A wise move to make against the ICC
The Trump administration's taking action against the supposed International Criminal Court, which is trying to persecute US soldiers, and even Israeli ones:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday welcomed the decision by US President Donald Trump to sanction any International Criminal Court officials who investigate US troops, amid reports that Washington coordinated the move with Jerusalem in advance.This is a wise decision to make. Just like the UN, the ICC is one of the biggest offenders in political correctness, and should be defunded altogether. The Trump administration's taking a good step for starters in dealing with them.
The executive order signed by the president marks his administration's latest attack against international organizations, treaties, and agreements that do not hew to its policies.
Israel has been a long-time critic of The Hague, accusing its officials of being prejudice and even driven by anti-Semitism, and has castigated it for becoming a "political tool" in the hands of the Jewish state's enemies.
Israel is not signatory to the Rome Statute from which the ICC draws its power, raising the question of whether The Hague has jurisdiction to bring a case against Israel. The Palestinian Authority joined it in 2015 with the explicit aim of trying to take ICC action against Israeli officials for alleged war crimes including the 2014 Gaza war, the settlement enterprise, and the 2018-2019 Gaza border conflicts.
Earlier this week, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda reportedly told the ICC's Pretrial Chamber that a war crimes investigation against Israel over its policies regarding the Palestinians can proceed despite the continued application of the 1993 Oslo Accords.
The US, which is also not a signatory to The Hague charter, has warned that a war crimes investigation against Israel "will have consequences" for the ICC.
Commenting on Trump's decision, Netanyahu said that ICC "is politicized and obsessed with carrying out a headhunt against Israel and the United States as well as other democratic countries that respect human rights, but turns a blind eye to the world's worst human rights offenders, including the terrorist regime in Iran."
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