THE BIG SIGNALER
Why does Donald Trump's US administration want to
intimidate international justice?
By Sidney Hey
There is no doubt a friend told me: Things are changing faster than we
can assimilate them. It is true that the speed at which some issues are
spreading and others are coming to light is something you would not have
imagined 25 years ago and one of them is to see the great rottenness of an
empire that is sinking in its own shit.
I make it clear that I am not a communist, let alone a
socialist, as I speak in criticism of the USA which for the past century has
been a beacon of democratic values, freedom and blablablabla and has shown only
by its own actions that it is not one iota of that.
President Donald Trump has escalated even further in
putting his country on the cusp of opprobrium, to the point of abhorrent
cynicism. From his greyish Ukraine policy to his shameful and explicit support
for Israel's genocide of the Palestinian population, his administration has
only proved us right.
Precisely in reference to the mass crimes being
committed in Gaza and those that Israel is extending with its encroachments in
the West Bank, in the face of irrefutable evidence of gross and systematic
violations of the human rights of the Palestinian population, at the behest of
governments such as the South African government and with the support of a
large part of the international community, international justice has been
sought to do and apply what the Rome Statute provides for aberrant cases such
as those that the world is witnessing today.
Since the filing of the complaint before the
International Criminal Court and the arrest warrant for Netanyahu and his
closest officials, the threats and attempts by Tel Aviv, redirected from
Washington, to intimidate the actors and the judges of the court themselves
have not ceased. These notoriously unjust and illegal coercive interferences
pursue a pernicious goal: impunity. These mafia-like attitudes did not begin
with Trump and MAGA, nor are they unique to Republicans. The Democratic clique
of the Clintons, Obama and, of course, Biden, also operated underhandedly to
try to sabotage the prosecution of investigations into their actions in
Afghanistan as well as those committed by Israel.
Secretary of State Marc Rubio's latest announcements
already take things beyond the abstract of cynicism. The imposition of
sanctions against ICC officials for their investigations into war crimes and
crimes against humanity committed by the Americans in Afghanistan and those
committed and still being committed by the state of Israel put into perspective
a political reality that for decades has been masked by the creation of
enemies.
According to the US Secretary of State, the officials
investigating these acts have abused their power, politicised their actions and
are not transparent in dispensing justice, considering the body they work for
as ‘a threat to national security’. What kind of threat would a court represent
to a nuclear power? Oh yes, the truth! For the American Establishment truth is
not part of their policy and it is indeed very curious that, despite their
boasts about Christian morality, Puritanism and their faith in God, wasn't it
Jesus who said The truth shall set you free? Perhaps that is the clearest proof
that they have long since ceased to be Christians. According to Rubio (who is
Trump) the investigations by ICC officials are being used as a legal war
against his country and its ally Israel.
With regard to Israel and its political elite led
today by PM Benjamin Netanyahu, the horrendous crimes committed by its military
forces, both regular and irregular, and which they boast of continuing to
reproduce, are so overwhelming and varied that they make the chests of millions
of people, wherever they are and whatever their creed, burn with indignation at
such criminal impudence. Just as a sample of the variety of crimes that the
state of Israel harbours, there are the rapists, paedophiles and child abusers.
Rumours of Jeffrey Epstein's faked suicide to secretly smuggle him out of the
US to find refuge in Israel today have yet to be silenced.
But he is not alone in enjoying the benefits of impunity.
Some of them linked to his revulsive intelligence services such as Tom Artiom
Alexandrovich who, as an Israeli cyberwarfare agent, will be able to escape
criminal prosecution for sexual abuse after being arrested in Las Vegas
following an FBI raid. Because Trump ordered by request of his dear friend
Netanyahu his immediate release and extradition to Israel where there are a
large number of Palestinian women and children captured in the Gaza Strip and
who are held in real torture camps where they are subjected to all kinds of
humiliations, rapes and some are subjected to experiments.
But what Marc Rubio and the administration he
represents through these threats is to try to sneak public opinion or rather to
try to hide (as the saying goes) an elephant in the middle of a bazaar. Showing
themselves as unfairly attacked or slandered by the criminal investigations is
a public relations strategy that only they believe. In the light of any jurist
or even a moderately educated citizen who is not a lawyer, one realises that
these childish attitudes cover up simple acts of extortion so crude, illegal
and so unjustified that they should shame the very honest representatives of
the USA, and believe it or not, there are some.
It is regrettable how so brazenly the administration
of Donald Trump, who to the height of cynicism governs a country that still has
the gall to point the finger at others with a yardstick of democracy that they
broke long ago, seeks to turn the illegal into legal, the aberrant into normal
and those who seek to elucidate the truth to persecute them into silence.
Needless to say, this does very little to seek and
achieve justice in international bodies. The citizens of the world are becoming
more aware than ever of the need for truly universal justice, universal justice
with all that that means, to exist and to be implemented.
