Wolff Responds: The ICC application for warrants on Israeli & Hamas Leadership (May 22, 2024)

Today's "Wolff Responds", Professor Richard Wolff offers his thoughts on the International Criminal Court's (ICC) Application on to issue warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and the leaders of Hamas, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri and Ismail Haniyeh. With most of the world in favor of these warrants and the United States opposed, what does this say about the shift in the global hegemony?
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[@user-nn4dz7hh6p]

Arrest our corrupt Congressmen and Senators as well. :-)

[@joehovanec1985]

95% of the Congress is corrupt.

[@Chucku153]

What do you get when you have a politician and a prostitute in one body?

[@thomaskim3128]

AIPAC should be investigated.

[@deezeed2817]

By who? Israel serves the geopolitical interests of the United States and there's literally no real opposition to them in the U.S political system. Israel's military industrial and security complex has close links to America's military industrial complex. Good luck trying to untangle such an alliance and the special interests. The existence of Israel creates a security problem in the middle east and thus Saudi Arabia keeps buying military equipment and maintaining the petrodollar system. It's a self perpetuating cycle, Create more security threats and then encourage the actors of the region to buy more from the country that has created these security threats. The inevitability is that these conflicts get larger and larger and more bloody and brutal but the profits also get larger.

[@aluisious]

Investigate what? It’s a foreign influence organization. We already know that. It should be banned the same way kgb agents were expelled.

[@egay86292]

say what? like saying drug cartels should be investigated.

[@99observer99]

@@egay86292AIPAC is an agency of the Israeli government, and is required by law to register as the agent of a foreign government. But they get away with ignoring this US law, just as they ignore international law.

[@youngeagle5953]

​​"It's like saying the French resistance were the terrorists and the Nazis the victims justified in their genocide". Professor Marandi

[@youngeagle5953]

“The state of Israel was not created for the salvation of the Jews; it was created for the salvation of western interest." James Baldwin

[@johnHofweber]

obviously

[@Stabizzie]

A colonial project that; like all colonial projects, has out welcomed its stay…

[@zactianne6331]

By the salvation of western interests, do you mean that Europeans (and the descendants in the New World) can now keep Jews out of their own countries and in the Middle East? Don't Europeans realize that they then lose out on the best scientists, thinkers, etc,, because in fact their hero was Jewish himself and Europeans have celebrated his birthday every December 25th for 2,000 years.

[@Pooswap]

Where did Jews come from?

[@youngeagle5953]

@@Pooswap we are all Africans. The cannanites (The Palestinians todsy)lived in that area for 3500-4000 years. Some became Jews and later came Christianity and lslam. Over the centuries all religions spread all over the world. In the late 1890 a movement called Zionism was established in Europe. They started a migration to Palestine and violently with the help of the British expelling the Palestinians . In 1948 750 k thousands Palestinians were forced to leave, 535 towns and villages were destroyed ( Palestinians call Nakba) . For 76 years the Palestinians are fighting to liberate their land from the Zionists invaders.

[@user-nn4dz7hh6p]

I hope the ICC issues arrest warrants for many of our top American leaders. :-)

[@paulschumacher1263]

Long overdue. W.Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld (is he still alive?), to say nothing of Obama and Trump, who furthered their needless wars--to the destruction of the Mideast and Afghanistan.

[@user-su3eu4zu9z]

Me too and other western leaders too like sunak the snake.

[@stevekaylor5606]

@@user-su3eu4zu9z Blinken, Johnson

[@user-su3eu4zu9z]

@@stevekaylor5606 yes

[@user-su3eu4zu9z]

How far back should the ICC look to get the guilty, on both sides, only for present day crimes or all the way back to the start?

[@richardcook6449]

Brilliant and truthful analysis in light of what consequences you may face. That’s what is called integrity. Thank you Professor Wolff.

[@AnnieT369]

It's a case of the weak getting strong enough to fight back against the evil forces that are always destroying others.

[@woodytobiasjr8265]

The predator always makes the prey stronger in order to survive.

[@nevillereimers6336]

The bully always ends up being put in his place

[@timc1604]

Wow. Remarkably insightful and well done analysis

[@melindamaxwell7923]

we had a slew of horrible foreign policies from presidents that made huge mistakes that brought the US to this point.

[@woodytobiasjr8265]

america was founded on slavery, genocide and war. What has changed?

[@howardg.5638]

Very good assessment of the current geopolitical realities

[@melindamaxwell7923]

Congress and the government are going down in denial.

