Ezra Levant critiques the ICC’s May 22 arrest warrant for Israel’s Netanyahu and Galant, citing starvation and crimes against humanity since October 8, 2023, while ignoring Hamas’ October 7 "genocide" of 1,200 Jews. Three nations—Spain, Norway, Ireland—recognized Palestine, with the latter compared to WWII-era Nazi sympathizers. Canada’s Trudeau and U.S. condemned the ICC but avoided outright opposition, despite ties to controversial figures like anti-Semitic extremist Mohamed Faki. Netanyahu called the warrant a "moral outrage," rejecting ICC jurisdiction amid globalist WEF influence, suggesting Western institutions prioritize ideological attacks over justice. [Automatically generated summary]
The International Criminal Court wants to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, and Trudeau finds a very careful way to say he agrees.
It's actually quite astonishing.
That's all I had.
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Tonight, the International Criminal Court calls for the arrest of Israel's democratically elected prime minister.
It's May 22nd, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
The idea of an international court is a globalist dream.
It destroys the concept of national sovereignty.
It implies that there's some higher order than just a country itself.
It's often used only against progressives, enemies of the progressive left.
You haven't seen prosecutions of Kim Jong-un of North Korea, for example.
It's really a way to do what the United Nations does symbolically by criticizing Israel or the United States.
Well, the ICC had an announcement recently.
In fact, they said that they want to prosecute Israel's democracy, especially the personage of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Here, take a look at their prosecutor, Karim Khan, outlining the case.
And listen to what he says.
He says that Israel is merely a territory, but Palestine is already a nation state.
He sort of gives away his bias, doesn't he?
Take a look.
can also confirm today that I have reasonable grounds to believe on the basis of evidence collected and examined by my office that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Galant bear criminal responsibility for the following international crimes committed on the territory of the state of Palestine from at least the 8th of October 2023.
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The crimes include starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, willfully causing great suffering, serious injury to body or health, or cruel treatment, willful killing or murder, and intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population, as well as crimes against humanity, of extermination and/or murder, persecution,
and allegations of crimes of committing other inhumane acts.
I suppose it's an outrageous thing to say, but no more outrageous than what goes on in the United Nations every day, or that many left-wing politicians around the world have been saying in the last seven months of the most intensive anti-Semitic moment since the Holocaust.
The attack on October 7th was the most violent pogrom since the Holocaust.
So, why shouldn't the anti-Semitism in the public sphere be that way?
By the way, look at this new video released by the Israeli government.
This is what happened when Hamas terrorists seized young women.
Caution.
This is terrifying to watch.
You may wish to close your eyes if you are at all sensitive.
Take a look at this new video.
I want to remind you, this was a video taken by Hamas himself.
So, I want to remind you what sparked this whole thing.
Take a look.
Sit down, sit down, sit down.
That's what you mean?
What?
I don't know.
What?
What?
Sit again.
I'm going to call my friend with Gaza.
Why, why, why?
I swear, I swear.
What?
Where is the number?
Netanyahu's Travel Ban00:11:18
Well, around the world, there was reaction to Kareem Khan's decision to seek arrest warrants for Netanyahu.
And I think that was the purpose of it.
I don't know if there actually will be an arrest of Netanyahu.
I don't think he will travel to a country where that would be possible.
And I don't think there are many countries where that would be possible.
But three countries actually said, yeah, we support this.
And three countries actually took the opportunity to decide that they officially recognize Palestine as a country.
Spain said so, Norway, and Ireland.
And that's interesting.
Ireland, of course, I was just there for a day a couple of weeks ago, and it's not there to talk about Palestine, but I think they think of violent rebellion against the United Kingdom.
So they see a kind of kinship with the Palestinians, but I don't think that's the right analogy.
What I learned when I was in Ireland is that Ireland is the indigenous home of the Irish people.
They are the original dwellers there, and they should have their happy homeland.
And Israel is the indigenous people of the Holy Land in that part of the world.
Christianity came much later, and Islam came centuries after that.
If you want an analogy for the Irish people, a small country fighting against larger battles, larger armies, Israel would be the analog, the original indigenous people.
Spain is an interesting choice of a country to support Palestine because Spain itself has a breakaway region called Catalonia.
I wonder what would happen if Israel recognized Catalonia as an independent country.
And Norway was the third one.
All three of these countries were notoriously neutral or even sympathetic to Nazis during the Second World War.
In fact, Ireland went so far as to sign a condolence on the death of Adolf Hitler himself.
