International Criminal Court Seeks Warrants for both Israeli and Palestinian Leaders; Warrant on Putin still active.

I didn’t mean to imply that the size of the picture relates to the degree of culpability of the subject. War crimes and crimes against humanity committed on both sides are credibly alleged by the investigators from the International Criminal Court in their report. Requests for warrants were today addressed to a Court Judge. The subjects are three leaders on the Palestinian side and two on the Israeli side.

That means that both these sides are at fault in the atrocities which have been revealed to a horrified world by modern journalism. Yet both sides feel fully justified, even proud of what they have done and are still doing. Clearly, the minds of the participants are overtaken by delusions about what they are doing and why. I don’t want to say that the thing to do is put them on antipsychotic drugs, but that suggestion comes to mind.

On the other hand, Ukraine

This situation is entirely unlike that which is occurring in Ukraine. There, the Russian Army mounted a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the flimsiest of pretexts two years ago. The Ukrainians have been fighting off the Russians although they are badly outnumbered and outgunned. Their equipment is mostly donated by friendly countries like us. It looks like in the long run, they will lose unless they get reinforcements.

The Ukrainians (who are at least somewhat democratic) had been relying on a treaty signed with Russia thirty-two years ago when Ukraine became an independent country. Russia promised never to violate Ukrainian territory in return for all of Ukraine’s nuclear missiles.

So I think the Ukrainians deserve all the help we can give. The Russian government is invading a smaller country and committing war crimes, and there’s already a warrant out for Vladimir Putin’s arrest. We have to stop him or he’ll keep doing it to one country after another.