International Criminal Courts vicious smear tactics against Americas allies
In the next few days, something unprecedented is going to be attempted.A British prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague called Karim Khan is going to try to bring a war-crimes case against an American ally.
Specifically, Khan wants to bring individual cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and a head of the Israeli army, most likely the chief of the general staff. If this happens, it will throw kerosene onto the already flammable international situation.And further ignite things here at home. All those expensively educated know-nothings currently hunting down Jews on American campuses will imagine they have even more license to do so.
It will encourage all the antisemites who have crawled out of the sewers in recent months.And it will be a grotesque smear and slander against the state of Israel. Netanyahu is a democratically elected leader.
Gallant and the leadership of the IDF lead a citizens army.Therefore, any indictments against them will constitute an indictment on the state of Israel itself and the Israeli public as a whole.It would be a grotesque boundary-crossing by the ICC. Of course, Khan is attempting to do this having done no investigation and having gathered no information.
He will be taking this dangerous move for reasons of pure politics and prejudice. Before he takes this step, there are a couple of things that he — and the American public — should consider. The ICC holds itself out as being what it says it is.It presumes to be the world’s court.
It is not.Not least because it is at least as open to corruption and politicization as any other court in the world.
As Khan may be about to show. Traditionally, this country has refused to accept the legitimacy of the “international” court.And rightly so.Back in 2002, the Bush administration saw the American Service-Members’ Protection Act (widely known as “The Hague Invasion Act”) into law.
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