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This is breaking news as I record this,

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but hopefully by now you've already heard. I'll

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unpack and explain everything that I know. But

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the International Criminal Court, the

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highest court in the world, the

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highest criminal court in the world, has

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just issued arrest warrants for

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Benjamin Netanyahu and Yov Galant,

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the Defense Secretary there, and

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every nation that is a member nation

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of the International Criminal Court. It

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is now obligated to arrest them

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if they step foot in those countries.

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It's nearly 150 nations. Let

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me unpack and explain it. It's a very

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big deal. This is Sean King,

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and you are listening to the breakdown.

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I know it's very, very easy. I'm

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tempted to think it as well to

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be like, why did it take 14

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months for these arrest

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warrants to be issued when it was

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visible to the

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naked untrained eye two

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weeks in that this

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was illegal, that this was genocidal,

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that this was ethnic cleansing, that

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hundreds of war crimes were being committed.

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We knew that before the end of

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the first month. In fact, what's

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wild is inside of the

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United States State Department, people

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were stating that Israel was committing

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war crimes before the end of

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the first week. That's

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how bad it got right

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away, that it was like, oh, this

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is not any kind

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of war with integrity.

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Listen, most war doesn't

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have integrity. But it doesn't

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look like this. These are

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war crimes. This is genocide. And

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the International Criminal Court, I have talked about

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this here on the podcast before, but it's

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been a very long time. The

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International Criminal Court is

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the single highest criminal court

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in the world. I'm

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emphasizing the word criminal court. What

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I mean by that is that they

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can issue arrest warrants. The

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International Court of Justice,

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the ICJ, which is

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an extension of the United Nations, is

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a very important court. They

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can issue sanctions. They can

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issue, in essence, decisions and

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statements, but they cannot issue

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arrest warrants. That's

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why the International Criminal Court was created.

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Now a quick

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crash course on the International Criminal

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Court. Their

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lead prosecutor said

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about four and a half months ago that

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he was recommending that

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the leaders of Israel be arrested.

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Well, that was his recommendation. And

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a lot of us were excited

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and glad that he made that

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recommendation because it meant that it

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was almost guaranteed that the judges

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of the International Criminal Court would

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sign off on the recommendation. We

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did not think it would take four and a half months.

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I thought it might take a month. Maybe

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it was going to take 30 days, 40 days, 45 days.

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Instead it took four and a half months. Tens

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of thousands of Palestinians have been killed and

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injured. Hundreds of thousands,

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pretty much every Palestinian now is being

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starved. Everyone is homeless,

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has lost their home. It's

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a very, very disastrous

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situation. And so not

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only did the lead prosecutor of

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the ICC, the International Criminal Court,

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recommend the warrant. warrants, the judges

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there approve the warrants and warrants

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have been issued for

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the arrest of the primary leaders of

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Israel and of this genocide. This

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has a lot of implications and there's

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some things it doesn't mean. And

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let me start with what it does mean. The

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International Criminal Court is

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the court for almost the

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entire world. Many

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rogue nations that

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commit open war crimes are not a

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part of the International Criminal Court. Almost

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all of Europe is a part of the International Criminal

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Court. Almost all of Africa. Almost

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all of South America. Who

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is not a part of the International Criminal Court? The

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United States, Russia, China,

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and Israel. Means

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that if they were administration

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after administration after administration from

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all of those places, would

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be charged with war crimes because

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they've committed thousands and

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thousands of war crimes. But

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the rest of the world is a part of it. And

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what that means is

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that since Israel is not a

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member state of the International

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Criminal Court, you do, you just have to ask

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yourself, why not? Why

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did 150 other nations say, yes, we'll do

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this? And why did Israel

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and the United States and China and Russia say no?

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We know it's because those countries commit

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war crimes. In fact, leaders

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from some of those countries have already been

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charged. And what that

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means is if your nation

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is not a member state of the

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International Criminal Court, is that you

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will not be arrested in your home country.

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So if you're in one of those 150 countries that's

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a member state, and you

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commit a war crime, you will

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be arrested immediately in your own

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country. But for those that

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aren't in the future.