Despite the International Criminal Court being created by the Rome Statute in 1994, here's why Israel and the US have never been held accountable for war crimes and why victims of Western wars will not likely see justice anytime soon🧵
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In 2002, the US passed the Hague Invasion Act that says the US can invade the Netherlands if the International Criminal Court tried to charge any American for war crimes.
4 million+ victims of the US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen + more will go unpunished
In 2018, Iraq war architect and neocon John Bolton threatened the ICC with sanctions if it opened up an investigation into US war crimes in Afghanistan, or if any investigation was opened into Israel or any US allies.
🧵Jewish Chronicles Editor @PeterBeinart led a charge to get me, a Palestinian woman, canceled from hosting a BDS panel citing our heavily defaced @MintPressNews Wikipedia entry that is edited by the Israel lobby.
I was invited to host and moderate a panel on October 9th hosted by Voices of the Holy Land featuring a screening of the documentary Boycott & to talk about how Palestinians are under increasing pressure to silence themselves when I was ironically removed from the panel.
@PeterBeinart gave into a smear against myself and MintPress which refers to us in our Wikipedia entry as antisemitic, pro-Russia, Pro-Syria and Iran. These are tried and tested smear tactics used against Palestinians and antiwar activists used by the Israel Lobby.
Joe Biden called Putin a war criminal, yet Biden had no problem personally approving $735 million worth of missiles to Israel last May when it was bombing Gaza - the world's largest open air prison - targeting homes, schools, hospitals & journalists.
On Yemen, the world's worst humanitarian crisis where Saudi Arabia regularly bombs residential homes and school buses carrying children, Biden personally approved $650 million worth of air to air missiles to Saudi Arabia in his first term after vowing to end the war.
On Afghanistan, where the US waged two decades of war and turned the country into a narco state, Biden personally approved the freezing of $7 billion with of the country's assets while 23 million Afghanis face famine, as it's set to be the world's next worst humanitarian crisis.
In 2002, the US passed the Hague Invasion Act that says the US can invade the Netherlands if the International Criminal Court tried to charge any American for war crimes.
4 million victims of the US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen + more will go unpunished.
Recall how Mike Pompeo threatened ICC staff if they opened an investigation into US war crimes in Afghanistan & into "top ally" Israel.
In 2018, Iraq war architect and neocon John Bolton threatened the ICC with sanctions if it opened up an investigation into US war crimes in Afghanistan, or if any investigation was opened into Israel or any US allies.
You're not doing yourself any favors by turning to Western mainstream corporate media as your source of news on the Ukraine Russia crisis when outlets & pundits paid for by Lockheed Martin & Raytheon spent the last decade manufacturing consent for a Cold War against Russia.
Silicon Valley - Big Tech social media giants are part of the ideological apparatus of the surveillance capitalist state working directly with the CIA & NATO funded think tanks like the Atlantic Council to control your newsfeed.
Meaning, Propaganda is prioritized.
The fog of war erupts in the confusion caused by the chaos of war. And in the media, it’s an intentional phenomenon that makes it difficult to separate fact from fiction.
While the battles over war narratives evolve they all have a common goal: to distort reality on the ground.
Since Joe Biden became president, the US has shipped three consignments of arms to Ukraine, adding to the $2 billion of security assistance the US has extended to Ukraine since 2014. mintpressnews.com/russiagate-ukr…
NATO has been saber rattling along Russia's borders to new levels since Joe Biden took office:
The US has deployed nuclear-capable B-1 bombers to Norway for the first time in NATO’s history. This year’s NATO war exercises include US-led Rapid Trident and Sea Breeze +
British-Ukrainian Cossack Mace and Warrior Watcher, Romanian-Ukrainian Riverine, and Polish-Ukrainian Three Swords and Silver Sabre.