Old Socialist opines: The Political Class of America and the EU are mired in their own self-serving mendacity!
Jun 16, 2025
Peter Oborne, associate editor of Middle East Eye, argues that by threatening the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, David Cameron has disgraced himself and Britain. In trying to protect Israeli leaders from war crimes charges, Obrone says, Cameron resorted to menace and intimidation. He told ICC prosecutor Karim Khan that issuing a warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu would be “like dropping a hydrogen bomb”. Oborne says this places Britain among gangster nations and rogue states for whom might is right. He compares Cameron’s actions to those of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, and calls it an attempt to pervert the course of justice. He notes that the Rome Statute that established the ICC does not just prosecute those who commit war crimes, it also criminalises those who seek to prevent war crimes from being prosecuted. Cameron’s threat to “defund the court and withdraw from the Rome Statute” falls squarely within ICC jurisdiction, Oborne argues. Oborne concludes that although Karim Khan stood up to Cameron’s threats, the inescapable fact remains that a British foreign secretary tried to subvert the course of justice. Cameron needs to break his silence and to explain himself. Meanwhile, Starmer would be well-advised to order an urgent enquiry into the shocking revelation that Cameron sought to intimidate the chief prosecutor of the ICC.
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