How dare the ICC challenge war criminals who are pals with Trump?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/20/trump-rubio-international-criminal-court-sanctions

The Trump administration has ramped up its efforts to hobble the international criminal court in what the ICC has denounced as a “flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution”.

The US state department on Wednesday announced new sanctions on four ICC officials, including two judges and two prosecutors, saying they had been instrumental in efforts to prosecute Americans and Israelis. As a result of the sanctions, any assets that the targets hold in US jurisdictions are frozen.

The sanctions were immediately denounced by both the ICC and the United Nations, while Israel welcomed the move announced by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio.

It is just the latest in a series of steps the Trump administration has taken against the Hague-based court, the world’s first international war crimes tribunal. The US, which is not a member of the court, has already imposed penalties on the ICC’s former chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, who stepped aside in May pending an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, and four other tribunal judges.

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The intelligence database reports 8,900 Hamas militants killed; they do not report the data on how many civilians dead. Instead, the very left wing 972mag creates the 83% number based on the total dead reported by Hamas (the Gaza Health Ministry). And we know terrorist organizations using humans-as-sacrifice strategy to drive international opinion would never public lie...

Every one on the list of dead is identified by name, age and ID number. In fact, experts are saying it is a vast undercount BECAUSE only the dead taken to hospitals and FULLY identified are being recorded. Some have suggested the real count is at least 3 times higher.

Not counted are the tens of thousands still under rubble, or bulldozed under by the Israeli bulldozer contractors, those sniped/ shelled/droned on the street and buried on the spot (if lucky) because most local hospitals are closed or are located in active war zones. .. And those that died in their tents from starvation or preventable or contagious diseases due to lack of medical care, clean water, far from operating hospitals.

Can you think about the scale of senseless but deliberately-inflicted human suffering - all enabled by that vile and abominable "human shields" bullshit?

We can see that it was all bullshit. Cynical, exploitative, and very convenient to cover the real aim, which was always the expansion of Israel using massacres and ethnic cleansing. Just like in the Nakba

In a manipulation of international law.

No, it's even worse. Every civilian indiscriminately killed is retroactively, posthumously and cynically labelled a "human shield". Even in death, Palestinians are pawns in a cruel game manufactured by their killers.

Just like civilians killed in "kill zones", who are posthumously "elevated" to the rank of Hamas.

When I was in the marines, we were advised to consider our potential victims as targets rather than humans.

So we fight each other instead of threats to our survival, like climate change or the chokehold of the oligarchs and capitalists condemning billions to poverty and an early, painful death. And they fight and die to maintain that unjust status quo.

I hope you, Ping Tung, have healed from your experience. It seems like you have seen the light... What an enlightening - but terrible - journey that must have been!

I see old Albert had the same idea.

Fucking brain stems.

Recommended.

I wish that the UN would send real peace-keepers into both Gaza and the West Bank, and remove all Israeli troops and "settlers." There is no reason for not reaching a two state solution. And reaching that goal is the only path to ending the violence.

NO. WAY.

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