[@lunadisole1876]

Thanks, Richard💕! Why don’t the officials in Washington reason like you do? It is the correct, true to facts, way. We need harmony and peace with our neighbors in the world, not hostilities and wars.

[@johnblack6161]

Because their all bought off,With the likes of AIPAC MIC CORPORATIONS AND BANKSTERS.

[@brianlowe3529]

Well said professor 👍

[@piku5637]

Wish nations were run by working class people’s for working class people’s and would work together instead of being hostile.🌍🕊️Ⓐ🏳️‍⚧️☭🏳️‍🌈

[@vivalaleta]

Amen

[@Dustin_Bins]

λ , oh wait.....wrong symbol 😆

[@youngeagle5953]

"Israel cannot claim 'self-defence' against a threat that emanates from the territory it occupies - from a territory that is kept under belligerent occupation" Francesca Albanese, UN Specialist

[@unggrabb]

Spot on. And this really the key point which should convince all nations to shun israel

[@alfred-vz8ti]

icc was even-handed. issued warrants for the criminal, and the victims. what were they thinking? 'shame on you for resisting murder?' 'wait for us to do something, we'll do something, some day?' human society is insane!

[@barbaraward9007]

I remember Joe Biden saying the Ruble would soon turn to rubble. Talk about miscalculations

[@cb250nighthawk3]

Gigantic miscalculation at that.

[@geraldruiz2437]

Hello Good of you ❤

[@geraldruiz2437]

Happy Fruitful New Month Barbara❤️. Wishing you all the best of luck in life 🙏. Amen

[@bikerd12]

“It is over …”

[@jackchiu7560]

Soon the current ICC prosecutor Karim Khan and his deputies Mame Mandiaye Niang and Shameem Khan will suffer the same fate as that of the two previous ICC prosecutors, Fatou Bensouda and Phakiso Mochochoko, who wanted to investigate American war crimes in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Will they and their families be able to step on U.S. soil? That remains to be seen. Meanwhile, everyone is wondering about the role of the ones who supply the means to those war crimes.

[@johnblack6161]

Why would they want to go to that country the US. For,

[@jackchiu7560]

@@johnblack6161 The Biden government has today, May 23rd, announced sanctions against the ICC prosecutors. The penalties are exactly the same as those the Trump administration did previously. Hegemonic behavior!

[@Vonnie777]

The sands are shifting BRACE YOURSELVES

[@sourcetext]

Because of good and honest people like this man ....I have some hope for Humanity. God bless your good works 👍🙏❤

[@user-nn4dz7hh6p]

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with..."

[@stevekaylor5606]

Jefferson was a top Jacobin!

[@redkellyre6568]

Richard Wolff can sober you up mighty fast

[@MAchannel2024]

You always enlighten us with your knowledge and perspective. Thank you

[@rodney0nline]

So long, pax Americana; I'd say "nice knowing you," but that'd be a lie.

[@stevekaylor5606]

pax Unipolar

[@josecuason557]

Perfect said

[@joysingh4602]

Thanks!

[@SteveSmith-mw5zk]

The chickens are coming home to roost

[@woodytobiasjr8265]

What empire does abroad it soon does at home.

[@suichingyuen2100]

Despite the US messing with Huawei, it is thriving in China; and, don't want to deal with America. China has G6 already. Huawei has new chipsets and are selling to other countries while the US is "talking about building factories' and creating jobs.

[@loisodea4869]

Thank you Dr. Wolff.

[@LolaBgcps]

"Empire in decline" makes so much sense.

[@jawjaw2652]

謝謝！

[@ShamanartsFlorida]

truth be known.....

[@slv877]

Great content! Love all of your contents.

[@mostafaelsarawy2562]

THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE HUMAN NATURE MY DEEP LOVE AND. RESPECT MY TRUE FRIEND.

[@Helmy67]

Well said Sir 😊

[@Arrioc.]

I completely agree. Our leaders are inefficient, ineffective, and completely neglectful to its citizens as well as to the world. It's probably a good thing we are a dying superpower.

[@PDTRUMP]

Americans are not aware of much of foreign policy

[@mongoharry]

Really sad that only 745 people have liked this video as of now.

[@mschickie007]

I just caught it and am sharing it . Luckily 🍀

[@CPeter0912]

Thanks Richard.

[@user-fi1ym8zo1x]

Its the ICC not the ICJ that has applied for the arrest warrants - which have not been decided on as yet

[@NuisanceMan]

Interventions like Wolff's, si. Interventions like the United States', no.