So I suppose Netanyahu shouldn't travel to those three countries because the possibility of an arrest there would be real.
Not that I think he would plan to travel there in any event.
But what about here in Canada?
What was the reaction to the ICC announcing they wanted to arrest the democratically elected leaders of a democratic country that is fighting a war in reaction to a horrific terrorist attack?
Well, Justin Trudeau, Melanie Jolie, his foreign minister, and others, managed to avoid that question for an entire day.
It was quite something.
They were just silent on the matter.
The United States came out firmly against the declaration of Israel as a pariah state.
Canada, allegedly the closest ally to the United States, didn't have anything to say, like just was silent.
I mean, they could have endorsed it.
They could have opposed it, but they were racked by indecision, partly because I think they don't know how to play this with their domestic liberal political battles.
Here's Mohamed Faki, who is really Justin Trudeau's kitchen cabinet foreign minister.
He's an anti-Semitic extremist who has really helped open doors in the Muslim community in Canada for Justin Trudeau, and Trudeau returns the favor.
He got him given an order of Canada, etc.
He believes that Israel should basically be destroyed.
He made a public announcement that he doesn't want any Zionist money going to his chain of restaurants.
I've only been once and I don't intend to go back.
On the other hand, you still have a couple of Jews left in the Liberal Party, including the disgraceful Ya'ara Sachs and Anthony Housefather.
So how would Trudeau thread the needle here?
Because if he supports the ICC's plan to arrest Netanyahu, he'll win the support of the Mohamed Fakis and the Omar al-Jabras and the Ahmed Hudsons of the world, but he would probably lose the support of Anthony Housefather and Yaara Sachs.
And he doesn't want to lose either, but you've got to decide.
Well, after a day, this is what he came up with.
Now, listen very carefully to what he says and doesn't say.
This was from earlier today.
Obviously, the International Criminal Court is independent in its work, and I've said from the very beginning how important it is that everyone respect and abide by international law.
What I will say is troubling, though, is the sense of an equivalency between the democratically elected leaders of Israel and the bloodthirsty terrorists that lead up Hamas.
I don't think that's helpful.
You'll notice that he focuses his outrage on the fact that the ICC also said that Hamas is a terrorist organization, which of course it is.
And he was raging at the false equivalency that the ICC treats a democracy and a terrorist group.
Okay, thank you very little.
I appreciate that.
But what do you have to say about the ICC itself and the decision?
So while Trudeau raged against the false equivalency, a false equivalency is not a call to arrest someone.
What about the call to arrest Israel's prime minister?
Well, if you listen clearly, Trudeau never said he was against it.
In fact, he clearly said that Canada needs to respect the ICC.
Trudeau actually agreed with the plan to arrest Netanyahu.
He just misdirected attention to his rage about the false equivalency.
But look at how foolish Anthony Housefather, just giddy, easily deceived.
There's no one easier to deceive than to deceive yourself, as Richard Feynman taught us.
Here's Anthony Housefather.
They should respond to what's happening at the ICC where they're seeking a warrant for the arrest of the Israeli president.
Well, as Rishi Sunak said, it's unhelpful and as Joe Biden said, it's outrageous.
OK.
It discredits the ICC.
There is no way to place the democratically elected leaders of Israel on an equal playing field with the terrorist leaders of Hamas.
And the court lacks jurisdiction to begin with.
Yeah, no, Justin Trudeau went full Hamas there.
It's funny because some reporters sort of picked it up.
Here's a reporter asking Christy Freeland just to clarify a little bit and watch her malfunction in real time.
You mentioned several times that you feel that this is equating democratic leaders with terrorists.
Can you kind of explain the rationale for that?
Because their charges are entirely different.
For Netanyahu's government, it's starvation of civilians and causing harm to civilians intentionally.
Do you disagree with that?
How does that equate them to Hamas, whose charges are entirely different?
I've commented extensively.
So let me just say we respect the ICC.
We respect its independence.
It's an important multilateral institution.
We also recognize and understand that there are this is a preliminary step in a process of the ICC.
You know, perhaps Canada should have just remained silent.
It was also interesting in that Canada did not make a statement on the same day when the dictator of Iran had a helicopter crash in the fog in a mountainous region.
The foreign minister, a lot of senior political officials in Iran died in that helicopter crash.
That was an interesting litmus test as well.
You saw the United Nations have a moment of silence.
You saw the UN fly their flag at half-mast.
And Joe Biden's State Department actually issued condolences to the terrorist dictator of Iran, known as the butcher of Tehran for his treatment of enemies of the Islamic Revolution.
