ICC Prosecutor Continues Examining Palestine Situation and Warns Israel

Palestinians’ propaganda efforts to completely de-legitimize Israel and isolate it from the international community

International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told reporters at United Nations headquarters in New York, following her May 12th briefing to the UN Security Council on the ICC’s Libya-related activities, that her previously announced “preliminary examination” concerning the situation in Palestine is still open. She has not set any deadline for completing her examination.

Ms. Bensouda is continuing to look into whether crimes subject to the ICC’s jurisdiction were possibly committed in the Palestinian territories since June 2014. She is considering information, if any, submitted to her office by both sides to the conflict and from other sources. Ms. Bensouda decided to undertake the preliminary examination, which she described as “a quiet process,” on her own initiative once the so-called Palestinian state acceded to the ICC’s governing Rome Statute. Israel is not a party to the Rome Statute and has not consented to its jurisdiction.

Ms. Bensouda said that she is currently assessing the gravity of any alleged crimes that she determines would be subject to ICC jurisdiction, such as war crimes and crimes against humanity. She will also examine any national efforts to deal with them in a just manner as factors in deciding whether to proceed to the next stage of conducting a more formal criminal investigation.

1 posted on 05/14/2015 10:20:26 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Don't worry about Israel. God will preserve His people.

Instead, worry about the U.S. and other nations that are now opposing Israel is a demonstrably irrational manner. Nations aligned against Israel will suffer God's wrath.

2 posted on 05/14/2015 10:22:54 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Romans 13:12)

Why would anyone listen to ICC regarding Israel. The ICC hates Jews almost as much as Obama hates Jews. It disgusts me that we even pretend ICC has legitimacy.

3 posted on 05/14/2015 10:23:57 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)

I wish the UN would go ahead and expel Israel and we could be done with this charade. Hussein would surely instruct our delegation not to oppose that act.

4 posted on 05/14/2015 10:52:56 AM PDT by arthurus (.it's true!)

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