US & Israel destroy international law in Gaza, while preaching 'rules-based order"
the United States and Israel are destroying international law the international criminal court has applied for an arrest warrant for Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and also its defense minister and the response of the US government has been to threaten the ICC the Biden Administration is now considering putting sanctions on the IC furthermore the international court of justice in January and May has issued two different rulings against Israel telling Israel to stop killing Palestinians in Gaza and Israel has blatantly violated these rulings by the top United Nation's legal Authority and the US has continued supporting Israel arming Israel in violation of these rulings by the IC and the icj meanwhile the US government claims to uphold the so-called rules-based International order and the US has constantly attacked China claiming that China is threatening the so-called rules-based International order but in reality the US is blatantly violating international law and facilitating the most egregious crimes against humanity while lecturing other countries about the so-called rule of law La we saw the clearest example of this on the 24th of May when the international court of justice issued a ruling saying very clearly that Israel must quote immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in the Rafa government which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part and in particular the icj was referencing the G convention the worst crime a country could commit the G crime I don't say that word because when I do this is always demonetized and censored in the algorithm but this was a reference to the January ruling by the icj in which the top un legal body said that Israel can be investigated for the crime of G and Amnesty International and other Main Western human rights organizations have said very clearly that Israel is violating this ruling that goes back to January and Israel is also blatantly violating the new icj ruling from May and on the 27th of May Israel carried out horrific war crimes in Rafa bombing a refug camp full of tents killing at least 45 Palestinians the vast majority women and children and even the mainstream Western media which is very biased in support of Israel even they are harshly condemning these blatant war crimes Israel is just blatantly bombing women and children in a safe Zone in Gaza in blatant violation of a ruling by the heg even the mainstream Israeli newspaper The Times of Israel published an article titled no longer justifiable Israel faces International condemnation for strike in Rafa and it notes that even the European Union which strongly supports Israel and opposes Palestinian human rights even the EU is now condemning these blatant crimes against humanity but what has been the response of the US government and also the British government they are continuing to support Israel as it kills huge numbers of Palestinian women and children with us bombs and US military assistance the US and the UK spent months claiming falsely that they oppose an Israeli invasion of Rafa the Biden Administration said this is our red line Israel cannot invade Rafa well now they're invading and bombing Rafa and what's the US response crickets the US is supporting these blatant crimes against humanity in violation of rulings by the international court of justice the top United Nations expert on Palestinian human rights Francesca Alan the UN special repur she has been speaking out very loudly about this and she tweeted in response to the icj's ruling she said quote let's be clear as the icj orders Israel to stop its offensive in Rafa Israel intensifies its attacks on it and then she says be sure Israel will not stop this madness until we make it stop member states must impose sanctions arms embargo and suspend diplomatic and political relations with Israel until it ceases its assault in a follow-up tweet albanes the UN special reporter tweeted quote more Horror in the Gaza ghetto the Israeli occupation forces have bombed a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafa causing plastic tents to catch fire and tragically burning people alive this cruelty along with blatant Defiance of the international law system is unacceptable the Gaza G crime will not easily end without external pressure Israel must face sanctions Justice suspension of agreements trade partnership and Investments as well as participation in international fora the UN Agency for Palestine refugees unra said quote Gaza has become hell on Earth families continue to seek Refuge trying to escape War but there is no such thing as a safe place in the Gaza Strip No One Is Safe not civilians not Aid workers no one has been spared and what has been the response of the Israeli regime well prime minister Benjamin nahu said it very clear in January he said quote nobody will stop us not the heg not the heg this is the definition of being a rogue State Israel is saying that it doesn't care about international law it doesn't care about the United Nations top legal body at the heg they will carry out crimes against humanity and try to exterminate the indigenous Palestinian people and they know they can get away with it because the US government is protecting Israel and preventing any consequences shielding it from all consequences under international law this is the reality of the so-called rules-based International order that US government officials constantly lecture other countries about and we saw another clear example of this hypocrisy on the 20th of May when the prosecutor of the international criminal court applied for arrest warrant for Israel's prime minister Netanyahu and defense minister yav Galant in response Netanyahu published a video on Twitter and in Hebrew he said quote no one will stop us no one will stop us this is a rogue State and what was the response of the US government Joe Biden himself attacked the IC calling it outrageous and then the US Secretary of State Anthony blinkin particip ated in a senate Hearing in which he said that the Biden Administration is considering putting sanctions on the international criminal court and of course blinkin and Biden are Democrats and they called for working with the Republicans with Donald Trump and his allies in order to threaten the ICC meanwhile the British newspaper the guardian revealed that Israel has been threatening ICC officials this article titled revealed Israeli spy Chief threatened ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry it notes I'm reading from the article quote the former head of the Mad Israel's foreign intelligence agency allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to pressure her into abandoning a war crimes investigation this is under the previous ICC prosecutor the new ICC prosecutor his name is Kareem Khan he's a British lawyer he came into office in 2021 but previously the former ICC prosecutor Fatu B suda she initiated an investigation into Israel Over war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the occupied Palestinian territories and