Ran Kivetz
The Times-Tribune, Feb. 13, 2025
“The ICC and U.N., however, disfavored the COGAT data, relying instead on incomplete data and biased analyses.”
The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but they’re finally catching up with officials at the International Criminal Court after President Donald Trump signed an executive order sanctioning those who target U.S. citizens or allies. This comes on the heels of the House-passed Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act. And while the Senate failed to pass its version of the bill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer signaled the Democrats are aligned with the president’s approach. These sanctions are a good start, but to truly curb the ICC’s harmful actions, the U.S. will need to convince its allies to follow suit.
The impetus for the U.S. action is the ICC’s recent charges against Israel, an examination of which shows the body is guilty of abusing its legal power — selectively choosing data and skipping due process.
The attack on Israel escalated on Nov. 21, when the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former minister of defense, charging them with committing “the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare“ from at least Oct. 8, 2023, to May 20. The ICC’s use of Oct. 8 as a start date would have been comical if it weren’t so tragic. It picked one day after Israel suffered the worst genocidal assault on Jews since the Holocaust — before Israel’s military even entered Gaza.
As for the charge itself, my analysis of data easily available to the ICC — but which it chose to ignore — demonstrates that far from “impeding humanitarian aid,” Israel has gone to great pains to facilitate the delivery of aid and food since the war’s start. …SOURCE