Is the ICC a Tool of Zionism and USA IMperialism? / International Criminal Court (ICC) Joins the Crusade
Ben Merhav / ali Khan
Although a very important article, it fails to mention the war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated daily by the zionist apartheid regime of Israel against the Arab people of Palestine in occupied Palestine. The top zionist war criminals responsible for those international crimes are still allowed to continue their horrendous crimes, and they are now actually encouraged to drag the entire humanity into a 3rd World War by attacking Iran with the full support of the USA rulers.
Moreover, the criminal zionist rulers of the zionist apartheid regime of Israel are bragging that theirs is the strongest military in the Middle East, and that they can and will attack Iran if it does not succumb to their diktat. --- Benjamin Merhav
Here is the article :
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2008/07/international-criminal-court-icc-joins.php
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) JOINS THE CRUSADE
by Ali Khan, LL.M. J.S.D
The ICC is a good idea. We need a world court to hold international criminals accountable. No leader should be able to get away with heinous international crimes. The weakening of personal sovereign immunity is also a welcome legal development in that no leader, army general, senator, representative, or even judge is immune from criminal liability if he or she commits crimes or provides material assistance in the commission of crimes.
In practice, however, the ICC is a Western instrumentality that ignores the grave crimes of Western leaders and generals. The ICC has so far shown no interest in prosecuting President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and State Secretary Colin Powell for the crimes they planned, organized, incited, and committed with the help of lethal weapons in Afghanistan and Iraq. These leaders have destroyed Iraq, a Muslim country, and killed its leader, Saddam Hussein, without a fair trial. The NATO genocide in Afghanistan continues as world leaders sit in high galleries to watch the ghoulish killings of the “Taliban and terrorists.”
Ocampo is an incompetent, unethical, and perhaps a racist prosecutor who does not deserve to lead the Prosecutorial office of the ICC. He has already botched up the prosecution of a Congolese warlord, Thomas Lubanga, by wrongly withholding evidence that could have helped the defense.
The prosecution of President Omar for the Darfur conflict comes after years of distortions and misreporting in the Western media. The Western media singles out Muslim leaders and Muslim nations for explaining the ills of the world. Syria is listed as a terrorist state, Pakistan is blamed for trouble in Afghanistan, the Iranian President has been turned into an imminent murderer, and President Omar is soon to be prosecuted as a war criminal. Militias that resist Western occupation in their own countries are labeled as terrorists and jihadis.
While hardened criminals sit out in shameless liberty, the politically-inspired prosecution of President Omar is, at its best, selective enforcement of international criminal law; and, at its worst, it is one more crusade against the Muslim world."
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*L. Ali Khan initially trained as a civil engineer. He later switched to law, obtaining a law degree from Punjab University, Lahore. In 1976, Khan immigrated to the United States and studied law at New York University School of Law where he received his LL.M. and J.S.D. Khan is a member of the New York Bar.
Khan has authored three academic books published in the prestigious series Developments in International Law. Over the years, he has written numerous law review articles on the U.S. Constitution, comparative constitutional law, legal education, human rights, international disputes, and terrorism. His academic writings are used as part of course materials in universities across the world.
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