanyahu and Gallant went on to an extent to deliberately limit or prevent medical supplies and medicine from getting into Gaza, in particular anaesthetics.
The duo inflicted great suffering by means of inhumane acts on persons in need of medical treatment. Doctors were forced to operate on wounded persons by carrying out amputations without anaesthetics that caused the patients extreme pain and suffering. This amounts to the crime against humanity of other inhumane acts.
The conduct deprived civilian population of their fundamental rights, including the right to life and death.
“The crime against humanity of persecution was committed”, the ICC concluded.
Who is Senator Tom Cotton ?
Thomas Bryant Cotton is an American politician and former Army Officer. He is a member of the Republican party.
Senator Cotton has been shrouded in multiple Controversies
In 2021, Salon reported that Cotton falsely claimed in campaign ads and videos from 2011 to 2014 that he had served in Iraq and Afghanistan and earned a Bronze Star as a U.S. Army Ranger even though he did not serve in the Army's 75th Ranger Regiment.
In June 2006, while stationed in Iraq, Cotton gained public attention after writing an open letter to the editor of The New York Times, asserting three journalists had violated "espionage laws" by publishing an article detailing a classified government program monitoring terrorists' finances.
The Times did not publish Cotton's letter, but it was published on Power Line, a
conservative blog that had been copied on the email. In the letter, Cotton called for
the journalists to be prosecuted for espionage "to the fullest extent of the law" and
incarcerated.
He accused the newspaper of having "gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers
and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis".
Cotton is a Free Press suppressor.
In 2022, he blocked the Senate passage of a bipartisan bill – The PRESS Act designed
to protect free press that gives protection to journalists from disclosing their sources.
The PRESS Act protect reporters from exploitative State Spying Act. It is intended to
stop the federal government from attempting to force journalists to divulge the
identities of anonymous sources.
For instance, government whistle blowers.
There are certain exceptions - to identify a terrorist or to prevent violent crime or crime
against a child.
The bill also prevents federal agencies from bypassing the above protections by
turning to third-party service providers (like messaging apps or social media platforms)
to get the journalist's communications.
There is an exemption - threats of imminent violence. This cannot go through without a
subpoena process and a court hearing.
In 2023, a man with so much irrational hatred for the free press that Cotton must have something awful to hide from it, sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) calling for an investigation of whether the Associated Press, CNN, The New York Times and Reuters “committed federal crimes by supporting Hamas terrorists.”
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