The US and Israel hope to scare the Hague war crimes court off from helping Palestine
▻https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2020-06-09/us-israel-icc-palestine
The Israeli argument is that #Palestine lacks the normal features of a sovereign state. However, as the Israeli human rights group #B’Tselem recently noted, this is precisely because Israel has occupied the Palestinians’ territory and illegally transferred settlers onto their land.
Israel is claiming an exemption by citing the very crimes that need investigating.