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The British government privately threatened to defund and withdraw from the International Criminal Court if it issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, Middle East Eye can reveal.

David Cameron, then foreign secretary in Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government, made the threat in April 2024 in a heated phone call with Karim Khan, the British chief prosecutor of the court.

Cameron told Khan that applying for warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant would be “like dropping a hydrogen bomb”.

Cameron said it was one thing to investigate and prosecute Russia for a “war of aggression” on Ukraine, but quite another to prosecute Israel when it was “defending itself from the attacks of 7 October”.

He claimed the warrants would have “profound implications” in Britain and within his own Conservative Party. Cameron then said that if the ICC issued warrants for Israeli leaders, the UK would “defund the court and withdraw from the Rome Statute”.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

We've had some bad PMs lately but Cameron is still the worst since Thatcher. Austerity, Brexit, demonisation of disabled people, bombing Libya and creating the biggest refugee crisis of our time, it's all down to this cunt. And centrists like to say "the Tories were fine until Johnson and Truss messed it all up".

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yup. Johnson and Truss were “worse” leaders, but that just means they were ineffective leaders. Cameron was disastrously effective and will be remembered for the devastating effect he had on the nation, fundamentally Johnson and Truss were his fault.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I miss the lettuce

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Really keen on leaving no measured response on the table, aren't they

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just got himself a job at a huge law firm, DLA Piper.

He started the end of tax-and-spent governments, here in the UK, early in this century, declaring the new austerity era: they now just tax people who don't have money, nothing else. Spending on infrastructure like roads, law enforcement, social care, health care etc has all been curtailed.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Dodgy Dave living up to his name the slimy prick

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Nepo baby turned into Israeli bootlicker.

Is there anything these clowns won't do for Zionist money?

Imagine this being "your" leader 🤡

Not enough rope for them

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

They promised to develop a kosher pig just for him.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It’s the same picture, Dave.

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