The threat was frontal, direct, and without the slightest ambiguity: “We are waiting for all the actions of the ICC against the United States and our Israel ally-that is to say all the surveys and all the arrest mandates-are abandoned. »» The legal adviser of the US State Department, Reed Rubinstein, faced, on Tuesday July 8, the delegates of the 125 member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC), gathered from July 7 to 9 at the UN headquarters in New York. If the mandates of arrest for crimes against humanity and war crimes issued by the Court, on November 21, 2024, against Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, and the former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, and if the investigations in progress on the crimes committed in the Gaza Strip and the colonization of the Palestinian territory are not abandoned, “All options remain on the table”he said.
For three days, states discussed the widening of the court skills, to allow it one day to judge the authors of “attack crime”, Defined as the attack on a territory off the United Nations and without being in a state of self -defense. This crime, which aims above all the heads of state, had been described as “crime against peace” by the allies, during the Nuremberg trial against Nazi officials after the Second World War. Invited among the non-member states, the United States took advantage of this forum to attack the court and threaten its 125 member states. “We will use all the appropriate and effective diplomatic, political and legal instruments to block the abuse of power of the ICC”continued Mr. Rubinstein.
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