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The International Criminal Court (ICC) is moving forward with investigating Israel for “war crimes,” and this is the latest salvo from the Palestinians in their century-long war with Israel.
From Palestinian riots to revolts, from Palestinians engaging in a civil war against Jews to the Arab League nation-states waging an all-out war against Israel, from Palestinian organized terrorism to raging intifadas, from the Palestinians driving United Nations resolutions to International Criminal Court investigations of Israel, the Palestinians are waging an endless war against Israel, rejecting numerous offer
ICC Announces War Crimes Investigation Into Israel
Aaron Bandler is a staff writer for the Jewish Journal, mainly covering anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias. Originally from the Bay Area, his past work experience includes writing for The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller and Townhall.
Building of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in 2019 (Photo credit: OSeveno/Wikimedia Commons/under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license)
The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on March 3 that they are officially launching a war crimes investigation into Israel over the treatment of Palestinians.
ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a statement that the investigation would focus on June 2014 onward, a month before the beginning of Operation Protective Edge but a day after Hamas kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers.
Unnamed diplomats speak of growing concern over court's alleged politicization; US secretary of state says investigation could undermine efforts for a two-state solution
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Worse, Bensouda has refrained from investigating the grave crimes that have been and are being committed around the world, in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. True, Syria is not a member of the Roman Statute, but the thousands of jihadists who have gathered there from all over the world from countries that are party to the ICC treaty are undoubtedly under The Hague’s authority. So is Yemen.
Alas, genocide, beheadings, kidnappings and rapes, Islamic State’s reign of terror in Syria and Hezbollah’s in Lebanon none of these is as important as the return of Israelis to the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem.
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