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The ICC has now issued arrest warrants for the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. They are being accused of possible “crimes against humanity” and “war crimes.” It’s a grotesque business, and it will be up to the Trump administration, beginning on January 20, to not just reject its findings as without merit, as the Biden administration has done, but to go on the offensive, curbing its power and then undermining the ICC in every way, with the ultimate aim of driving it out of business altogether.
An editorial in the New York Sun calls on the Trump administration to “curb and dismantle” the ICC. More on its argument can be found here: “Time To Dissolve the International Criminal Court,” New York Sun,
The issuance of arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel and the Jewish state’s former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, along with an arrest warrant for a Hamas leader will go down in history as a marker of the illogic of multilateral law enforcement. It sets the stage for what will be a long-overdue effort, likely taking years, to curb and dismantle the International Criminal Court at the Hague. It beckons the incoming Trump administration to lead in such an effort.
Early indications are that the incoming administration understands the stakes of this struggle. President Trump’s nominee for national security adviser, Congressman Mike Waltz, took to X to offer a blast of moral clarity. He writes that “The ICC has no credibility … Israel has lawfully defended its people & borders from genocidal terrorists. You can expect a strong response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC & UN come January.” Trump takes office January 20….
For those sensible souls who want the ICC to be cut down to size after its latest ultra-vires act, and then eliminated altogether, January 20 can’t come fast enough.
I wholeheartedly agree that the ICC should be dismantled. I say this with ‘special’ authority, because I was born and raised in The Hague , in the Netherlands. Although I have been a US citizen since 2005, Ii still feel ashamed for my former country’s role in supporting this hateful fake institution,, which wants to destroy Israel. I can’t wait for Trump to completely abandon all the leaches of Western Judeo-Christian Democratic countries.
for my former country’s role in this fake institution, which hates Israel
How can you have an ‘international criminal court” when what may be a crime in one nation may not be considered a crime in another? For example, Muslims d0 n0t consider polygamy and wife-bashing and murder of ‘infidels’ and terrorism a crime, but Western nations do.
Sorry I made some writing mistakes and left some left over text. I appreciate you.
you are not the only one…these are normal mistakes we people make
The ICC is a criminal court, made up of Jew Hating and Israel Hating criminals.
The only person missing from this collection of leftist reprobates is Roland Freisler, Hitlers hatchet judge who handed out Anti-Reich convictions like they were candy. Fortunately for the world, Little Roland was killed in an American bombing raid towards the end of the war. The world was spared a protracted trial at Nuremburg trying to decide whether he was guilty.
So three arrest warrants were issued, 2 for high placed Israeli Jewish officials and one for a Hamas leader. I seem to recall yesterday reading that the Hamas leader had already been eliminated (DEAD) so it would seem that this warrant was issued to somehow show the courts impartiality.
Not working very well.
If there was any impartiality, the prosecutor in this case would recuse himself, because, even if he were the most even handed man on the planet, the fact that he is from the same faith community as the Palestinians lends an appearance of bias.
The place to protest the ICC is at the gates of George and Amal Clooney’s properties.
This not only points out their lobbying against Jews at the ICC, but has the added benefit of threatening the Hollywood Democrat Money Machine, which raised over a billion dollars for Biden and then Harris.
Yeah, sure, just like the filibuster.
Clintons last act of Treason before leaving office was to sign America into the ICC
If anything, the Icc should he strengthened!!! I don’t know if bibi is a war criminal or not but Putin the thug is and during a recent visits to Mongolia (an Icc member) he wasn’t arrested