(Times of Israel) Jacob Magid - Senior officials in the Biden administration have privately pressed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to walk back his effort to have Israel tried for war crimes at the International Criminal Court (ICC), a Middle Eastern diplomatic official told the Times of Israel on Thursday. The Biden administration, like the previous one, maintains that the court does not have jurisdiction to adjudicate the case because Israel, like the U.S., is not a signatory to the Rome Statute that established the ICC. Moreover, Washington maintains that there is no Palestinian sovereign state and therefore it shouldn't be granted membership at the ICC, nor be allowed to delegate jurisdiction to the court. However, its unclear what authority Abbas has at this point to roll back the process, once a decision to open an investigation has already been made by the court.
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