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Donald Trump has ordered travel and economic sanctions against members of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Ideally — and international bodies never reflect the ideals of the do-gooders who push them on us — the ICC was supposed to punish the wicked who start unprovoked wars, commit atrocities, and commit crimes against humanity like genocide and using rape as a weapon of war. It was set up to deliver justice to member states whose legal systems would prevent the guilty from being judged.
Instead,theICChasbecometherighthandofsanctimoniousantisemitesandanti-AmericanswhousetheICCtopunishthoselikeIsraelandtheU.S.,neitherofwhomaresignatoriestothetreatyauthorizingtheICC.
TheTrumporderaccusestheICCofengagingin“illegitimateandbaselessactionstargetingAmericaandourcloseallyIsrael”andofexceedingitsauthoritybyissuing“baselessarrestwarrants”againstNetanyahuandhisformerdefenseminister,YoavGallant.
“TheICChasnojurisdictionovertheUnitedStatesorIsrael,”theordercontinuedandaddedthattheICChadseta“dangerousprecedent”withitsactionsagainstbothcountries.
