No longer will the US tolerate unhinged international judges going after US troops and Israel/Jews while backing Islamic terrorist organizations, especially not when these EU judges live under the very freedom the US has provided
US sanctions International Criminal Court judges linked to Israel, Afghanistan probes
The U.S. sanctioned four International Criminal Court judges on Thursday, ratcheting up Trump administration efforts to punish the body for investigations it considers hostile.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the measures in a statement that cited both the court’s probe of alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and its issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
“These four individuals have actively engaged in the ICC’s illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America or our close ally, Israel,” Rubio said.
“The ICC is politicized and falsely claims unfettered discretion to investigate, charge, and prosecute nationals of the United States and our allies,” he said. “This dangerous assertion and abuse of power infringes upon the sovereignty and national security of the United States and our allies, including Israel.”
The U.S. move creates friction between the U.S. and the Netherlands ahead of the NATO summit later this month in the Hague, where the international court is based. It will be up to the European Union to decide whether to use its blocking statute to protect European businesses and individuals from American sanctions that it deems abusive or unreasonable.
They can caterwaul all they want: they are in no position to make demands. America will not tolerate this anymore.
Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of the ICC and they do not recognize its jurisdiction. Trump also targeted the ICC with sanctions during his first term to protest the court’s probes into Israel and alleged U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan. Former President Joe Biden rescinded those sanctions in 2021 and his government shared evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the tribunal.
These judges hate Israel and Jews, like so many of the Elites do. The warrants they put on Hamas leaders had no real teeth, but, they really want to arrest Netanyahu and shut down Israel in favor of the Palestinians, who, by the way, would be happy to slit the throats of these same judges as infidels.
There is only one crime in war, and that’s losing. Sadly, the US did lose the war in Afghanistan, but we can at least protect our people.
Mr Dana shared:
The world disagrees.
How about kidnaping children and torturing them on video to “persuade” your opponent to stop fighting?
Dropping Listeria on the civilian population?
Executing POWs? Targeting civilians? Nuking cities?
How many of the ICC judges are children of the collaborators who turned Jews over to the Nazis?
Probably none of them.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/judges/judges-who-s-who
The EU is advising its population to have 3 days of food and water in case war breaks out in Europe. They have been pounding the drum for war with Russia for 3 years now and hoping that the country they continue to bash will then fight it for them.
Germany for the first time since WW2 has moved 5000 troops outside its border to another country. The UK has ordered 1000 long range missiles to be built this year along with ordering 13 new nuclear submarines to be built rapidly along with drastically ramping up its military.
Trump is moving half of his B2’s to Diego Garcia preparing to attack Iran, which Israel is itching to go after. The president that stood for peace seems to be Colonel Custer this time around.
The fat lady seems to be warming up backstage.
Dana
The resistance to Nazism both in Europe and the USA was always led by the leftists and socialists, certainly not from right wing that willingly cooperated with Nazism, again both in Europe and the USA. Prescott Bush (Ws grandfather) was almost indicted after the war for continuing to do business representing South American countries which continued to do business throughout the war.
There are still solid reasons why 80% of American Jews vote Dem
There is an excellent book Who Financed Hitler that you might enjoy reading
The bigoted Teach typed:
There is no evidence the ICC hates Israel and Jews. Nor do the “Elites” hate Israel and Jews.
The warrants against the Israelis, Netanyahu and Gallant were specific “co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts,” as was the warrant against Mohammed Deif which alleges is responsible for the “crimes against humanity of murder; extermination; torture; and rape and other form of sexual violence; as well as the war crimes of murder, cruel treatment, torture; taking hostages; outrages upon personal dignity; and rape and other form of sexual violence.” Israel claims that Deif was killed.
That the Palestinians would cut the throats of the ICC is just more Teach racism and bigotry.