Just absolutely astonishing.
Trudeau managed to go a day without talking about that either, because again, he's in a pickle.
He wants the support of Iran and Hamas supporters in Canada, but he doesn't want to be seen as the creepy terrorist endorser.
Well, let me give you some bold responses.
Namely, Benjamin Netanyahu himself, here's his side of the story.
Take a listen.
The outrageous decision by the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, to seek arrest warrants against the democratically elected leaders of Israel is a moral outrage of historic proportions.
It will cast an everlasting mark of shame on the international court.
Israel is waging a just war against Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organization that perpetrated the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
Now, in the face of these horrors, Mr. Khan creates a twisted and false moral equivalence between the leaders of Israel and the henchmen of Hamas.
This is like creating a moral equivalence after September 11th between President Bush and Osama bin Laden, or during World War II between FDR and Hitler.
What a travesty of justice.
What a disgrace.
The prosecutor's absurd charges against me and Israel's defense minister are merely an attempt to deny Israel the basic right of self-defense.
And I assure you of one thing, this attempt will utterly fail.
I suppose in the end, nothing has really changed.
I mean, perhaps Netanyahu won't travel to Norway, Spain, or Ireland, but I doubt that was on his travel plans.
I think the defamation of Israel continues apace.
There was a violent pogrom against Israel on October 7th, but we've seen it echo around at least the Western world, certainly in our institutions like our universities.
And I would call this a kind of judicial pogrom against Israel using the ICC, which was inspired by the events of the Second World War, the Holocaust, to never allow genocide to happen again.
Imagine those tools being used against Israel itself.
It's truly astonishing and Orwellian.
I see that the U.S. Congress is contemplating putting sanctions on Karim Khan and other rogues at the ICC, but good luck with that.
I don't know.
Dark times, no moral clarity anywhere in the world.
We're led by pygmies, I think.
Joe Biden is atrocious.
I see news that he was actually having diplomats confer with Iran about how to have regime change in Israel.
Absolutely astonishing, but completely unsurprising.
Who Owns the World Economic Forum?00:12:34
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Owns the United Nations.
Well, nobody does.
It's a non-governmental organization.
It's not a for-profit shareholder-based corporation.
It's a quasi-government institution.
Okay, fine.
But who owns the World Economic Forum?
Is it the same thing?
Do you have permanent seats there by the United States and China and Russia?
No, you don't.
The World Economic Forum is a private company that acts like an NGO, that acts like the United Nations, but it's actually the creation of its founding boss, Klaus Schwab.
Well, the news comes that Klaus Schwab, who I think is approaching 90 years old now, has announced he's going to retire.
What an interesting thing.
Who will take over the World Economic Forum from him?
It's not like there's going to be a vote about the subject.
It's more like a king bestowing the prize upon an heir.
Joining us now to talk about it is someone who follows the World Economic Forum closely because he knows, as I do, that the World Economic Forum and the United Nations is where a lot of these decisions come from that are then downloaded onto sovereign nations like Canada and the United States.
What a pleasure to bring back Mark Morano from climatepot.com.
Mark, great to see you again.
Thank you, Ezra.
Happy to be here today.
You know, Klaus Schwab is a cartoonish bond villain.
You know, I have German and Austrian friends, so I'm not making fun of the accent, but it's a little over the, it's a little on the nose to have a guy who dresses like a villain with a German accent whose father was a Nazi industrialist want to penetrate the cabinets around the world.
Like, I mean, it's if it was a bond villain in a screenplay, they would say, no, it's too perfect.
No one will believe it.
But he really has become that guy.
He really has.
He is central casting out of Hollywood to play Dr. Evil, essential James Bond, Blofeld, any figure you can think of.
He's got the thick German accent.
He's got the looks.
He's got the menacing speech patterns and views.
The World Economic Forum under his direction started in 1971 as this think tank.
And in about, and all his bios are noting 2015 as a significant year, almost as if he saw, and that really was a significant year.
I think that's the year free speech, particularly in social media, 2015, 16.
Everything began to change.
You had all the warnings, the misinformation, censorship mass increase.
But what he's done, he turned this sleepy little organization in many regards from decades ago in recent decades into this meeting of presidents, prime ministers, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires, Hollywood elites, royal family, academics, bureaucracy, all converging.
People say, I don't care what the world economy, they don't affect my life.
They absolutely affect your life.
They are at the center, Ezra, as you well know, what Klaus Schwab founded, at the center of the entire collapse of rationing of our energy, our food, our transportation, freedom of movement, censorship.
