John Spencer
Mehdi, if you think interviewing a world leader in the middle of a war—one you claim to “cover”—to ask direct questions about strategic goals, military intent, and operational guidance is “fawning,” that says more about your standards than mine. If journalism is what you call
Mehdi Hasan
I’m not “objective” says the guy who did a fawning ‘interview’ with Netanyahu, posted excited pictures of himself with Netanyahu online, and was quoted favorably by Netanyahu in his speech to Congress. As for the ICC, the sexual misconduct accusations against ICC chief prosecutor Khan personally are irrelevant to the war crimes charges from the ICC - which were also endorsed by Theodor Meron, the Holocaust survivor Jewish judge who was once a legal adviser to the Israeli foreign minister and a former judge at the international tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda. An actual expert on international law and genocide, unlike you John.