The ICC under threat: “all options remain on the table” : Reed Rubinstein, legal adviser at the US State Department!

Political Observer: the Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals after WWII rendered moot?

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Jul 10, 2025

The fact that the whole American political class is now the captive of AIPAC and Adelson money are facts! A selective report gathered from Le Monde:

The warning was direct, blunt and left no room for doubt. “We expect all ICC actions against the United States and our ally Israel – that is, all investigations and all arrest warrants – to be terminated,” said Reed Rubinstein, legal adviser at the US State Department, before delegates of the 125 member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday, July 8, at a meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York from July 7 to 9. If the ICC arrest warrants for crimes against humanity and war crimes issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant on November 21, 2024, as well as ongoing investigations into crimes committed in the Gaza Strip and the settlement of Palestinian territory, are not dropped, “all options remain on the table,” he declared.

For three days, member states debated expanding ICC jurisdiction to one day allow the prosecution of “crimes of aggression,” defined as attacking a territory without a UN mandate or without acting in self-defense. The crime, which primarily targets heads of state, was described as a “crime against peace” by the Allies at the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi leaders after World War II. Invited as a non-member, the US used the platform to criticize the ICC and threaten its 125 member states. “We will use all appropriate and effective diplomatic, political and legal instruments to block ICC overreach,” Rubinstein said.

On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sanctions against Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, “for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt [ICC] action against US and Israeli officials, companies and executives.” On June 30, the Italian law expert published a report on the “economy of genocide” in Gaza, warning around 60 companies of the risk of becoming “criminally complicit” in Israeli crimes.

Editor: Le Monde doesn’t just muddle the Question of Ukraine, but seeks to avoid the question of American , E.U. and other bad actors, Soros, as responsible parties in the maufatured coup, and the resulting war that continues to this day!

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