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ICC fears Trump sanctions will destroy organization
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is afraid that it could be “destroyed” by American sanctions imposed by the new Trump Administration, ICC officials told the Guardian.
The officials stated that US sanctions could “shut the court down entirely.”
“The concern is the sanctions will be used to shut the court down, to destroy it rather than just tie its hands,” one of the officials said.
Republicans in the House and Senate have vowed to impose sanctions on the ICC in response to the organization’s decision to approve Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan’s request to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Members of the Trump Administration have also called for sanctions on the ICC.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned during his Senate confirmation hearing last week that if the ICC is allowed to target Israeli leaders, America could find itself the ICC’s next target.
“I think the ICC has done tremendous damage to its global credibility. First of all, it is going after a non-member state” Rubio responded. He criticized ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan’s claims that the ICC has the right to go after non-member states.
“I think … that the whole premise of his prosecution is flawed,” Rubio said, “beyond the process of it and the precedent that it sets, which is a very dangerous precedent for the United States of America, by the way, because this is a test run. This is a trial run to see, ‘Can we go after a head of state from a nation that’s not a member?’ If we can go after them and we can get it done with regards to Israel, they will apply that to the United States at some point. And in fact, there have been threats to do so in the past.”
“There is a difference between those who in the conduct of armed action deliberately target civilians and those who do as much as they can to avoid civilians being caught up [while fighting] against an enemy that doesn’t wear a uniform, against an enemy that hides in tunnels, against an enemy that hides behind women and children and puts them at the forefront and uses them as human shields. That;s who Hamas is. There is no moral equivalency, and I think the ICC, if they don’t drop this, will find its credibility globally badly damaged. And I believe the United States should be very concerned, because I believe this is a test run to applying it to American service members and American leaders in the future,” Rubio said.
Today (Thursday), Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar stated, “The so-called ‘International Criminal Court’ lost all of its moral authority after it trampled the fundamental principles of international law in its zest for harming Israel’s right to self-defense.”
Watch: Mines detonated in the Golan Heights near Syrian border
The Defense Ministry’s Mine Clearance Authority continues to clear out minefields in the Golan Heights and has cleared over 200 mines near Kibbutz Ein Zivan over an area of 50 dunams over the past two weeks.
The Mine Clearance Authority works year-round to clear mines and unexploded bombs across the country as part of a multi-year plan to release areas suspected of containing mines for the benefit of commerce, industry, and housing.
Over the past year, the authority cleared over 6,500 dunams suspected of being containing mines or unexploded ordanances across Israel, including thousands of Dunams in the Golan Heights.
Since the authority began work at Ein Zivan, it cleared approximately 430 dunams and detonated over 4,500 antitank mines that were placed there at the end of the 1980s.
Bring Shlomo home | Thailand: Chance meeting sparks a change
Yoni, a successful Israeli contractor, flew to Thailand in December to find builders. In addition to his work recruits, he found Shlomo, a runaway yeshiva student.
Shlomo, 29, had been a regular yeshiva student in Israel. While his friends were all beginning their families, he suffered through two broken engagements. At 28, his third bride-to-be canceled their wedding, and Shlomo snapped.
He ran to the Far East to get away from himself.
Sensing that Shlomo wanted a Jewish connection, Yoni acted quickly to maximize Shomo’s inspiration. He contacted his friend Aharon, a successful outreach director.
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Aharon agreed the case was urgent and seized the fleeting opportunity. He flew out to Thailand for a week to get to know Shlomo and see if he could be convinced to return to his anxious family and to Judaism.
Aharon returned from Thailand on January 15th. He relates that the trip was mostly successful: “Shlomo admitted that he doesn’t want to live a typical Thai future, as much as he is entrenched in their society now. But he is too timid to take the plunge of coming home himself. If we take care of everything – flight, money to settle in, therapy costs… then he will come home.”
Shlomo asks Am Yisrael to join in saving their struggling fellow Jew: “Now, his heart is open. We must act quickly so he doesn’t G-d forbid get sucked back in!”
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*All names have been changed to protect privacy.
Parsha Summary for Parshas Vaera
Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading.
