US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration is working to “dismantle the [International Criminal Court] brick by brick”, throwing down a public gauntlet to the court that issued an arrest warrant in 2024 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Using all the tools at our government’s disposal, working beside every ally with whom we can make common cause, we will dismantle the ICC - brick by brick, if necessary,” he said.
Oh no, not the International Colonial Court. The whole reason ICC exists is cause the west didn’t have enough leverage over ICJ, and they decided to make their own kangaroo court to prosecute African leaders they didn’t like.
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-does-the-international-court-of-justice-differ-from-the-international-criminal-court
These are not 2 parallel courts. The ICC isn’t performing the ICJ’s duties under better control of “the west”.
The scope of the courts are different, each seems necessary to me.
ICJ settles disputes between CONSENTING parties.
ICC prosecutes crimes.
No wonder the Trump administration wants the ICC destroyed. They reasonably suspect they or their allies could appear before it one day.
I don’t recall Israel agreeing to a genocide case investigation by the ICJ