[@user-lb9ei2kc6s]

Sir, I like the way you analyze "miscalculation component of American global thinking" - the best example is Russia-Ukraine war, America is failed, - When it comes to Israel 's fight against terrorism, America even could not stop Europe based ordinary NGOs like ICC and ICJ, they became powerful to verdict an independent democratic country?

[@PDTRUMP]

Right here

[@GrCanguy73]

Keep up the good work sir .facts are facts

[@ryszardgasiorek9962]

Thank you Professor for your excellent analysis .

[@PDTRUMP]

Correct

[@PDTRUMP]

I will comment along

[@bharatc.sampat6406]

This president and this administration must go. NOW

[@richardcarrillo6164]

Election year choices... proven genocide apartheid supporter or a want to be dictator

[@kwlee8420]

Well,pick the lesser of 2 evils. !!!

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

American Democracy can survive four more years of Biden, but it will die immediately upon a Trump victory

[@NavM23]

👍👍👍

[@NoiramNoiram]

Denial or incompetence?

[@PDTRUMP]

Oligarchy and cash laughable

[@conniedean3787]

13,800 children died in Gaza, 33 children died in Israel

[@mschickie007]

I was curious where you got the 33 from ? Just asking .

[@conniedean3787]

@@mschickie007 I do not think the Palestinians bombed Israel to Dust

[@natsirmohammed191]

So Hamas killed about 600-700 on Oct 7 and IDF INCINERATED the rest in their cars and Kabutz included children

[@UTubeISphere]

About 15,000 plus (and still more dying) versus 38 if memory serves

[@UTubeISphere]

​@@mschickie007Google the following > how many children killed on october 7

[@user-nn4dz7hh6p]

Thank you Russia for bringing peace and justice to our world. :-)

[@PDTRUMP]

BB NITY AT THE TIME STANCE AT 28 IS HIS STANCE NOW

[@PDTRUMP]

Can we be honest

[@jamesfox2857]

Thank You !!!

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Cute emoji of Skeeter

[@PDTRUMP]

You say government correct the people elected

[@leroitiaks]

Why is it that people in the West have to talk about "the horrible[sic] Hamas attack" when referring to October 7th "Al-Aqsa Flood/Storm" in order to be "taken seriously"? Why is it necessary in the West to qualify the internationally recognised legal armed struggle of the colonised people as horrible? Would you do the same for the Viet Cong in Vietnam, the FLN in Algeria, the 26th of July Movement in Cuba, etc...?

[@jocelynevkb5889]

Thank you for highlighting the status quo. 'America' should have stuck to what it's good at: Entertainment, not warmongering. Will be remembered for its Hollywood movies & Music, such as Blues, Jazz, Hip-Hop & Google, KZbin etc. Maybe the US will come out of its cognitive dissonance & realise that diplomacy & collaborative efforts are more productive than senseless warfaring in a heating up world.

[@nohaydeque334]

5:08 you meant to say the ICC not the ICJ.

[@PDTRUMP]

Remember we are an experiment we are young yet MY late father said we shall all speak Chinese by 2030

[@RezaSamad911]

4:10 One can't invest in Brix based companies...

[@PDTRUMP]

Generational wealth

[@steveabdelkoui5663]

"Terrible for Russia ". What?

[@anhedonic-voting]

Thank you 🌎🗽✊🌹

[@PDTRUMP]

Slovadone Melosovich

[@PDTRUMP]

Question: Why would the usa import goods from their economy. I jacked up the historic Bayonne Bridge for the super ships could come in.

[@PDTRUMP]

I said it. It all collapses in 2020 back in 2001

[@karlsnell2595]

Id like to see the "Dr. Strangelove's" ,that concocted this Oct.7 ....Operation,Brilliant and Satanic. "

[@PhilipHood-du1wk]

Let the ICC try serving their warrants.

[@angelicafrancisco3943]

DENIAL IS NOT A RIVER IN EGYPT 😅

[@allanwilmath8226]

Nope, it should be name of the street between the white house and Congress.

[@marthacmd]

Professor wollf, please talk about Russia and China trade only in their money. Thanks 😊

[@stevekaylor5606]

Part of the BRICS process!

[@bombasticborneo]

ICC 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@jogglehead]

The professor describes the actions of the resistance as "a horrible attack". The professor is not one of my people.

[@gracieallen8285]

I blame presidents from Reagan to Trump for the decline of the American empire.

