Netanyahu Faces the Holes of Human Justice 

Reign over us, You alone, O L-rd, with kindness and compassion, with righteousness and justice. Blessed are You L-rd, King who loves righteousness and justice. The Shemonei Esrei Prayer  

Did the ICC issue arrest warrants for the Ayatollah of Iran or its president? Were any warrants ever issued for Syrian President Bashar Assad who started a war that killed half a million of his own people, many of them through the use of chemical weapons? What about Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish leader who has killed thousands of innocent Kurds? 

No nation has held a higher standard of honorable conduct in war than the Israel Defense Forces.  

The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely packed places on earth, yet the ratio of civilian deaths to terrorist deaths was lower than in both World Wars. Never did the Allies airlift food or medicine to the civilian population of Germany or Japan while World War II was raging. Never did a single army throw leaflets onto a civilian area, or text them on their phones, to warn them of an incoming attack.  

Israel did.  

At the risk of our sons fighting in Gaza, we gave Hamas advance notice of where we would strike next for the sole purpose of rescuing the civilian Arabs of Gaza, whom Hamas was using as cannon fodder for their PR.  

Did the UN or ICC ever issue warrants to Hamas leaders for endangering the lives of Palestinians?  

The ICC Self-Declared Mission  

According to its mission statement,  

The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression. 

Hasn’t the Arab population of Gaza increased by over 45,000 people since October 7? They are given over 3,100 calories of food each day in aid, that’s one and a half times the amount of food a person needs! 

Didn’t Hamas commit these crimes on October 7? Aren’t they committing them every day they starve, torture, and murder Israeli hostages? 

If the ICC is supposed to represent a universal standard of human justice yet persecutes those fighting for justice, then human justice is exactly what it always was: flawed.  

Egyptian Law

Human justice is based on what the eyes see and the heart senses. It comes from a philosophy of logic based human deduction that was supposedly initiated by the great Greek thinkers – until we discovered that they all stole it from ancient Egypt.  

The very concept of human-based law, which is in a constant state of change, derives from the very Egypt that Hashem commands us to leave – every day! 

Hashem commands us not to rely on our senses, to disregard what our eyes see and our heart desires, and to follow His law as enumerated in His Torah.  

Egypt-based human law does not do this: 

1. Human law devolves. In one era, stealing a $500 jacket is punishable by arrest and imprisonment. Today, the law lets you get away with it scot-free. 
2. Human law applies to some but not all. A crime committed by someone seen as “left wing” is forgiven much more than the same crime committed by someone seen as conservative. 
3. Human law is for sale. Every day, people are convicted of murder and manslaughter. Some are guilty, and some don’t have the means to prove their innocence. Despite writing a book about how he did it, O.J. Simpson bought a legal “dream team” that still got him off for murder.  

The holes in human justice are why murderous tyrants roam free as democratically elected leaders pursuing peace for their people are persecuted by corrupt judges.  

Torah Law 

The modern world likes to call religion “primitive”, but in reality, we are permanent.  

The same sun that shines upon us today shone on Adam’s brow on the first day of creation. The same bread we eat, Adam enjoyed with his family on the first Shabbat. The same lust for money, power, and illicit relations existed since the snake plotted to kill Adam so he could rule the garden and marry his wife, Chava.  

Since the world we live in is the same as it was and since the urges we all have are the same, why should the laws governing how to live in this world and control ourselves need to evolve?  

This is why we all need God’s law: 

1.  God’s law doesn’t change. Two hundred years ago, in Europe and America, you could be hanged for cheating on your soulmate. Today, adultery is not a crime in the Western world even as the family has broken down, taking with it basic social order.  Case in point — the governor of New York just officially “decriminalized” adultery. It is officially no longer a crime in the state. Here is the source. 

According to the Torah, adultery is a crime punishable by double death. The crime of cheating on God and the soulmate He gave you is punishable by death of the body and by karet, the death of the soul. This law hasn’t changed since Hashem gave it to Moshe at Sinai.  

Stealing was an offense from the times of Noah when Hashem destroyed His world because of rampant stealing. Theft is an offense today. If caught, you must pay back what you stole. In some cases, you must pay back up to five times what you stole. If you cannot afford the payback, you can be enslaved to your victim until you pay back what you took.  

2.  God’s law applies everywhere. The Jewish People are bound by 613 immutable laws, and the non-Jewish world must abide by seven universal legal standards. Gambling is illegal everywhere. You cannot go to New Jersey or Nevada to ignore the law.

3.  God’s justice applies equally to everyone. There are no bribes, blackmail, or excuses.  Moshe, Miriam, King David, and King Solomon all suffered because they broke the law. Their crimes were recorded in the Torah, which billions of humans have read throughout history. Even kings, prophets, and the greatest of women were held accountable for breaking the law.  

Nobody got away with it because of their power, money, popularity, or being part of a “protected” political class.  

God’s justice holds everyone accountable. It’s the only way to ensure a righteous world.  

Holding the leader of the Jewish people accountable for supposed crimes that were acts of heroism eighty years ago while letting terrorists off the hook for far greater offenses shows us the fallacy of human law. It shows the fallacy of the secular leaders who manipulate the legal system to pervert the very justice they claim to pursue. 

The ICC proves that when men take the law away from God, justice is subjugated by chaos. 

The only way to save our world is to live by the law that has produced justice since God gave it to Moshe at Sinai. 

God’s law for God’s world! 

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David Ben Horin lives in Afula with his family, millions of sunflowers, and Matilda, our local camel. David‘s Israeli startup, 300 Marketing Solutions, is a lean marketing agency for startups and small businesses that creates and promotes SEO-optimized ROI-driven to the right audience on LinkedIn to make your business the star of the show.