in order to try to prevent her from doing that Israel threatened her and also back in 2020 the Donald Trump Administration imposed sanctions on the ICC because it initiated an investigation into war crimes committed by US troops and NATO forces in Afghanistan so today the Democrats the Biden Administration are doing the exact same thing that Trump did that they criticized Trump for doing they're now threatening sanctions on the ICC as well and the hypocrisy has become so blatant so undeniable that even MSNBC which is basically a propaganda organ even MSNBC is now publicly criticizing Biden it published an article titled Biden claims to care about the rules-based order so why is he imputing the IC Biden's hostility to the IC reveals the hollow of his rhetoric about the international order at the NATO 20122 Joe Biden condemned Russia and he said that when Putin invaded Ukraine he was attacking the very tenants of the rules-based order and the United States and NATO are defending this so-called rules-based order at the G20 Summit that same year Biden claimed the United States is working to preserve the rule-based system and international order and Secretary of State Anthony blinkin has said this dozens of times he's constantly talking about the rule of law and the rules based intern National order he has literally tweeted this phrase dozens of times just in the past few years in fact this rhetoric has become the main talking point that the US uses to condemn China we saw this in 2021 when the US state department published this press release titled blinkin presses Beijing on violations of rules-based order Secretary of State Anthony blinkin is defending the rules-based international order order in the face of the People's Republic of China's Global threat to democratic values and human rights and blinkin said in a meeting in Alaska in March 2021 his first Major meeting with Chinese officials he said that the US government is working to strengthen the rules-based international order but now we can see how fake this narrative is it's completely absurd it doesn't exist the so-called rules-based International order is a system in which the US makes the rules and orders everyone else around and the US and its allies violate those rules whenever it's convenient to them they can carry out the worst crimes against humanity extermination of entire peoples in the name of the rules-based international order they can impose sanctions on the ICC they can threaten ICC prosecutors they can attack the international court of justice at the heg all in the name of the so-called rules-based order in which they make the rules this is bipartisan in US politics both Democrats and Republicans in fact the Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson gave a speech in response to the IC charging Netanyahu with crimes against humanity and the US Speaker of the House an ally of Donald Trump he said that the US does not recognize the icc's authority and that the US does not put any body above us national law America should punish the IC and put Kareem Khan back in his place and if the IC is allowed to threaten Israel's leaders we know that America will be next there is a reason that we've never endorsed the international criminal court because it is a direct affront to our own sovereignty we don't put any International body among among or above American sovereignty and and Israel does that doesn't do that either Congress is reviewing all of our options right now we have some very aggressive uh legislation that we're going to push as um as quickly as possible uh it will impose sanctions uh and if the ICC moves forward with its absurd warrant arrest or or request um this will uh this is going to be an even bigger International problem so the US is boasting that it's a rogue regime it does not accept international law and in response to this the UN special reporter Franchesca Lan she said that the us rules-based order is an attempt to replace the international law-based order and this has become increasingly obvious the US does not care about international law on the contrary it is the US and its allies that are attacking international law on a daily basis they are the world's greatest threat to international law and this this whole Narrative of the so-called rules-based International order is an attempt to replace face international law with a totally arbitrary set of rules invented by Washington in order to serve its political and economic interests and Washington's allies and proxies in Europe are doing the exact same thing in 2021 Britain's prime minister Rishi sunak who by the way was never democratically elected he gave a speech in which he claimed that the UK is defending the rules-based international order back in that same year Germany's chancellor Anga merel she claimed quote a rules based and reliable International order is the basis for peaceful relations between states and the current government of Olaf Schulz in Germany is using the same exact rhetoric the German Federal foreign office published a fact sheet on the indopacific region on their official website and they said quote Germany is committed to strengthening the rules based International order in the indopacific region and of course they were using this in order to attack China implying that China supposedly does not follow the rules and the West supposedly does but meanwhile Germany along with the US is arming Israel helping it carry out these crimes against humanity in violation of the icj and the ICC BBC created a graph that shows that 66% of the weapon that Israel buys come from the United States and 30% come from Germany and 5% come from Italy so the US and Europe are arming Israel as it violates the rules of the so-called rules-based order as it violates international law which is what actually exists not these nonsensical so-called rules that are always changing whenever it's convenient for the West this is exactly why Nicaragua the sista government took Germany to the international court of justice accusing it of being complicit in Israel's G crime because Germany has continued to sell Israel weapons making it directly complicit and meanwhile the German government has been brutally repressing pro peace protesters in Germany who are condemning the German sponsored crimes against humanity committed by Israel arresting not only Palestinians but also arresting many Jews many Jewish peace activists have been arrested in Germany for the so-called crime of opposing these crimes against humanity carried out by Israel with the support of the German government this is the reality of the so-called rules-based order and it sure looks a lot like Germany in the 1930s the irony is that Israel's German sponsored crimes in Gaza have become so blatant that after months of nonstop unflinching German support the German foreign office finally criticized Israel for the first time and tweeted on the 28th of May quote the images of charred bodies including children from the air unbearable and they called for Israel to investigate itself as if that's ever going to accomplish anything this is the true face of the