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

i think the Americans were never ethically, intellectually nor politically capable of sitting on top of the world without making a terrible mess of everything. what is America? where did it come from, and what is its unifying ethos? how long have we spent building a moral framework? the American Century was always going to end in tears

[@gracieallen8285]

@@WeeWeeJumbo we were doing just fine before Reagan! FDR was a great president he governed for the people.

[@stevekaylor5606]

@@gracieallen8285 FDR was central to the 1933 bankruptcy reorganization!

[@PDTRUMP]

Not true I laughed

[@tony_kohler]

Maybe Wright Mills was right about the US political system?

[@markgigiel2722]

China is falling apart. Richard gives them WAY WAY too much credit.

[@scottdellrobinson]

China is helping the entire world. The Western Europeans and all the colonies that they sent their descendants to, sell by date has passed. It's ova

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

This is how you need to vote in November: We must fully resist and _always vote_ against (& less authoritarian than) both the Democratic *and* Republican Parties- including Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul (He’s _no_ Ron Paul), Warren Davidson, Ron Johnson, and all other Republicans. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real libertarians will never be Republicans or Republican loyalists. You can always _write-in_ an anti-authoritarian person if no candidates for a position fit that bill. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies. Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Please also upvote this comment’s twin-comment.

[@vivalaleta]

9 out of 10 Libertarians are sociopaths. The "progressives" in government aren't living up to their title. The problem is Capitalism.

[@Support_Ad_Blocker]

write in votes are a waste of time

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

@@vivalaleta Cool? What I said is how you should vote. And how you should educate others to vote.

[@vivalaleta]

@@user-wl2xl5hm7k I realize that the meaning of libertarian has changed but language evolves. There's no going back.

[@paxwallace8324]

Mr.Wolff your entire thesis is based on the assumption of China being a stable and sound economic entity. Instead of another "Paper Tiger" This is also true for my hero's Book "America, the Farewell Tour" by Chris Hedges. Now I'm not talking about karmic justice here but the very real possibility that at the end of the Day the G7 and the US Military Industrial Intelligence Complex along with the Petrol Dollar being a much more durable construction (at least for the foreseeable future) than assumed by both you and Chris Hedges. The idea that China "the lynch pin of your new Paradigm" being just as much a house of cards as the Morally bankrupt post imperial G7 US Military Industrial Intelligence Complex is not a stretch. Many China experts seem to think so. Apearantly the entire Sino Military Economic edifice is rife with corruption and non functional situations so much so that many view it as a bubble waiting for collapse. PS there exists also another huge mitigating vector of entropy looming over the whole spectical that being "Catastrophic Abrupt Climate Change" Humanity is in this Century a Train hurtling down the track full speed ahead but the Tressel is OUT.

[@user-nn4dz7hh6p]

God bless Russia. :-)

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

_This_ is how you need to vote in November: We must fully resist and _always vote_ against (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. You can always _write-in_ an anti-authoritarian person if no candidates for a position fit that bill. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies. Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Please also upvote this comment’s twin-comment.

[@Support_Ad_Blocker]

write in votes are a waste of time

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

@@Support_Ad_Blocker No they aren’t. The point is never vote for Dems, Republicans or any more authoritarian than either. Write Ins help you accomplish that objective sometimes.

[@Support_Ad_Blocker]

@@user-wl2xl5hm7k Yes they are if they are discarded and not counted. Even if counted, they still don't matter. You'd be far better off down voting (skipping the candidates you don't like).

[@hadubrandmarx3392]

Haha. Wolf wie immer nice. Grüße aus Germany!

[@jondoe1622]

It's funny how you never have anything good to say about the US and anything bad to say about the CCP... makes me woulder about who holds your purse's strings... 😅

[@witHonor1]

When the dollar loses all value, every other currency will be crypto. There isn't a winner.

[@albertarthurparsnips5141]

Hmm…that sort of historical determinism is rather overstated. And often crude, not to mention impatient with annoying frivolities otherwise termed ‘facts’. The ‘brics’ !? An entity barely spoken of nowadays, with good reason. Brazil & South Africa are both foundering & approaching literal collapse in every sense. Modi’s India has failed to obtain any of its declared objectives ( even instituting access to toilets for the majority of its still severely impoverished populace proves to be a gargantuan barrier ), with the exception of amplifying Hindutva. Russia & the PRC ? One could welcome their ‘ascent’ with the sort of delight one might reserve for the prospect of the planet coming to resemble Giedi Prime.

