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"everyone else also did it" didn't seem to protect the Nazis during their prosecution so I think that's a garbage argument to make.
she could've done the bare minimum of making a public statement and try to sway EU members to stop the arms sales. instead, she encourages everyone to intensify the genocide. that's reason enough for an ICJ case.
More like: Hey you talked to a rapist, you are complicit in the rape.
More like, hey you supplied drugs to the rapist, you are complicit in the rape.
Nazis also eat bread like everybody else. Sometimes everybody else doing something is just because it is the normal thing to do. Talking with a Nazi, does not make you a Nazi.
She does call for immediate ceasefires, humanitarian breaks and so forth pretty often, has increased EU aid to Gaza and supported placing EU sanctions on Israeli settlers. Not exactly the sort of stuff happening in a genocide.
Von der Leyen is not a country, so the ICJ has jurisdiction over her. The ICC could do that, but so far they only went against Netanyahu and Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Most of those were related to Israel blocking food into Gaza, which von der Leyen actively opposed.
no it does not, but agreeing with them and being one of their biggest global supporters does.
you're trying to paint Ursula as a neutral figure, which is the opposite of her track record on Israel.
she's not just being acused of diplomatic relations with Israel, but for bolstering the genocidal propaganda that blames Palestinians for their own extermination which is exactly what a Nazi would do. also for materially providing the weapons of extermination to Israel even though they're the aggressor and aren't in need of financial support.
so you're just a straight up genocide denier, got it. Israel flattening Gaza and erasing entire cities from existence is an example of Israeli restraint and humanitarianism, I assume.
my bad, there was indeed a complaint filed against her at the ICC, which Albanese seems to be referencing. I think she's right in saying that the ICC should do more even though it would diverge from their normative record because these are extreme circumstances.
you can't claim she opposes the withholding of humanitarian aid while at the same time arming the IDF to make it impossible for the humanitarian convoys to go into Gaza. also the IDF bombing said convoys.
that's like claiming that you couldn't have possibly known that promoting friendly relations with China and promoting more intense economic cooperation would lead to more Uyghurs ending up in forced labor camps or being ethnically cleansed.