so-called Democrat ratic West they don't care about democracy they don't care about human rights they only care about their Imperial domination of the planet they only care about extracting the natural resources and exploiting the labor of people across the global south of their former colonies that they continue trying to colonize when they talk about the so-called rules-based order they're referring to the us-led Western neocolonial order the US Empire that seeks to dominate the entire world that seeks to impose its unipolar hegemony on the planet and prevent the world from being multi-polar that is to say they want to prevent the world from truly being Democratic they want it to be a global dictatorship run by the Western capitalist powers and we saw such a clear illustration of this that was published in the Financial Times by the Ft columnist Gideon Rockman who is a neoconservative hawk and he published a ridiculous article titled America breaks Global rules as it defends the Free World this is the nonsensical narrative that these imperialists are resorting to they say look we admit that we are violating the rules of the so-called rules-based International order he notes that US Secretary of State blinkin British prime min Minister Rishi sunok and other Western officials have talked about the so-called rules-based order and he notes that in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine blinkin argues that the US is standing up for a world based on rules but he writes quote rules are meant to be consistent and America's own actions are undermining vital parts of the rules-based order he points out that the US sanctions on China for instance and the US tariffs blatantly violate International rules especially in the World Trade Organization he notes that the US has been threatening the international criminal court and he writes correctly quote in large parts of the world America's claim to be upholding the rules-based international order is treated with derision he acknowledges that everyone else outside of the little bubble of the neoc colonialist West can see how ins mainly hypocritical the West actually is so what is the solution the Ft this is the newspaper representing the transatlantic Western capitalist class representing their interests they have a solution they say quote one answer is for blinking and Company to talk less about the rules-based international order and more about defending the Free World they're going nonsensical childish view of the world that was shoved down our throats during the first Cold War in which they claim that the West is supposedly defending the Free World and democracy and he claims that the US the EU the UK Japan South Korea and Ukraine are struggling to contain the Territorial and political Ambitions of authoritarian countries above all China and Russia this is the childish narrative they're going with we defending democracy against authoritarianism this is they have nothing else to that they can rely on this is the only narrative they have it's the same old cliched Cold War narrative that we've all heard our entire lives we all know it's a lie because the US for decades has propped up the most vicious bloody dictatorships on Earth but this is what he says this is what the ft is arguing quote unlike the defense of the rules-based order which implies absolute consistency the defense of the Free World involves accepting some necessary inconsistency so he's acknowledging yeah we're going to violate international law constantly when it's in our Imperial interest and he noted quote during the Cold War the US and its allies made some tactical alliances with undemocratic regimes as part of its broader effort to contain and ultimately defeat beat the Soviet Union now that is putting it mildly the US propped up the worst bloodiest dictatorships on Earth including Pino in Chile including suaro in Indonesia including the Saudi monarchy including zhak in Pakistan the list goes on and on and on the US backed the worst dictatorships on Earth that literally killed millions and millions ions of people in the name of so-called democracy and human rights and now they're going to go back to doing the exact same thing they are doing the exact same thing and he concluded this article saying that the West needs to engage in international laware that is legal Warfare as part of the emerging struggle between Democratic and authoritarian Powers so the financial times the mouthpiece of the transatlantic capital class is saying very clearly yeah we don't care about international law we will cynically hypocritically appeal to international law when it's in our interest we don't actually care it's about reinforcing the Western imperialist order in the name of democracy which actually we don't care about democracy because as he admits we more than willingly supported dictatorships and will continue to support dictatorships when it's in our in fact the irony is that you know what countries are now defending international law China this is constantly something that we hear in the rhetoric of Chinese diplomats and we saw it reflected in the joint statement that was signed by Chinese president Xi Jinping and by Russian President Vladimir Putin when they met in Beijing in May in this statement China and Russia jointly condemned the quote colonialism and hegemonism that is being practiced by the Western powers and they also condemned the West for quote attempting to replace and subvert the recognized International order based on international law with a quote order multiple times China and Russia emphasized that they abide by the principles of international law on The Sovereign equality of States calling for respect for sovereignty non-interference and respecting the UN Charter so quite literally it is China and its allies that are defending the international law-based order while the US and its allies are destroying the international law-based order and trying to replace it with their own so-called rules that they constantly violate when it's politically convenient in order to try to maintain their neoc Colonial control over the planet it is not exaggeration to say that China is defending international law whereas the US is destroying international law and we can see this as clear as day in Gaza where Israel an extension of the US Empire an outpost for the US military in one of the most geostrategic regions on Earth Israel is the 51st US state and and Israel is blatantly carrying out crimes against humanity in violation of both the international court of justice and the international criminal court the US is still staunchly supporting Israel giving it billions of dollars of weapons threatening the heg this is the reality of the world we live in and here at geopolitical economy report we are dedicated to telling the truth about what is going on and if you like the work that we do please please like And subscribe please share our content you can also consider donating at some of the links below I am Ben Norton I am the editor and chief of geopolitical economy report I want to thank everyone for joining me today I will see you all next