1st Aliya: The year is 2448 and Moshe had unsuccessfully confronted Pharaoh. The situation had gotten worse, not better, and Hashem (G-d) reassured Moshe that in fact the redemption was about to begin. The 4 statements of redemption are stated for which we have the 4 cups of wine at the Passover Seder.
2nd & 3rd Aliyot: Moshe’s Yichus (lineage) is established. He is 80 years old and Aharon is 83.
4th Aliya: Moshe performed the miracle of the “staff turning to a serpent” and performed the first and second plagues.
5th Aliya: Moshe performed the third plague and forewarned Pharaoh about the fourth.
6th Aliya: The fourth, fifth, and sixth plagues were performed, and Moshe forewarned Pharaoh regarding the seventh.
7th Aliya: The seventh plague was performed and Pharaoh “hardens his heart” and refused to let the Jews go.
Haftorah Summary for Parshas Vaera
The theme of the Exodus is the Jew and the Egyptian recognizing G-d’s absolute mastery over all things. The nature of a slave / master relationship is for the slave to be dependent on the master and the master to feel a proprietorship over the slave. At the time of the Exodus, Pharoah had to be humbled, the Jews had to be freed of their dependency upon Egypt, and the Jews would have to direct their fealty to G-d, and G-d alone.
Egypt retained her position as a major world power into the era of the first Bais Hamikdash (Temple). It would be Babylon that would humble Egypt and strip her of her position as a major international power.
Yechezkel, the Navi, prophesied the downfall of Egypt around the year 3332 – 429 b.c.e. He compared Egypt to a great sea monster that dominated the sea. The fisherman caught the sea monster along with all the other fish that clung to the defeated monster, and dragged them into the wilderness to rot and become food for the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky. So too, the same would happen to Egypt and the Bnai Yisroel who had formed an unholy alliance with Egypt against the might of Babylon. Nevuchadnetzar would eventually destroy Egypt along with Israel who had clung to Egypt for protection. In order for the Jew to be truly free of all-foreign domination and oppression he would have to accept his dependency upon G-d, and G-d alone.
Chicago se alista para una gran redada de migrantes tras la toma de posesión de Trump
La comunidad latina de Chicago se está preparando para una gran redada masiva de migrantes el próximo martes, solo un día después de la toma de posesión como presidente de Donald Trump, en lo que podría ser el primer golpe de su dura política migratoria.
Políticos a nivel local, estatal y federal y organizaciones defensoras de los migrantes están trabajando a contra reloj para informar a las comunidades migrantes sobre sus derechos, prepararlas ante posibles emergencias y orientarlas sobre cómo actuar ante agentes migratorios.
Según publicó The Wall Street Journal el viernes por la noche, el nuevo Gobierno planea una “redada migratoria a gran escala” en Chicago, con el despliegue de entre 100 y 200 agentes del Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE, en inglés).
Sin embargo, las filtraciones a la prensa podrían hacer que el Gobierno entrante reconsidere la operación, según declaró anoche a The Washington Post, Tom Homan, designado ‘zar’ de la frontera por Trump.
A pesar de ello, organizaciones defensoras de los migrantes y legisladores que representan a Chicago en el Congreso de Estados Unidos, como el demócrata Jesús “Chuy” García, de origen mexicano, ofrecieron una rueda de prensa el sábado para advertir a la población.
“Nuestra comunidad ha enfrentado ataques desde la década de 1960”, recordó García en declaraciones a EFE, explicando que esa resistencia permitió cambiar regulaciones locales para proteger a los migrantes indocumentados en Chicago y en todo el estado de Illinois.
Chicago se convirtió en 1985 en una de las primeras “ciudades santuario” de Estados Unidos, limitando la colaboración de la policía local con los agentes migratorios federales. Desde entonces ha reforzado esas políticas, especialmente tras el primer mandato de Trump (2016-2021).
“Seguimos afirmando que los inmigrantes traen beneficios a esta ciudad, Illinois y Estados Unidos en su conjunto. Rechazamos las afirmaciones de Trump y otros que sugieren que somos propensos a la conducta criminal. Eso es una falsedad”, afirmó García, quien representa un distrito con más del 66 por ciento de población hispana.
El congresista consideró que la amenaza de deportaciones “pone a prueba” a la comunidad, por lo que instó a mantener la calma y conocer los derechos básicos.
