If Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris or even Gavin Nuisance were president of the United States, our foreign policy would be made subservient to the United Nations. As President Trump proved about two weeks ago, it’s easy to ignore the UN — and get other nations to do the same — if a president is so minded.
President Trump has sanctioned members of the ICC. They cannot come to this country or they will be arrested.
The UN’s International Maritime Organization was about to push through a regulation that would have required every shipping company to pay a tax for its carbon emissions. Never mind the fact that the UN has no power to impose any taxes, it was going to do so and make the taxes payable to the UN. The UN crowd will do anything to scam money from any source.
When Trump found out, he threatened any country that voted for the proposal with economic sanctions. And, wonder of wonders, the IMO postponed consideration of the new tax until next year (or, probably, until Trump is out of office.)
The UN is doing a lot more that isn’t so easily disposed of, and all of it concerns Israel. In the past few weeks the UN has pretty much exonerated its agency, the UN Works and Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), from its involvement in the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The UN’s own investigators, the Office of Oversight Services, said in an announcement that it was unable to confirm independently that ten UNWRA employees were involved in the attack. The UN investigatory arm’s report resulted in the firing of nine employees. Why do so if they were not involved?
The truth of the matter is that dozens of UNWRA employees were members of Hamas and took part in the genocidal attacks. It’s precisely as Secretary of State Marco Rubio said: UNWRA is a subsidiary of Hamas. It cannot be allowed to participate in the distribution of aid to Gazans nor can Hamas be permitted to participate in the future governance of Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has already barred it from both.
And then there is the International Criminal Court which has just ruled that UNWRA must be allowed to send aid into Gaza. Israel can be expected to ignore the ICC, which it clearly should.
The ICC gained notoriety last year when it issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant on war crime charges. It also issued an arrest warrant for Mohammed Deif, a Hamas commander, who was most sincerely dead at the time the warrant was issued.
Several countries, the latest being Canada, have said they would arrest Netanyahu if he came to their nation. Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister, announced the proposed arrest last week.
No further arrest warrants have been issued by the ICC for any other Hamas members. The ICC has overlooked the leaders of Hamas in Qatar and the Russians for war crimes in Ukraine.
That fact alone proves the ICC’s hideous lack of integrity and bias against Israel.
Russia, under orders from Russian President Putin, has been conducting intentional bombings and missile and drone strikes against civilians which is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Thousands of civilians have been killed by the Russian strikes but there has been not a peep from the ICC.
The judges of the ICC come from a mix of countries in many of which the rule of law is unknown. It’s no wonder that the ICC has remained silent on the leaders of Hamas and on the leaders of Russia, most prominently Putin himself. They are afraid of him.
President Trump has sanctioned members of the ICC. They cannot come to this country or they will be arrested.
Good for Trump. He is obviously not afraid of the ICC or any of its members, nor is he afraid of the UN itself. He will not make U.S. foreign policy subservient to the UN nor will he tolerate its anti-Israeli political nonsense.
If any future president is not going to follow Trump’s lead — and no Democrats will — we can look forward to a time when the United States is no longer concerned with Trump’s “America First” actions. We will be subservient to the UN and its highly political and anti-Israel agenda. It would be a very dark time for the United States.
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