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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/who-controls-international-bodies/
European Countries Allow Oppressive Regimes to Manipulate the ICC
(Israel Hayom) Dr. Dan Schueftan - Most of the regimes that shape international bodies and legal tribunals have no respect for the values of peace, tolerance, and human rights, resulting in the manipulation of the ICC and other bodies. European countries that join forces with oppressive regimes in these bodies grant them legitimacy. Without this legitimacy, the international bodies would have been dismissed as nothing more than a circus that should be ignored because they are being controlled by outcast regimes. But the Europeans have systematically stood by those who distort the very values they have championed. The European elites continue to live according to the illusion that the world will embrace Western values and be built under the auspices of international law using global legal and political bodies. If you confront European countries with the reality that there are major cultural gaps between Europe and most of the world, you will be dismissed as racist. The writer is director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa.