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Last Friday the International
Criminal Court (also referred to as “the Hague”) announced its decision to exercise
jurisdiction over Israel and within “Palestine” for the purpose of prosecuting
Israel for alleged war crimes.
Despite the legalistic sounding name of the “court” it actually functions as a political body: in this case a body that on Friday granted itself the authority to bring politically driven prosecutions against any country in the world, whether or not that country has agreed to be a part of the ICC’s activities.
This prosecution will set a
dangerous precedent not only for the Jewish state, its leaders, soldiers and
private citizens, but also for citizens of all nations that may potentially
become the next victims of this growing international populism. Friday’s
decision may change the very nature of international law in a manner that
stands to harm our growth as a global community.
The
International Criminal Court is not a “court”
The words “International
Criminal Court” are seductively misleading: they give the impression that the
ICC is a body that interprets legislative law. It is not. Certainly, in
theory, the ICC is supposed to perform like a court. In practice, however, it
functions as political body that carries out decisions based on the interests
of its members.
Case in point: prosecutor Fatou Bensouda came to the ICC after her tenure as Minister of Justice of Gambia, where she presided over and enforced the country’s laws and practices in favor of torture, arbitrary arrest, legal rape, sex trafficking and female genital mutilation. Despite a 2018 US State Department report detailing these practices, and despite the fact that Gambia is a signatory to the Rome Statute, prosecutor Bensouda has not seen fit to prosecute the leadership of her homeland, including herself.
Other parties who have never been prosecuted at the Hague include leaders of Syria who are responsible for the largest loss of human life in recent history, Turkey, which in the last decades murdered thousands of Kurds; China, which is holding millions of Muslims in “reeducation” camps; Iran, which is behind the war crimes being perpetrated in Yemen, and many more.
The sheer number of human
lives that might have been saved by a proper application of the ICC’s mission
is in the millions. Instead, the ICC, an unelected, undemocratic
political body is attempting to apply unchecked global power based on political
agenda. This stands to injure global trust in international institutions and
the very nature of international law, thus posing serious and long-term harm to
our world’s growth as a cooperative global community.
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