“Target Israel and We Will Target You”:
US Senators Play Schoolyard Bully
Margaret Kimberley / Black Agenda Report
(May 10, 2024) — The ICC recently revealed that US Republican Senators sent a threatening letter to the ICC in response to Israel’s concern that an arrest warrant may be issued against it. This pressure campaign on the ICC is but one piece of the United States’ attempt to shield Israel from accountability for its crimes.
Despite the fact that the United States is not a member nation of the International Criminal Court (ICC), that organization has been under its sway from its inception. The ICC has only prosecuted Africans and a few Serbians who were accused of war crimes during the NATO-engineered breakup of the former Yugoslavia. The ICC has never issued an arrest warrant for Israel’s many documented war crimes.
After Israeli officials publicly expressed concern that the ICC might issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and other high-ranking Israeli officials, US pressure began in earnest. Recently a letter to the ICC signed by twelve republican senators was made public. In the letter they expressed contempt for international law and openly stated their intention to punish the ICC if it acted against Israeli officials.
“Target Israel and we will target you” and “You have been warned,” are words that should create outrage around the world. Not only is the US not an ICC member state, but during the George W. Bush administration congress passed what is known as the Hague Invasion Act, which prohibits US citizens or even citizens of allied nations from being prosecuted and declares a right to invade the Hague and free any such person should they fall under the control of the ICC.
The letter says that ICC officials and their families will be sanctioned and barred from entering the US if arrest warrants are issued for any Israeli officials. It is unlikely that the ICC will change course and suddenly prosecute Israelis but the letter is quite instructive. It exposes how the US conducts itself around the world, as a bully which uses its power to control and to dominate.
Read the complete statement here
Secretary of State Blinken’s testimony disrupted by US activists.
Sec. Blinken Enjoys a Meal
At Ukraine’s “Nazi Pizza Parlor”
Active Measures
(May 16 20240 — Secretary of State Antony Blinken was caught dining at a pizzeria in Ukraine with ties to neo-Nazi groups in the country. Let’s take a look at some of the other Americans who have passed through this questionable establishment.
These are the sorts of groups (Azov, Right Sektor, Svboda) that the US/CIA allied with to provoke the war in Ukraine — just like the way the U.S. allied with Muslim extremists to start wars in Afghanistan, Serbia, Syria, and Libya (all Russian allies). After every U.S. war, it takes a while for the American people to realize they’d been lied to. You’d think they’d have learned the lesson by now.
