>>9587759 (You) Secretary Pompeo, AG Barr, Secretary Esper and NSA O’Brien Hold a Press Conference/EO Against ICC Seizing Assets
Guise I this EO has a lot to do with UN, they are the main funder to the ICC
The International Criminal Court (ICC) appears ready to begin an investigation of alleged war crimes committed by Israeli soldiers against Arab civilian citizens of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Fatou Bensouda, the ICC's Chief Prosecutor, announced on April 30 that she would proceed with the investigation if the ICC's pre-trial judges instruct her that she is on solid ground to launch the investigation. the Court cannot investigate the conduct of non-signatory states of the 1998 Rome Statute that established the Court. Israel, like the U.S., is not a signatory of the statute.
Bensouda, by accepting the Palestinian Authority (PA) as plaintiff, further violates the Rome Statute: the ICC is only permitted to investigate allegations brought by a sovereign state. There is no State of Palestine.
Bensouda on April 29 "reiterated her position that Palestine is a state for the purposes of transferring criminal jurisdiction over its territory to The Hague." She rests her claim to legitimacy on a judgment that if the Palestinian Authority could achieve recognition by the United Nations as a non-member state of its General Assembly (UNGA)
Bensouda's decision appears to undercut the ICC's already damaged reputation that it is neither independent nor impartial. The ICC's budget is limited and increasingly hostage to the UNGA. The UN also appoints the ICC's panel of judges, an intrinsically political process, subject to bloc voting in the UNGA. The political paralysis of the ICC rendered the Court unable to adjudicate upon human rights abuses and genocide in several past crises: the war crimes of the Sudanese paramilitary forces
It is difficult to divine whether or not Bensouda, a Muslim from Gambia in West Africa, has a deep-seated animosity toward Israel
The spokesman for the 45-member PA Executive Committee that briefed the ICC is Dr. Ghazi Hamad, deputy foreign minister of the terrorist group Hamas, The committee also includes representatives of two other terrorist organizations besides Hamas, namely, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF).
The U.S. government has clearly expressed its dissatisfaction with Bensouda's status by revoking her visa to the United States. This action follows similar illegal charges by Bensouda and her push to investigate allegations that U.S. soldiers committed war crimes in Afghanistan
Even the ICC's main funder, the United Nations, eventually had to scuttle the Goldstone Report, which one analysis by NGO Monitor, written by a collection of experts, accused of being "a study in evidentiary bias", "abusing human rights for political warfare", "tainted to the core" and "a failure of intelligence
Both the U.S. and Israel have chosen wisely not to join the ICC, thus avoiding the danger of their military personnel being scrutinized by a straightforwardly politicized international body whose judgments continue to betray a mindset of politicization and bias.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16001/international-kangaroo-court