Durante la rueda de prensa, tanto García como Delia Ramírez, legisladora demócrata que también representa a una parte de Chicago en el Congreso, recordaron que los migrantes tienen derecho a guardar silencio, contactar a un abogado y no permitir la entrada a su vivienda sin una orden legal.
Además, los migrantes no están obligados a proporcionar información a los agentes, como su estatus migratorio o lugar de nacimiento.
Organizaciones defensoras de los migrantes llevan meses organizando talleres para informar a la comunidad sobre sus derechos, conscientes de que Chicago, uno de los bastiones demócratas, es un objetivo prioritario en las deportaciones.
Tom Homan ya adelantó semanas atrás que las deportaciones empezarían el “día uno” y que Chicago sería el primer objetivo.
La oposición a las deportaciones también ha llegado desde el sector empresarial. Un grupo de líderes empresariales latinos formó recientemente el Comité de 100, que promueve políticas migratorias prácticas, con fronteras seguras y respeto a los derechos de los migrantes.
Sam Sánchez, copresidente del comité y propietario de un restaurante en Chicago, recordó en declaraciones a EFE que un cuarto de los empleados del sector de la restauración provienen de comunidades inmigrantes.
“Perder a estos trabajadores interrumpe las operaciones, afecta negativamente los servicios y perjudica nuestros negocios. Como líder empresarial latino que apoyó a Trump, insto al presidente a priorizar el crecimiento económico, la estabilidad y un estatus legal para los ‘dreamers’ y los trabajadores esenciales”, señaló Sánchez.
Trump ganó las elecciones de noviembre con la promesa de llevar a cabo “la mayor deportación de la historia” de Estados Unidos.
Con información de EFE
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Hamás libera a las primeras tres rehenes; ya están en Israel
Las tres rehenes israelíes liberadas por Hamás en el primer día del alto al fuego ya han sido entregadas al Ejército israelí dentro de la Franja de Gaza por parte de los equipos de la Cruz Roja y están camino de Israel, confirmó un portavoz militar.
Se trata de tres mujeres civiles –Emily Damari, Doron Steinbrecher y Romi Gonen– que fueron liberadas en las próximas horas tras 471 días de cautiverio, en canje por 90 presos palestinos, según el acuerdo alcanzado entre Israel y Hamás.
Las tres secuestradas liberadas están siendo transferidas actualmente a las fuerzas de las FDI y al Shabak en la Franja de Gaza.
Las tres secuestradas liberadas están siendo acompañadas por fuerzas especiales de las FDI y fuerzas del Shabak en su regreso a territorio israelí,…
— Israel en Español (@IsraelinSpanish) January 19, 2025
Según medios palestinos, la entrega a la Cruz Roja por parte de las Brigadas al Qasam, brazo armado de Hamás, se ha producido en una céntrica plaza de Ciudad de Gaza.
Son las primeras rehenes liberadas como parte del acuerdo de alto al fuego entre Israel y Hamás, que entró en vigor en la mañana de este domingo, tras un retraso de casi tres horas.
Cuando las fuerzas israelíes reciban a las secuestradas y confirmen su identidad, 90 presos palestinos (mujeres y niños) serán liberados, la mayoría en Cisjordania ocupada, pero 14 de ellos en Jerusalén Este.
En la primera fase del pacto, Israel y Hamás han acordado un alto el fuego de seis semanas, en las que se producirá un intercambio gradual de 33 rehenes israelíes por más de mil 900 presos palestinos.
Durante esas seis semanas tendrán lugar además las negociaciones para una segunda fase de la tregua, en la que se completaría la liberación de todos los secuestrados israelíes en Gaza y se sentarían las bases del fin de la guerra.
Sin embargo, altos cargos israelíes como el ministro de Exteriores, Gideon Saar, han recordado que el alto al fuego es temporal, y que la guerra no acabará hasta que Israel no cumpla todos sus objetivos militares, que pasan por eliminar completamente a Hamás.
El presidente israelí, Isaac Herzog, visitó hoy el Muro de las Lamentaciones en Jerusalén, el lugar más sagrado del judaísmo, para rezar por la liberación de las tres rehenes y la del resto de secuestrados israelíes en Gaza.
Con información de EFE
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