"ICC was a hoax from the start": How the rules were broken to deny justice to Israel’s victims in Gaza :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]

"ICC was a hoax from the start": How the rules were broken to deny justice to Israel’s victims in Gaza :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: The International Criminal Court (ICC) "was a hoax from the start."

So said Michael Mandel, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, in response to the ICC Prosecutor’s shocking decision yesterday to refuse jurisdiction over Gaza war crimes without even referring the matter to judges.

In comments to the Institute for Public Accuracy, Mandel, author of How America Gets Away With Murder, Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity elaborated:

It’s disgraceful but not surprising that the ICC has dismissed Palestine’s complaint against Israel. It sat on the complaint for over three years, always proudly announcing that it was investigating it to give the appearance of impartiality. Meanwhile the ICC jumped to attention in less than three weeks when the US government, which is not a signatory to the treaty, wanted to go to war against Libya, justifying Western aggression with bogus charges against the Libyan regime.