The Khan of Wrath?
The top news story to begin the week.
The bombshell story of the weekend is the Wall Street Journal news report about the head of the execrable International Criminal Court (ICC) facing credible charges of grotesque sexual assault. If the story is accurate, we’re talking Harvey Weinstein-level sexual assault. And it fits, given that the ICC is a Harvey Weinstein ideology institution. Though I wouldn’t blame Dominique Strauss-Kahn for complaining just now.
The text of the article buries the lede that is evident in the headline (“ICC Set Plan to Charge Netanyahu Just After Prosecutor Was Accused of Sexual Assault”), namely, that Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the ICC, moved up his plan to indict Benjamin Netanyahu likely as a ploy to mitigate the pending sexual harassment charges, just as Weinstein tried to fend off his “Me Too” problem by pledging himself to the cause of gun control. It didn’t work for Weinstein, and let’s hope it doesn’t work for Khan.
I’m tempted to call this story “The Khan of Wrath,” since the idea of indicting Netanyahu for “war crimes” is ludicrous on its face. There’s another remarkable detail in the story about U.S. involvement in the whole scene. Keep in mind that the U.S. withdrew from the International Criminal Court under George W. Bush (Clinton had signed the ICC treaty, naturally, but didn’t submit it to the Senate because he knew it would never be ratified). But neither Obama nor Biden proposed for a second that the U.S. rejoin the ICC.
Yet Biden’s secretary of state Anthony Blinken intervened with Israel to try to get Khan allowed to enter Gaza to “investigate.” The Journal story reports:
Blinken said the U.S. was pushing Israel to allow in more aid and that warrants could be counterproductive. He also warned Khan that the warrants could upend delicate hostage negotiations that the U.S. was shepherding between Israel, Hamas and Arab nations.
What wasn’t widely known: At the time of the call with Blinken, Khan had just been informed there were allegations of sexual assault against him. . .
The Journal reports that Khan was supposed to meet with U.S. officials before doing anything, but abruptly canceled his meetings with a key U.S. envoy and issued the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, in what the Journal clearly implies was meant as a tactic to deflect the pending sexual assault charges against Khan.
The Trump Administration has threatened sanctions against any nation that goes along with the ICC warrants. It should go further and demand the abolition of the ICC, which is a travesty of law. Then do the UN.
It will be curious to see what other “mainstream” news organization pick up this story. I have a hunch. . .
If you have a Wall Street Journal subscription, very much worth reading the whole thing.
These world justice institutions are full of the sleaziest reptiles (some type of -soros) imaginable. That goes for the UN, WEF, and EU honchos, too. These groups should all be defunded.
Why not demand that the UN relocate to another country? Then cut the US financial contribution in half. I suspect the whole institution would wither and die.