There's a lot of prestige for the Netherlands in having the ICC in Hague, this story is definitely detrimental to that.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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Yep. No point having it in a state unable to safeguard it.
You'd expect a full enquiry into the government's alleged failure to perform the most basic of responsibilities. If they're not fit for the job, it goes somewhere else where incapability isn't an issue.
Amateur hour shouldn't be a thing here.
The asshole who headed the Dutch government then and most of the time since is the one currently busy licking Trump's ass in his position as head of NATO.
He made sure the interests of America and its one real ally - Israel - were taken care of and later got that cosy NATO sinecure.
Israel is absolutely NOT an ally of the US. They might be an ally of Trump but there is no fucking way that if the US were attacked, Israel would fuck all to help us.
Why does the US keep giving them billions of dollars in military aid if they're not an ally? Obama pledged 40B, Biden gave them 20B, and I hope I don't need to convince you that Trump and Bush have cozy relationships with pissrael.
The US is the military branch of Israel, of course they'd be upset if the US were ever really threatened, as Israel cannot exist in any way without US backing.
If the US collapsed tomorrow, "Israelis" would be on planes back to their homeland in literally minutes and Israel itself would be eliminated within a week.
Israel are the most likely to attack the US. But not using bombs and visible means. They have probably attacked them hundreds of times already, in terms of their political infrastructure. It would be interesting to see how many (apart from the Trump administration) are under threat from Israel to do what they want.
The US is their dog.
Well, the other alternative explanation for just how deeply US Politics cares for and serves the interests of Israel is that the US is a vassal state of Israel.
That would indeed not be an alliance and be consistent with the point you're making.
If they had no problems trying to intimidate her, an ICC prosecutor in the Hague, then why on earth would they have any issues intimidating anyone in the Dutch government? I mean, they probably did it because they knew that they had nothing to worry about.
Wasn’t their princess a big Epstein supporter?
Not sure, I know the Norwegian princess was close to him. I think the three Dutch princesses are all still relatively young. the oldest is in her early 20's and would've only been a teenager when he died, so a good few years after he was caught.
I think there was some (tenuous) connection with a Swedish princess too.
Norwegian princess
Unacceptable. These politicians and public authorities will soon realize they have been on the wrong side of history.
I... uh... think the Dutch ruling class is quite used to being on the wrong side of history.
They already do. They don't care. They get to be rich, and the population will do nothing.
It took 159 years for the Dutch to even apologize for slavery (2022), and that's just words. They don't care.
Anybody surprised by EU member state inactivity here? She is lucky that authorities didn't start a criminal investigation against her I'd say. Being anti-semite and such....
Bullshit, there is a lot of reluctance towards Israel in EU, and many countries are actively taking political actions against Israel now.
You are confusing EU with UK where this actually happened.
No no, the ruling parties in Dutch politics are still very much pro-Israel.
Anybody surprised by EU member state inactivity here?
Netherlands is not representative of all of EU. But still it's not correct to call it very pro Israel.
This is the Official policies of the Dutch government on issues of Israel/Gaza:
This link includes humanitarian aid to Gaza, and includes aid to Free Press Unlimited, which Israel is 100% very much against.
It also shows that Netherlands is clearly against the settlers:
There is a concerning increase in violence by Israeli settlers and others in the West Bank as well.
The policy is also to support a 2 state solution, which Israel will not allow:
The government’s point of departure remains a two-state solution,
Netherlands has even labeled Israel a national security threat!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TxzNTWjS-fk
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/32197
So please stop the bullshit about European countries being one-sidedly pro Israel.
The Netherlands is the largest investor in Israel worldwide. https://www.pulse-z.eu/the-european-country-that-invests-the-most-in-israel-may-come-as-a-surprise/
The Netherlands is also continuing to buy Israeli weapons and even ramping up those purchases. The Netherlands is a very strong supporter of Israel. Besides some platitudes such as boycotting Eurovision they have not actually taken any material action against Israel excluding some very small sanctions against individual Zionist colonists.
The rest of Europe is very similar. All they offer is lip-service to Palestinians while continuing doing business as usual with Israel. Compare this to their actions Russia which got massive sanctions directly after their invasion of Ukraine and the difference is very stark.
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Bullshit all performative actions that you would never accepted if those weak actions was the only actions done against Russia. Nothing but suspending all trade deals, both way arms sanctions and joining the genocide case in thr UN are acceptable actions in this level
Are they now? What political actions are those? "We are concerned" sort of? The only actions AFAIK worth mentioning are joining the SA legal case against genocide and some countries are not exporting/buying weapons to Israel. Besides that we (EU) are happily having Israel as our greatest friend, notably Germany even actively enabling them. Even worse, just elected far right populist prime minister in Slovenia is really drooling when it comes to Netanyahu and Israel in general.
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The EU needs to revoke citizenship for anyone holding an Israeli passport as well.
There are many actions EU could take, starting with sanctions, expulsion of Israel from sport events, trade, any other cooperation, calling ambassadors each day, join SA legal case against genocide, raise question about nukes and nukes non-proliferation etc.
That's what it seems like at first. But after some time theres almost always a positive change.
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