They're the ones who are orchestrating and making happen this corporate government collusion.
When you hear things like banks aren't going to be giving out car loans to people who are buying a gas-powered cars because it's against the net zero rules and they want to encourage or force EVs on us, that's the kind of things that happen from the World Economic Forum, this think tank.
And there are already rumors flying about why he's leaving.
The hope is here, the pandemic treaty meeting next week and the World Health Organization is not going well.
They're missing deadlines.
The developing world is canceling it.
Net zero is the reality is starting to hit a lot of countries around the world in the United States.
The entire DEI, ESG, transgender, Republican attorney generals and governors are stopping it.
So there's a lot of forces.
And you have a lot of people saying this is sort of the massive pushback, the great resist, as we've been wanting to see.
This could be a reason.
He's also in his late 80s, as you mentioned.
The replacements forum are just as frightening as some of the names that are floating about who would replace Klaus Schwab.
Yeah, boy, you said a lot of things there.
I just want to remark on one that you made me remember.
I mean, Christia Freeland, Canada's deputy prime minister, is on the board of the World Economic Forum, which is an outrageous conflict of interest.
I don't even know how that's lawful.
But when you see who's there, one of the things that is so evident to me is they go there because what happens in Davos stays in Davos in terms of reporting.
So there's no lobbyist registry.
There's no what we call here the handsert, what you call in America the congressional record.
There's no transcript.
There's no publication of, let's say, the president's daily agenda so you know who he's meeting with or what he's doing.
None of that happens.
Now, of course, what happens in Davos doesn't stay in Davos when it comes to the bad ideas they push on it.
But when you have Christia Freeland going there, Mark Carney, who may well be Trudeau's successor going there, he's going there to meet in secret with people in a safe place where unaccredited journalists can't get to the inner sanctum.
So it really is a crypto government, a crypto government, which is why it attracts the kind of lizards who would like that darkness.
Who do you think would be a possible successor?
I've heard his daughter mentioned, and he has promoted her perhaps beyond her natural talents.
Let me say this.
She's no Klaus Schwab.
It would seem to me that someone more like a Tony Blair or a John Kerry or even a Larry Fink, who I understand may be stepping down from BlackRock, those are the kind of masters of the universe that I think of when I think of the World Economic Forum, not the daughter of a master of the universe.
What's your thinking?
Have you seen any names bandied about?
Well, one of them is Christina Freeland.
That's one of the names being floated about.
And by the way, I wouldn't be surprised if she kept her position in Canada and became chairman of the World Economic Forum.
Why not?
Is the Canadian media, is the mainstream media going to call her out and hold her to account?
I don't think so.
But first of all, one point I was going to say is you're absolutely right about the secrecy because if you had the, these are lobbyists, lawyers, companies meeting with the highest levers of power, the donor class meeting with the highest.
If you had this without the World Economic Forum and they wanted to hold a meeting, you have to have, when I worked in the U.S. Senate, you couldn't even have these meetings.
You couldn't have, you had food restrictions down to.
You had to serve basically, food.
No one wanted to eat because of lobbyists couldn't meet with politicians and they had to be.
Uh, all the restrictions and all the forms you have to fill out, I couldn't even go speak as a Senate staffer.
You can do all of these things the World Economic Forum and do it for a week, two weeks, and you can have all the meetings and all the access you want and everything's off the books.
There's no forms to fill out, there's no scrutiny, there's no media covering you and telling you who's meeting who and what's happening, and that's why they love it.
That's why Clauswab is so invaluable in terms of other replacements.
John Kerry very interesting thing you mentioned there.
He mysteriously stepped down in february from the U.s climate envoy.
No one could understand it.
Right, doesn't make any sense.
You know what his stated reason was, he was going to be helping Joe Biden get reelected.
No one cares about John Kerry.
No, he's not going to help Joe Biden.
Yeah, very strange.
He would be a leading candidate in addition uh to to uh, John Kerry.
The other names being mentioned are, Naval Harari, Yaval Harari he's Far Harari.
He's the top aide to Clauschwab.
He's the one who's calls useless eaters uh, the unwashed masses, you and I as right.
He calls useless eaters who need psychotrophic drugs and video games to keep us docile as the AI Revolution comes right.
Um, and these are some of the names they're.
They're floating about uh, and it's hard to say.
His daughter, of course, is another one.
Uh, I don't know who else.
I'm not sure why he's stepping down.
It could be health, could just be.
He's been there long enough.
But remember, he's penetrated Z cabinist.