[@comancheflyer4903]

One day, you will wake up and don't understand the world any more. It's all gone up in smoke.

[@knowledgeanddefense1054]

It's sad that Russia is simply gonna become the new empire

[@rjung_ch]

No they won't, their population isn't big enough.

[@knowledgeanddefense1054]

@@rjung_ch ...what?

[@rjung_ch]

@@knowledgeanddefense1054 wording was off, fixed it

[@knowledgeanddefense1054]

@@rjung_ch Still no idea what population size have to do with it

[@rjung_ch]

@@knowledgeanddefense1054 if you have no people to go to die in a war, how can you become the next empire? Population = canon fodder. Look at Ukraine, they have way fewer people to go and fight, they are asking people of the age of 60 to go and fight and to die.

[@yoppindia]

till US is broken up into smaller countries, these disasters will continue.

[@rjung_ch]

Well, some of the GOP have been screaming that for a while. Just those states would lose so much more than win anything. Soon it'll be dog eat dog...

[@PandemoniumVice]

Not sure where Mr. Wolff is getting his numbers, but according to UN estimates the GDP of the G7 countries is basically double that of BRICS in 2024. BRICS is approximately $26.2 Trillion USD G7 (-EU) is approximately $42.8 Trillion USD G7 (+EU) is approximately $58.8 Trillion USD The reason I included numbers both with and without the EU is because I couldn't easily find GDP numbers after 2022, and I don't feel like taking the time out to hunt down the numbers from every single individual EU member nation. Regardless; without the EU included we're looking at a difference of around $16.6 Trillion USD. The total GDP of BRICS is barely $3 Trillion USD more than the United States alone. This dishonesty and deceit coming from Prof. Wolff makes me genuinely sad, as I used to be a big fan of his. It's heartbreaking. He's half the reason I'm a Socialist today, but in the past few years, especially after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he and his associates seem to have lost the plot. I genuinely do not understand what happened. I don't know what went wrong. It appears that they would prefer to live under the bootheel of an authoritarian government that wants to completely strip away human rights from minority groups and destroy any kind of individual freedom, than to live under the rule of the United States. Because... the USA is capitalist I guess? And does bad things sometimes? But, there isn't a single country in BRICS that is Socialist or Communist either, or hasn't done(or currently doing) terrible things. They ALL operate on some form of capitalism, just with a 10,000% more authoritarian government. Russia assassinates Putin's political rivals, constantly attacks and annexes its neighbors every few years, and recently made being gay illegal. China and the CCP have devolved into nothing more than a corrupt dictatorship under Xi, and put people in literal reeducation camps. They even banned Winnie the Pooh. Seriously, I don't get it. I do not f*cking understand. At all. And please, don't get me wrong. I am a Socialist. Hell, I'd honestly even prefer to see humanity move towards a unified global government in the long run. But not if that means I have to be scared for my life that I might be executed, imprisoned, or sent to a reeducation camp just because I kissed another guy, believed in the wrong god, or spoke out against a government official. As a species, we have to do something different, and something better, or we are going to face extinction in the next couple hundred years. From what I see, though, no government on this planet is genuinely moving towards doing something better. Our only options are "least terrible" at this time.

[@johnmiller0000]

According to the IMF World Economic Outlook, in 2023, BRICS had 32.1% of global GDP compared to 29.9% for G7 *at purchasing power parity*. See Wikipedia page "List of countries by GDP (PPP)".

[@bircruz555]

Where are YOU getting your numbers? Denial?

[@stevekaylor5606]

@@johnmiller0000 The BRICS may include 40 more nations in October!

[@macabee23]

Couldn't israel take all of gaza and give the inhabitants full israeli citizenship?

[@knowledgeanddefense1054]

They could, but... racism.

[@paulphotios3920]

They could but there are similar nos of people on both sides. The Palestinians out breed Israelis and would eventually take over. Israelis hold duel citizenship and whether they actually live in Israel or some other country is debatable .

[@Name-ot3xw]

I'm onboard with Lindsay Graham, let's go ahead and put out a warrant for Bush, Obama is a pretty good candidate too. Ironically, Trump is pretty safe here.

[@GaryG63]

These are miscalculations, it’s chronic ignorance fueled by their ego

[@stewartlowe6703]

SAVE AMERICA FROM AIPAC

[@user-nn4dz7hh6p]

Arrest our corrupt Congressmen and Senators as well. :-)