‘Clearly playing politics’: Alexander Downer hits out at ICC warrant requests
Former foreign minister Alexander Downer has hit out at the International Criminal Court’s appeal for a warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest.
The ICC is seeking arrest warrants for three leaders of Hamas, as well as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the defence minister.
“I find it horrendous really,” Mr Downer told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“With Karim Khan as the prosecutor, it's clear that all he wants to do is play politics and create tomorrow's equivalents between a terrorist organisation in Hamas which wants to destroy the state of Israel and kill Jewish people with a democratically elected Israeli government.
‘Clearly playing politics’: Alexander Downer hits out at ICC warrant requests
“So to draw a moral parallel between those two is just atrocious.”