So this is a very uh, you know an organization that doesn't need much at this point, and I think all these candidates we're talking about are all good candidates to replace him in in the context of the World Economic Forum's goals.
They would all further that goal.
Let me throw one name at you that might come as a surprise.
The recently deposed prime minister of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, was a young leader, for the World Economic Forum was absolutely part of the globalist agenda in terms of radical changes to open borders, immigration to Ireland.
He's out of a job, he's young.
The thing about you point John Kerry, he's in his golden years.
Are you going to get five years out of him?
But will you appoint Leo Varadkar.
That guy's caught 20, 25 years.
Now he doesn't have the intellectual heft.
I mean Klaus Schwab had a kind of authority and a gravity, too tall, a sort of Teutonic.
You know you could tell he was a man of substance, even if you disagreed with that substance.
I'm not sure if Leo Varadkar has that.
I don't think a lot of the little young leaders like Jacinda Ardern doesn't have it.
She, she would be too clownish.
But i'm my bet would be on the long shot, bet would be on Leo Varadkar because he's basically you know, he just quit as uh as the pm Of Ireland.
He's looking for a new gig.
Last question before you go, I know you got to run.
When I was there a couple of years ago and my colleague Avi Amini and I took turns scrumming the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Boerla, on the street, we both thought that was an exciting and enjoyable journalistic moment, even though he didn't answer us.
But upon reflection, I thought, what does Boerla care?
He lives in a different world.
He doesn't care about going viral on Twitter.
I mean, it probably embarrassed him a bit, but nothing changed for him.
And it's almost like these folks are impervious.
I enjoy going there and scrumming people who think they're in their safe space until they see a rebel news mic flag.
But in a way, like, what does Larry Fink care?
What does Tony Blair care?
These people are above media.
In many cases, they're above the law.
Is there any way to rein them in?
Because they really are masters of the universe.
I don't say that as praise.
I say that as an observation.
You know, this is one of the greatest challenges we face is how to rein in these, essentially the global elites.
Right now in America, in the once-free Western world, we were duped into following one-party Chinese authoritarianism by the World Health Organization, by the Sham Committee, by our public health establishment globally, by the billionaire class.
Democracy truly has been hijacked, but not by Donald Trump or January 6th, but by this billionaire class.
And this is what you end up with.
You know, Richie Sunak just announced today, Richie Rich, the prime minister of England, that he's going to call for another election.
It's hard to even root for him to win.
You almost want the liberal to win and press into, make England fight back, make it so bad.
But this is the battle that we face right now in terms of trying to regain control of our destiny because throughout history, as you know, the ruling class governing elite have always tried to come up with reasons why the rest of us can't be free.
And that thinking laboratory, that laboratory of ideas has always been the World Economic Forum.
And I think it'll continue to be even after Klaus Schwab steps down.
I think you're right.
Well, maybe Rishi Sunak himself will throw his hat in the ring.
Mark, it's great to see you again.
We always value climatepot.com.
Of course, you talk about things beyond just the climate debate.
You talk about Klaus Schwab a lot.
Good luck out there, and we'll talk to you again soon.
Thank you, Ezra.
I appreciate it.
Right on.
There you have it, Mark Murano.
with us more ahead.
Hey, welcome back.
Find It Depressing00:01:39
You know, I have some final thoughts on all this Iran and Hamas stuff.
I find it very depressing.
I find it depressing how our universities, even when they try to fight back, like McGill, the courts have literally said, no, you have to have an illegal overnight camping of anti-Semitic bigots screening people whether or not they can go on your campus based on their political leanings or their religion.
It's absolutely astonishing and depressing to me.
But I have to note that most of the world is actually not doing that.
It just seems like a lot of the world is because it's Western institutions, Western universities, Western social media, Western real media that tells us that.
But they haven't had any pro-Hamas rallies, for example, in the United Arab Emirates or in Saudi Arabia.
And I think that a lot of what we're seeing is a kind of information operation, a kind of psychological operation to demoralize us, to make us feel like all of a sudden everybody is anti-Semitic and it's cool again.
And then everybody is for the rapists of Hamas and against Israel's democracy.
I think that Israel just has to go in and finish the job against Hamas.
It's paused for months for, I don't know, I don't think so much negotiating with Hamas is negotiating with Joe Biden.
But I think that Israel needs to absolutely decapitate the remaining Hamas leadership.
And I think that would demoralize the Hamas supporters.
But of course, the real battle is in the hearts and minds of the West.
And I hate to say it, but the good guys right now are losing.