The ICC’s European Puppet Masters

Without the support of European states and the EU, the NGOs and supporters of terrorist groups that want to nail Israel to the wall would lack the financial wherewithal to promote ICC witch hunts against Israeli soldiers, officers and civilians.

Last Saturday, the justices of the International Criminal Court (ICC) took a major swipe at the Jewish state. They ruled that the ICC prosecutor is permitted to open a formal investigation of Israel for fake war crimes. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the decision referring to it as “pure anti-Semitism.”

Netanyahu added, “This court was founded to prevent atrocities like the Nazi Holocaust against the Jewish people, and now it is attacking the Jewish people’s only state.”

Netanyahu is absolutely right. The court’s decision is bigoted at its core. To reach its decision, the judges had to ignore the 1998 Rome Statute on which it is founded. The Rome Statute makes clear that only states or the UN Security Council can petition the court for redress. And having ignored its own legal writ, the judges proceeded to take a knife to the very concept of international law. They applied a standard of behavior to Israel that is applied to no other state in order to single out Israel for legal proceedings that have no basis either in the court’s specific mandate or in the law of nations.

The fact that Hamas – a terrorist group formally committed to the genocide of the Jewish people – published a statement applauding the court’s ruling shows just how prejudicial the court’s decision was. It is worth noting that every missile attack and suicide bombing Hamas terrorists carry out against Israel is a separate war crime under actual international law.

Hamas terrorists understand the racket the ICC is running against the Jews. The phony war crimes investigation is a practical application of UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 from 1975 which defined Zionism – the Jewish national liberation movement – as a form of racism and so rejected Israel’s moral right to exist.

Although Resolution 3379 was rescinded in 1991, it is alive today in every UN agency where Israel is condemned on a daily basis for absolutely nothing. It is alive in the European Union which subjects Israel to systematic discrimination. And it is alive on the international left, whose members throughout the Western world vilify Israel at every turn – again, for absolutely nothing.

All of these forces understand that the point of putting IDF soldiers, commanders and Israeli civilians in the ICC dock for war crimes that never happened is to advance their goal of rescinding international recognition of the Jewish state’s right to exist as a normal, sovereign state. They also know full well that simply by holding show trials of Israeli Jews, they will legitimize and expand support for Hamas’ goal – Israel’s physical destruction.

Around the time that Resolution 3379 passed, Henry Kissinger claimed there was nothing to worry about, really. Neither the United States, nor “in the last analysis Europe,” would ever “negotiate over the survival of Israel,” he said.

But an examination of the forces that are producing the ICC Inquisition makes it clear that Kissinger was naïve – at least as far as Europe is concerned.

To be sure, the primary party responsible for the Jew hating charade at The Hague is the ICC itself. The political Star Chamber has an institutional interest in pursuing fake charges against Israel. In 2017, the African Union passed a resolution calling for its member states to withdraw from the ICC. The AU resolution stemmed from what African leaders viewed reasonably as the ICC’s prejudicial focus on their governments. When the resolution passed, nine out of ten cases before the court dealt with African states. The governments of Africa were fed up with the court’s discrimination.

Shortly thereafter, ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda completed her preliminary examination of Israel and submitted her request to the judges to open a formal war crimes investigation. The chain of events gives up the game. The ICC needs a non-African scalp. And Israel fits the bill. The Africans are satisfied that a nearly-Western state is being pursued. And Western states are happy because they don’t consider Israel a member of their club.

In other words, Israel is the ICC’s scapegoat that it can sacrifice to secure its organizational interests.

But as corrupt and depraved as the ICC’s motivations for building a phony war crimes case against Israel are, the ICC couldn’t act on its own. It needed three things to be done by others to enable its actions.

The first thing that had to be done to pursue fake charges against Israel was for the Palestinian Authority, which is not a state, to join the ICC as a state signatory of the Rome Statute. Since the PA is not a state, to pretend it is a state, the ICC needed UN cover. So in 2012, the PA applied for non-state observer status at the UN.

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