‘Butcher of Gaza’: Blinken faces grilling about Biden’s Israel policy from protesters and Senators
‘Butcher of Gaza’: Blinken faces grilling about Biden’s Israel policy from protesters and Senators
Protesters were thrown out of the room while lawmakers from both parties aggressively questioned the Secretary of State
“I see it as a step in the wrong direction,” Cardin said, of the ICC’s decision. “There's always been an understanding the ICC is there to deal with countries that don't have an independent judiciary. Israel has an independent judiciary.”
Two comments on this quote from the article:
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The ICC only dealing with certain countries and not being neutral is just imperialism with extra paperwork. I guess the court is only supposed to rule in favor of the west, for them to use as a pretext for whatever they already intended on doing.
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Israel abolished the independent judiciary. Appointments are directly controlled by the Knesset and the judiciary has limited power to override the Knesset.
guess the court is only supposed to rule in favor of the west,
How so? Palastine is literally an Islam country. Wouldn't it have ruled in favour of Israel, one of US' closest allies and a country no western country has war with if your claim was true?
That's the point. For all of the US's talk about a "rules based order", it is very selective about how it gets applied. When it is wielded against her enemies, it is a great moral triumph, and imperative that we support it not because of the immediate politics, but because we must support the system that is so essential to a good world order.
When that same rules based order is wielded against the US's allies, it is an outrageous exercise of biased politics, and we will use our military might to crush attempts to enforce it.
If you ever wonder why we have problems rallying the world against Russia and China, this is why. For all we talk about acting in the interest of a global rules based order, third world countries look at the situation and think "bollocks, you are all just acting for your own interests, so we are going to do the same and ally with whoever can offer us the most"
Correct. The person I quoted says that they believe the ICC is only supposed to “deal with countries without an independent judiciary”. Them ruling neutrally (since warrants are being requested for both Israeli leaders and Hamas) is outraging US leadership to the point where they want to sanction the court, believing it has overstepped its bounds ruling neutrally on a conflict involving a western country.
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