ICC Deserves To Be Gutted With Sanctions After Lawless Arrest Warrant For Bibi Netanyahu
My Take: This substantive overreach is why the U.S. refused to join the ICC in the first instance, and the jurisdictional overreach poses a threat to the United States. If they can issue an arrest warrant for Bibi Netanyahu, they can issue an arrest warrant for an American president.
There has been a lot of commentary about the abusiveness and unlawfulness of the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
I think British writer and columnist Andrew Fox has it right: “international law smoulders in the ashes of the Palestinian drive to burn it to the ground.” (See also his article, The case against Israel is built on lies.)
Yet another institution destroyed by embracing Palestinian fanaticism and rejectionism, sacrificing truth for propaganda in the service of the war against the Jews.
The ICC move has been described as “October 7 legal style”.
But the ICC is more than a corrupted institution, it’s a dangerous institution. Not only were its claims substantively contrived, it reached way beyond its jurisdiction, as Israel (like the U.S., China, Russia, India, and others) is not a member. This substantive overreach is why the U.S. refused to join the ICC in the first instance, and the jurisdictional overreach poses a threat to the United States. If they can issue an arrest warrant for Bibi Netanyahu, they can issue an arrest warrant for an American president.
The ICC needs to be gutted, treated and sanctioned the way we treat and sanction terrorist organizations.
Here’s my ‘take’ excerpted from our full weekly podcast:
Transcript (auto-generated, may contain transcription errors, lightly edited for transcript clarity)
The International Criminal Court was created by the Rome statute, I believe in 1998. So it is an international treaty.
Who is not a member of [ICC], who did not join it? The United States, China, India, and several other countries, including Israel.
Why did they choose not to join it? Because they knew that you were creating … an international body accountable to nobody, who would have the right to arrest leaders of countries on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges. And what would go wrong with it is exactly what you’re seeing go wrong with it with Israel, a biased prosecutor with the history of being anti-Israel, who curiously sought the arrest warrants right when he was being charged with sexual harassment. Nice way to distract from that.
A biased international organization, which like almost every, if not every, international organization has been corrupted from within. Like the United Nations. The United Nations Human Rights Council has some of the worst human rights abusers on it.
The US said, we’re not going to submit ourselves to the jurisdiction of this thing. And in fact, it is against United States law to enforce any of the judgments or any of the warrants the ICC issues.
And so [the ICC] decided that they were gonna bring this against Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and, I’m forgetting his first name, Gallant, the Defense Minister, for the actions of the IDF post-October 7 in Gaza.
They have, the best we can tell, relied almost entirely on corrupt international human rights groups, which are nothing like you would think they were. Amnesty International is corrupt as anything now. It’s just an anti-Israel group. Human Rights Watch. The founder of it resigned because it had become so obsessed with Israel. These are groups that published misinformation and a few others, there’s even one or two Israeli human rights groups that just produce fabricated or distorted information, and that’s who they rely on. They did no independent investigation.
And the charge, the main charge they’ve brought against them is using starvation as a tactic, as a military tactic. There’s been no starvation in Gaza. Not a single person has died of starvation. The picture [image here] that Bernie Sanders and others showed on the floor of the House and the Senate, are not of a starving Palestinian child. It’s a Palestinian child, child who has a debilitating neurological condition [more details here] for which Israel gave him medical attention. And so what you see in that picture is a child withering away from a neurological condition. And Bernie Sanders, one of the most despicable people in this country, holds that up to show that Israel is starving children to death in Gaza. A really terrible man. Terrible, terrible man…. it’s a complete fabrication. It’s a complete hoax. It’s a complete corruption.
And I think what you’re going to see, and what I hope you see, is the U.S. under Trump and the Senate and the House under Republicans, gutting the ICC with sanctions. Nobody affiliated with it being allowed to enter the United States. Anyone who cooperates with it being treated the way we treat somebody who gives material support to a terrorist group, criminalizing it. Really need to collapse that court because the fears we had when we refused to join it have come true, and it’s even worse.
It’s even more of a threat now because they don’t even have jurisdiction over Israel because Israel’s not a member. So if they can issue an arrest warrant for Bibi Netanyahu, they can issue an arrest warrant for Donald Trump.
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The ICC is heading for the same cliff that the UN is heading for. Like Lemmings, they continue to ignore truth and common sense, along with lies and misplaced loyalty
on their way to oblivion. I hope Trump will either reform both or help dismantle both.
I do t want an ambassador to the UN I want the UN out of America
Lagos is the perfect place for the new UN building. Diverse cusi
Law depends on a lot of unwritten conventions that can’t be written, only violated in one way or another. Law can’t found itself – a byproduct of Godel’s theorem by the way.
Congress started falling apart that way in the 90s.
The ICC can issue an “arrest warrant” for a US politician or military officer, but every country knows that the USA will treat any attempt to enforce such a warrant as an act of war. So nobody would try it.
Israel needs to tell the Europeans the same thing; try to enforce the warrant against Gallant (whom Netayahu fired so he hasn’t got the same security detail he had as defense minister) and the IDF will rescue him and retaliate.
Senator Lindsey Graham was on Hannaty’s (Sp?) show Friday and was pretty explicit about this. In summary he said, as did our host, the ICC was a corrupt organization, anti-Israel, and that any nation that attempted to act on any such warrant from ICC should, will be sanctioned by the US. He said he has already begun with legislation to that effect. He specifically included Canada, France, Great Britain, among others, in his comments.
Graham said that if you act in support of the ICC “we will destroy your economy”. He looked very serious when he said that. [I haven’t looked for a clip for that on YouTube yet today, it may be there soon]
Ms. Lindsay is infuriating sometimes, but there are times like this where he’s exactly right. And not just the ICC, but select other UN and other international NGO’s need to be handled the same way.
He is our Fetterman! 😂
The lead prosecutor at the ICC who requested these warrants is named Karim Khan, a name most news organizations have avoided. (Except the BBC.). So it seems a Muslim has brought these charges against the President of Israel. It apparently did not occur to anybody at the ICC that having a Muslim bring these charges would be a bad idea. But it was a bad idea. A very bad one.
Thank God the USA is coming to its senses in this bizarre world of ours. But Europe, deep in pretense that the ICC has any authority, and intent on controlling Russia, seems headed into deep trouble. So much for the EU having been founded to prevent another European war. Looks like they just can’t help themselves.
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