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Source: https://jcpa.org/video/america-and-the-international-criminal-court/
Video: America and the International Criminal Court
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Dore Gold - In April, the State Department revoked the U.S. visa of International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda after she declared her intention to conduct an investigation of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. Israel's concerns have been similar to those of the U.S., due to its bad experience with multilateral institutions in the past that have made baseless allegations against IDF soldiers, accusing them of war crimes. At the ICC, any political issue might be converted into a legal weapon. The U.S. has long been aware of this problem, which explains why, like Israel, it could not join what started as a noble cause but later became a seriously flawed idea. Amb. Dore Gold is president of the Jerusalem Center.