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More ICC arrest warrants are mooted for Israel's very worst, but instead of changing their ways, they're doubling down while claiming victim status. Right, so Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister who also holds power inside the defence ministry over the occupied West Bank, has reported that an international arrest-warrant request may have been filed against him, and his response to that was to target Khan al-Ahmar, the Palestinian Bedouin village Israel has been trying to erase for years. A mocking come get me message quite frankly, thumbing his nose at international law. Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, the man in charge of police and prisons, has heard that possible action against him is under review, and his response? Well that’s been going somewhat viral His reaction was to say no order would stop him, before f ...