Burrell: The European Union has a double standard regarding Netanyahu’s arrest

According to RCO News Agency, “Joseph Burrell”, the former foreign policy officer of the European Union, criticized the member states of this union for being selective and hypocritical in the implementation of the judgments issued by the International Criminal Court.

Burrell accused the members of the European Union of applying double standards to the implementation of the decisions of the International Criminal Court and explained that while these members requested the execution of the arrest warrant issued by the Court against the Russian President Vladimir Putin, they made the same request and commitment to According to the arrest warrant, “Benyamin Netanyahu” has not been the prime minister of the Zionist regime.

Burrell emphasized that EU countries that have signed the Statute of the International Criminal Court known as the Rome Statute have a legal obligation to implement the decisions of this court. Burrell wrote in a statement on the X social network: “The choice to behave in the context of applying the Rome Statute is incomprehensible.”

Burrell continued: “How can we expect third countries to enforce the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against Putin and then say that we will not enforce such a warrant against Netanyahu?”

In November last year, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Yoav Galant, the former Minister of Defense of the Zionist regime, on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the war in Gaza.

A few months before that, in March 2024, this court based in The Hague, Netherlands, had also issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on the alleged charges of war crimes in Ukraine.

Many European Union countries have adopted contradictory positions regarding the International Criminal Court’s decision to arrest Netanyahu, and while they claim to support the court’s activities in general, they have refused to commit to the execution of the arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant.

A few EU member states have pledged to arrest the Israeli prime minister if he steps foot on their soil, while Hungary has made it clear that it will not do anything about it.

On the other hand, the issuance of Netanyahu’s arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) provoked strong criticism and opposition from the Zionist regime and its main ally, the United States, while none of them recognized the authority of the ICC. Russia does not recognize the ICC and considers the accusations against Vladimir Putin to be absurd and baseless.

However, most of the European Union countries have hypocritically emphasized the implementation of the arrest warrant issued against Vladimir Putin. In September 2024, Putin visited Mongolia, a member of the ICC, without the country arresting Putin. This event caused Europeans to strongly criticize Mongolia.

According to Burrell, the European Union’s double standards in applying ICC decisions have “undermined the bloc’s credibility as a law-abiding society.”

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