The decision not to prosecute will inevitably raise questions about
the integrity and impartiality of the ICC in the face of political
pressure by the global Israel lobby that already operates in Washington,
London and Brussels.
The reason given by the ICC chief prosecutor that the court is more
concerned with larger scale incidents, ignores the fact that this attack
upon civilian passengers in international waters was part of a six year
campaign by the Israeli government to effect an illegal regime change
in Gaza by means of a blockade of essential goods to 1.8 million
Palestinian Arabs – that still continues today.
This perverse decision would seem to have severely damaged the
court’s credibility in any future war crimes investigation and could
well signal its own demise as a claimed international body that has yet
to be ratified by the U.S. (or its client state, Israel), China or India
– i.e. over half the global community. ***Read full article here***
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