Amal Clooney Plays Key Role in ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Sinwar

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More warrants to come.

https://www.newsweek.com/amal-clooney-george-wife-icc-arrest-warrants-israel-netanyahu-hamas-sinwar-1902459

The ICC's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, confirmed to CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Monday that the court is seeking warrants on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity surrounding the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

In a statement released shortly after the news broke, Khan said he was "grateful for the advice" given to him by a panel of experts, which included Clooney.

Clooney is a world-renowned human rights lawyer who has worked on a number of serious global conflicts. She has been married to actor George Clooney since 2014.

She "represented victims of ISIS in the only three trials in the world in which ISIS members have been convicted of genocide and in five other trials convicting ISIS members of war crimes and crimes against humanity," according to her special adviser profile on the ICC website.

[Goddessartist]

1. Excellent!

Thank you for posting this!

[TeamProg]

2. About time! Netayahu can have Slobodan's cell!

History will not be kind!

[TeamProg]

3. In 5, 4, 3, 2... waiting for it... nt

[h2ebits]

4. Wow! A woman still forced into playing second fiddle to a man

When you look at the article, they present a picture of George Clooney and Amal Clooney together. Worse yet, HE is in the forefront of the picture rather than Amal. She is well known and, even though the article is about HER and what she is doing, Newsweek has brought her husband into the article because. . . . well, you know, after all he's the man.

I am truly disgusted.

[TeamProg]

5. I think the point of the media is name recognition. If they put a pic of Rosemary Clooney with Amal, would that help

to make you feel better?

[h2ebits]

12. Actually, no. . . .

I was struck by the casualness of inserting George into the article and how easily we just brush past and accept it even though the article had nothing to do with him. Amal was a highly respected and well known humanitarian rights attorney prior to even meeting George Clooney.

This type of misrepresentation is why so many amazing women and their efforts throughout history have been forgotten and pushed aside. Once recognized again many years later; they rarely gain the historical status that they deserve.



P.S. Rosemary Clooney also has absolute no relevance to the article either.

[TeamProg]

14. Perhaps she should not have taken his last name after they were married. That always seemed unfair to me, even as a man

I thought it seemed a sort of losing one's identidy after marriage.

My wife kept her family name, my sisters did not. You?

[h2ebits]

16. Thanks for understanding

Yes, it is exactly that to me: losing one's identity after marriage.

I was just barely 20 when I married--still too young and naive. I did not keep my family name.

[multigraincracker]

7. Misandry is also a form of bigotry.

[obamanut2012]

10. Misandry is a RW/Misognyist construct

It is not an actual thing. Some women hate men, but it is not institutional bigotry and hate.

[multigraincracker]

11. Sorry, just went by the dictionary

on the word.
Looks like many other meanings I was not aware of. My bad.
I am concerned with with others feelings.
There does seem to be some actual bigotry towards all men. I could forgive it if qualified with the word “some” when referring to a large group.

[Iggo]

8. Phew! For a minute there I thought nobody would find anything about this article to complain about.

[TeamProg]

6. Lock them up!

[Sky Jewels]

9. Go Amal!

[malaise]

13. Good

Rec

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Op-ed in the Financial Times by her and her fellow British experts who worked on the case

(no paywall, for me at least):

Why we support ICC prosecutions for crimes in Israel and Gaza 

From Lord Justice Fulford, Judge Theodor Meron CMG, Amal Clooney, Danny Friedman KC, Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC

The attacks by Hamas in Israel on October 7 and the military response by Israeli forces in Gaza have tested the system of international law to its limits. This is why, as international lawyers, we felt compelled to assist when the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, asked us to advise whether there was sufficient evidence to lay charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Today, the prosecutor has taken a historic step to ensure justice for the victims in Israel and Palestine by issuing applications for five arrest warrants alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity by senior Hamas and Israeli leaders. These include applications for a warrant of arrest against the political and military commanders of Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

For months, we have engaged in an extensive process of review and analysis. We have carefully examined each of the applications for arrest warrants, as well as underlying material produced by the prosecution team in support of the applications. This has included witness statements, expert evidence, official communications, videos and photographs. In our legal report published today, we unanimously agree that the prosecutor’s work was rigorous, fair and grounded in the law and the facts. And we unanimously agree that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the suspects he identifies have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity within the jurisdiction of the ICC.

It is not unusual for the prosecutor to invite external experts to participate in an evidence-review, under appropriate confidentiality arrangements, during the course of an investigation or trial. And this is not the first time an international prosecutor has formed a Panel of Experts to advise on potential charges related to a conflict. But this conflict is perhaps unprecedented in the extent to which it has given rise to misunderstandings about the ICC’s role and jurisdiction, a particularly fractured discourse and, in some contexts, even antisemitism and Islamophobia. 
...
It is important to understand that the charges have nothing to do with the reasons for the conflict. The charges concern waging war in a manner that violates the long-established rules of international law that apply to armed groups and the armed forces in every state in the world. And, of course, the warrant applications announced today are just the first step. We hope that the prosecutor will continue to conduct focused investigations including in relation to the extensive harm suffered by civilians as a result of the bombing campaign in Gaza and evidence of sexual violence committed against Israelis on October 7. 

https://www.ft.com/content/aa2089c5-6388-437d-bf5c-9268f3a788ce

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18. Thank you for the addition to understanding what the ICC is about.